[mstopford-webdesign]

Hey people,

Over the last couple of months I've begun to get quite friendly with Opencart as an Ecommerce engine.

My question is how much can one charge a client for designing them a site using Opencart?

I appologise if this is in the wrong section!

Cheers in advance for your advice!

[TotalWebSolutions]

Hi there,

Glad to hear you are liking OpenCart. It is certainly one of the more popular open-source solutions available and we have plenty of clients using it with our Payment Gateway. Their community forum is very good so you might be best posting this question on there as well?

I am not a designer so couldn't tell you how much you should be charging but hopefully other web designer/developers on here will be able to give you a rough idea. I would expect the cost to be reflected in the standard of work from cosmetic to function right through to the seo side of things if that is something you would be doing for the client.

Thanks,

Simon Lowe
Sales manager
Total Web Solutions Ltd
payments.totalwebsolutions.com

[mstopford-webdesign]

Hey, thanks for your advice.

I do take care of all of the design work, I don't like to use the templates because they're not personal enough, I usually take the default template and rip it to shreds and start with the skeleton.
There's some decent SEO going on in the backend of the system for products etc already but SEO is not something I'm 100% familiar with as yet, still learning!

I do believe my design work for the current stores I've built with Opencart are of high standard but I guess that's all opinion

[rubots]

More than you would for a regular site.

[mstopford-webdesign]

rubots, on 10 May 2011 - 04:16 PM, said:

More than you would for a regular site.

Short and sweet, I like your style!
Doesn't really give me a good strong answer though, I just don't want to charge too little and certainly don't want to quote too much and scare the client off!
I'm sure you understand

[rubots]

mstopford-webdesign, on 10 May 2011 - 04:23 PM, said:

Short and sweet, I like your style!
Doesn't really give me a good strong answer though, I just don't want to charge too little and certainly don't want to quote too much and scare the client off!
I'm sure you understand

What is their budget?

[mstopford-webdesign]

rubots, on 10 May 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

What is their budget?

It was more theoretical than an actual client I have.
I've done a site recently for what I believe was too little for the work I took on.
That's where my question was born from really, I don't want to sell myself short.

[rubots]

Hmm difficult one to answer, i would base it around their budget and number of hours it would take me.

[MikeChipshop]

Also take in account that an ecommerce solution is there to make money so in effect you should be charging them a reasonable amount.

I tend to charge more for this reason and the fact that there are so many foibles with eCommerce and complications.

[joe2011uk]

The way i do pricing is work out roughly like a basic time it takes me to do something

HTML/CSS Xhours
JavaScript X Hours
Shopping Cart Integration X Hours
Any SEO Work X Hours
etc...

Then you will have total hours for a basic project times that by your hourly rate, this gives you the lowest amount you should charge, and remember some e-commerce projects can go as high as £5k maybe more, so like mike said think of the business.

Joe

[Cube7]

Also, it really depends on how good you design skills are...