Websites for online shops that actually sell.

Let’s be honest about this one from the start: a real online shop is a bigger job than a one-page website, and anyone who tells you otherwise is setting you up to fail. Selling online means a product catalogue with proper images and descriptions, a basket and checkout that people trust, secure card payments, delivery and postage rules, stock, tax, and a plan for what happens after the sale. That’s a genuine build, not a £99 one-pager, so we quote ecommerce per project. We’d rather price your shop honestly for what it needs than sell you a cheap site that can’t take a payment.

The good news is that a well-built shop earns its cost back. The reasons people abandon online purchases are almost always fixable: slow pages, a clunky checkout, unclear delivery costs, no obvious trust signals, and a site that falls apart on a phone where most shopping now happens. We build shops that load fast, make the checkout short and reassuring, show delivery and returns clearly, and put the trust signals, secure payment badges, reviews, a real contact, right where a nervous buyer looks for them.

We’ll talk through your range, how you want to take payment and ship, and how much you expect to manage yourself, then quote a shop that fits. If you’re a maker or independent with a handful of products, that can be refreshingly simple. If you’re carrying hundreds of lines with variants and stock control, it’s a larger build and we’ll say so plainly. Either way there’s a real person in Sussex to call, and if you only need to show products and take orders by phone, a standard site with a strong gallery might be all you need, and we’ll tell you.

A word on the mistakes that sink online shops, because they are almost always avoidable. Springing delivery costs on people at the final step, which is the single biggest cause of abandoned baskets. A checkout that demands an account or asks for a dozen fields before it will take the money. And no trust signals at all, no reviews, no clear returns policy, no visible way to reach a human, so a first-time buyer gets cold feet. We build to earn the sale: delivery and returns clear before checkout, a short guest-friendly checkout, and the reassurance a cautious buyer needs right where they hesitate.