The ability to sell products online is a huge bonus for many businesses. However, many small businesses are put off by the time and effort that goes into setting up an e-commerce site. At Primley Design we aim to take away a lot of the headache of setting up your online shop and, if you want, maintaining it too.
Setting Up Costs.
Primley Design will set up your e-commerce site using a package called "EKM Powershop". They will charge you £49.99 plus VAT to register and maintain your domain name. The cost is the same if you are using an existing domain name because they have to set up a sub domain in order to run the shop from your site.
Primley Design's standard charge of £300 takes into account any template pages that need to be set up such as the welcome page of your website, contact forms, terms and conditions, etc to a maximum of 5 pages. You will need to add products to your site to sell. We can arrange all this at Primley Design or we can teach you how to add the products on yourself. If you want to do it yourself we charge £50 to teach you how to do this, and give you ongoing telephone support in adding products. Alternatively, we can add products for you at a cost of 50p per product. All images must be supplied digitally on CD or with manufacturer's permission, from their websites.
Primley Design's standard charge of £300 takes into account any template pages that need to be set up such as the welcome page of your website, contact forms, terms and conditions, etc to a maximum of 5 pages. You will need to add products to your site to sell. We can arrange all this at Primley Design or we can teach you how to add the products on yourself. If you want to do it yourself we charge £50 to teach you how to do this, and give you ongoing telephone support in adding products. Alternatively, we can add products for you at a cost of 50p per product. All images must be supplied digitally on CD or with manufacturer's permission, from their websites.
How Does It Work?
When your e-commerce site is up and running you will receive order details via email. The customer will have made a selection of products and will have made payment using the secure capture method which is part of the package. On receipt of the email, you will be able to log into the site using a username and password and retrieve the payment information to process on your card machine in store. Alternatively customers will have the option to pay by card over the telephone or send a cheque if you wish.
The order will then be picked and packed as per your normal dispatch method for mail ordering.
Maintenance Costs.
When your e-commerce site is up and running you will receive order details via email. The customer will have made a selection of products and will have made payment using the secure capture method which is part of the package. On receipt of the email, you will be able to log into the site using a username and password and retrieve the payment information to process on your card machine in store. Alternatively customers will have the option to pay by card over the telephone or send a cheque if you wish.
The order will then be picked and packed as per your normal dispatch method for mail ordering.
Additional Information.
As part of our service, we will sit down with you and carefully work out Terms and Conditions of your site, payment methods of postage and delivery and any additional information that you want to include. You will be consulted later in the design process to approve designs, colour schemes and layouts. We always try to take into account a company's corporate image when designing our sites. Minor updates to the site (not including products or products details), will be free of charge for the first two years. Your bank will make additional charges to set up an account for ecommerce use.
View a costing diagram here.