Cheap eCommerce Website Design

Cheap eCommerce Website Design

Whether you're starting a new eCommerce website, or looking for an eCommerce re-design, Digi Donkey's goal is to provide the best professional eCommerce web design solutions at affordable prices.

With features such as unlimited products and categories, to a secure 1 page checkout, we make online transactions easy for both website owners and customers.

From selling a product or subscription, managing an affiliate or wholesale program, to taking payments for a service, our team can develop the custom eCommerce website perfect for your business.

There's no limit to what your eCommerce site can achieve providing your products or services online.

Is A Cheap eCommerce Website Even Possible?

It can be depending on how organized you are. We will supply you with all the documents and instruction you need to organize your materials so that your eCommerce website comes out as inexpensive as possible.

Okay, How Much Will It Cost?

eCommerce website design does not come with a set price due to variety of options and different levels of effort required. Customers always want to know what is the cheapest we can build them an eCommerce website for and we always let them know that it depends on how much work they want us to do for them.

Below, we have broken down all the basic parts required for building an eCommerce website as well as the fees for licenses, hosting and production time so that you have an idea of how much an eCommerce website will cost.

eCommerce Software: One time fee $249 On Sale $199

Here we use Kryptronic Click Cart Pro software for ecommerce development. We have specialized in this software so that our eCommerce websites can be built quickly. This software has an easy to learn user control panel. There are plenty of free eCommerce solutions out there but we have found that the learning curve for most non-tech users is so high that it is not worth using it since our customers still ended up having to call us to make edits and changes. Plus, Kryptronic has great customer support which is nonexistent with the free eCommerce software that is out there.

1 Year of Web Hosting: Annual fee $96

When you have an ecommerce website built you need to put it somewhere and that is where you website hosting comes in. This is paid for in advance by the year. So if you purchase a $8 per month plan your initial bill will be for $96. This will keep your ecommerce website online for 1 year. There are different price plans based on how much space you will need for your website, how many emails you want associated with your account and how much security you want added your ecommerce website.

Domain Name: Annual fee $9.99

You will need to purchase a domain name for your website. This is the part that comes after the "www" such as www.cheapasswebsite.com. Domain names are billed annually and a .com name can be purchased for $9.99.

SSL Certificate: Annual fee $69.99 to $99.99

If you are planning on accepting credit cards or any personal information on your eCommerce website then you will need to purchase a SSL Certificate. This is proof to your customers that your eCommerce website is secure and that the likely hood of their personal information getting into the wrong hands is minimal.

Payment Gateway: Price Varies

One of the critical elements in selling on the Web is the payment gateway, which allows online sellers to accept credit cards on the Internet.

As a consumer, when you check out of your local convenience store, you may swipe your credit card through a point-of-sale device and your gas, coffee, and donut are paid. But what if you are the retailer and your business is online? It's not like you have a card-swiping device at every customer s PC! There must be a way for you to process that information. Essentially, that is the job that a payment gateway does for online retailers. Your project manager will put you in touch with someone to help you get set up with a payment gateway . This is not handled by your web designer and is handled by an outside service. The cost associated with this service varies.

eCommerce Set Up: One time fee $599 (Save $100 if you purchase hosting with us.)

This is a flat fee we charge to set up your hosting account & database, configure your SSL certificate, design the cart, set the cart up, enter 1 payment option, lay out your cart's home page and get it working so that you can enter in your products. This fee does not include putting in any products or additional pages.

Photos: $4 each

You will be charged $4 for each photo you supply us for inclusion. We will resize your photos for you. Any additional editing like cropping or color correction will be billed at our hourly rate.

Product Entry: $6 each

You will be charged $6 for each product you have us enter. Products must be submitted in the spreadsheet we supply you.

Category Entry: $4 each

You will be charged $4 for each category you have us enter. Categories must be submitted in the spreadsheet we supply you.

Option Entry: $4 each

You will be charged $4 for each option you have us enter. Options must be submitted in the spreadsheet we supply you.

Estimating Your Options
Options can be a little confusing for someone new to eCommerce so here are some examples of how our pricing works when it comes to options. Call us if you need further explanation (321) 433-0801.

• You have 10 different shirts but only 3 sizes (small, medium and large). You would be charged $12 to have us enter the options into your cart.
  • Small: $4
  • Medium: $4
  • Large: $4
  • Total: $12
• You have 10 different shirts in both men's and womens sizes of small, medium and large. You would be charged $20 to have us enter the options into your cart.
  • Men's: $4
  • Women's: $4
  • Small: $4
  • Medium: $4
  • Large: $4
  • Total: $20
• You have 10 different shirts in both men's and womens sizes of small, medium and large. For 1 brand of shirt, both the men's and women's price for a large is $5 more than the rest. You would be charged $24 to have us enter the options into your cart.
  • Men's: $4
  • Women's: $4
  • Small: $4
  • Medium: $4
  • Large: $4
  • Large + $5: $4
  • Total: $24
• You have 10 different shirts in both men's and womens sizes of small, medium and large. Men's shirts come in white, black and blue. Women's shirts come in white, pink and blue. You would be charged $36 to have us enter the options into your cart.
  • Men's: $4
  • Women's: $4
  • Small: $4
  • Medium: $4
  • Large: $4
  • White: $4
  • Black: $4
  • Blue: $4
  • Pink: $4
  • Total: $36

Payment Option Entry: $10 each

Your set up fee covers adding one payment option like Paypal or Authorize.net to your cart. If you wish to have us add more payment options you will be charged $10 for each one. 

Additional Pages: $50 each

If you wish for us add additional pages to your eCommerce website you will be charged $50 per page. These pages can include text and images. Any required programming will be billed our hourly rate. 

Once Your eCommece Website Is Done

You will be given the login and password to your account so that you may manage your store. You can purchase training time with a consultant to go over the basics of how to add products, options and categories yourself or take one of our online classes. You will also be given a user guide that covers everything you need to know about running your online store. The basic eCommerce setup will get you to the point where you should be able to handle everything else yourself from that point. Obviously, if you require more work to be done by our designers you will need to pay.

Typical things that fall outside of of basic setup and can add to cost are:

• Additional graphic design. Some clients want a very customized look for their eCommerce website that goes beyond our basic set up.
• Image editing. Some times clients want us to edit all their images for them. If you want us to edit all of your images you will be billed hourly for us to do so.
• Copy writing. Each of your categories and products will require written descriptions. If you are not a writer or don't have the time our writers can write all your content for you. This is usually the second most time consuming aspect of eCommerce development.