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Ecommerce website design

Online shops for UK businesses at £34.99 a month + VAT: products uploaded, payments, delivery and invoices all set up. See your new shop first. Pay only when you approve it.

Everything your online store needs

What usually takes months (catalogue, payments, delivery) we have sorted before we hand the shop over to you.

01

Stocking your shelves

Send us your product list with photos and prices, and our team writes the descriptions, organises the categories and publishes everything. We upload your first 30 products for you, so you can start selling from day one.

02

Payment gateways

Your shop comes with Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay built in at no extra cost. Customers pay by card or digital wallet, and every sale is recorded in your dashboard with its receipt.

03

Shipping that works your way

Every order comes in with the buyer's full details: what they bought, where it's going and everything you need to prepare the parcel. We set up your delivery zones and click and collect, so no sale is left half-finished.

Built around what you sell

Every business sells differently. Your shop is built around the way you work, not the other way round: physical products, digital downloads, bookings or orders via WhatsApp.

Sell products

Clothing, crafts, tech, food and drink: we build your catalogue with well-presented photos, prices in pounds and stock control for each item. Customers buy at any time of day and all you do is pack the parcel.

Sell digital products online

Sell ebooks, courses, downloads or tickets with automatic delivery: the customer pays and gets the download in their inbox straight away, without you lifting a finger. Ideal for selling while you sleep.

Get booked

Do you sell hours, sessions or bundles? We list your services with clear prices and an order or booking flow, so customers can book and pay without phoning you. The details land in your inbox.

WhatsApp business orders

Prefer to close the sale in a chat? We connect your catalogue to WhatsApp: the customer builds their order in the shop and sends it to you in one click, with items and quantities listed. You confirm and arrange delivery.

Click and collect

Offer collection from your premises as a delivery option: the customer pays online, gets a message when the order is ready and picks it up when it suits them. Lower delivery costs for them and more local sales for you.

UK wide delivery

Set up delivery zones with their own rates, such as mainland UK, the Highlands and Islands and Northern Ireland, and keep using the courier you already work with. Every order comes with the full address and contact details, ready to book the delivery.

Everything you need to run your store

Your shop includes a simple dashboard for running the business day to day without relying on anyone. And if you'd rather not touch it, your monthly maintenance covers it for you.

Products and stock, easy to manage

Add, edit or pause products in minutes: change photos, titles and descriptions from a dashboard designed for business owners, not developers. Everything goes live instantly, with no waiting around and no charge per change.

Stock control for small business

Update prices and stock whenever you like: if something sells out, the shop marks it automatically so you never sell what you don't have. You can create variants by size, colour or format, each with its own stock level.

Manage orders online

Every sale arrives in your dashboard and inbox with the order details, payment method, and contact and delivery information. You pack the parcel with everything in front of you, without chasing details by message.

Customer purchase history

Your shop keeps each customer's purchase history and contact details. Over time, that list becomes your best channel for selling to them again.

How much does an ecommerce website cost?

With us, an ecommerce website costs £34.99 a month + VAT on the Ecommerce plan, with the shop, hosting, email on your domain and a free SSL certificate included. Every plan is below.

Basic

Your landing page built for you, or hosting for the website you already have.

£5.99/ month + VAT

Your website live in 3 to 5 working days.

Choose Basic
  • Landing page built by us
  • 5 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 5 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Daily backups
  • Free migration of your current site
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Starter

Your first website, ready to be found.

£12.99/ month + VAT

Your website live in 3 to 5 working days.

Choose Starter
  • Website of up to 5 pages, built by us
  • Free .co.uk domain
  • 5 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 10 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate
  • 1 content change a month
  • Live in 3 to 5 working days

Business

For established businesses: more space, more mailboxes and more changes.

£19.99/ month + VAT

Your website live in 3 to 5 working days.

Choose Business
  • New website or a redesign of your current one
  • Free .co.uk domain
  • Up to 10 pages of content
  • 15 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • 15 business email accounts
  • Free SSL certificate and daily backups
  • Migration from your current host included
  • Unlimited content changes

Ecommerce

For selling online: catalogue, basket and online payments.

£34.99/ month + VAT

Your online shop live in 10 working days.

Choose Ecommerce
  • Complete online shop, built by us
  • Free .co.uk domain
  • We upload your first 30 products
  • 40 GB NVMe SSD storage
  • Unlimited business email accounts
  • Payments by Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Unlimited content changes
  • Priority support

No contract. Cancel anytime.

Convert browsers into buyers

A shop nobody visits doesn't sell. Yours comes ready to attract customers, bring them back and measure what works.

Email marketing

Send news, launches and reminders to people who have already bought from you, using the business email included. A repeat customer costs far less than a new one, and email is still what drives the most repeat sales.

Discounts and promotions

Create discount codes and time-limited offers for key dates like the January sales or Black Friday. Codes are applied automatically in the basket, and you decide how much to take off and for how long.

Social media

We link your Instagram, Facebook and TikTok to the shop so every post sends traffic straight to your products. Followers go from browsing to buying without leaving their mobile, with the basket one tap away.

Analytics

We install analytics tools so you know how many people visit, what they look at and what they buy. With that data you decide what to promote and what to improve, rather than guessing.

A checkout customers actually enjoy

Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay built in at no extra cost: credit and debit cards and digital wallets, paid straight into your account.

What if something goes wrong after launch?

Selling online throws up questions every day: a payment that doesn't add up, a delivery to arrange, a new product to upload. Behind your shop there are people, not a bot, and the same team that built it replies by email the same working day.

  • Product and price changes included in your monthly maintenance
  • Help with your payment methods, delivery and business email
  • Step-by-step guide to running your dashboard
  • Monitoring to keep your shop online and selling

How our ecommerce web design process works

Five steps, zero risk: you bring the products and the drive to sell; we take care of everything else.

1. Discovery

Email us and tell us about your business: what you sell, who to and how you deliver. Send us your logo, your product list and any photos you have; that's all we need to get started.

2. Build

Our team designs the shop, writes the content, uploads your products with their prices and sets up payments and delivery options. You don't have to touch anything yet.

3. Handover

We send you a real link to your working shop: products uploaded, basket working and test payments. Take your time, show it to whoever you like and ask us for any changes you want.

4. No upfront fees

When you're happy with the shop, you pay for the plan. If you don't like it, you pay nothing and you're not tied to any contract: we take the risk, as we do on every project.

5. Launch and beyond

We connect your domain, activate the SSL certificate and business email, and your shop is open 24 hours a day. From then on, every sale lands in your dashboard and inbox with full details.

A complete solution behind the scenes

Catalogue, basket, payments, delivery, business email, hosting and SSL all work together from day one, with no separate services to sign up for and no add-ons to pay for. You focus on selling; we keep the shop running.

Ecommerce website design FAQs

How does an online shop work?

An online shop is a website where customers browse your products, add them to a basket and pay you online, at any time and from anywhere in the UK. Unlike selling only through social media, the shop takes payment on its own: the customer chooses, pays and you receive the order ready to dispatch.

Yours includes a catalogue, basket, built-in payments, delivery options and a dashboard to manage it all. We build the whole thing and hand it over working.

Does a website cost more if I include e-commerce?

Yes, a little: a business website starts at £12.99 a month + VAT, and the Ecommerce plan costs £34.99 a month + VAT with the complete shop included: hosting, SSL certificate, unlimited email accounts, basket and your first 30 products uploaded by us.

You also get 40 GB of storage and a free .co.uk domain, billed monthly through PayPal with no contract. And you only pay once you've seen the finished shop and you're happy with it.

How to take payments online for small business

We integrate Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay at no extra cost, so customers can pay by card or digital wallet and the money goes straight to your account.

If you don't have accounts with these platforms yet, we'll help you open them and test everything with trial transactions before going live. Every payment is recorded alongside its order in the dashboard, so reconciling your takings is easy.

What do you need from us to get started?

Your logo and a product list with names, prices and photos. Our team then uploads your first 30 products, with descriptions written and categories organised so the catalogue is clear at a glance.

After that you can keep adding products yourself from the dashboard, or ask us for changes as part of the monthly maintenance included.

How is the delivery fee calculated?

By delivery zone: we set up zones with their own rates, for example mainland UK, the Highlands and Islands, and Northern Ireland, plus click and collect if you have premises. Customers see the cost before they pay, with no surprises at checkout.

You choose which courier to use: the shop gives you every order with the address and contact details ready to book the delivery, without chasing details by message.

Can I make my own updates to my site?

Yes. The shop includes a dashboard for adding products, changing prices, managing stock and reviewing orders, designed for business owners rather than developers. We give you a step-by-step guide so you can find your way around with confidence.

And if you'd rather just focus on selling, the monthly maintenance included covers those changes: email us and we'll make them for you.

How long does an ecommerce website take to build?

Your shop is live in 10 working days from when we receive all your material.

As soon as it's finished we send you a real link so you can see it working, with your products uploaded and test payments, before you decide to pay.

Will I own my ecommerce website?

Yes. Your domain, your products and your customer data are yours, and there's no contract: if you ever leave, we give you a full copy of your shop, database and email. Before launch, if you're not happy with the finished shop, you pay nothing.

Before it gets to that point, we adjust the design and content based on your feedback until the shop feels like yours.