E-Commerce

Our 4D Approach

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Our Approach

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We design & develop stunning, functional websites and apps that resonate with the user, this means not only do they look the part.. they convert.

Ecommerce isn’t an exact science. It takes research, logic, guesswork, and a bit of magic to launch a successful ecommerce store that is speedy and can scale. Our in-house team of highly skilled designers & developers provide a turn-key solution to getting you seen online.

Objectives

  • Find a point of parity, match the best in the business
  • Bring to life the authentic story which defines the brand
  • We will look at the competition to see which format works best for usability
  • Identify key anchors of the brand personality through design
  • Customer Journey: how can we create a journey into the brands digital space so the user can find what they are looking for instantly
  • Values: what are they and how are they created


As part of our branding exercise, we will create a visual guideline, combining the brand assets created by your designers. This will act as the foundations to the site. Developed into the back-end of the website, it will follow a similar layout to the following www.disruptivesocial.co.uk/create/brand-guidelines

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Design

Custom Cart

We break the mold of traditional online stores with full customisation of the Checkout Cart significantly improving the users attention and flow through the site.

Complete layout control

With our bespoke CMS/E-Commerce dashboard, you'll have full control on what content you wish to present to the user. This gives us the power to create truly unique platforms allowing the site to stand out amongst the crowd and leave a lasting impression on the customer.

Customize transactional emails

Upload your own logo and tweak colors to keep your receipt and order notification emails on brand. Your customers will receive email notifications for received, confirmed, shipped and refunded.

Custom animation within the store

Take your store beyond the typical with completely customisable interactions and animations.

Sell

Sell physical or digital goods
T-shirts, prints, classes, stock photos — sell any physical product, digital good or service.

We create a checkout flow that’s tailored to your product types

Customers pay — their way
Accept payments from 200+ countries via credit card, PayPal. Apple Pay and Google Pay. Security and fraud protection powered by Stripe and PayPal.

  • Secure payments powered by Stripe
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • PayPal

Stay on top of orders
View order details, update order status, and issue refunds.

  • Client-friendly order management dashboard
  • Customer accounts and order history coming soon

Extend your store with integrations
Connect your store with native integrations or hundreds of apps on Zapier to automate shipping processes, accounting, notifications, and other operational chores.

  • Dropship products with Printful
  • Manage fulfillment with Shippo
  • Send order details to QuickBooks
  • Get a text when new orders come in
  • Collect customer emails in MailChimp
  • Plus thousands of other possibilities
Our Service includes our Security & Fraud protection service


Products & Inventory

Add new products and categories, update existing ones, set sale prices, and manage inventory. Our powerful back-end system allows you to manage;

  • Custom product fields
  • Sell products with multiple-variants
  • List sale prices
  • Create coupons and promotions
  • Sell digital products

Dashboard

Grow

Build a complete website & grow your store with in-built marketing tools

Blog smarter

Build a lifestyle blog around your brand — then feature products directly within posts to drive sales on your store.

Convert with custom landing pages

Create immersive pages for product launches, seasonal campaigns, coming soon previews, or advertisements.

Build and nurture your lead list
Connect your forms to your favourite email platform to build an audience and promote new products, sales, and other promotions.

Connect your products to social
Built-in integrations let you connect your product catalogue to Facebook, Instagram, and Google, and to run smarter ad campaigns and create more interactive, shoppable social posts.

Integrate any analytics tool
Connect your site to Google Analytics with our built-in integration, or easily add any marketing tool you have in mind to a specific page or across your whole site.

Automate your on-page SEO
With dynamic embeds, you can automatically generate search-friendly meta titles and descriptions from product page names, blog post titles, case studies, and more.

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Creative Development

When it comes to branding, we focus on emerging-trends to ensure a long-term site design inline with your Brand Guidelines.

Branding
Branding

Each project includes a bespoke Visual Guideline, our way in digitising your Brand Guidelines.

During our Define stage, we will gather the necassary brand assets and develop them into your new website. Our process includes Think Tank sessions in which we decide on Art Direction taking into consideration your industry and emerging trends.

We use Google's file sharing services as a way of collaboration meaning we can link assets to 'live' folders and easily share with you and your team.

Fonts
Fonts

Taking into consideration existing Brand Guidelines, there will be a keen focus on font pairings to ensure information is presented in an easily eligible manner.

Great typography can have a dramatic impression on the user and it's important that it has a true feeling of authority and full eligibility when read.

Imagery
Imagery

A picture speaks a thousand words and we're believers in customer trust, this is why we advise all our clients to povide proffessional imagery in high resolution. In theme with the site, we can create bespoke filters to match your vibe.

When lack of imagery becomes an issue, we can provide guidance in sourcing the best stock whilst retaining brand value.

Animation
Animation/Interaction

The right choice of animation will strengthen the mood and identity of the brand whilst ensuring the site has a modern appeal, inline with the latest trends.

Interactive elements aides in customer journey, signalling the user where to click, scroll and progress. This practice is especially helpful for mobile sites, where screen space can be limited.

Colour
Colour

Whether we're working with an existing pallete or starting from scratch, we combine colour theory with business.

The colours we agree upon will create emotion and influence decision making. The pallete will form part of our Visual Guideline and through reptition of these colours, strenghten the brands awareness.

copywriting
Copywriting

Clients are expected to provide finalised copy for the relevant sections of their site. We work with you to ensure the message we're putting across is in the correct manner and offer guidance on tonality and structure where necassary.

We also work with a talented team of freelance writers and can provide different avenues to project your voice to the masses.

Platform
Platform

Our custom built CMS allows for the easy upload of existing content. Adding new content is as easy as filling out a form. You can even write new content right on the page to see exactly how it will look once published.

Design
Atomic Design

We love the finer details that lay the foundations to the site and pay keen focus to atomic design. From Icons, Buttons, Animation and more, our fully bespoke sites offer a unique blend of Interaction to aide in User Journey and Storytelling

Following our Sitemap, we provide review stages on each page build outlined in our Project Terms below.

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Search Engine Optimisation

All our web pages and site structure is coded using high quality cross-browser compatible semantic HTML5/CSS markup using appropriate headings/tags (H1, H2, H3, p, etc.) to denote the structure of pages and hierarchy of key content.

Our on-site SEO activity includes the following;

  • Alt tags for all imagery
  • Meta Titles & Descriptions for all Static & Dynamic pages
  • Schema Data and Imagery for all Static & Dynamic pages
  • Friendly (clean) URLs and appropriately named site folder structure
  • 301 Redirects to retain SEO authority when migrating from a previous website/server
  • Set-up & Integration of Google Analytics and Search Console
  • The ability to integrate 3rd party SEO tools for tracking and goal purposes using custom code
  • SSL Encryption
  • Web-crawler block on private pages
  • HTML Mark-up
  • Optimised page load speed
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Hosting & Maintenance

Hosting

Our hosting gives you access to the fastest and most scalable technology. With over 100 data centres and servers, when you publish with Disruptive, your files are distributed across the globe in a content distribution network (CDN) powered by Fastly and Amazon Cloudfront. Which means fast page loads for all your visitors — no matter where they come from.

Our hosting is packed with features that make running your site easier:

  • SSL Certification
  • SEO management
  • Custom forms
  • Password protection
  • Custom integrations
  • Visual design & publishing platform (The Editor)

Maintenance & Support

Our after-care service includes a full day's training and unlimited technical support/bug fixing per month. We also provide our clients tailored packages to suit their business growth including retainers and phased updates.

Our maintenance includes:

  • Backups and versioning
  • Security patching
  • 3rd-party security review
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