Does your current ecommerce website need an upgrade but you don’t want to invest a fortune? Are you a startup and need to get a quality ecommercewebsite up without costing the earth? Do you need a new mobile responsive ecommerce website to make sure you can rank on Google and enjoy sales from the majority of users who reviews sites on mobile?
Our company disrupted the website industry in 2013 when we started offering kick arse website design and developments, including eCommerce websites which are mobile responsive, at an extremely affordable price.
People are constantly astounded at how their vision for their eCommerce website becomes a reality right before their eyes either in person working from our Sunshine Coast or Newcastle office or online – as we complete these ecommerce web sites projects for clients around the world.
FEATURED SERVICES
Electronic commerce, commonly written as e-commerce or eCommerce, is the trading or facilitation of trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet or online social networks. We generally build ecommerce websites on WordPress using WooCommerce, or Shopify.
For years website designers and website development companies have tackled eCommerce websites in the same manner. Take a brief. Start the build. Send the client a link to review. Get feedback. Request content from the client. The eCommerce website develops some more. But overall the process could easily take a few weeks, often a few months. And in the meantime you’re not online and you’re most certainly not selling.
Clients would get frustrated at how long it would take. Agencies would get frustrated at clients who didn’t supply the content and delayed the project. Clients would get upset about the eCommerce website not looking like or doing what they had hoped for. Agencies would get frustrated about clients who kept moving the goal posts in terms of what they wanted.
Our eCommerce website packages address all of these issues and more.
Our entire eCommerce website process is streamlined into four key stages:
1/ TAKE A BRIEF
2/ BUILD DAY
3/ GO LIVE
4/ HANDOVER & TRAINING
Using this simple 4 step method, The Creative Collective has developed hundreds of websites and have managed to fine-tune the process of a website build into two eight hour periods (830am – 430pm) for an eCommerce website featuring up to 20 basic product options. Working either along side our teams at our Sunshine Coast, Brisbane or Newcastle offices, OR on Skype (we’ve worked with clients all around the world many times over in this matter), alongside an allocated project manager, a lead web developer and a support web developer, you will be amazed at what can be achieved in just two days.
Using either the world’s most popular website platform WordPress or Shopify, both of which clients can easily self manage after handover, we lean on a variety of available plug ins (in terms of WordPress) or add ons (in terms of Shopify) integrating these with the website to achieve the clients desired functionality including whatever features and functionality have been agreed on during the briefing.
- Do you need a eCommerce website in a hurry?
- Do you have a set budget and can’t withstand budget blow outs?
- Do you need a mobile responsive eCommerce website?
- Do you want to build an eCommerce website on WordPress or Shopify?
- Do you have a set idea of what you want and just need an experienced eCommerce team that you can work with to bring your vision to life?
- Do you want to save on the back and forth on digital projects to get the job done with less fuss?
- Do you want to work with experienced professionals who know what they are doing?
Then yes, this is for you!
What sorts of features and functions can my Shopify website have?
Sell anything, anywhere
With our Shopify eCommerce websites, you can sell both physical and digital goods in all shapes and sizes, offer product variations, multiple configurations, and instant downloads to shoppers, and even sell affiliate goods from online marketplaces.
You can also offer bookings, memberships, and recurring subscriptions. Perhaps you’d like to sell monthly subscriptions for physical goods, or offer your members a discount on digital downloads? It’s all possible.
Ship wherever you like
Through eCommerce websites you can also offer free shipping, flat rate shipping, or make real-time calculations. Limit your shipments to specific countries, or open your store up to the world. Shipping is highly configurable, and even supports drop shipping.
Extensive payment options
Our eCommerce solutions come bundled with the ability to accept major credit cards, PayPal, Stripe and other popular payment gateways such as eWay.
You control it all – forever
Our eCommerce websites give you complete control of your online store, from taxes to stock levels to customer accounts. Add and remove extensions, change your design, and switch settings as you please. It’s all under your control.
We have been known to build sites in this package as soon as the very next day. But subject to our production schedule, generally your ‘build’ day will be booked in within weeks from sign-off.
AFFORDABLE
One of the biggest cost blow-outs in website development is the ongoing to and fro. By working along side you on the build day, we can keep the cost down due to cutting out the to and fro.
Beautiful
Don’t think for a minute that fast means compromising on design. Our portfolio will prove that the sites we build in just 1 day, are up there with some of our most beautiful work!
WATCH A VIDEO OF OUR FOUNDER YVETTE ADAMS TALKING ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE AND APPROACH TO CREATING WEBSITES, INCLUDING ECOMMERCE WEBSITES AT WORDCAMP – A WORDPRESS CONFERENCE
ECOMMERCE WEBSITE CASE STUDY:
Airllywood.com.au
Airllywood is a “must go to destination” for locals and visitors alike in Airlie Beach. They love clothes with an edge that are also stylish and comfortable. Based in Queensland, they understand that 100% cotton is the answer for hot days and warm evenings and soft, floating kaftans make you feel special.
They carry several labels as well as designing and producing our own range of clothing. The Airllywood label is based on retro styles and resort wear and includes the Birds of Paradise Embellished Kaftans.
Their Airlie Beach shop is open Monday to Saturday 9.30 am to 5.30 pm and Sundays 10 am to 3 pm and their Shopify website is open 24/7.
Have a shop here!
This Shopify site includes:
– A sale page
– Ecommerce enabled
– Last items page
– Social media icons
– Pop ups
I’M A PERSON WHO LIKES DETAILS –
GIVE ME MORE!
INITIAL BRIEFING SESSION (1 HOUR)
Once we are engaged, and generally within the week if you are ready to go, we will schedule a one hour appointment which can be held in person or online via Skype or Google Hangout, where we will take the time to get to know you, your business objectives, target market, competitive landscape and desired outcomes for a new website. This session will allow us to hit the ground running and will provide you with a clean checklist of everything you will need to have organised so that everything can run as efficiently and effectively on the days of the eComerce website development.
We will extract a brief of what you want your eCommerce website to look like and do, what pages it will have, what themes (look and feel) may be suitable and what you want to rank for on the search engines. We will discuss your hosting & domain selection and provide you assistance where required on any fronts. We will discuss your product range, categories, method/s of accepting payments, shipping, returns & delivery policy and more.
We will then type our discussion up and provide you with a clear debrief post this session for you to approve, which will be the basis from which we will work on the day of development.
DAY 1 OF THE ECOMMERCE WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Subject to our team’s availability and yours, we will schedule the first day to complete the eCommerce website. This day is generally dedicated to establishing the website’s look and feel, and all the static pages i.e. home, about us, contact us and any others required. First up on day 1 of the build, we will revisit the brief and introduce you to your web developers for the day. We will begin the development of the new eCommerce website straight after the briefing and work until mid morning or midday. At this point we will schedule a chat and show you how the website is shaping up. At this point it is already looking like a professional website with your brand, colour scheme and theme in place! At an opportune time we will take a short half hour lunch break and continue working until the website is completed, with regular checks with you in the afternoon to ensure we are on the right track and you are happy with your website is coming together. By 4pm – 5pm, the website is generally complete.
In short we are at your disposal for the entire duration of the day, so if a desired outcome is achieved prior to the 430pm deadline, we are happy to do whatever we can towards your business inside this time frame.
DAY 2 OF THE ECOMMERCE WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
On day 2 of the eCommerce website development we will generally commence work on the eCommerce aspects of the website such as establishing the plug in or module you will use & any other associated eCommerce plug ins or add ons deemed to be required from the briefing session
We will establish your main SHOP NOW or similar page, any category pages, and then start to upload your individual products and their associated attributes i.e. colour, sizes, weights or other variants, and then associate them with the relevant category/s. Please note you will have the ability to add unlimited categories and products yourself upon handover and training. We will then integrate your chosen gateway i.e. eWay + merchant facility or Paypal or Stripe and run some test transactions to ensure once live the site will successfully transact funds. We will finish the day by finalising any last items which require it from Day 1 or 2.
TRAINING & HANDOVER
Once your new eCommerce website is complete, we will arrange a 1-2 hour training and hand over session so you can learn how to create new content and products, amend existing content and products generally make the most of your new eCommerce website. There will be a lot you can do on your own eCommerce website subject to your existing knowledge and how quickly you learn and adapt to the WordPress or Shopify system from what we teach you in this session. We do recognise that sometimes you can have a change of mind and some tweaks may be required post the website development date that you identify during or soon after this training or handover, or simply items which are not basic edits which you do require assistance to complete. We’re happy to accommodate most requests, however please note that any hours post the development day will be at an additional charge of $120 + GST. We will quote you before starting work.
GOING LIVE
Some clients prefer to go live before their Training & Handover session, others only after this session and once they have had a chance to make some final edits. When you are ready to ‘go live’ you simply inform us, and we will then negotiate on desired timeframes and schedule this process in. This process takes us 2-4 hours to complete and includes us adding Google Analytics to your website + schedule reports, adding Google Webmaster Tools to the site, submitting your site to Google, adding search engine optimisation components to the site if you have engaged us for this (see packages).
We can also provide you with a number of further opportunities to help you get your website out there and grow your business upon going live if you wish, each comes with their own associated costs. These include:
OUR eCOMMERCE WEBSITE PACKAGES
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS:
- Price indicated is in AUD (other currencies can be billed if arranged) and price is as quoted + GST
- Payment can be made upfront by clicking on the ‘SIGN ME UP’ options above, or by invoice by clicking on the ‘invoice me’ option above. A 50% deposit is required to commence live. The final 50% will be due prior to going live.
- See our legals for further information that may be relevant to this service
- TCC will work on the live domain where available or on a staging domain where one is not provided/confirmed. A domain (web address) on average will cost an additional $120 and can be purchased here.
- Client has to provide everything before the job begins (wording, images, videos, examples of websites they like etc, domain and hosting information before the job begins). We will provide a checklist post the briefing session.
- Client must be contactable in person, via phone, Skype or Google Hangout for a full day to give approvals/ provide input at different stages of the project
- TCC works to best practice methods and checks your site on most devices. Whilst we will ensure it’s responsive on popular devices, it cannot be checked on every type of smartphone available and results may differ slightly from device to device.
- If the scope changes, or hours exceed the above indications, you may incur additional fees at $120 + GST per hour.Once your build has been booked in, all cancellations for reschedule must be received at least 2 business days prior to the build or a cancellation fee of $250 + GST will apply as we are not always able to re-book other clients for this time
ECOMMERCE WEBSITE CASE STUDY:
MummyTea.com.au
Mummy Tea is a Caffeine Free, organic herbal tea for Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and motherhood. Created by a mum to support other women through all stages of pregnancy and beyond. The Herbal tea’s are blended and packed in Australia giving you tasty, quality tea every time, PLUS they packaged the herbal tea into bio degradable pyramid tea bags that are super convenient for any mum to have anytime of any day.
We assisted Mummy Tea with the branding, packaging, website and conversion tracking.
This WordPress + Woocommerce site includes:
– A blog
– Ecommerce enabled
– Instagram feed belt
– Social media icons
– Newsletter sign up linking to Mailchimp
Please see below some samples of our eCommerce website projects. As you can see we have worked with a wide range of industries.
TESTIMONIALS
Our Happy Website Clients
“The Creative Collective had a complex challenge to pull together a brand for us given the number of stakeholders and different target markets the brand had to appeal to. The workshopping process was thorough and The Creative Collective were very responsive in our requirements to finalise the end result. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback as we’ve used this brand out in the marketplace. It really seems to be resonating with the target markets.”
“Yvette and Kat are the most energetic, vibrant and trend-setting team I have ever encountered. Always cheerful, smiling, superbly intelligent and on-the-ball they make the graphic design process a wonderful and happy adventure of discovery. What’s more I feel “safe” in their capable hands as beyond their obvious talents they work to the highest standards of ethics and integrity which can be a rare commodity in today’s commercial world. I retained the Creative Collective on the basis of my initial impression of Yvette herself and as such my expectations were set “very high” – I was not disappointed – my expectations were met “admirably”by both Yvette and Katrina. What more can I say – they are the best! “
“I always felt like i was in good hands with Kat and the other members of the team that helped me. Kat is expert at coming up with fabulous ideas and was really helpful in bring about the vision I had in a grounded and innovative way. Thanks Kat!”
“The bounce rate of our website is down to 7% since January this year. Since March 1 it is even better: 1.6%. A great testimony to your work on redesigning the pages. Well done!”
“What a crew, friendly and smart, just like my wife easy to get along with and get the job done so professionally. Thank you all.”
“Would like to thank you again for our website everyone who has seen it have been saying how good it looks. Kind Regards, Alice.”
“I am so thrilled with what this company can do in a day. It has been such a breeze working with them and they have made everything really easy and simple. I have unsuccessfully tried previously to get my websites up and running and I finally have a stunning website and branding. Couldn’t recommend you guys enough! 10/10!”
“Could not recommend this amazing company enough. I have had all of my branding + my website done by the team at Creative Collective and am so happy and impressed by the attention to detail, professionalism, patience (I am extremely fussy) and care shown by each and every staff member I dealt with. 1 year on I am still constantly receiving compliments from my clients on my beautiful logo and website. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the team at Creative Collective I am so happy with everything you have done for me and my business. Special shout out to Bronte who continues to go above and beyond!”
“I always felt like i was in good hands with Kat and the other members of the team that helped me. Kat is expert at coming up with fabulous ideas and was really helpful in bring about the vision I had in a grounded and innovative way. Thanks Kat!”
Recently I needed something done quickly as I was about to launch a campaign to my 3000 subscribers. It was a technical issue on my website and I need a developer to understand what I needed done pronto. Anyway Mel and Arvind delivered quickly and on time. Well done guys!
I’m a small business owner and have been working with The Creative Collective for over 18 months now. Over this time, with there expert advice on all things marketing, they’ve helped grow my business from humble beginnings to something to be proud of. I hate think we’re I’d be without Kat and her team of tech heads! 100% recommendation for any business new or old!
I’d like to take the time to pass on a big thank you to Tamara, Arvind & Alan.This process has been seamless and very enjoyable. Your organisation & communication has been impeccable, and this has made the journey pleasant. I have no hesitation in working with you again and will certainly be passing along recommendations wherever possible.
Thank very much Arvind, you’ve been a delight to work with and appreciate your advice and patience as we worked through it all. I was very excited last night to be adding all the lovely colourful artworks!
