Ecommerce Website Cost?
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If you were going to give a rough estimate for the design of a simple, but well designed ecommerce website, what would you say?
It would be for a local shop that sells men's clothing.
- monNom0
how long is a piece of string?
- hardhat0
^ +1
seriously though, give an example of a couple of sites that do close to what you want, and the region youre setting it up for (i.e. US, UK or Botswana)
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2500
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Toronto.
- mydo0
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- JamesBoynton0
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- Jaline0
Hours to develop and design x hourly rate = what to charge.
Don't give them a fixed cost if you can avoid it because e-commerce sites can eat up a lot of time with all the potential issues they can have. They take about twice the amount of time to create a basic HTML site as you'll have to test everything after you implement it. You may have to customize something that the client believes is a small thing, but really isn't from your side of things. Tell them it will be a minimum of something, and then charge more for changes.
- how much work will you be doing with the e-commerce?
- are you completely customizing it?
- any programming involved?
- are they a small start-up?At least a couple thousand.
- ********0
virtual real estate... $2000/ mo
- vaxorcist0
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....
- vaxorcist0
This is partly about business strategy, not just "put my store online"
WHY?!?? i
f I were doing an online store for an e-commerce component of a men's clothing store, I'd make a SIMPLE store, with 10 products or so, + clearance stuff with an email mailing list. I'd put things online that are NOT available on amazon / google shopping and are NOT likely to be returned because the sizing is critical....
It's waaay to easy to spend a HUGE amount of time and money on an e-commerce site that turns into an "also-ran" if you're competing against price-dropping competitors who are sharks and SEO wizards and/or Amazon/Zappos,etc...
....I'd consider an "excess inventory" website under a different brand name, or modified brand-name, like Nordstrom does with Nordstrom Rack... so it's clear that it's not going to sabotage the main brand....