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E-commerce Solutions
Storefronts, catalogues and checkouts built to convert and to be operated day to day.
The business problem
Traffic arrives and does not buy. The catalogue is hard to browse, the checkout asks for too much, product data lives in three places, and every promotion means manual work that someone forgets to undo.
Most e-commerce problems are not design problems or engineering problems. They are data and operations problems wearing a design costume.
The GDS approach
Ship something solid.
We treat the store as an operation, not a template. Merchandising, catalogue structure and checkout are designed against the actual funnel data, and the back office is built so that running a sale is a five-minute job rather than a project.
Capabilities
What this covers
- Catalogue and merchandising strategy
- WooCommerce and Shopify builds
- Headless commerce front ends
- Product data structure and feed management
- Checkout and payment optimisation
- Fulfilment, ERP and CRM integration
Typical deliverables
What you end up holding
- Catalogue structure and merchandising plan
- Designed storefront, category and product templates
- Configured store with payments, tax and shipping
- Integrations to fulfilment and back-office systems
- Conversion tracking and funnel reporting
- Operations guide for the team running it
Process
How the work runs
- Discover Funnel review, catalogue and operations audit
- Define Platform decision, data model and scope
- Design Storefront, browse and checkout experience
- Develop Build, integrate and test end to end
- Launch Migration, payment testing and go-live
- Grow Merchandising, testing and optimisation
— Related work
— Next action
Need e-commerce solutions?
Tell us what is happening now and what you need to be true in six months. We will come back with a route, a rough shape and an honest view of the cost.
- Based in
- Minnesota, USA
- Typical reply
- Within one business day