E-commerce website design and development
Drive sales, generate leads, build your brand, & engage your audience with our E-Commerce web design experience.
“…As a seasoned E-Commerce director I’ve worked with many teams over the years. Vimi stood out with their results oriented approach, good governance, and strict adherence to deadlines. I look forward to working with them again…”
Edward Morales, Business Director – ECommerce, Minor Corp PCL.
Looking for an agency with a proven record of delivering best selling online businesses?
You’ve found it!
B2C & B2B e-commerce businesses are the fastest growing channel for brands in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong & Australia. A professionally designed online store boosts profitability, builds brand credibility, & serves as an important customer service touch-point.
We’re here to help you build a successful ecommerce solution & start selling as quickly as possible. Our experience will reduce your learning curve to a minimum.
Whether you’re looking to start an ecommerce business, or grow an existing online store, we’re here to help you with:
E-BUSINESS PLANNING & ECOMMERCE STRATEGY
- Selecting products to sell.
- Choosing the best ecommerce platform for your needs.
- Planning email marketing, Google and Facebook advertising & other marketing activities.
E-COMMERCE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
- Building optimal user experience.
- Designing effective landing & product pages.
- Inventory management & order fulfillment.
- Integrating payment gateways to accept bank transfers & credit cards.
- Clarifying processor transaction fees.
- Ensuring the security of your ecommerce store.
- Launching your website.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
- Support & maintenance.
- Launching a mobile app for your e-business.
E-Business Development Benefits
Reduce risk and guarantee your e-commerce success
Reduce risk of a stalled project & guarantee your success. Choose a proven team of designers & developers with experience turning product ideas into profitable ecommerce websites.
Full warranty
Enjoy a comprehensive no-nonsense warranty that guarantees you rapid servicing for any issues.
Professional delivery and peace of mind
Enjoy a clear, transparent & efficient process that guarantees peace of mind from proposals & ideation, to delivery & ongoing support:
- Your ecommerce project plan follows clear & agreed milestones.
- An experienced Project Manager manages the entire process & keeps you regularly updated.
- Project artefacts & deliverables are stored in the cloud allowing you & your team constant & unrestricted access.
E-Business Development – How does it work?
1. Resources
Your project team is headed by one of our managing partners to ensure you get the insights & impact you need. Your delivery team includes:
- Project manager.
- Copywriters.
- Information architects.
- UX / UI designers.
- Animators.
- Developers.
- QA Engineer.
2. Process
These are the milestones your ecommerce website design and development project follows from start to finish:
1. Introduction
We start e-business development & ecommerce website design projects with a free consultation during which you’ll have the opportunity to brief us about your goals, scope, timeline & budget.
2. Discovery and Estimation
Our Business Analysts will learn, document, & estimate the time & investment needed to meet & match your requirements.
Goals
- Understand your e-business goals.
- Identify existing situation & success benchmarks.
- Clarify results that will have meaningful impact for your organization.
- Select the ecommerce platforms best suited to your needs.
- Build dialog & buy-in with your team members.
- Introduce our team & working practices.
Deliverables
- Discovery summary brief.
- Plan & schedule your ecommerce store project.
- Proposal.
Time
5-10 days.
3. Setup
With your requirements clarified & agreed, we’ll set up your ecommerce projects’ working environment.
Goals
- Create a shared working environment.
- Collate all the brief materials and needed artefacts in a shared drive.
- Setup a development environment.
- Launch process for payment gateway setup.
- Start setup of email marketing, social media, & other accounts to support e-business marketing & monitoring
- Explain project working processes & governance to stakeholders.
Deliverables
- Shared drive folder for storing your ecommerce project artefacts.
- Shared project on Asana – our project management platform.
- Cloud hosting for your ecommerce website development.
- Email marketing account.
- Google Analytics account setup.
Time
1-2 days.
4. UX/UI Design
After completing the setup for your e-business project, we’ll work on your brief & design. The brief includes user experience wireframes needed for your ecommerce website design.
Goals
- Clarify understanding of your needs.
- Verify ecommerce website sitemap.
- Create & develop project artefacts & deliverables for the agreed design process & scope.
- Steering committee engagement & approvals.
- Full project transparency & visibility for your team at all times.
Deliverables
- Ecommerce website brief that lists all the pages & templates needed to support your e-business.
- Wireframes explaining your visitors’ user experience as they browse your website pages.
- Ecommerce website design.
Time
- 2-3 days for your e-business brief.
- 2-3 days for your ecommerce wireframes.
- 5-7 days for ecommerce website design.
5. Ecommerce copywriting and content
Talk to us about helping you with copywriting, animation, photography, & infographics to support your e-business.
Goals
Prepare and collect all the content needed to enable a smooth launch of your e-business.
Deliverables
Ecommerce website content – Texts, images, videos, etc.
Time
15-20 days – Done in parallel to the design and development of the site.
6. Ecommerce website development
Once you sign-off on your ecommerce website designs we’ll start coding your online store.
Goals
- Development team works on the code artefacts needed to build your ecommerce website as per the agreed process & scope.
- Integrate 3rtd party solutions to support your e-business operations – e.g. inventory management, payment gateway, email marketing, customer loyalty, discounts & promotions, B2B ecommerce, etc.
Deliverables
- Your ecommerce website code deployed & developed on our development & testing servers.
Time
20 days & up – As agreed during the project estimation.
7. Quality assurance and testing
After completing the development phase we’ll run an internal User Acceptance Test (UAT) to confirm that the site is ready for your review. Once we’ve tested your ecommerce website ourselves we’ll hand it over to you, for your pre-delivery review.
Goals
Confirm your ecommerce website works properly & matches the specifications of the design & the approved design.
Deliverables
Ecommerce website running our development & testing servers & ready for hand-over, deployment & go-live.
Time
5 days
8. E-commerce deployment
Once you sign-off on your website UAT we’ll deploy it to your domain & hosting. We’ll also train your team to use your ecommerce website.
Congratulations!!! You now have a new website… : )
Goals
- Enable a smooth delivery & handover of your e-business to your in-house team.
- Ensure your team knows how to operate your ecommerce website.
- Launch your e-business.
Deliverables
- Ecommerce website deployed to your hosting & operating as planned.
- Training for your operations team on how to update content, manage & create products, process inventory & orders, check payments, etc.
Time
1-2 days
