How much does it cost for a website?

Legacy_user

I am tired of ebay fees!

I was wondering how much it would cost to get someone to set up a website for me. Just 3 products for sale so nothing too fancy.

And also for accepting payments online...I think RBS World Pay is supposed to be good? What do they charge for each transaction, as paypal charge around 3.5% + 20p :eek:

System

Oh, and how much would it cost to get the website to the top of google searches and in the highlighted boxes at the top and the side, if you know what I mean!

steve1980

How much do you have to spend on a website?

Are you creating the site yourself or paying a professional?

For the sake of 3 products I wouldn't bother with the website.

Jaymo

Depending on the three products you're selling, it may not be advisable to go ahead with the website plan. You'll need to take into consideration the cost of purchasing the website name, hosting the site, designing the site as well as any percentages that RBS worldpay or other carts may charge.

There are so many variables involved I can't provide you with an exact figure of how much it would cost to setup this for you. However, you can check out websites like www.1&1.co.uk as they offer packages similar to your requirements, you can use a template as well so you don't need to fork out for a professinal to design you a site.

You may wish to consider doing some research on website hosting packages and calculate the costs against your ebay seller fees, as you may find in the long run that ebay could be easier.

The most important thing to remember is that on ebay, you'll already have built up a reputation as a seller and have a potential customer base provided via ebay but if you move onto a website directly you'll have to start from the ground up again.

Lizbetty

My husband has been self employed since 2007 and we got a website via www.spanglefish.com .

It is free, if you don't mind google ads on there. Or you can pay £25 per year and get your site ad free, you can even use the ad space yourself for a bit of revenue then. We went for Spanglefish Gold because you can choose a website address if you do that, we use their sister company for that side of things and pay about £20 pa for them to look after us.

We chose them because we had no money for web design, I'd just had my second baby and could not even bear to think about html, etc! I found them by chance, possibly on here actually! The website you get is set up already when you register for a site, you can just add to it. It's just word processing in that respect, no web design experience needed (otherwise I would have been stuffed!). You can add photos and text as and when.

There is a forum to help you set things up, and you can set your site to accept payments. I think there are a few shops on their books.

I think people are a bit suspicious of me because I rave on about Spanglefish, but I always recommend them. The support we've had has been absolutely fantastic. The folk who run Spanglefish are real humans who are on hand on the forums to help if you get stuck, and the most amazing thing is that my husband has only had to go around leafletting once at the very start of him being self employed! The enquiries came quite quickly and it's taken off with word of mouth ever since.

I would absolutely say save your money and go for these chaps. I'm not on commission before anyone asks, but if they did live in Scotland suffice to say I would be buying them weekly buns to thank them for all their help.

I hope that this helps someone anyway. I often hand cards out at craft fairs and suchlike to people as I think it's good to have a web presence these days but it's also strange terrain for a lot of people.

Good luck whatever you decide anyway! :beer:
Lucy

Lizbetty

ps re search engine optimisation, if you have a good look around on spanglefish there's a good section on how to do it yourself. You can register via some links on there for google, etc and I spent a long time making sure we got the key words right and searching for us using them. We're pretty high up now on the searches, not sure if that's the work I put in or luck mind you!

InsideInsurance

For a "professional" to set up a standard ecommerce site with a straight forward bespoke design and logo I would suggest you look at £500-£1,000 setup fees and then hosting/ domain etc at £50/pa.

You certainly can get things done cheaper but I do believe you tend to get what you pay for in this life and low cost services can be the most expensive to your business.

What volume are you anticipating selling at? With the likes of Worldpay you will have not only 10p + ~3% to pay but also a setup fee and a monthly standing fee plus a fee each time you want to transfer the money to your account. If your volume is high enough then it can be worth while but new startups with low volumes may be better with PayPal Pro or such.

SailorSam

I haven't got a website but there seems to be quite where you can set up your own for free like Lucyeff has done.
For starters before paying someone else i'd try one of those, what have you got to lose.

Lizbetty

SailorSam wrote: »

I haven't got a website but there seems to be quite where you can set up your own for free like Lucyeff has done.
For starters before paying someone else i'd try one of those, what have you got to lose.

You can set up one of the Spanglefish sites for any purpose by the way. Some folk have even set them up for photo sharing with family and suchlike. They do offer a platinum service for £399 where they do all the work for you too, if you wanted it tweaking professionally once you get rich :T

But yes, nothing to lose at all! :j

Sexyminx82

Hubbie set up my website, which is easy enough if you know what you're doing. A friends hubby however develops websites, and I know he charges from £249.

System

So is RBS World Pay 3% + 10p or just 10p?