Commercial Range

The Commercial Range has two packages.

Online Platforms and WooCommerce

Each package has a similar goal but a different process.

About this range

The Commercial Range creates attractive, product-focused websites that make it easy for your clients to discover your products and for you to manage them.

Online Platforms Package

Online platform (such as Squarespace) websites are simpler to build than WooCommerce websites. They are easier to look after and maintain and comes with its own hosting and product management software.

Online platforms have a monthly fee, but WooCommerce needs more monthly maintenance.

WooCommerce Package
WooCommerce is built on top of WordPress and Elementor. It’s a more flexible system, but also a little more complicated to set up and use than Shopify (or other online platforms). WooCommerce offers complete customization and control. There are lots more software features that you can add on to your system.
The approach to making the website
The main job is to stick close to a chosen template and get the functionality working how the client wants it, but without any coding or too much customization. The scope has to be carefully managed because clients often ask for difficult things without thinking. It is a visually driven project, but also driven by prototyping. Some projects will have to be planned visually more than others, but all (e-commerce) projects will need thorough functionality prototyping because they can end up being difficult.
E-commerce VS product inquiry

Not everyone wants to sell online, some just want to display their products. This will require the use of extra plugins.

Content Entry

If on a fixed price contract, only 20 products should be entered. Clients enter the rest.

Technical challenges

Clients can have difficult requirements and will require extra plugins.

Make sure plugins are premium (good quality)

Make sure that requirements stay simple or tell the client that features are out of scope.