This may be one of the most common issues you are asked in your career: \”New How much does it cost to spend? \” Any variant of it is also important: \”How much will you charge us to build the extension?\” If you have been engaged in the WOOCOMMERCE project, you will understand the points.
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As a person who provides code and web solutions, you often encounter customers who think that price is the easiest to propose the price. Things to do. Many people have product -oriented thoughts, so they can’t see the price of the new Woocommerce store or the reason behind the code related to code. Because of this, many customers contact experts from WooCommerce through a loose project, or they just do not put forward some additional ideas for why they start this new project.
This is why I sat down with SAU/CAL’s Wooexpert and Codeable expert Mitchell Callahan to study this key topic. He introduced us to nine key elements, which can collect insights from the customer’s way of thinking. It can also allow the employed developers to obtain the correct estimate of a project that has not completely specified.
Are you ready to know them? Let’s sneak in!
1. Design, theme
They said that the first impression was the last impression. The important thing is that special aesthetic preference reflects your brand and serves your business goals. Therefore, the first thing you may want to collect is whether your client has any models, visual design, and even the themes they want to use.
Specifically, Mitchell first asked:
\”Do you have design? Have you really thought about the advertising material? ?
With this problem, your goal is not only to find any information and data related to your customer design assets, but also to formulate an effective design process that both parties need to adhere to. [123 ]
A good method is to pay attention to the back -end work first, and then transfer to the front end according to the actual data of the customer:
Design is very important, but we recommend starting from the theme of the prefabrication.We can focus on the specific details of the back, and then we can design it in the future based on your analysis and data.
You can even provide a customized design theme to better meet the needs of customers. 2. Products, variants, categories, photography, product descriptions
The next aspect of the project cost is your customer’s product and anything strictly related to this. This information is essential for delivery of outstanding works and reliable estimates. As Mitchell suggested:
I really hone and try to understand the products they are selling and anything related to it. That’s really meat and potatoes!
Therefore, you must first ask the following questions:
What is your product?
What is its role?
Is it a shipping product or a digital product?
How much is there?
Is it a basic product or any change (different sizes, color, etc.)?
Do you provide a member area to any of your customers? How about subscribing?
Do you have product photography?
Do you have a product description?
What categories do I need to pay attention to?
Through all these issues, you should be able to better understand the needs of customers and foresee whether (or no) lack any important elements and take corresponding actions.
3. SKU Another element you want Customer inventory unit (SKU) and try to understand whether they need to connect them to their internal management system in order to resolve data in real time. If this is the case, you need to add some SKU customization work in the estimation. Explain Mitchell: Asked whether they use the corporate resource planning (ERP) system or any other internal management system: \”Do you need the SKU number system that you need to comply with online?\” Then we will customize SKU.
However, the person you are talking to it may not be able to provide answers on such technical questions. Therefore, it is required to introduce them to their CTOs or technical managers so that you can get the correct answer.123]
4. Taxation
The next item on your list should be tax, because they depend on various factors that must be considered when building a store. According to your customer’s products, their location, and where they transport the product, things may become complicated.
Generally, this kind of information is general Report to you to collect. It sounds expensive for your customers? Not everything is lost!
In fact, the service is calculated by the introduction of taxation and payment by introducing services such as Avalarra (here is the Woocommerce Avalara Taxation). But this is not all: it will represent you tax remittances and even provide you with tax numbers. Therefore, as Mitchell emphasizes here, it may look like a real painful problem that needs to be solved, but it is more like a standard question that needs to be asked: Taxation of taxes It is a super juicy. This is a gray area in the world, and e -commerce is not so concerned about the border. From my perspective, I just need to know how it is set from it. For example, if you are in the United States, you are likely to charge state taxes, or even local taxes, depending on the location of your delivery product.
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5. Transport The next thing you need to solve is the transportation preference of your customer. This part is only related to customers with physical products. On the other hand, if your client sells digital products, you can skip it and transfer to the next paragraph. In order to help you find out how to deal with and set transportation correctly, as Mitchell recommends, you should ask your customers the following questions:
Who is your transportation supplier Intersection
What are your transportation and pricing rules?
Do you have a delivery area?
Do you only ship in the United States, or do you ship to Europe and Asia at the same time?
Do you want to get real -time prices from the website, or do we want to calculate some fixed freight?
If you have no transportation provider and need international transportation, ShipStatION is worth seeing.
6. Third -party integration
Third -party integration is essential for managing e -commerce stores because certain functions must be processed by other applications and plug -ins. Think about Mailchimp, Hubspot, Salesforce, and any other platforms that may need to \”talk\” with new e -commerce stores that may need to be with your customers.
At this stage, you need More information is integrated so that you can consider them.
If you missed deep into this specific field, once the development work has begun, you may encounter some problems.
7. Payment
Woocommerce allows multiple options to ensure payment safety, some of which may require a certain level of professional knowledge to integrate and operate. However, they widely expand your customer’s payment options, so this must be an important thing that needs to be discussed in advance. In view of the technical aspects involved here, it is recommended to discuss this issue with more technical team members (as SKU’s proposal). Some reliable and relatively easy to set solutions are PayPal supported by BrainTree and Stripe. 8. Host
Website hosting is another factor that must be considered when performing cost estimates. It may create an opportunity to add some additional services for you. What do I mean here? Ask your customers if they already have hosting service providers and whether they are satisfied with them. If they say \”no\”, it means that they are not satisfied or they do not currently, you can provide them with custom settings on one of your preferred hosts.
Result? Happy customers, charge for you extra charges. Regarding the importance of choosing the correct custody solution, Mitchell explained:
Host is the key. With the increase of customer websites, the demand for custody will increase. Their store must have strong strength so that it can easily expand. In addition, you should get a tool with excellent tools (such as fast deployment temporary sites), which will save you a lot of time.
Look at the hosting solution recommended by Woocommerce.
9. WThe preferred schedule of the OOCOMMERCE project I left the most juice to the end. If I have been in a customer’s work for many years, one thing is the dual -type answer to the deadline related to the deadline: \”Today\” or \”as soon as possible\” is the most common answer, at least in my experience. However, discussing with your customers that their favorite timetable is part of your work, so that you can manage their expectations like real professionals. Before you really own it, you can’t imagine how valuable this conversation is for both parties.
Overview of Mitchell:
When you are doing it When estimated, ask your customers to ask their timetable and when do they need to launch a new store reasonably? This is really important. Especially e -commerce stores, because their lives are around the holidays, people always want to launch before September (at least in North America), because they were ready for Black Friday and Christmas.
Credit: Caterina Radwanska Pack Make a convincing estimate It is a difficult task in itself, and each professionals have their own ways to think and generate one. If you add incomplete or missing information to the combination, you will get a pot that really needs to be processed. All these key elements of the new WOOCOMMERCE store project, as well as the active and communication methods of customers, will definitely help you. In this way, you can kick open the pot and send an estimated value!
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