Shopify custom development services
Does your business need a website or an update to the existing site? Do you have a product or service that can be utilized better through the web as an ecommerce site? This article is going to cover the capabilities and possibilities for developing a custom ecommerce website using Shopify in specific.
Whether you are looking to create your own website, or use professional services to develop your website, Shopify can be a great solution for the developers that are modifying the website, and the portal administrators who are monitoring and running the site. Let’s learn more about Shopify, and why people are using this technology for their website.
Learning about Shopify
Shopify is one of the most used ecommerce SaaS (software as a service) products on the web today. There are many reasons why companies and individuals choose this system to build their website. Among some of the reasons include:
Ease of use
Shopify admin menu UI
Shopify is specifically designed to help everyday business owners and non-technical users run and operate an ecommerce website. You do not need to have any past experience with running a website to start your own ecommerce store using the Shopify. This is why Shopify is so powerful. Shopify focuses heavily on customer satisfaction which in turn has made the platform such an easy to use the product.
Trusted
Shopify products page UI
Shopify is a trusted product by many businesses, which comes with trusted payment gateways and methods of processing payments. This is another reason why the platform is good to use so that your potential customers can trust using the site. It comes with the verified payment gateways at the footer of the page and allows the administrator the option of connecting their bank account various payment gateways.
Inventory and themes
Shopify free themes UI
Shopify has a great UI to keep track of the inventory of the available products, and the shipping costs associated with the products for the various shipping types. In conjunction with the inventory, UI is the vast number of available themes and apps. The themes are all customizable, and the apps can be used as plugins that add additional features to the themes.
How to create a Shopify website using custom development & hosting services
Since Shopify is such a popular solution for building an ecommerce website, there are many resources available for developing your own Shopify website. What if you do not have the knowledge or time to develop the site yourself, but you still want to use Shopify to manage the site? Or want to add new features that are not available on the app store, or need to be manipulated to function in a particular way? This is the perfect scenario to use custom development and hosting services using professionals to build the site that you need for yourself or company.
Let’s look at the steps that it takes to create a custom ecommerce website.
Step 1: Using the SaaS hosting services
To build any website, you need to purchase a domain name and host the website. You can host the site using Shopify, as well as purchase the domain. This makes the experience much easier for those new users who have never built a website before. It also eleviates the work of finding a trustworthy host, with all of the necessary expertise, and features that you would want such as security, data monitoring, backups, SSL, etc.
Step 2: Plan the project
For any project, there must be planning involved. In order to achieve a goal, it is best to plan a strategy on how you are going to meet that goal. In the case of building a website, it is good to plan on what features you would need, and how the user experience will be. You can create custom workflows by creating a document of requirements, which may or may not include mockups and wireframes. The main idea of this step is to make sure you know exactly what you want before you start building the site. This will make sure that you do not waste any development time or money before launching the ecommerce store.
Step 3: Customize and build the site
If you are not building the site yourself, make sure to use a professional development agency that has a good portfolio of past projects. Also, make sure you understand the development process before paying for anything. It is recommended to stay away from those agencies that only charge a flat fee for the development services. This can potentially end up in more money spent in the end, or an incomplete website that has bugs.
An effective alternative workflow for development agencies is the prepaid method where you can pay for blocks of time for working on specific tasks. For example, a task could be developing an image feature on the site. This can be estimated as a single task. The task can be prepaid for, instead of prepaying for the entire site. This makes for a more straightforward and easy to track process for the manager or owner of the site to check the progress of the development. Otherwise, you won’t know what is being done on the site. This is part of DevRadius’s workflow and management of each website/project.
The DevRadius workflow
As mentioned earlier, the first step to develop any custom website is to create a set of requirements including mockups and wireframes. DevRadius has both developers and designers. So if you want us to create mockups or wireframes of the entire site before starting the development process, this is entirely possible and recommended. Once you have the requirements document, you can then send it to a DevRadius representative. Depending on the size of the project, for medium to large projects, the discovery process may be needed. The discovery phase is a way to estimate the entire project by breaking it down into smaller tasks, and providing an estimate on the smaller tasks to provide both a low and high level overview on the projects development. This estimation time is prepaid for. You will then be able to fully create the website and work with DevRadius to complete the project.
Step 4: Launch the site
Once you have finished the development process, you can launch the site, and maintain it. Over the years, the site should also be updated in terms of new versions of apps or technology, as well as the UI.
Learn more about Shopify, and the DevRadius development workflow to help with your new website by watching the following video: