Online stores

WooCommerce, the right platform to create a fully working eCommerce site that is easy to manage, scalable, and designed to convert.

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What Is WooCommerce?

If you’re researching how to establish an online store, you’ll come across different platforms, each with its own set of advantages. Most eCommerce or online store solutions do. Shopify, SquareSpace, WooCommerce. See. WooCommerce is a customisable, open-source online store platform built on WordPress.

Unlike other platforms, WooCommerce allows you to:

Fully customise your design and functionality
Own your website and data
Scale your store without platform limitations
Integrate advanced SEO strategies from the ground up

If you’d like to get started selling your products online, you’ve come to the right place! Creating an online store typically encompasses a mixture of skills, products and services which can vary from one online store to another.

What Goes Into a High-Performing Online Store

Strategic design

Graphic design, Clean layouts, consistent branding, and optimised product pages

User experience (UX)

Fast load times, simple checkout processes, and easy product discovery

User interface (UI)

Intuitive navigation, clear calls-to-action, and mobile responsiveness

Payment gateways

Secure and reliable payment options that customers recognise

Product structure

Well-organised categories, accurate descriptions, and high-quality images

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

Optimised pages that help your store rank and attract organic traffic

Inventory management

Real-time stock tracking to avoid overselling

Secure hosting

Secure hosting, fast, reliable infrastructure that protects customer data

Ben makes it pretty easy for you to get your products up online, he will walk you through the process, set everything up based on your needs and help you update your online store if you require.

Your online store will be easy for you to update your products yourself!

Online stores need marketing and sales. No one will know your products are for sale unless you tell them.

Unless you’re Al Harington from Al Harington’s Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men Emprorium. Has he got a deal for yoooooooouuu!

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A Practical, Client-Focused Process
(WooCommerce extended edition)

You answer

Discovery & Strategy

Ben will send you a questionnaire to fill out, this way he will get to know your company and what positioning you will require for your online store and the rest of your website.

We meet

Planning & Collaboration

Or chat on the phone, or over email if you prefer to talk through the site to help everyone involved to really figure out what your needs and requirements are.

You provide

Product Setup

If you don’t have a product and category list already, Ben will help you put it all together. You’ll just need product names, IDs, prices, descriptions and images.

fun/serious does it’s thing

Initial Design

A week or so later you will get a draft of the homepage designed based on your requirements, then we’ll work together to tweak it to perfection.

fun/serious keeps at it

Development & Testing

There will be some back and forth (mostly over email) as your store gets built and you’ll be able to see the progress on a staging server before we go LIVE.

the serious stuff

Testing & Payment Integration

You and Ben work together adding payment gateways and testing that the site works. This is important as you will need to have a smooth working process from start to finish. You’re dealing with people’s money after all.

Corks pop! Site goes live

Launch & Refinement

We go live, small changes and bugs get ironed out over the following month of its launch.

What Sets our Service Apart

Responsiveness is Non-Negotiable

Today, more than half of web traffic comes from mobile devices. Ben, ensure that your site works smoothly across all platforms, stays fast even on slower connections, and meets accessibility standards. Mobile-friendly performance always affects both your rankings and conversions.

Affordable Doesn’t Mean Low Quality

There’s a common misconception that cheap web design or affordable services for small business automatically means cutting corners. Ben set priorities in investing in areas that matter: performance, usability, and visibility, rather than wasting money on features you don’t need.

What next?

WooCommerce is an affordable, robust and versatile ecommerce store solution. As a client you’ll be happy with the results.

If you want ongoing updates? fun/serious does that for you. You need your products updated? fun/serious does that too. Social media? Yup. Security? Yup. Google My Business? Yup. Email setup? Graphic design? Google & Facebook Ads? Email marketing? Yup, Yup, Yup & Yup.

If this is the way you’d like to build your website and eCommerce store, get in touch with Ben today! He makes the whole process simplistic, seamless and easy for all.

If you’re still unsure why Ben prefers WooCommerce, over Shopify, you can read all about it here.