What is Ecommerce? It is a method to sell and buy items on the internet. A shopping cart along with your PayPal account is a great way to sell your products. It’s easy and fun. Whether you have two or two hundred products, a shopping cart that is hosted on your own server is the most cost effect way to make money selling on the internet. For as little as $7 per month you can own and operate your own store once the initial store design is uploaded and the custom design is paid for.   Take a look at the sample store.

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Our hourly rate is 100 per hour to develop “custom” shopping carts. It is important that we meet personally with all clients to determine how much function is needed and to determine how many hours it might take to build the site. Looking at someone else’s site (not knowing what type of programming or how many hours it took to complete the site does not help me provide you with an accurate quote. If you don’t plan on meeting several developers here in town and are just shopping around you might be better served to just download a generic site to use.

Many e-commerce web design companies will have pre-made packages that are usually cheaper than a complete custom design sites. There are many off-the-shelf e-commerce packages available today, many of them are free open-source platforms such as presto shop and magneto. There are also many low cost commercial packages that you can use. These packages will come with their own shopping carts and built in inventory management, paypal integration, credit card processing information, etc.. There are several great e-commerce software systems available and a good developer can customize it to fit your needs. The one drawback with packages is that they are required to fit your business into a pre-made system that might not have all the features you want, so its best to consider all your options. Most designers will have a flat package rate then allow you to request customization at an additional charge.

Per Project Pricing

Many e-commerce development firms will give you a set price to complete your e-commerce project. Make sure you have a thorough and complete requirements list before you begin the project. A good development company will break out each section with a list of features, specification and assumptions for each section of your website. Make sure you get it in writing so you both have clear expectations.

Charging Hourly

A very common way for web developers to charge is by the hour. Depending on the experience, location, and many other factors, the hourly rate can be anywhere from $50 to $200.00 per hour or more for a large company. (Consultants can charge five times that, but they are usually just helping creating the plan and requirements, not doing the actual installation and code)!  This is a large range but I have seen both and just about everything in between. The important thing is to make sure the web developer is worth the rate they charge. Always check with the designers past clients and remember – you really do “get what you pay for”.

Per Page Pricing

Since most e-commerce sites use a shopping cart and you will control the number of items for sale, and in turn the number of pages, this pricing model is normally not used for e-commerce web design. Once a system is installed, it is a simple matter to add new items into your store. Also e-commerce software packages usually come with several pages right out of the box. There are control panel pages for you to change the style and settings, then search pages, browsing pages, and check out pages for your customers. Most developers will have a standard fee to install an e-commerce software package and customize it for you. Most designers in the USA will charge $100 per hour or $200 per page and add as many pages as you need. This pricing is usually for basic static brochure web sites that do not require a lot of custom features. The per page price is normally $200 per page and may go down (with a bulk discount) depending on the number of pages you need. In my experience, you will usually find the designers with less experience (and who charge lower prices) are the ones who usually charge per page prices. Also this pricing model seems to be more popular in rural areas.

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