Ecommerce website design, UK: Ecommerce websites
on four platforms.

It depends how much of the site is the shop, and who will run it. Mostly products: Shopify. A service business selling a few things on the side: Squarespace, or Wix if you take bookings too. A site that publishes a lot and sells as well: WordPress with WooCommerce. Not sure: tell me what you sell, and you will get a straight answer.

Five pages and up to 25 products, with the structure, design from a theme, search basics and handover every package includes. The shop is set up to take orders: payments, up to 3 shipping rates, VAT and order emails. You get the logins and a written guide to the everyday changes.

Each further 25 loaded by hand is £200, from the photos, descriptions and variants you send. Or any number can be imported from a spreadsheet or an old shop for £400, if the data is clean. On Shopify, the larger Shop package (ten pages, up to 100 products) is £3,200.

Yes, as extras. Subscriptions or repeat billing are £400 on Squarespace, Wix and Shopify, and £600 on WordPress. Digital downloads are £200 on every platform.

Yes, as an extra: £800 on every platform. That covers the products, the customers, and redirects from the old addresses, so old links still land in the right place.

On WordPress, a shop hosted with me sits on a managed network with hundreds of locations worldwide, and pages are served ready made from the nearest one. The difference from a normal site is what happens at the basket: caching a shop badly is how people end up seeing somebody else's basket, so the basket, the checkout and the account pages are left out of the cache automatically while the rest of the shop stays quick. Shopify, Squarespace and Wix host themselves, and all three are fast.

No. The build is a fixed price, and anything monthly afterwards is a fixed price too. Any fee on a sale goes to the platform or the card processor, never to me.

Nothing is paid when you order. Once you agree the written scope, a deposit is invoiced and paid by card, and that starts the work. The balance is invoiced when the shop is finished, or paid monthly by Direct Debit from the 1st of each month, over up to six months, as long as each payment is at least £400. Monthly costs nothing extra: no interest, and no VAT charged.