Ecommerce web design in Manchester
Manchester built its name on trade and never really stopped, from Northern Quarter record shops to the Cheetham Hill wholesale district. MarketingDone4U builds online shops for the city's independents, makers and wholesalers from £149 a month, 30 minutes south in Wilmslow. One fixed monthly price covers design, hosting, SSL, payments and product copywriting.
A trading city, still trading
The warehouses that made Manchester rich now hold flats and studios, but the selling never went anywhere. The Northern Quarter is stacked with independents in records, streetwear, books and design. Ancoats makers ship nationwide from converted mills. Cheetham Hill runs one of the biggest wholesale fashion districts in the country, and the Arndale and the markets keep thousands of small retailers busy in between.
A surprising number of those businesses still sell only over a counter, or only through a marketplace that takes its slice of every order. The product range is there, the reputation is there, and the missing piece is a shop of their own that works. That is the piece we build, without the upfront bill that usually stops the conversation.
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Ecommerce web design Manchester
What the monthly model changes
An online shop is easy to postpone while it looks like one big cheque written in advance. So we removed the cheque. 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 works because the site runs as a lease. MD4U builds, owns and hosts it while you pay the monthly figure, with a buyout option if you eventually want it in your own name. The shops being built using AI for speed, refined by experts for quality is what makes the maths work at these prices.
Ecommerce web design Manchester
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, with 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 Cheetham Hill wholesaler or a trade supplier 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 a sensible default in a market this size. Work outside the plan is £50 per hour, agreed before it begins, so the cost stays predictable even in a busy month.
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 Manchester
The mistakes that quietly cost sales
Taking over city shops, we keep meeting the same faults. Product descriptions copied word for word from the supplier, on pages a hundred other sellers also publish. Delivery settings half finished. No returns page, which loses far more sales than it saves. Photography at wildly different sizes, so category pages look like a jumble sale.
And two that hurt most in a market this competitive: no analytics, so nobody knows which products people actually look at, and a checkout never tested with a real card, which is how a seller discovers on their best trading day that orders were failing. Our builds close every one of those before launch.
Ecommerce web design Manchester
Getting found, and the rest of Greater Manchester
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Product SEO formatting comes with Growth and Pro and gives the range a fair chance in search, but nobody can guarantee where a page ranks, least of all in this city. If you want traffic sooner, Google Ads management and SEO plans run alongside the shop on the same fixed basis, with ad spend always separate.
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We build the same shops for Salford, Stretford, Prestwich and Chorlton, with county-wide cover on our ecommerce web design Cheshire page. Full plan specifications are on the ecommerce service page, everywhere we work is on the areas page, and 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 a month depending on plan, fixed. Design, hosting, the SSL certificate, payment gateway setup, product copywriting and your monthly edit time all sit inside it, with a buyout option if you later want the site outright. Bigger jobs are £50 per hour, agreed first.
We already sell on marketplaces. Why add our own shop?
Marketplaces bring buyers but keep the margin, the customer data and the rules. A shop of your own runs alongside them, protects the brand and lets repeat customers buy without a commission in the middle. Most of our clients keep both going.
We carry a lot of lines. Can you handle the catalogue?
Pro covers up to 100 products and anything larger is quoted bespoke. Tell us the honest number and how often it changes, because a fast-turning wholesale range is a different build from a stable one.
Do you only work with Cheshire businesses?
No. We are based in Wilmslow, about 30 minutes south of central Manchester, and we build shops across Greater Manchester. Meetings are easy to arrange, though most builds run happily by phone and email.
Can you guarantee sales or a Google ranking?
No, and nobody honest can. We format products for search on Growth and Pro, install GA4 so the figures are visible, and improve the shop from evidence rather than promises.
Get your Manchester shop trading online
Tell us what you sell and we will come back with one fixed monthly figure for the whole build.
Start My JourneyPrefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.