Ecommerce web design in Stockport
A town of 140,000 with a fast-changing centre and a very large number of small firms sitting on sellable stock. MarketingDone4U builds their online shops from £149 a month, twenty minutes south in Wilmslow. One fixed monthly price covers design, hosting, SSL, payments and product copywriting.
A town of 140,000 with plenty to sell
Stockport has spent the last few years turning itself around in public. The Underbanks have filled up with independents, Merseyway has been reworked, and a real creative and digital community has settled in alongside one of the largest SME bases in Greater Manchester. It is a proper town economy rather than a commuter dormitory.
What that means for us is variety. In a week we might be quoting for a maker in the old town, a distributor working out of a unit near the motorway and a retailer who has run the same shop for thirty years and finally wants orders arriving overnight. All three need the same thing: a shop that works, built without a bill that stops the conversation.
Build my plan
Ecommerce web design Stockport
What the monthly model changes
An online shop is easy to keep postponing when it looks like one big commitment made in advance. That is the part we take out. There is no build fee, nothing leaves your account before the shop exists, and the monthly figure covers design, hosting, the SSL certificate, payment gateway setup, product copywriting and your edit time. Work outside the plan is £50 per hour, quoted and agreed before anyone starts it.
It works because the site runs as a lease. MD4U builds, owns and hosts it while you pay the monthly figure, and there is a buyout option if you eventually want the site in your own name. Big agency thinking without big agency fees is the whole idea, and the shops being built using AI for speed, refined by experts for quality is what makes the maths work.
Ecommerce web design Stockport
What you get at each tier
Starter is up to 15 products with five core pages, categories, a payment gateway, a delivery information page, one revision round and 30 minutes of monthly edits. Growth doubles the catalogue to 50 lines and turns on subcategories, discount codes, a returns page, GA4 and product SEO formatting, alongside 45 minutes of edits.
Pro runs to 100 products, adding featured and bestseller sections, enhanced product pages, basic abandoned cart recovery where the platform allows it and a full hour of changes each month. Catalogues above 100 lines are quoted bespoke, which for a distributor or trade supplier in Stockport is a conversation worth having early.
Ecommerce packages.
Three tiers, one fixed monthly price each, hosting and SSL included rather than added later. Growth at £249 is the one most clients pick and the sensible default for a town this size. Work outside the plan is £50 per hour, quoted and agreed before it begins, so the monthly cost stays predictable even in a month when a lot changes.
Starter
- Ecommerce website
- Up to 5 core pages
- Up to 15 products uploaded
- Basic product categories
- Payment gateway connection
- Basic delivery information page
- Google Search Console setup
- Contact page
- Hosting and SSL included
- 1 revision round
- 30 minutes of small monthly edits
Growth
- Everything in Starter, plus
- Up to 50 products uploaded
- Product categories and subcategories
- Basic product SEO formatting
- Discount code setup
- Returns information page
- Google Analytics setup
- 45 minutes of small monthly edits
Pro
- Everything in Growth, plus
- Up to 100 products uploaded
- Enhanced category structure
- Featured product sections
- Bestsellers or new arrivals section
- Basic abandoned cart setup, where available
- Enhanced product page layout
- 60 minutes of small monthly edits
- More than 100 products, bespoke quote
Hosting and SSL are included. Anything outside the plan is £50 an hour, agreed with you first.
Prices shown are the current set fees. Your agreed price stays fixed while you keep the service. Final package details are confirmed before you buy.
Ecommerce web design Stockport
What usually goes wrong with a self-built shop
We see the same handful of problems when we take over a store somebody built themselves, and they are worth knowing whether or not you use us. Product descriptions copied from the supplier, word for word, on a page that a hundred other sellers also have. Delivery settings half configured, so a customer in Shetland gets quoted the same postage as one in Reddish. No returns page at all, which loses more sales than it saves.
Then the quieter ones. Photographs at wildly different sizes so category pages look untidy. No analytics installed, so nobody knows which products people actually look at. And a checkout that has never been tested with a real card, which is how you discover on your best day that orders were failing. Our builds close all six before launch.
Ecommerce web design Stockport
Getting found, honestly
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Product SEO formatting comes with Growth and Pro, and it gives your range a fair chance in search. That is as far as the promise goes, because nobody can guarantee where a page ranks in Google. Stockport is a competitive market with plenty of established sellers, and anyone telling you they can buy you a position is describing something that does not exist.
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If you want to add paid traffic, Google Ads management runs alongside the shop so your ads can appear when somebody searches for what you sell, and ad spend is separate from the management fee. SEO plans handle the slower compounding side, and social media management keeps the range visible to people who already know you.
Ecommerce web design Stockport
Twenty minutes from our office
Our base is on Altrincham Road in Wilmslow, a straightforward run from Stockport, so meeting in person is easy when it is genuinely useful and unnecessary the rest of the time. We build the same shops for Cheadle Hulme, Bramhall and Poynton, with county-wide cover on our ecommerce web design Cheshire page.
Full plan specifications are on the ecommerce service page, everywhere we work is listed on our areas page, and if you would rather just ask, the number is 0161 570 1668.
Less faff. More done.
Choose
Pick one service, or combine as many as your business needs.
Tell us
Answer a few simple questions so we understand what you do.
We do the work
Smart technology does the heavy lifting. Our experts finish it.
You grow
Turn better marketing into more enquiries and sales, without building your own team.
Works well with.
Ongoing SEO from £49 per month to grow organic sales.
Search and Google Shopping campaigns from £89 per month per channel. Ad spend is separate.
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ads from £69 per month. Ad spend is separate.
Branding
Logo, colour palette and brand assets from £199 one-off.
Frequently asked questions
What does the monthly figure include?
£149, £249 or £399 per month depending on the plan, fixed. The build, hosting, the SSL certificate, the payment gateway, product copywriting and your monthly edit time are all inside that price, with a buyout option if you later want to own the site outright. Larger jobs are £50 per hour, agreed in advance.
We have a large catalogue. Can you handle it?
Pro covers up to 100 products and we price anything larger bespoke. Tell us the real number of lines and how often they change before we quote, because a 400 product catalogue that turns over constantly is a different job from a stable one.
Will you fix a shop I already have rather than rebuild it?
If it is fundamentally sound, we will say so and tell you what to correct. Where we take over an existing store we rebuild it properly on our system, carry products across within your plan limit and set the payment gateway up fresh so nothing breaks halfway.
Can you guarantee we will rank in Google?
No, and neither can anyone else. We format products for search on Growth and Pro, install GA4 so you can see what is really happening, and improve from evidence. Anyone promising you a specific position is guessing.
Do you need to visit us?
Rarely. Stockport is about 20 minutes from our Wilmslow office so a meeting is easy to arrange, but the build runs perfectly well by phone and email if that is easier.
Get your shop trading online
Send over what you sell and we will price the whole build as one fixed monthly figure.
Start My JourneyPrefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.