It’s 2022 and you have set the bar to have the exponential growth of your business but you must have an eCommerce website for that.
The eCommerce website has proved to be the first footstep towards the growth of the business in today’s world. The cost of an eCommerce website depends on the four Ws.
Four W Stands for
- Who
- What
- Where
- When
This blog will cover all four of these and you’ll get the complete idea of what parameters the cost of the eCommerce website is determined.
1. Who are you working with?
In the generic term, the cost of anything that can be either product or service is determined by whom we are getting that product or service from. The same fundamental is applied when it comes to building an eCommerce website.
Following are the options you can go with:
a. Web Agency:
It is a group of people with a variety of different skillsets for example could be a developer with an agency. if you’re working with an agency you might have a group of people that have a lot of different skills. One person might be a marketing specialist another might be a web designer and these are all very different skill sets that you need to build a website.
b. Developer:
This person knows how to code so they’re gonna be able to code your website rest of the things you need to plan on your own.
c. Freelancer:
Are you an individual person, someone that you could find online on a bunch of different platforms for example fiber or Upwork, etc, a freelancer would probably have a specific set of skills and you could choose depending on the skillset that you need to create your website, they could be a designer, they could be a developer, etc.
d. Yourself:
As the name depicts you can of course build your website on your own. It might be a time-consuming process if you don’t have coding experience.
2. What do you need?
Once you have figured out who are you working with now you should be ready with your “things to have in my website list” because this will be the list that will help you to decide to choose between the following options:
a. Landing page:
A landing page is a very simple one-page place where you just want people to be able to buy from this website, a very simple one-page website with a couple of products keeping the focus on conversions. In this case, you don’t need extra pages.
b. How many pages:
If you want to showcase more of your brand then figure out these questions, How many pages do you actually need? Do you want a specific about page? Do you want a blog? Do you want a contact page? Do you want other pages?
Though the landing page can contain all this information if you want to have a very long about page for example a big blog post, a long contact page with a bunch of information then you might need several pages.
This is something you need to keep in mind when you’re getting a quote for your website.
c. Type of site:
There are tons of sites you can choose to have, you need to decide what type of site you want to build is it going to be a forum, a membership attached to this eCommerce site, is it going to be a multi-vendor platform like eBay or amazon or it will be a social media type site where people can also purchase things or is it a simple eCommerce site.
d. Type of solution:
Similar to the types of sites there are different types of solutions you can choose to go with for example if you want to use WordPress specifically or you might be interested in Wix, Weebly, ecwid, Shopify, Magento these are all very different platforms
3. Where?
This is an essential point one should not miss, this factor determines the cost of your website it involves the following pointer:
a. Location:
Yes! Your location is also going to influence the cost of a website if you’re in a region particularly where you aren’t able to find those services that you’re looking for specifically in your region and you will have to contact someone overseas.
b. Provider’s location:
Your provider’s location will also play a crucial role in deciding the cost of your website for example if they are local the price might be different if they are overseas it will be different. You might have conversion rates to pay for the developer overseas.
4. When do you need your website?
Time plays an important role when it comes to cost, If you have an expected timeline that is very short it’s probably gonna be more expensive if you want your website in a week you probably gonna pay a premium for it.
Conclusion:
To conclude we say that the cost of building the eCommerce website depends upon certain factors which include who are you working with? What do you need in it? What will be its location? And when do you want to run your website? Once you have answers to these questions you are ready to fix the cost of your website. For any queries feel free to contact us at aeologic.com
