FOREST: Affordable ecommerce, e-learning or online membership website design – getting your business working for you
For those wanting to get started selling products or services online our FOREST package is just the trick! With all the standard features and benefits of our IVY package including a premium template design inline with your brand styling, plus a shopping cart facility with standard payment gateways.
Choose either to offer online ticket sales or appointment bookings (including taking payments) OR online directories/membership facilities (with a charge for joining) OR e-commerce for a variety of products including virtual products/downloads OR e-learning facilities using Learning Management System.
Our e-commerce solutions includes stock control, order management, secure checkout, various payments methods choices, and postage and delivery options to make transactions on your website as easy as possible.
More and more people are comfortable purchasing online and providing safe and professional facilities will help your company’s reputation. And offering products online can help boost your SEO, your brand awareness/ sales and reduce the costs of selling that you may incur via websites like Ebay, Etsy or Eventbrite.
With this package, you’ll get a responsive version of your website to allow it to be easily read and used on mobile devices. We’ll make sure your website has a security plugin set up to help prevents hacking, and has the technical Search Engine Optimisation structure built in, to make sure you are found on Google and to allow you to build on your SEO over time.
Additional options are slideshows (sliders), videos embeds, newsletter sign-ups, google maps, testimonials/reviews, advanced search facilities, social share and social feeds.
Our professionally built ecommerce websites will help you sell your products or services. Use one of the leading WordPress ecommerce solutions Woocommerce, we can provide a number of payment gateways options like Stripe, Paypal, WorldPay, and Square etc.
Woocommerce comes with stock management and order-processing tools for both physical and virtual products (like services and downloadables), as well as coupons, discounts and sale features.
We’ll set it all up for you, including the shipping, and help to optimise your shop ready for search engines.
Hack prevention software and GDPR compliance options are built in to make sure you’re ready to trade online.
We can create a professionally built membership site for you which is both easy for you to use but also easy for your clients to use. Either online paid membership, offline paid membership or free membership, we’ll provide a secure area for your customers to log in to with pages and menu systems only they can see.
This type of website is ideal for coaches and tutors who want to provide content or resources for their members. Content can be restricted by both type of membership and time, allowing for ‘drip feeding’ or limited access periods.
Mixed media can be included like music clips, videos, photographs or animation clips as well as social sharing, social icons, contact forms and Google maps.
An LMS or Learning Management Software, allows not only the selling of courses online but the content to be delivered online, too.
An LMS can be used as a stand alone solution or as a blended solution, with offline/classroom based activities.
Payments for the courses can also be taken online – perfect for giving instant access to the content, using a variety of payment gateways.
And, there are a range of additional options available like quizzes, online certificates or badges to monitor the student’s progress.
Mixed media can be included on the courses, too, like music clips, videos, photographs or animation clips as well as social sharing, social icons, contact forms and Google maps.
FOREST Ecommerce Package| FOREST Package Features Checklist £3995 | |
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| Your own domain for 1 year If you don’t already have a domain, we’ll purchase one on your behalf. If you already have one, we'll set it up for you when the website is ready to go live. | |
| Hosting and email accounts for 1 year We will provide hosting for your website, and set-up email accounts, for the first year. | |
| A Content Management System (CMS) We use a WordPress content management system to make it easy for you to stay in control of your website and easily make changes yourself. Learn more about WordPress | |
| Exclusive access to our Video Training, Help Articles, and special Cheat Sheets All our clients gain exclusive and unlimited access to our Support Website. | |
| 1 hour of face to face or Skype training for 1 person. We will provide 1 hour of face to face training, or via Skype depending on location and your schedule. | |
| A premium template We’ll work out the best layout options for your brand, following our design consultation and then, once you've chosen your theme, we will customise the look to include your brand colour scheme, logo and images with 1 round of layout revision. | |
| A homepage with logos and calls-to-action(s) and up to 5 additional pages Your homepage will include your logo, represent your brand and include appropriate call to actions, and up to 5 additional pages of your choice designed and built for you. | |
| The ability to add your own pages Alongside the pages we build for you, you'll be able to add your own pages, edit existing ones, or add blog posts easily. | |
| Search facility If you need one, we’ll add a facility to help your customers find the information they need on your website with a comprehensive search facility. | |
| Submission of your website to Search Engines To ensure your site is listed, we'll add it to both Google and Bing. | |
| On-page and local Search engine optimisation structure built in and the facility for ongoing optimisation We will build in the structure for optimal results as we create the site and advise how you can improve your own SEO going forward Learn more about SEO | |
| Social media icon links built in We will provide icons to your social media accounts - as many as you have! | |
| Security plugin set up to prevent and monitor hacking attempts We’ll help prevent against people trying to hack your website by making it as safe as possible from the start. | |
| Responsive Layout We’ll ensure the site is optimised for viewing on mobiles and tablets. | |
| A Blog facility/ blog page If you need it, we'll set up a blog page for you, and input up to 3 blogs to get you started. | |
| A Google Map facility, testimonials display, a newsletter sign-up form and a social media share facility All these options are included if you need them! | |
| SSL encryption/certificate We'll add an SSL encryption to keep your site safe and also to help you rank better with Google. | |
| And, choose one of these options: Ecommerce solutions E-learning (LMS) Online Membership facilities (With a customer portal login and payment facilities.) | |
Need multiple features? Get in touch for a bespoke quote. | |
| Additional services (optional): | |
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| Extra pages If you'd like us to design extra pages for you during the build, just tell us how many you need! | £45 each |
| Company logo or icon design Do you need a logo or new branded graphics? We can design branded graphics and logos for you and ensure it will work over a range of digital and print media. | from £45 |
| Maintenance or ongoing SEO support We can help you keep your website software up to date, take off-site backups, monitor security for you or provide ongoing search engine optimisation support. | Bear Care Packages from £19.95 SEO Packages from £60 |
| Copywriting We can organise help with either website copy, print copy or regular blog copywriting. | Bespoke price given on request |
| Face to face training If you need additional bespoke training along the way, this is charged at our hourly rate | £60 per hour |
| Page speed management We can optimise your page speed to make sure your website is always performing at its best by monitoring the speed over time. | Bespoke price given on request |
| Additional hosting. If you have more than one site, or want to increase your hosting size then we can organise additional hosting for you. | Bespoke price given on request |
