Ecommerce web design in Ollerton
Visitors to Sherwood Forest buy something in Ollerton or Edwinstowe, drive home to the other end of the country and then wish they had bought two. An online shop gives them a way back to you. That is the starting point for gift shops and cafés with their own products, while the manufacturers on Sherwood Energy Village need a rather different kind of shop.
Online shops from £4,750. About 25 minutes from our studio, with no travel charge.
Ecommerce web design for Ollerton businesses
The visitor trade has a shape to it. Summer and the school holidays are busy in person, and the quiet months are when an online shop earns its keep. A card by the till and your web address printed on the paper bag remind people where to find you when a birthday comes round in November.
What you sell online need not match the counter. Fudge, candles, prints or wooden toys post well, while fragile or heavy stock can stay in the shop. We keep the online range small at the start so packing fits around a working day, and add lines once you know which ones people come back for.
Manufacturers at the Energy Village and along Forest Road usually have something else to sell: replacement parts, a standard product range or trade orders from firms that already know them. That calls for a plain catalogue and account logins, with none of the holiday photography, and we would weigh up Shopify and WooCommerce once we have seen how your orders come in.
What you get with online shops
Shopify or WooCommerce
Payments and postage
Stock that stays right
Product pages that sell
Set up to be found
Training
When we build your website
The PoPIt Preview, free with your quote
Live 6 to 8 weeks after you say yes
One price covers your first year
You only pay when you're happy
The price, up front
No lock-in
Online shops in Ollerton: your questions
Most of our customers are visitors to Sherwood Forest. Will they really buy again online?
Some will, if you make it easy. Put the website on receipts, bags and any leaflet in the shop, and make sure the products they saw are the ones they can find. A small shop with your bestsellers is enough. The run-up to Christmas is the obvious moment for this kind of repeat order, so plan to be ready by the autumn.
Our shop is packed in the summer holidays. Can we cope with online orders on top?
Yes, if the shop is set up for it. You can choose dispatch days, show a longer delivery time during the holidays and cap how many orders come in each day. Packing web orders first thing, before the doors open, keeps them out of the way of customers. If it gets too much, a single switch pauses the online shop without taking the site down.
How much does online shops cost in Ollerton?
Our online shops starts at £4,750, and the price is the same wherever you are. The calculator on our pricing page gives you a rough figure in about thirty seconds.
Do you charge extra to travel to Ollerton?
No. Ollerton is about 25 minutes from the studio and visits are included in the project price.
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