eCommerce costs

Your choice of a Payment Gateway Provider will incur charges in addition to our quote for the design and hosting of your e-Commerce web site.

You will normally be expected to register with your preferred supplier(s), and all payments will be made direct to them.

The charges are usually a percentage of each transaction, and will vary between the different providers. Some providers have a minimum monthly charge and others a minimum twelve month contract, or both.

We have prepared a general guide to the annual costs but will prepare a tailor made comparison based upon your specific business projections.

Octen Web Design do NOT receive any payments or benefits in kind from any of the Companies recommended by us.

We are confident that our reliable and affordable web site design service will provide you with the perfect solution for your web project.

Please contact us using the form below so that we can begin to understand your needs.

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Reliable and affordable web site design - eCommerce

We will design your eCommerce web site to be reliable, flexible, attractive and to reflect the value of your business. Above all your new site will be secure and affordable.

Our e-Commerce design service will help you build a successful on-line business from scratch. We are able to offer an extremely competitively priced e-Commerce site to fit almost all budgets. Although more sophisticated than a simple 'marketing' web site, e-Commerce sites need not be overly complex. An e-commerce site requires that you have:

A Shopping Cart

We can design a simple shopping cart as part of our design brief, or incorporate a more sophisticated version under licence from RomanCart. They offer four levels with prices ranging from £59.99 to £249.99 per year. If you chose RomanCart you will be required to open an account with them. We are happy to discuss your requirements and offer the most competitive solution.

A Payment Gateway

Basically a virtual POS terminal that allows you to take payments from credit and debit cards and links to your shopping cart. We have selected four companies that provide robust, secure and affordable payment gateways, but the final choice is yours.

A Merchant Account

A Merchant Account or Merchant ID (MID) is needed to process the payments made on your web site. This can be provided either by your own Bank or by a payment gateway supplier. In some instances the payment gateway provider may supply you with a joint merchant account.