E-commerce Website Production

There are three main ways to build an online shop. The right one depends on how many products you sell, how you sell them, how many people can run the shop and your budget.

Using a service such as Shopify or BASE

• Payments, cart, inventory and order management are ready to use, so you can launch quickly and at lower cost
• Monthly fees and payment fees apply, and you are limited to what the service offers (missing features are added with apps or extensions)
• The design starts from a theme and is adjusted to match your brand

Integrating with WordPress

• Your company profile, news, articles and online shop share one site and one design
• Regular maintenance is needed, such as updating WordPress and its plugins

Building from scratch

• We develop the shop from the ground up in PHP, so it can be built around your business: the payment provider of your choice, customer management (CRM), email newsletters, inventory management and integration with other systems, live commerce and more
• No service fees or feature limits to work around
• Development takes more time and money, so weigh it against your sales volume and the efficiency gains

Online shoppers cannot pick up your products, so the photos have to convey their value. Our own photographer shoots your products, and we can handle the photography together with your e-commerce site.

• Photos on a white background that show colours accurately in product listings
• Several shots per product: front, back, sides and close-ups of details
• Lifestyle images that show the product in use or the feel of your shop
• Retouching such as colour correction and dust removal, exported to suit each use, such as square images for your shop

See the On-location Photography page for photography rates and plans.

Payments

We choose payment methods that suit your customers, such as credit cards, convenience store payment, bank transfer and pay-later. You sign the contract with the payment provider in your own name, and we integrate it into the site and test it. With a custom build, we can integrate the payment provider of your choice.

Inventory and orders

Early on, we decide whether stock is shared with your physical shop or kept separate, and who handles each step from order to shipping. Integration with an inventory management system can be developed as part of a custom build.

Pages required for selling online

We prepare the pages an online shop needs in Japan, such as the disclosure under the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions, a privacy policy, and shipping and returns conditions.

After launch

You can add products, change prices and update news and features from the admin screen, and we show you how at launch. We also take on new pages and improvements after launch.