1 July 2011
Hey there Sophie

The price will vary greatly depending on the scale of what you're looking to do and the features of the service on offer. My advice would be to shop around then compare prices and, perhaps most importantly, compare their work. See how easy their e-commerce systems are to use.
A web designer / developer may work out cheaper in the long run for a big enterprise, but most systems can be developed in just a few weeks, then handed over for the client to look after.

I hope this helps Sophie

Best regards

Toby

1 July 2011
The costing will totally depend on your brief, for example do you need integration with stock management systems etc.

I think you will definitely benefit from using a agency rather than employing a individual. When you are using a agency you will not only receive skills and knowledge from a individual but the whole team.

Have a shop around and see what the different agencies offer, also try and have a think about the platform for the website. I would recommend using a opensource ecommerce such as Magento, the main reason for this is that you will not be tied down to one particular agency.

Hope this helps

Nathan Chick
Technical Director
Attain Design

3 July 2011
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3 July 2011
Good that you have started planning already. I would suggest that you will need a team to be able to build something on the lines on asos and then maintain this for you. Though adding products is a relatively easy option and this can be done by your side also but to keep on adding new features to the website, you will get better support from a business rather than a freelance designer. This would require skills in Photoshop, Flash, XHTML/CSS, Flash, PHP/MySQL and Search Engine Optimization and its really difficult to find one person who can wear all these hats and do the job well.

4 July 2011
Well Sophie, for a huge website like that, you'd be looking at a 4 figure sum (I'd imagine) - but a good designer is well worth that.

You'd want an easy-to-use ecommenrce platform though, so you can add products yourself over time (it's easy to do, and the costs for having to keep a developer on-hand to add products for you can add up).

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5 July 2011
Hi Sophie,

this sounds right up our street. We've been developing ecom websites for a number of years with a massive collection of shop sites in our portfolio. It would certainly be a much cheaper option than employing an in house designer, and the system we use is simple, yet very powerful.

If you'd like to talk about a quote, or just have a general chat with one of our salesman, get in contact with me at james.scott@creare.co.uk - I'll have a chin wag with you, and also get a salesman involved to give you some great advice.

Look forward to hearing from you,

James Scott,
Creare Design.

15 July 2011
Hi Sophie,

The scale of the website is something separate to the number of products you hope to sell. If you intend 'big scale' to mean a large selection of products similarly to asos, then you could expect to pay considerably less than if you mean 'big scale' to mean a website with a large number of features.

With any e-commerce website you would be looking at maintenance going forward, and would want to have a system that allowed you to easily manage your products and provided enough features to handle the options you would want to associate with these products (e.g. gift wrapping, size/colour, stock levels, back-ordering etc.).

The more features you required, the more you can expect to pay. Another thing to consider is whether a 'one size fits all' type shop would suit your purposes. There are plenty of e-commerce solutions that exist which you simply apply your brand to, although these tend to be better aimed at companies wanting a simpler shopping solution. Many web design companies will develop a shop based on an existing shopping system that they just apply a skin to. If you wanted a truly bespoke system which catered to your exact needs you would probably be looking at more considerable cost, probably starting at £15,000, but easily rising much higher the more complex your requirement. Comparatively, a company offering to skin an existing shopping solution could probably be found to work for sub-£5,000. The advantage to the more expensive option is the ability to get exactly what you need from your shopping solution, both in the front-end presented to customers and in the control you have over your website and the products sold.

Having a web designer on your team would be advantageous to you if you planned to make constant alterations to the sites design, but this could be costly, particularly if you were having someone on staff whose talents you only needed occasionally. It would probably be more cost effective for you to employ someone who would have the technical expertise required (and the level of expertise shouldn't be very high if you're using a good system) to update products within your shop, and maintain your stock levels, prices etc. and use a web design company to make any site alterations that you may decide to make in the future.

Hopefully this gives you some useful information.

Matt

28 July 2011
Hi Sophie,

Thankfully gone our the days when web designers had to use serious ASP web developers to build online shops, which is good for you as this keeps costs down. I would use a Content Management and eCommerce platform called Lemonstand (http://lemonstandapp.com/) for a project of your size. With this you can easily look as good as any shop in the world with the right web design agency behind you like say Creativesheep Ltd :)

To give you a rough idea of prices I would say your looking at between £2500-£5000 but this would allow you to manage the whole shop yourself without the need of constantly going back to a web designer for updates. The only time when you might want to get a web designer involved again would be to do any offer work, online banners etc (important to keep brand integrity high)

Hope this helps.

Regards

Chris
info@creativesheep.co.uk

3 August 2011
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4 August 2011
Hi Sophie,

For a project of this size you are looking at quite a cost due to the number of hours for development and testing.

I would recommend finding a developer that can handle your needs in whichever language or platform you require, also make sure the code is bespoke and not part of any open source or proprietary system as if you wish to take the code elsewhere and run it on an alternate server later on their may be extra costs involved.

If you do not have the large budget then go for an open source e-commerce system that has been tried and tested to destruction, check out some of the e-commerce sites created on those systems and see if any fit your system as closely as possible before undertaking the development phase.

My estimate for a project of this kind where you own the code and the complete rights to anything developed for you would be around £20,000.

If Dr Adept can help in any way please check out our profile and website at DrAdept.com, we have undertaken many forms of e-commerce projects including bespoke services.

Good luck with the project, it sounds interesting.

4 August 2011
Hi Sophie,

ASOS is a fantastic website with lots of complicated design elements but this is what we have been doing for hundreds of our clients for along time. I would need to have a chat with you to discuss the requirements but as others have said it will be a 4 figure sum.

Heres a link to some of our case studies - http://www.evolution-websites.co.uk/brochure.html

Employing your own web designer would be more costly.

Our systems are created to allow you to upload your own products and information etc fast and require no previous technical knowledge.

Have a look at www.evolution-websites.co.uk for more info or give me a call for a no obligation chat.

Regards

Mark Chaipand
Sales Manager
www.evolution-websites.co.uk
mark@evolution-online.co.uk
0131 541 2161

5 August 2011
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11 August 2011
Hi Sophie,

This is something Comp Tek can help with, we can design, build and host the website for you along with the search engine optimisation for the site so that people will find your website and hopefully buy your products.

If you would like I can send you an information pack out in the post? It's free with no obligation to purchase. We also offer payment plans for startup businesses and a normal e-commerce site is priced in the region of £800 - £1500 depending on your requirements.

If you like you can drop me an email with your spec of how you would like the site to work and I can get back to you with a firm quote along with some designs?

Look forward to hearing from you


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Comp Tek
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www.comp-tek.co.uk

12 August 2011
Hi Sophie

Read very carefully what each business is offereing you.

As consultants who help you for FREE to decide which deisgner/developer to use we would be delighted to listen to your questions and point you in the right direction.