These days, anyone can “design a website.” Website design platforms make it increasingly easier to design a pretty site in just a matter of minutes. However, there’s significantly more involved in proper e-commerce web design than just looking aesthetically pleasing.

Our experience has taught us that each and every client has different needs, goals, tastes, etc. We design beautiful, eye-catching websites. We also make sure that our clients’ sites are highly functional and optimized to maximize conversions and increase sales. 

Gapstow Design Company designs (almost) exclusively using the Shopify platform.  After years of using many other platforms, Shopify has shown itself to be the most reliable system that not only provides a beautiful website for our customers, but its backend is simple and very user-friendly.  This gives us confidence that once we design your beautiful website, you'll be easy to use it with minimal outside help.

 

 

Why we choose to develop with Shopify:

Shopify is a web-based eCommerce application that makes it simple to set-up and manage an online shop, perfect for any size business. It offers product inventory management and order management, as well as content management, and payment gateway integration. It also provides a reliable, secure shopping cart solution for your e-commerce website. The shopping cart software allows you to accept credit card payments by integrating with Australian payment gateways like eBay and SecurePay as well as PayPal.

	Inventory Management Add your products and variants, upload their photos, set stock levels and more.  Shopify even allows you to manage inventory across multiple marketplaces like Amazon and eBay.
	Track order status Keep track of which orders have been paid for, shipped or delivered. Not only does Shopify allow you to keep track within it's CRM, but it also integrates with most external software suites for additional functionality.
	Content Management The built-in CMS feature allows you to create webpages, blog about products and more with little to no coding experience needed.
	eCommerce Analytics Learn where your businesses' customers come from. We also integrate with Google Analytics for advanced analytics - including Google's Enhanced eCommerce Analytics.
	Marketing Features Built-in eCommerce SEO, coupon codes, social media, and other marketing features help you to sell your items.  Shopify can become the hub of your online business.
	Manage Customers Manage and filter customer groups based upon search filters like where they’re located, money spent, etc.  This allows you to have a firm grasp on your demographics!

 

Store Set-Up

Shopify setups focus on producing an easy and multifaceted way to get up and operating on the Shopify eCommerce website platform as rapidly and inexpensively as possible. Gapstow’s developers are Shopify experts and are proficient of setting your store up quickly and successfully.

 

Development & Store Design

We are able to custom design your Shopify store to mirror your vision and product brand. Gapstow’s engineers will handcraft and custom design mockups that suit your branding needs. All of our designers and engineers are dedicated to providing cost-effective, innovative and high-quality solutions to web development.

 

Theme Development & Optimization

Our skilled work is driven by user experience and data research, allowing us to enhance the experience for your own personal users while benefiting everyone involved. We put emphasis on improving the browsing experience through easy navigation, payment options that are secured, and removing problematic issues such as website crashes, payments being declined, or time outs.

 

Shopify App Development

Shopify app development is the process of making an application that is used to link your Shopify store to an alternate source or process to achieve a desired task. Creating an application sometimes is the only way to accomplish a desired function or goal. You can increase the performance of your Shopify store by developing an app, connecting to third party databases (such as CRM and ERP systems), and much more! Customized Shopify app development can also be used to merge functions that may not be available yet on Shopify, or to create various automated features. A lot of the time, a custom app is the perfect and simple solution to a problem that may initially appear to be fairly complex.

 

Website Migration to Shopify

Our developers here at Gapstow Design are highly skilled in migrating your website to Shopify from any platform. There are many reasons as to why many businesses wish to migrate to Shopify, a few being that it has more to offer than a regular eCommerce platform and includes several built-in features.

 

Third-Party API Development

We know how to build powerful, secure, high-performance APIs. Whether it is an MBaaS (Mobile-Backend-as-a-Service) interface for mobile applications or a client-facing API gateway, we are proficient in aiding our clients to develop APIs that are both usable and reusable across a wide range of different uses. Our developers have great experience in building extensible APIs for businesses of all types.

 

Internet Marketing & Search Engine Optimization

We specialize in advanced eCommerce analytics and digital commerce marketing for eCommerce and conversion rate optimization services. We use the industry’s most reputed strategies to help maximize your conversion rates and optimize your site for search engines. This helps to ensure that our clients get the most out of their sales.

 

OUR SHOPIFY CUSTOMIZED DESIGN PROCESS

 

Shopify Store Setup

Your design will be user-friendly & SEO compatible

Cross-sells, upsells, call to actions & email capture can be set up

Each and every page on your website can be tailored and customized to best capture your brand vision

 

Data Migration

We will get your products, customers, orders and more from your current platform migrated to Shopify (Old customer data or order data will not migrate)

 

Shopify Configurations

Custom Domain Name Setup

Flat Rate, Weight or Price Based Shipping Options

Confirmation Emails

Setup Product Categories

Payment Gateway

Sales Tax

Define Shipping Origin Address

Add Google Analytics Code

Add Facebook Pixel

Multi-Language Setup

Multi-Currency Setup

Multi Locations Setup

Installation and configuration for Wishlist, Mail-chimp, Instagram or any other application you require

On-Site Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Define Product Title & Description Tags

Submit Website To All Search Engines

Ensure Home Page Has Proper Text To Help With SEO

Use schema to properly outline meta details to ensure that Google and other search engines can read your pages, products, and eCommerce details

 

Testing For The Following:

Transactions

Browser Compatibility

Navigation

Sales Tax Rates

Shipping Rates

Mobile Responsiveness

 

Optional Training

How To Go Live

How to Add/Edit/Delete Products

Test Live Sales Transactions

How To Process & Manage Orders

How To Point Domain To The Shopify Server By Updating The Domain Name System (DNS)

Customer Support

We offer monthly maintenance packages to help ensure that your eCommerce site continues to run as smoothly as possible and continues to do so as your brand grows