Ecommerce web design in Altrincham
Saturday queues around the market hall do nothing for you on a wet Tuesday. An online shop does. MarketingDone4U builds and runs them from £149 a month, fifteen minutes away on the A538 in Wilmslow, with hosting, SSL and product copywriting written into the price.
A town that already knows how to sell
Altrincham did something most towns of 47,000 have been trying to copy ever since. The market house revival turned a struggling centre into a food and drink destination, and it pulled a strong independent retail scene along behind it. Add the professional firms around Goose Green and the town has an unusual amount of commercial energy for its size.
The businesses that came out of that are exactly the kind that should be selling online. Producers, roasters, bakers, makers and small brands with a following built on people tasting or handling the product first. They already have the hardest part, which is a reason for someone to buy. What most of them lack is somewhere to buy it on a Wednesday evening in February.
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Ecommerce web design · Altrincham
Selling food, drink and gifts online
Product businesses in this town tend to have complications a generic shop template ignores. Some things travel badly. Some cannot be posted at all. Packaging for anything fragile or chilled costs real money and has to be priced in rather than absorbed. And a large slice of the year arrives in a six-week window before Christmas.
We build around that rather than pretending it away. Delivery rules can exclude the items you will not post and offer collection instead. Categories can separate gifting from everyday buying, because the two customers behave completely differently. On Growth and Pro, discount codes and featured sections give you something to push in your busy weeks, and the returns page sets expectations before anyone orders.
Ecommerce packages.
One fixed monthly price per plan, hosting, SSL and copywriting inside it, no build invoice at the start. Growth at £249 is the one most clients pick, and for a seasonal range it is usually the right call. Anything outside your plan is £50 per hour and always agreed with you first, which matters when a seasonal business needs more changes in October than it does in March.
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 · Altrincham
The build, week by week
Week one is yours: product list, prices, photographs, delivery rules and anything you have on branding. Weeks two and three are ours. We agree the category structure, build the shop, write the product copy and connect the payment gateway to your own bank account.
Then you review the whole thing in one go, we make your revision-round changes, and a genuine test order goes through the checkout before anybody else can find it. Starter shops usually run to that rhythm comfortably. Bigger ranges take longer, and the honest bottleneck is almost always how quickly the product information arrives rather than how quickly we can build.
Ecommerce web design · Altrincham
What sits inside each plan
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Starter carries 15 products with five core pages, categories, a delivery information page, one revision round and 30 minutes of monthly edits. Growth takes 50 products and adds subcategories, discount codes, a returns page, GA4 analytics and product SEO formatting with 45 minutes of edits.
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Pro reaches 100 products with featured and bestseller sections, enhanced product pages, basic abandoned cart recovery where available and an hour of changes a month. For a producer with a seasonal range, that hour is usually the most valuable line in the plan.
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One decision worth making before you pick a tier: count sellable lines rather than variations. A coffee sold in three bag sizes is one product, not three, and getting that right at the start often means a smaller plan does everything you need for a year.
Ecommerce web design · Altrincham
Fifteen minutes down the A538
We are on Altrincham Road in Wilmslow, which is about as direct a route as it sounds, so dropping samples off or sitting down to plan the range together is easy. We work the same way in Sale, Knutsford and Wilmslow, and across the county through ecommerce web design Cheshire.
When the shop is live, paid social ads tend to suit food and gift brands well because the product photographs do the work, and SEO plans build the slower, steadier traffic. Ad spend is separate from the management fee, and we will not promise you rankings or sales figures because nobody can guarantee either. The full specification lives on our ecommerce service page, with every town we cover on the areas page.
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
We sell food. Can you handle delivery restrictions?
Yes. Delivery rules are configured during the build, so you can exclude anything you will not post, offer collection instead, and set charges that reflect what packaging genuinely costs you. The delivery information page is included on every plan so customers see the rules before checkout.
What does it cost, and is there a build fee?
£149, £249 or £399 per month depending on the plan, with no upfront build fee. Growth at £249 is the one most clients pick. Hosting, SSL, the payment gateway, copywriting and your monthly edit time are all included.
Can I get more changes done in the run-up to Christmas?
Your included edit time is monthly (30 minutes on Starter, 45 on Growth, an hour on Pro) and covers most seasonal work such as swapping featured products or adding a gift category. Anything larger is £50 per hour, agreed in advance, so a busy quarter never produces a surprise invoice.
How many products can I list?
Up to 15 on Starter, 50 on Growth and 100 on Pro, with bespoke pricing above that. If your range is mostly variations of a few core products, tell us how you count them before we quote and we will make sure the tier genuinely fits.
Do we need to travel to you?
No. Altrincham to our Wilmslow office is about 15 minutes if you would rather meet, but the whole process works perfectly well over phone and email.
Sell your range all year round
Walk us through your products and we will show you the shop, the plan and the fixed monthly price.
Start My Journey →Prefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.