Ecommerce Website Cost?
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Short answer -> woocommerce,etc + $3k or so..
BUT FLAT BIDS ARE DANGEROUS HERE!!!
Long answer: BE CAREFUL... making an e-commerce site will force a company to re-examine their business/sales process and possibly re-invent things they think they've settled. For example, if they have one retail store and an e-commerce shop, how will they make sure that online inventory is decreased for an item every time that item is sold in the retail store? Otherwise they may have somebody buy something they don't have in stock because the retail store just sold the last one! Stuff like that causes endless hours to appear out of nowhere.. so flat bid = death!
Also, they have to deal with things like:
1. really good photos, consistently really good
2. sizeing and colors and SKU's.. i.e. say you sell shoes, in some systems, you'll have ONE SKU for all sizes of men's red nike Air-Whatever running shoes, but in some systems you'll have one SKU for each size/color/type combination, so beware of mismatches between their web inventory system and their in-store inventory system.Some in-store inventory systems may "output to quickbooks" or have some ability to hookup to an online inventory system, but beware these are usually weird, expensive, proprietary and my require a lock-in contract, and/or $200/hour consultants....