WooCommerce is a free plug-in that provides eCommerce functionality to a WordPress website. It’s a powerful eCommerce platform, that will allow you to sell both physical and digital products, process payments and manage inventory.
With over 27% of the top 1 million eCommerce sites in 2022 built in WooCommerce, this makes WooCommerce Checkout the most popular option in the world for the top eCommerce stores.
Concise Digital has built hundreds of WordPress websites, with many utilising the WooCommerce Checkout plug-in to provide the eCommerce system functionality. This includes the Product Catalogue, Shopping Cart, Checkout and more. We can show you plenty of good examples, including how incredibly user-friendly it can be for you and your customers.
Tell Us About Your ProjectTo get an idea of what we can do for you, check out some of our WooCommerce websites.
Whatever fix or improvement you need to be made to your existing website, we can help. Our WooCommerce developers are always available, even if we weren’t the ones to originally build your website.
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You can take comfort knowing we’ve helped hundreds of businesses to set up and operate successful web stores for almost 20 years.
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WooCommerce connects to the WordPress framework and uses WordPress themes.
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At Concise, we specialise in custom WooCommerce website design and development.
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Clever websites usually have integrations with other third-party systems such as your CRM, email marketing system, inventory system, accounting system, shipping & fulfilment system, etc.
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WooCommerce is extendable and adaptable using plugins. The issue is, not all plugins are created equal and not all plugins are necessary.
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High-quality Australian web hosting is important for both your website’s speed and security.
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Our Woocommerce web design services do not end once we finish building your eCommerce store.
Read MoreFirstly, we take the time to understand your business, customers, competitors, needs, and goals. Expect a lot of questions because it’s essential we get a deep understanding so we can determine if Woocommerce is the right eCommerce platform for you.
This can be done over the phone, on a video call or over coffee, if you prefer. We are very flexible with our working hours and will always try to fit in with you for suitable meeting times.
After we scope the project, we will come back to you with a detailed brief confirming exactly what you want, including details on products, shipping preferences, key functionality you require and how long each section will take.
We provide you with cost estimates upfront, so you know how much your WooCommerce website will cost with no surprises later. We then go through this together and we can adjust the website requirements to suit your budget.
We recommend implementing strong search engine optimisation (SEO) fundamentals early in development. If you decide to do SEO work on your website in the future, having these foundations already built will save you money down the line.
These foundations will be created by our team of SEO specialists and will add additional cost to your project.
SEO is extremely important for eCommerce websites. It’s what will help you get in front of potential customers searching for your products in Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Our SEO specialists will start by conducting keyword research to help inform the URLs, sitemap and navigation, new page suggestions and mapping vital on-page SEO best practices. If you’ve done SEO in the past, it’s important to maintain your organic performance when moving to a new website. This involves carefully planning URL structure changes, navigation changes, content changes and any metadata changes to maintain your high rankings.
Before starting design mockups, you will need to provide your branding guidelines and all essential design assets, like logos, product images and videos you want us to incorporate. Once we have this, we provide you with design mockups of the mobile and desktop home page.
You review those designs, provide your feedback and tell us any suggestions or alterations that are needed. Once the home page designs are approved, we move on to create the designs for product pages, product collections, checkout and standard internal pages and any pages that need specific designs for special functionality or user interactivity.
Once the designs are approved, we move on to the development phase. This is the step where we create the theme and start adding products, setting up shipping options and integrating third-party applications.
Your WooCommerce site is built in a staging environment which you can access throughout the project. Once everything is exactly how you want it, we will provide training on how to manage your orders, shipping and payments.
The next piece of the puzzle is to add your content. Your online store will use the WooCommerce product catalogue to keep all your product information.
This product content is very important. Ideally, the product content must be unique to your website. It must explain all of the important features, advantages and benefits of each product and must entice your customers to buy your products.
If you are creating the content for your site, this will need to be provided to us before your website can launch. Alternatively, you may want our SEO and content team to create content for your pages. In this case, we will work with you to populate your pages.
Having your content written using the best on-page SEO techniques is powerful. Correctly optimised and professionally written web content will allow you to rank better for important keywords in search engines and increase sales.
After development is complete and the site content is added, we will go through and test each page on desktop and mobile and make adjustments. We will also check that all functionality is working correctly and troubleshoot any issues.
The next stage is to set up your Australian-based website hosting and ensure it is working perfectly ready to go ‘live’.
At Concise Digital, we have our own high-level business-grade hosting servers as part of AWS, and we have our own hosting support team available 24/7 to provide ongoing technical support to all of our hosting clients. (This is important, as very few web design agencies are big enough to have their own hosting support technical team.)
Before and after your website goes live, we will implement relevant tasks from our SEO migration checklist to reduce the chance of any drops in your rankings and organic web traffic. This involves tasks like implementing redirects, copying across your previous metadata, updating internal links with new URLs and much more.
This is when we make your new online store live to the world. As part of this process, we immediately test the site to ensure all elements function properly across all devices.
We provide comprehensive training to make sure you understand how to use the backend of your WooCommerce website. Remember if you ever have any issues, our support team are available 24/7.
Your online store does not stop with the launch of the site. Really, the launch is just the start of the next stage for your business.
We stay in touch with you and help you through any teething issues you may have.
A couple of weeks after your website has gone live is usually a good time for us to talk with you and to go through your initial reports in Google Analytics. We can also provide suggestions on digital marketing strategies you could implement to grow your online presence, gain customers and increase sales.
Firstly, we take the time to understand your business, customers, competitors, needs, and goals. Expect a lot of questions because it’s essential we get a deep understanding so we can determine if Woocommerce is the right eCommerce platform for you.
This can be done over the phone, on a video call or over coffee, if you prefer. We are very flexible with our working hours and will always try to fit in with you for suitable meeting times.
After we scope the project, we will come back to you with a detailed brief confirming exactly what you want, including details on products, shipping preferences, key functionality you require and how long each section will take.
We provide you with cost estimates upfront, so you know how much your WooCommerce website will cost with no surprises later. We then go through this together and we can adjust the website requirements to suit your budget.
We recommend implementing strong search engine optimisation (SEO) fundamentals early in development. If you decide to do SEO work on your website in the future, having these foundations already built will save you money down the line.
These foundations will be created by our team of SEO specialists and will add additional cost to your project.
SEO is extremely important for eCommerce websites. It’s what will help you get in front of potential customers searching for your products in Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Our SEO specialists will start by conducting keyword research to help inform the URLs, sitemap and navigation, new page suggestions and mapping vital on-page SEO best practices. If you’ve done SEO in the past, it’s important to maintain your organic performance when moving to a new website. This involves carefully planning URL structure changes, navigation changes, content changes and any metadata changes to maintain your high rankings.
Before starting design mockups, you will need to provide your branding guidelines and all essential design assets, like logos, product images and videos you want us to incorporate. Once we have this, we provide you with design mockups of the mobile and desktop home page.
You review those designs, provide your feedback and tell us any suggestions or alterations that are needed. Once the home page designs are approved, we move on to create the designs for product pages, product collections, checkout and standard internal pages and any pages that need specific designs for special functionality or user interactivity.
Once the designs are approved, we move on to the development phase. This is the step where we create the theme and start adding products, setting up shipping options and integrating third-party applications.
Your WooCommerce site is built in a staging environment which you can access throughout the project. Once everything is exactly how you want it, we will provide training on how to manage your orders, shipping and payments.
The next piece of the puzzle is to add your content. Your online store will use the WooCommerce product catalogue to keep all your product information.
This product content is very important. Ideally, the product content must be unique to your website. It must explain all of the important features, advantages and benefits of each product and must entice your customers to buy your products.
If you are creating the content for your site, this will need to be provided to us before your website can launch. Alternatively, you may want our SEO and content team to create content for your pages. In this case, we will work with you to populate your pages.
Having your content written using the best on-page SEO techniques is powerful. Correctly optimised and professionally written web content will allow you to rank better for important keywords in search engines and increase sales.
After development is complete and the site content is added, we will go through and test each page on desktop and mobile and make adjustments. We will also check that all functionality is working correctly and troubleshoot any issues.
The next stage is to set up your Australian-based website hosting and ensure it is working perfectly ready to go ‘live’.
At Concise Digital, we have our own high-level business-grade hosting servers as part of AWS, and we have our own hosting support team available 24/7 to provide ongoing technical support to all of our hosting clients. (This is important, as very few web design agencies are big enough to have their own hosting support technical team.)
Before and after your website goes live, we will implement relevant tasks from our SEO migration checklist to reduce the chance of any drops in your rankings and organic web traffic. This involves tasks like implementing redirects, copying across your previous metadata, updating internal links with new URLs and much more.
This is when we make your new online store live to the world. As part of this process, we immediately test the site to ensure all elements function properly across all devices.
We provide comprehensive training to make sure you understand how to use the backend of your WooCommerce website. Remember if you ever have any issues, our support team are available 24/7.
Your online store does not stop with the launch of the site. Really, the launch is just the start of the next stage for your business.
We stay in touch with you and help you through any teething issues you may have.
A couple of weeks after your website has gone live is usually a good time for us to talk with you and to go through your initial reports in Google Analytics. We can also provide suggestions on digital marketing strategies you could implement to grow your online presence, gain customers and increase sales.
WooCommerce is best for small businesses and medium-sized businesses.
WooCommerce is not designed to do 10,000 transactions a month.
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One of the main reasons WordPress and WooCommerce are so popular is because the software and plugins are free to download and use.
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WooCommerce is built on WordPress, making it very easy to use – especially if you already have a WordPress website and want to start selling online.
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At Concise, we are platform-agnostic.
WooCommerce is one of four eCommerce systems we specialise in.
The other systems are Shopify, PrestaShop and Laravel for custom-built web applications.
Our team are experts in these different systems. We do not have a preference
for one over another, and we do not always recommend WooCommerce. It is very good and can
be the right fit in lots of situations but sometimes it is not the best option.
During our initial catch-up, we will take into account your
business requirements and recommend a platform that is the right one for the job.
A well-designed, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain, secure website is essential to your business success, but this is simply the starting point.
To be successful online, you will need more than a good website. Your website needs to be easily found on Google, it needs to attract and engage your ideal target customers, and it needs to convert visitors into customers.
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Put your new WooCommerce site at potential customers’ fingertips with our SEO services.
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Our Google Ads Management delivers a significant return on ad spend with Google Ads campaigns that reach segmented and specific audiences, ready to buy your products.
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Concise Digital helps businesses develop email marketing solutions that help you reach out to new customers, improve customer engagement, and build customer loyalty and retention.
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At Concise, our services include in-house social media management. We can integrate your social media channels with your site as well as create effective social media marketing campaigns to grow your customers.
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What Payment Gateways Does WooCommerce Integrate With?
You can use plenty of different payment gateway systems including Stripe, Paypal, Windcave, Afterpay, eWay and all major banking gateways.
Can WooCommerce Affect How a Site Will Rank?
WordPress/WooCommerce is arguably the most SEO-friendly platform. This makes it more flexible for SEO specialists to work with and allows them to more easily implement SEO best practices.
However, there are many factors that influence how well a website ranks in search engines, and simply having WooCommerce will not make your rankings better. This our where our SEO services come in.
Why Is The WooCommerce Software Free?
The WooCommerce software is free to download and plug in to a WordPress website. The core WordPress content management system (CMS) software is also free.
These systems are free to download because they are built and distributed as open-source software. Many clever people around the world (including us) contribute to its ongoing development.
Being free to download is obviously one of the reasons the software is so popular, but it is also very good website software, with a proven history and good track record of eCommerce success.
How Much Does WooCommerce Website Project Cost?
While WooCommerce is a free plugin, there are still costs associated with building and owning a website. These include costs such as designing and building the website with website themes, additional plugins, and more.
With Concise, the costs of the website are always dependent on how long it takes to build.
Typically, this time involved might be from 40 hours to 200 hours. A WooCommerce site could range from $4,000 to over $20,000 or more.
You also need to allow for the monthly Website Hosting fees. You’ll want reliable, fast secure web hosting at a cost-effective ‘value for money’ rate, which is why it makes good sense to host a good business website with Concise Digital.
Talk to us today. Tell us what you have in mind, and we’ll give you some ballpark estimates of the likely time involved.
Please contact us any time for help with your website, online store or digital marketing solutions. With 50+ team members across 6 time zones, we can usually respond quickly.
If you are a client of Concise and have any hosting issues, our in-house technical infrastructure support team is available for clients 24/7.
