E-Commerce Web Design

When purchase over the internet is preferred or required, an online shopping cart is the option that wholesale/retail/service businesses choose. Less expensive to implement than an Online Catalog site, however more expensive monthly fees to pay for shopping cart and credit card service. Data are required to be submitted in a spreadsheet or in a word-processing format for lowest pricing.

E-Commerce Shopping Cart Website

Specifications


  • Template Based Design for Easy Product Mangement
  • User Training Available
  • Secure Shopping Cart
  • Customer Login
  • Major Search Engine Submission Included
  • Credit Card Acceptance/Authorization Available
  • Shipping and Coupon Modules Available

E-Commerce Site Design


  • Torchlight Design will come to your business and sit down with you and your team to discuss your options for the layout and overall appearance of your site.
  • Pricing varies from one project to the next, but we can usually estimate fairly accurately if we can get your ideas down on paper.
  • "Cookie-Cutter" sites are relatively inexpensive to design and can easily import images, descriptions, and pricing in a short amount of time.
  • Sophisticated sites with unique modules, design, and programming can become expensive, but it is worth the price in the end (when consumers keep coming back because they love the site).

E-Commerce Site Implementation


  • Torchlight Design can come to your business and collect all the product data, including taking digital photographs when needed. We like to be involved in the data gathering, but we understand that most of our customers are on tight budgets, and may want to gather all the data into spreadsheets themselves.
  • Implementation is where many do-it-yourself businesses get bogged down. This can turn into a waiting phase for developers. We can only implement images, descriptions, pricing, etc. if we have the information from you. This is why we encourage the data gathering stage is done with Torchlight Design.
  • Torchlight Design will upload pre-formatted images, pre-made descriptions, pre-determined pricing, etc. from digital media provided by the client. There is an additional charge for formatting and producing images, pricing calculations, descriptions, etc. These data will be discussed at the time of proposal.

E-Commerce Site Hosting


  • Hosting for E-Commerce sites is the most expensive of all websites. There are serveral ways to cut costs here: using your own credit card machine that your business has always used is a great way to save on additional monthly fees, using a shared SSL encryption (quite common, actually - sends your visitor to another website to check out with their credit card information), and the final (most expensive) option is having your own SSL encryption and paying for the credit card authorizations transactions online.

See "Web Requirements" to see what we need from you specifically to complete your e-commerce project.