Complex Projects
Your requirements are unique to your business. The complexity of your project depends entirely on what you are seeking to achieve. It may entail online shopping, streaming video, interactive booking systems, or an infinite number of other elements. Requirements often change as a project develops – we are both used to this and flexible enough to cope with it. Unsurprisingly, therefore, it is impossible to estimate the cost of your project without knowing the scope of work.
Ecommerce
The first thing to say is that it doesn’t need to be as complicated as some might have you believe! In essence, an ecommerce-enabled website is designed to give you a shopfront to the world, enabling your customers to select items, pay for them and have them delivered without having to go anywhere.
There are many off-the-shelf software packages, ranging from free to very expensive, which make setting up an online shop a bit of a breeze. You don’t even need to go through the pain and expense of setting up your own merchant account in order to take online payments. As for future-proofing your website, nowadays all that is taken care of if you opt for any of the SaaS (software as a service) packages – this means that the software driving your website will be stored in the cloud and will be automatically updated by the software company.
Video
There’s a world of difference between user-generated content and tv-quality video production. We’re happy to work with either, and there’s no particular cost implcations from our perspective. So much depends on the type of business and the style you want to present, and in some cases, user-generated video content is just fine. For professionally shot and edited content we recommend The Internet Video Company – we have worked with them for over 20 years and completed many successful projects together.
Bespoke Requirements
Sometimes it’s just not possible to compromise and settle for a completely off-the-peg solution and it becomes necessary to make bespoke changes in order to achieve your aims. This is invariably something we can cope with and you will be furnished with a complete breakdown of any additional costs before work commences.
Costs
It’s always interesting and exciting to be asked to consider how best to create the online presence for someone else’s business. Once you have given us an outline of your requirements, we will consider the best options and furnish you with our proposal at the earliest opportunity.
For a simple ecommerce website, the cost is likely to start at around £500 plus web hosting. That would include setting up your online shop, connecting it to a payment gateway, setting up shipping options and creating up to 100 products in an unlimited number of categories, testing and handing over to you.
Please contact us by phone or email today for a free, no obligation, initial consultation.
As part of our service to you, and as a ‘thank you’ for your business, we include up to 2 hours of training completely free with all websites, should you wish to understand how you can make changes to your website in the future.