Ecommerce website development at BeeTop
For us a store is a sales system with three users. The buyer wants to find a product and pay quickly. The owner wants to run the range without a developer. Google wants a catalogue it can make sense of. We have worked in SEO since 2010, and a lot of the stores we audit were built for the first two and forgot the third. Ecommerce website development with us starts from that third user, because it’s the one that brings orders without an ad bill.
Category structure planned before design
Many studios treat ecommerce web design as a visual job. Then nobody checks which categories people search for, how URLs should look or where duplicates will appear, and the store ends up ranking for almost nothing. We plan the catalogue as a search map. Logical category levels, short URLs, product markup and clean handling of filters give the store a base to grow on. You can read how that played out for one shop in our cosmetics store case study.
Buying, paying and running the store
Website design for ecommerce has to make the path to payment short. That means a catalogue with useful filters, product pages that answer the usual questions, and a checkout without needless steps. Payment providers, delivery and stock sync are wired in before launch. On WooCommerce or Shopify you manage products, prices and orders yourself, and the platform copes with a few dozen items or a few thousand.
Who needs a full store
Retailers, brands, manufacturers selling direct and wholesalers moving into retail. If you have a range and want people to pay on the site, you need a store. If you sell one product or are testing a niche, a landing page may be enough, and our overview of website formats compares them. Send us your range, and the online store development plan comes back with a category draft and a quote.