E-commerce website design in North London
Metropolis Web Design builds online shops on WooCommerce, the e-commerce system for WordPress. Online shops start at £1,500. You can add products, change prices and update pages yourself.
1 / 4 Mill Hill Music Festival · A WooCommerce site for a week-long festival running since 1995.
What’s included in an online shop?
An online shop that’s designed around your products and easy to run day to day.
- A shop designed around your products and your customers.
- Product pages, a basket and a checkout, built on WooCommerce.
- The ability to add products, change prices and add pages whenever you need to.
- A shop built and tested on phones, tablets and desktops.
- A walk-through of how to run your shop when it goes live.
Why build an online shop on WooCommerce?
We build every online shop on WooCommerce, because we think it’s the best choice for small businesses.
WooCommerce turns a WordPress website into a shop, so your products, pages and news all live in one place and are managed in one editor. That keeps things simple for you and gives search engines one well-organised site to understand.
It’s also flexible. There are extensions for payments, delivery, bookings and much more, and because your shop runs on your own website, you’re not tied to one platform’s templates.
WooCommerce isn’t always the answer. If you only sell a handful of items, a simple payment button on an ordinary website may be enough. We’ll tell you which makes sense for you.
What do I need ready before building an online shop?
The more of this you have ready, the faster and smoother the build. Most of it is worth thinking about early, whoever builds your shop:
- product names, descriptions and prices
- good, consistent product photos
- your delivery options and what they cost
- returns policy and terms of sale
- an account with a payment provider such as Stripe or PayPal
- a word with your accountant about VAT, if it applies to you
Can I sell tickets and bookings as well as products?
Yes. WooCommerce site sells tickets for its week-long festival, and we also built a WooCommerce site for Woodcote Media’s conferences and expos.
The same approach works for events, classes and courses.
How much does an online shop cost?
Online shops from Metropolis Web Design start at £1,500. The price depends on how many products you’re starting with, how complex your payments and delivery are, and whether the shop needs to connect to other systems. We’ll give you a quote after a free chat.
Remember the running costs too: hosting, your domain name, payment provider fees and any paid extensions. We’ll talk you through them so there are no surprises.
Online shops we’ve built
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Mill Hill Music Festival
A WooCommerce site for a week-long festival running since 1995. It sells tickets and is designed to be easy for older visitors to use.
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Biofuels International
One of six magazine sites for a publishing and conferences company, linked to a custom CRM and showing adverts in the news grid, with a WooCommerce conference site.
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Nicky Symons
Crystal healing, with an online crystal shop.
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Enitharmon Editions
Publisher of artists’ books, prints and literary editions. Founded in 1967.
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How does it work?
Five steps, starting with a free, no-obligation chat.
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Free consultation
We talk through what you need, then send you a quote.
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Design
You see desktop and mobile designs of your main pages before anything is built.
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Build
We build your site on WordPress or a custom system and test it on phones, tablets and desktops.
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Launch
We put the site live and show you how to update it, or we make updates for you.
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Look after
We keep it secure, up to date and working.
E-commerce: common questions
Yes. You can add products, change prices and update pages yourself, and we show you how when the shop goes live.
Yes. WooCommerce works with the main UK payment providers, such as Stripe and PayPal.
Often, yes. WooCommerce runs inside WordPress, so a shop can usually be added to an existing WordPress site. We’ll check after a free chat.
Yes. Mill Hill Music Festival sells tickets through its WooCommerce website.
Shops selling tickets, products, books and prints. They include Mill Hill Music Festival’s ticket sales, Nicky Symons’ crystal shop, where customers can filter by colour, crystal type and characteristic, and Enitharmon Editions, a publisher of artists’ books and prints.
Yes. We build and test every shop on phones, tablets and desktops, where many people now do their shopping.
Tell us about your website
A free, no-obligation chat is the best place to start. Call 07946 640 799 or send us a message.