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Ecommerce Website Design

"A tailor-made ecommerce websites allow you to promote, and sell, your products to the world..."

Choose RootHost for ecommerce web design in Lewes, East Sussex and across the UK.

An ecommerce website is just like a retail store – presentation is everything. Quality ecommerce web design shouldn't only 'wow' your potential customers with an elegant, professional look and feel, but it should be well organized and easy to navigate.

RootHost design and develop professional ecommerce websites at some of the UK's best prices on the worlds most powerful platforms. My ecommerce website packages start from just £1200 so why not contact me today for a free quotation.

My ecommerce websites provide an ideal way to get your business up and selling with a great looking site and I can advise on all aspects of online trading - providing help and advice for setting everything up to get you online and selling as quickly as possible.

All web design work that I undertake is completely customised - I DO NOT use pre-designed templates like some companies do. I will work with you until you are completely satisfied with your new website design. I am also to hand to discuss anything with you along the way if required. Oh, and as well as a year’s free web hosting and email service, I'll also throw in a free .co.uk or .com domain name of your choice!

All my ecommerce websites are developed from the ground up to be as search engine friendly as possible right from the very start, and I always give my clients the ability to update the essential meta data for all products, categories and pages. Here’s a list of what an ecommerce site can consist of:

ecommerce product features:

• Professional, custom made design for your store
• Integration with all major payment gateways
• Unlimited number of products and categories in your store
• Specify as many options as you like for each and every product, (size, colour, type etc)
• Product customisation
• Multiple product images
• Product accessories
• Enable/disable products and categories

• Flexible product display options and best-selling products area in each category
• Up-Sell Linking. Show related 'other products of interest'
• Featured products
• Full product search facility (search by product, categories and keywords)
• Ability to change the display order of products, categories & secondary categories
• Flexible discount features allow many on-sale and coupon discount options. Either by single product, or by groups of products

ecommerce shopping cart and customer support:

• User session based shopping cart
• User registrations and login
• Customer account login
• Customers can search & browse personal order history
• Real time order tracking

• Multiple customer types with unique pricing for every customer type
• Edit product options in cart/wish list/gift registry wish list
• Wish list

ecommerce inventory management and merchandising:

• Product quantity maintenance
• Customised messages for quantity levels
• Discount coupon codes and gift certificates
• Flexible discount features allow many on-sale and coupon discount options
• Full inventory control
• Out of stock messages

• Quantity discounts
• Retail and wholesale price based upon customer type
• Easy to use product, inventory, customer, order control and stock control
• Clearance items and sale items

ecommerce shipping and tax:

• Flexible shipping
• Custom delivery methods
• Shipping by flat rate, order weight, order destination, or a combination
• Promotional 'free shipping' coupons to your customers

• Process UK and International shipping
• Multiple sales tax configurations for local, international and regional districts
• Supports UK VAT
• Customisable VAT & shipping fees depending on client’s location

ecommerce payment gateway:

• Online payment system using any major payment gateway (Sagepay, Worldpay, Paypal etc)
• Simple checkout system

• Payment gateway integrated within your site (customers don't leave your site to pay)

ecommerce seo:

• Search engine optimised pages
• Ability to add introduction and body text for category & secondary categories

• * Customisable search engine friendly URLs
• Custom META tags for every product, category & secondary categories

Search Engine Friendly Online Stores

*URL rewriting is a method of converting a dynamic URL such as /products/product-page.asp?ID=1 into a much more SEO friendly URL; /products/product-name. It also helps when a user wants to bookmark your page, as the URL is very descriptive, compared to a dynamic URL.

No matter how nice your store looks if you don't get visitors there you're not going to sell anything! All my online stores are optimised for the search engines which gives you the best change of getting as high as you can in the natural listings. If you need help I can put together an SEO plan to help get you even higher!

Compatible With All Major Payment Gateways

Your store will easily integrate with any online payment provider you choose. If you need help with this I'm on hand to recommend the right one for you. I'll make sure you can accept payment by any card you choose and of course the ever popular PayPal option.

Secure Online Payments

Credit card fraud is a big problem with online shops these days. I will ensure your store is securely integrated with your chosen payment provider to minimise the risk of fraudulent transactions that could cost you money! Keeping your business and your customers safe online.

If you would like to know more about my ecommerce web design services in Lewes, East Sussex then please feel free to get in touch with me.

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