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How to Design an eCommerce Website Without Hiring an Agency

How to Design an eCommerce Website Without Hiring an Agency

Updated - February 25, 2022 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

Entrepreneurship is a trend of the 21st century, and the youth is leveraging its potential. Most of the entrepreneurs are taking up the eCommerce niche as their prime business trade.

It is because selling a needed item through the internet is in high demand today, and it will be in play in the foreseeable future.

The problem that entrepreneurs face while executing their plans into action is building a website.

Not all new business owners intend to start with high investments, for which they do not want to hire professional design agencies to get their website designed.

If you are one of those booming entrepreneurs who want to make your eCommerce website on your own, then you have landed on the right page.

This article will give you a clear insight into the steps you need to follow to create a fully functional eCommerce website without having to hire an agency.

1. Find the Best Website Builder

Several big names in the market offer quality website building tools for individuals to carry out their own eCommerce website projects.

These builders have dedicated tools and features to help you quickly develop a fully functional website without the needing to know how to code.

You can check this list of detailed reviews and opinions about these tools here. You will get a plethora of top website builders listed, along with the pros and cons of each.

Consider your requirements and choose the one that has the best features to satisfy them.

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2. Pick a Domain (If you do not have one)

If you do not have a business domain, you should go ahead and get one from a reputable site.  The website builder you choose might also be offering services for selling domains for your website. So, do check that out as well.

If you already have your domain name, you can continue researching for the best website builder.

Once you have picked your builder, go ahead and use any affordable plan that suits your requirements.

3. Select Website Hosting Service Provider

If you are hiring a web design agency for your e-commerce project, then they might have partnered hosting solutions or have one of their own to host your website.

But, when you are using a website builder, you need to pick a website hosting service provider on your own.

You should research what each hosting provider offers and choose an affordable plan that doesn’t restrict your requirements for the website.

4. Building of the Ecommerce Website

The entire setup process has been carried out for your eCommerce project. Now you can start putting efforts into creating your website.

Open your respective website builder and check on the features and available options. For instance, Wix has two types of editors within its platform: Wix ADI and Wix Editor.

Wix ADI is embedded with AI for the automated creation of the website. Whereas the Wix Editor helps you create your own website using a template.

Once you have picked a template, you need to pick a theme, widgets, dedicated sections, add content, and do all the other editing tasks to ensure that your website gets that appealing look that you want.

5. Connect your Domain to the website

You need to connect your domain to the website you built before publishing the eCommerce site.

Since you have purchased the domain in the earlier step, now you just have to connect it to your website.

6. A Complete Setup of your Ecommerce Website

Now, you can add your products, set up the regions for shipping, and select the payment methods.

These elements will add operational functionality to your website. Adding these components to the website will let you sell your products online.

Find the tab over the builder dashboard that allows you to add products and their details to the website.

Name the product, add a category, set the price, provide product descriptions, add images or videos and click on done.

Next, you can click on ‘New Product’ and create a list of all your products in the same way. It might take some time, but you are saving a lot of money on your start-up business.

After the product, you will now have to add shipping rules and regions to your eCommerce website.

Determine the regions where you would like to ship your products and get the rates accordingly to calculate the overall pricing.

You can add up free shipping options for the customers for placing orders of a specific value. Get the information about the price distribution upon weight, size, and other attributes to add to your final order pricing for selected products.

Payment Gateway is essential to add to your eCommerce website because you won’t be able to accept payments without it.

Most of the built-in payment gateway providers in several website builders include transaction fees for accepting money.

Therefore, you need to pick a builder that has an integrated payment gateway without the transaction charges.

Your website builder platform might have options for you to choose one that is suitable for your needs.

7. Publish the Ecommerce Website

The final step is to publish the eCommerce website. Make sure you have connected the domain to your website in the builder dashboard.

Remember to keep the website simple, colourful, and filled with the correct quantity of images and videos.

It will add more charm to your eCommerce website. Find the publish tab over your website builder platform and click on it.

Now, your website is live. And you can visit your website to check if all of your configurations are well executed or not.

Conclusion

These are the steps that you need to follow to get a complete understanding of how the eCommerce website is built all on your own.

You do not need to go to any web designing agency to spend additional money for designing your website.

Instead, you can use the professional website builder tools with the drag and drop feature to create a perfect website without the necessity of coding.

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