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Ecommerce Site Development
There is a general misconception that launching an online store is easy to do - just grab a piece of free software and drop in your logo. In reality, development and maintenance of online stores is expensive and extremely time consuming. We often receive calls for help after people have tried to implement these "quick and easy" web store solutions on their own. They are overwhelmed by the maintenance, have found that their software lacks major functionality, and are angry about merchant account or hosting contracts that they have gotten locked into.
Designing the web site interface for your online store is a very small step in the grand scheme of the ecommerce business plan. It is not the first step. Marmalade Studio begins the ecommerce process by sitting down with you and identifying the long term goals of your ecommerce business. We help you create a marketing plan that includes affiliate programs, click campaign reporting, and search engine tracking. We look at the products you offer and determine the functionality needed to present your products online. We then select or build a back-end ecommerce application that matches the needs of your product line and marketing plan. This ensures that the web site we build for you today will be able to grow with your business, eliminating costly custom programming and web site design overhauls in the future.
The following ecommerce development services are offered by Marmalade Studio:
- Complete ecommerce web site design and hosting
- Custom web site interface templates for out-of-the-box ecommerce software applications
- Custom programming to add additional functionality to your online store
- Merchant account set up
- Secure certificate set up
- Detailed web site statistics identifying browsers, shoppers and affiliate links
- Affiliate programs
- PDF product brochures
To inquire about pricing for a custom ecommerce web site, please use our online quote request form.