Custom e-commerce websites
Selling online does not mean reproducing a department store. It takes a catalogue that matches what you actually sell, a short path to purchase, and order handling that holds up when volume rises. FastSolve builds exactly that.
Selling online without losing your evenings
Four situations come up before almost every online selling project.
- Your products sell well in the shop, but online you do not exist. Your customers order elsewhere what you have in stock two streets away from them.
- You sell on a marketplace. The sales are real, so is the commission, and you know nothing about your buyers: they belong to the platform, not to you.
- Orders arrive by private message and you write them down by hand. That holds up to a certain volume, then it becomes the main source of errors.
- Your catalogue has rules that ready-made templates refuse: sold by the metre, by weight, by the batch, or with variants that change the price.
The subject is almost never the technicalities of a basket. It is fitting the way you sell into a website, without distorting it to suit a template designed for somebody else.
Four points that decide the outcome
Most projects turn on these four points, far more than on how the site looks.
1. A catalogue faithful to what you sell
This is where most generic shops get stuck. A product sold by the metre, by weight, by the batch, with options that change the price or different lead times per variant, does not fit a standard product page without contortions.
Typical case. A supplier sold fabric by the metre, with a minimum cut and a sliding price. No off-the-shelf shop handled it without workarounds. The product page now works out the real price as you choose.
2. A short path to purchase
Every step added between the product and the payment loses buyers. A compulsory account, an address asked for twice, delivery charges hidden until the end: these are the commonest causes of an abandoned basket.
Typical case. A shopkeeper required an account before payment. Guest checkout, with charges shown from the basket onwards, cut abandonment markedly.
3. Payment and delivery genuinely connected
Payment goes through an authorised provider, never through us: that is a guarantee for you and for your buyers. Delivery charges are worked out from your real rules, not from a rough grid.
Typical case. A grocer charged a flat delivery fee that lost money on heavy orders. Calculating by weight and by zone put an end to that silent loss.
4. What happens after the sale
A site that sells and a business that runs are two different things. Stock, picking, dispatch, returns and refunds are handled from one screen, otherwise successful sales become an organisational problem.
Typical case. A craftsman sold more in one evening than he had planned for a month. Without an order preparation screen, the joy lasted two hours. The tracking tool was delivered the following week.
What an e-commerce site will not do
It sells to people who already came looking. It does not bring them.
- It does not bring visitors. This is the most misunderstood point: opening a shop creates no traffic, and a handsome site with no visitors sells nothing.
- It does not handle physical logistics. Packing, weighing and dropping off parcels remains your work, or that of a provider you choose.
- It does not replace legal advice. Terms of sale, applicable taxes, cancellation rights: we build in your texts, we do not write them for you.
- It needs input from you. This service requires you to answer a few questions along the way, and to open the account with your payment provider yourself. That is why it carries a star on our home page.
The gain is in converting visitors and in holding up as volume rises, not in becoming known.
Frequently asked questions
Why not an off-the-shelf e-commerce platform?
For a classic catalogue of fixed-price products, an existing platform is often the right answer, and we say so. Custom work earns its place in three cases: a catalogue that does not fit the template, a monthly subscription that ends up exceeding the cost of a site of your own, or the need to connect the shop to a tool you already use. We would rather point you to an existing solution than sell you a pointless project.
How much does an e-commerce site cost?
The amount depends mostly on how complex the catalogue is, on the pricing and delivery rules, and on what has to be managed after the sale. A twenty-product fixed-price shop and a site with variants, sliding prices and dispatch tracking are in no way comparable. The price is set after scoping. As a guide, excluding VAT, most e-commerce websites fall between 4,000 and 8,000 euros. A shop with variants, volume pricing and shipment tracking can reach 12,000 euros.
Is there a commission on my sales?
None from us. We take nothing on what you sell, now or later. What remains are your payment provider's fees, which are theirs and which you negotiate directly with them. That is a fundamental difference from a marketplace.
Who manages stock and orders?
You do, from an admin interface designed for it. It can also connect to an existing management tool if you have one, which is checked during scoping.
What about taxes and legal obligations?
The site applies the rules you give us, including different rates by product or by delivery country. We are neither lawyers nor tax advisers: whatever depends on your regime is confirmed with your accountant, and the tool follows their answer.
Can we start small?
That is often the best approach. A first version with part of the catalogue and a single delivery method lets you sell quickly and learn. The rest is added afterwards, based on what you have observed.
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