At Surfscience, our major growth area recently has been in eCommerce web design. This coincides with a maturity in the Internet and online shopping that is seeing bricks and mortar companies experiencing continued growth in their online sales, in many cases with their websites generating a significant share of their total revenue.
This growth puts increased pressure on web-stores that may have been originally designed as an add-on to a static site or even built using basic store building tools provided by payment gateways like WorldPay or PayPal. Whilst these original stores served their purpose dutifully, a new age of eCommerce demands a new age of eCommerce website capable of spiraled order and inventory management, payment processing, shipping integration, accounting integration and advanced reporting and traffic analytics.
Market leading eCommerce technology
In response to client demand for powerful and scaleable eCommerce stores designed to allow almost unlimited growth we have recently invested in customising our own version of the market leading BVCommerce platform. This software is considered to be the most robust and yet customisable eCommerce platform on the market and can empower your business with cutting edge eCommerce technology for very modest start-up costs. Specifically, BVCommerce is regarded as having the best performing Search Engine Optimisation performance of any eCommerce platform. Something that Surfscience regard as a #1 priority.
Recent eCommerce projects
Surfscience have recently completed a project to produce a highly effective eCommerce site for Welcome Mobility, a leading retailer of disability aids in the UK. The Welcome Mobility site uses a modified version of BVCommerce to provide support for some customers to purchase products at Zero Rate VAT.
Another example of a large eCommerce project we have recently completed on the BVCommerce platform is www.swinnertoncycles.co.uk, the UK's largest bike and cycle accessories website.
Surfscience developed a site for Carbon Mods, one of the UK's most highly regarded Carbon Fibre component manufacturers to help promote and sell their carbon fibre performance components like bumper canards and carbon fibre flat sheet around the world.
Once again, Surfscience and BVCommerce acheived #1 rankings in Google for the company's priority keywords.
Effective solutions for small businesses
Being a small business ourselves, at Surfscience we understand that solutions that work for large businesses are not necessarily the right solutions for small businesses. Set-up costs associated with large websites, payment processing systems and associated bank accounts can be very off putting when you're considering taking the plunge into eCommerce. This is especially true when you are only at the stage of wishing to 'test the water' as to whether your idea has commercial potential or not. For this reason we have developed a highly professional looking eCommerce template platform designed to be linked up to PayPal's payment engine. Surfscience can customise the look of the site to perfectly match your brand identity, host the site for you and even set up the PayPal processing account in days.
An example of a site using our entry level eCommerce solution is www.carbonmods.co.uk.