Is it possible to develop an affordable e-commerce website?
Many web developers and designers can build a profitable yet affordable e-commerce website. An experienced web developer will always know how to create a fully functional e-commerce website cheaply.
Here are a few tips for those who want to build an affordable e-commerce website in Singapore. Here, I will share:
Why Affordable E-commerce Solutions?
Building a low-cost e-commerce website is a good choice for small businesses and startups, among other reasons, because it saves money.
Below are some of the reasons why should small businesses & startups go for an affordable e-commerce website development in Singapore:
#1 Cost-saving
This one is relatively self-explanatory. You can save money on your e-commerce website development when you hire an affordable web design agency or a developer to build your e-commerce website. Before you award your e-commerce website to any web developer or agency in Singapore, check with them about their pricing and hidden charges, if any.
#2 Scalability
Another advantage of creating an affordable e-commerce website is that you can save money for future enhancements/scalability. After launching your e-commerce website, you may want to add new features over time. When you invest less money in the initial development of your e-commerce store, you can spend the saved money on website enhancements.
#3 Quick launch
Affordable e-commerce development will come with limited features on the website. This means your web developer can quickly complete your website development, and you can launch your website quickly. The quicker you launch your e-commerce store, the sooner you can see the results and decide to scale it up.
#4 Low risk
Spending less on your e-commerce startup comes with a low level of risk for your business. With affordable e-commerce website development, you don’t risk much money. Instead, you invest less, and your money at stake is also limited.
Use WooCommerce/WordPress
At Innomedia, we use WooCommerce (a WordPress plugin) to create affordable e-commerce websites for our clients. WordPress/WooCommerce can save more than 30% on web development costs.
Affordable Web Hosting
By helping our clients subscribe to an affordable yet reliable web hosting company, we help them save money on their e-commerce website development. As experienced web developers, we have worked with dozens of the best and most reliable hosting companies.
Use Templates/Themes
Using templates/themes to create e-commerce websites also helps save money on e-commerce website development. Using themes can save more than 15% compared to a custom web design.
Prefer Free Plugins
To keep our clients’ e-commerce budgets minimum, we prefer using free plugins that deliver the same features and functionalities as a paid plugin. We can also customize all types of plugins to match our client’s requirements.
#1 Basic E-commerce Features
With our affordable e-commerce website services, you get all the basic yet essential e-commerce features such as add to cart, checkout, wishlist, add to compare, etc. These basic e-commerce features help you get sales & customers for your business.
#2 Free Web Hosting & Domain
Our affordable e-commerce website development services come with free web hosting for the first year. This means you don’t have to pay for web hosting or domain name for the first year when you hire us to create your e-commerce website.
#3 Free Logo Design Services
Get free logo design services with our e-commerce web development packages. The average cost to design a logo in Singapore may be $100. But you don’t have to pay for the logo when you hire us to build your e-commerce website.
#4 Responsive Website Design
At Innomedia, we build only responsive/mobile-friendly e-commerce websites. A responsive online store will help your business rank on search engines and achieve a high user engagement rate.
#5 Responsive Website Design
At Innomedia, we build only responsive/mobile-friendly e-commerce websites. A responsive online store will help your business rank on search engines and achieve a high user engagement rate.
#6 SEO-friendly Codes
Our team of e-commerce web designers creates SEO-friendly websites. Since we also provide SEO services at Innomedia, our web developers are training in building an SEO-friendly e-commerce website.
#7 Security Enabled
The security of a website is crucial when it comes to creating an e-commerce store. We install and configure security plugins with the e-commerce websites that we develop for our clients.
#8 Intuitive CMS
Our e-commerce website development packages also have an intuitive/user-friendly CMS (content management system). This helps you to take control of your website’s content, menu, and much more.
#9 Assistance to Upload Products
Our affordable e-commerce packages also come with the assistance of uploading products to the website.