Ecommerce web design in Handforth
The Dean brings shoppers in. The trades, retailers and small units around it still need a way to reach everyone who never turns up. MarketingDone4U builds their online shops from £149 a month, five minutes down the road in Wilmslow. Product copywriting is included, not extra.
Trading in the shadow of a retail park
Handforth Dean pulls shoppers in from across south Manchester and north Cheshire, which is wonderful if you are a national chain with a unit on it and considerably less wonderful if you are an independent trying to be noticed nearby. The retail park competes on car parking and opening hours. You are not going to win that fight on the same terms.
What you can do is stop depending on people physically passing you. An online shop sells to the customer who never drives down Wilmslow Road, and it keeps selling at ten at night when the Dean has emptied out. For the trades and small industrial units around Handforth the same logic applies to consumables, spares and repeat-order lines that currently move by phone call.
Build my planEcommerce packages.
One monthly figure covers the lot: design, hosting, SSL, the payment gateway and the words on your product pages. Growth at £249 is the one most clients pick. There is no deposit and no build invoice, because MD4U owns and maintains the site while you lease it. Ask for work outside your plan and it is £50 an hour, quoted and agreed before anyone starts.
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 Handforth
What each plan actually covers
Starter runs to 15 products with five core pages, categories, a delivery information page, one revision round and 30 minutes of edits a month. It suits a tight range or a first attempt at selling online without committing to a catalogue you do not yet have.
Growth doubles down at 50 products and adds subcategories, discount codes, a returns page, GA4 tracking and product SEO formatting, with 45 minutes of monthly edits. Pro takes you to 100 products with featured and bestseller sections, enhanced product pages, basic abandoned cart recovery where the platform supports it, and an hour of edits. Above 100 lines we quote bespoke rather than pretending a tier fits.
The practical question is rarely how many products you own. It is how many you would genuinely keep updated. A shop with 40 well-written listings that reflect current stock beats one with 90 half-finished ones, and it is cheaper to run. We would rather start you a tier lower and move you up in six months than sell you room you never fill.
Ecommerce web design Handforth
Questions worth asking any ecommerce supplier
Whether you use us or not, these are the questions that separate a fair deal from an expensive one. Who owns the site, and what happens to it if you stop paying? Is hosting inside the price, and is it still inside it in year two? Who writes the product descriptions, you or them? What is the hourly rate for changes, and is it agreed before work starts?
Then two more that people forget until it is too late. Can you export your product data and customer list if you leave? And who fixes it at nine on a Sunday morning when the checkout stops taking payments? Our answers are on this page and on our ecommerce service page, in writing, before you commit to anything.
Ecommerce web design Handforth
Selling to trade as well as the public
A good proportion of Handforth business is business to business, and a shop handles that better than most owners expect. Discount codes on Growth and Pro let you give account customers their agreed rate without building a separate price list. Categories can be structured so trade lines sit apart from retail ones. Delivery rules can exclude anything too bulky to post, with collection offered instead.
None of that needs custom development. It is configuration, and it is inside the monthly price along with the edit time to change it when your terms change. Business customers also tend to reorder on a rhythm, so having the whole range listed and priced in one place stops your phone ringing for the same six items every month.
Ecommerce web design Handforth
Five minutes from your door
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Our office is on Altrincham Road in Wilmslow, a short run south from Handforth, so meeting in person is genuinely easy if you would rather hand over samples than email photographs. We work the same way for neighbours including Wilmslow, Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall, and county-wide through ecommerce web design Cheshire.
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Once the shop is trading, SEO plans and paid social ads are the usual next step for getting products in front of more people. Ad spend is separate from our management fee, and to be blunt about the other half of it, nobody can guarantee rankings or sales figures, so we do not. Every town we cover is listed on our 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
What does an online shop cost for a Handforth business?
Plans are £149, £249 or £399 per month, fixed. There is no separate build invoice at the start, and hosting, SSL, the payment gateway setup and product copywriting are all inside the monthly figure. Growth at £249 is the plan most clients pick.
Do I have to come to your office?
Not at all, though Handforth to our Altrincham Road office in Wilmslow is about five minutes, so dropping in with samples or stock is easy when it helps. Everything else runs perfectly well over phone and email if that suits your week better.
Can I sell to trade customers at different prices?
Discount codes on the Growth and Pro plans handle most trade arrangements without needing a separate price list. We can also structure categories so trade lines and retail lines stay clearly apart. If your account structure is more complicated than that, tell us early and we will be honest about whether it fits.
What if I want to leave?
You are not tied into a long lock-in and your product content, images and customer data are yours to take. MD4U owns the site itself under the lease model, which is what removes the upfront cost, and there is a buyout option if you would rather own it outright.
Can you handle bulky items that cannot be posted?
Yes. Delivery rules are set up during the build, so you can exclude items that are collection only, restrict certain products to a local radius, or set different charges by basket size. Changing those rules later comes out of your monthly edit time.
Let's get your products online
Send us a list of what you sell and we will come back with a plan, a timeline and a fixed monthly price.
Start My JourneyPrefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.