Online store and e-commerce website design in Corsica
An online store lets you sell beyond your counter, to people in Corsica as well as on the mainland. We build e-commerce websites that load quickly and inspire trust, with an admin area that is easy to pick up. Your customers buy without effort. And you deal with orders without losing your evenings to them.
What your online store contains
On an e-commerce website, the customer picks, pays, then has the order delivered without ever having to phone you. The shop includes:
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A readable catalogue
Product pages with photos and variants (size, colour, volume), the price, whether it is in stock. And descriptions that answer questions before anyone asks.
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A short checkout
The checkout is the path from basket to payment. Every step and every field is a chance to give up, so we keep as few as possible.
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Secure payment
Cards and other payment methods go through a specialist provider. Your customers' bank details are never stored on your site.
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Delivery or collection
Click and collect, local delivery, shipping zones with their rates. The options follow your logistics, not the other way round.
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An admin area for everyday work
Orders, stock, customer records, discount codes, invoices. All handled in an interface built around what you do each day.
Which products and businesses suit online selling
Online selling suits things that describe well and photograph well, and can be shipped or collected. It mostly interests:
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Producers and local specialities
Charcuterie, wine, olive oil, honey, cosmetics. The customer who discovered your coppa on holiday in August can order more in December, from home.
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High-street shops
Extend the shop, let people reserve and collect, and keep selling once the shutters are down.
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Craftspeople and makers
Jewellery, ceramics, textiles, furniture. One-off pieces or small runs, shown in photos that do them justice.
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Hotels, restaurants, leisure
Sell gift vouchers, boxes or dated experiences next to your usual bookings.
How we build your e-commerce website
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1. Take stock
Your products, your customers, how you ship, what you are aiming for. Budget and calendar too. This is when the very practical questions come up. Who packs the parcels? Who answers customers? What happens with a return?
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2. Design the shop
Catalogue structure, purchase path, choice of payment and delivery options, mock-ups of the main pages. You approve it all before development.
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3. Build and test
We build the shop, import the products, set up payments and shipping costs. Then we place test orders all the way from basket to confirmation email. You follow progress on a working version.
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4. Open, then follow up
Go-live, a tour of the admin area, a close eye on the first orders. Then, if you wish, we keep the hosting and maintenance, and the shop improves as sales come in.
What an online store needs in order to sell
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Fast, even with a large catalogue
A slow catalogue puts buyers off. The groundwork is well known: optimised images, light pages, good Core Web Vitals (Google's indicators for how fast and stable a page is).
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Made for the phone
Filling a basket, typing an address, paying. Each has to be as easy on a phone as on a computer.
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Reassuring to a stranger
Legal notice, terms of sale, shipping costs shown early, contact details in plain sight, a real address. A buyer who does not know you looks for signs you are serious, and quickly.
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Visible on Google
Product pages written properly, tidy categories, product data Google can read (price, availability). Your products then show up in search results with the right information.
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Accessible and compliant
A store anyone can use, compliant with the GDPR, the EU regulation on personal data, with cookie consent where it is required. European accessibility rules now cover some online shops as well.
Why some online stores never take off
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Underestimating the time it takes
A shop needs running every day, with photos to retake, pages to finish, parcels to pack, customers asking questions. Better to start small and well presented.
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Revealing shipping costs too late
One of the classic reasons for abandoned baskets. Show them early, on the product page if you can.
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Forgetting you ship from an island
Sending parcels from Corsica has its own costs and transit constraints. Build them into your delivery rates at the design stage, not after the first orders.
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Choosing a platform that locks you in
Subscriptions that pile up, paid add-ons, commissions, data that is hard to get out. Before committing, look at the total cost, and at what it would cost you to leave.
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Rushed product pages
A blurry photo and two lines of text sell nothing. The product page does the salesperson's job, and it is also what gets you found.
What sets the price of an online store
The budget comes as a quote, once we have talked through the project. It depends mainly on these points:
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The catalogue
A handful of simple products, or hundreds of items with variants and options.
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Getting products in
Typed in by hand, imported from a spreadsheet, or moved over from an existing shop.
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Payment and delivery
Click and collect, payment in instalments, several carriers, shipping costs worked out by zone.
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Links with your software
Till system, stock management, accounting, invoicing. Each integration gets its own line in the quote.
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Design and content
Art direction, product photos, written product pages, translations where needed.
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Recurring costs
Hosting, maintenance, the payment provider's fees. Set out separately, in plain terms.
Once the store is open
An online store processes orders and customer data. It has to run on reliable infrastructure, be backed up and stay current on security. We can take on that hosting and maintenance.
The first orders show what works and what jams. We go over your customers' path with you and rework the pages that hold sales back. Then we add what becomes useful as things move on, like a new range, a seasonal sale or shipping abroad.
Technologies and methods
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Online payment
- Structured product data
- GDPR
Frequently asked questions
Off-the-shelf platform or a shop built for you?
A subscription platform gets you started quickly with a standard catalogue. In return, you live by its rules and its pricing. A custom build makes sense when your needs fall outside the box, such as configurable products, unusual logistics, links with your own tools or demanding performance. We help you choose, without pushing a custom build where it serves no purpose.
How does online payment work?
It goes through a specialist provider. The provider handles cards securely and pays the money into your business account, taking a fee on each transaction. We configure the one you pick, then test an accepted payment, a declined one and a refund.
How do I handle delivery from Corsica?
You decide the zones you serve and the carriers in advance, with their rates, and show them clearly on the product page or in the basket. On the island, customers often like collecting in store, or local delivery. If the products are fresh or fragile, we settle packaging and shipping method before launch.
What are the legal requirements for selling online?
A shop has to display, among other things, a legal notice and terms of sale, the rules on the right to cancel, and a GDPR-compliant privacy policy. We build these pages and the technical pieces behind them. The legal wording itself should be checked with your adviser or accountant.
Can my store connect to my till or stock system?
Often, yes, if your software allows it. The link usually goes through an API, an interface that lets two programs swap information on their own. We check it can be done at the planning stage, so you never enter stock twice, in the shop and on the site.