Web Design in Kettering

Looking for web design in Kettering for your shop? We are Ecomm Development, a Shopify Partner based in Kingsley, Northampton, a short drive down the road. We build online shops for independent retailers who want to sell beyond their opening hours, without paying agency prices or signing a long contract. Everything can be done online, and we are happy to meet if you are nearby.

Online shops for independent retailers

Kettering has plenty of independent shops: gift and homeware shops, clothing boutiques, hobby and craft stores, garden and pet suppliers. For businesses like these, a website has to work as a second shop window. People should be able to find a product, see if it is in stock, and either buy it for delivery or reserve it to collect.

We use Shopify for this, because it handles the parts that matter to a retailer: payments, stock, delivery rates, discount codes and order emails. You can add products and update prices yourself from your phone, and we show you how before we hand the site over.

Features that help a local shop

• Click and collect. Customers order or reserve online and pick up from your counter, which brings people through the door.
• Live stock. If you hold stock in a till system or supplier feed, we can connect it so the website shows what you actually have.
• Multi-buy pricing. Offers like "buy three, save 10%" set up properly so they apply at checkout.
• Clear collections. Products grouped the way your customers shop, so they find things quickly.

If your stock lives in another system, our Shopify integrations page explains how we connect them.

Getting found by Kettering shoppers

An online shop only helps if people can find it. Every site we build gets page titles and descriptions written for search, image alt text, structured data so Google can read your products and prices, and a Google Search Console set-up so you can see what people search for.

For a local shop, your Google Business Profile matters just as much as your website. It is what shows on Google Maps when someone searches for a shop near them. Our local SEO service sets it up, keeps it posted, and scans your Maps ranking every week across a grid of your area, so you can see where you show in the top three and where you do not show at all.

Case study: Rock Bottom Fireworks

Rock Bottom Fireworks is the fireworks side of Rock Bottom, a Northampton builders merchant. They needed customers to reserve fireworks online and collect them from the shop, with the website linked to the shop's till and staff systems so stock and orders stayed in step. We built it on WordPress and WooCommerce to fit the systems they already used. It shows how a reserve-and-collect shop can work for a local retailer. Read the full Rock Bottom Fireworks case study.

What it costs

Websites start from £250 one-off, with tiers at £250, £495 and £795. The tier depends on the number of pages, products and features such as stock connections. You own the shop once it is live. We build a free preview of your homepage first, so you can see it before you pay anything.

Local SEO and social management is from £70 a month with no contract. That covers your Google Business Profile, weekly Google Maps rank scans, and posts to your website, Google and Facebook from one screen, each one approved by you. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Frequently asked questions