Ecommerce website design

We design, build and run online stores built to sell, a new store or a redesign of your current one: product pages that persuade, a quick checkout on any phone, and secure payments. Then we host it, keep it fast and send every order email for you.

Your new website, designed free within 48 hours. You pay only if you keep it.

An online store for linen bedding, Your Business, on a laptop and a phone: the headline Linen for slow mornings and a Shop bedding button
An example store, on a laptop and a phone.
  • Rank higher on Google and Bing
  • Rank higher on Google and Apple Maps
  • Get recommended by AI
  • SSL & Cloudflare secured
  • You own everything

Some of the websites and apps we designed, built and run

The problem

Why online stores lose sales

  • Abandoned carts

    Shoppers leave at a long or confusing checkout.

  • Slow pages

    Waiting costs sales, most of all on a phone.

  • Products search engines can't read

    Without product data, shoppers never see your products in search results.

A long, cluttered checkout on a laptop, beside a card showing a cart abandoned with 3 items

What we do

A store built to sell, and run for you

Product pages, checkout, payments and order emails, designed and built as one system.

Product pages that sell

Photos, price, options, stock and delivery time on every product, each on its own address, so it can rank and sell.

  • Photos, options and stock
  • Product data for search
  • Sell, take bookings and get paid online
A product page for a linen duvet cover on a laptop: photos, price, colors, size, in stock and an Add to cart button

A checkout that's quick on a phone

A short guest checkout with Apple Pay, cards and PayPal, on the payment provider's own secure page.

  • Guest checkout, no account
  • Cards, wallets and PayPal
  • Secure padlock (HTTPS/SSL)
A short checkout on a phone with Apple Pay and a Pay button, beside a card saying guest checkout, no account

Every order confirmed and tracked

Confirmation, receipt and shipping emails from your own domain, and every sale in your dashboard.

  • Automatic booking and order emails
  • Sales in your dashboard
An order confirmation email from Your Business and a shipping update arriving Thursday

What you get

More orders, less work

  • More completed orders

    A short guest checkout that works on any phone.

  • Paid securely

    Cards, wallets and PayPal on the payment provider's own secure page.

  • Products in search

    Price and stock shown right in Google results.

  • More time for your products

    Hosting, updates and speed handled for you.

A store owner's sales screen for today on a phone, with orders and a rising chart

Your questions, answered

About our ecommerce website design

Our ecommerce website design gives you an online store built to sell: product pages that persuade, a cart and checkout that are quick on a phone, secure payments, and the emails that follow every order. We design it for your brand, build it, host it and keep it fast, with the shop, checkout and online payments included in every plan. You see your store's design first, free, within 48 hours, before you pay anything.

How much does ecommerce website development cost?

With Fablence, the store's design is free and the build is $299€299, charged only when you approve it, or free on a yearly plan. Then $99€99 a month covers the shop, checkout, online payments, hosting and maintenance; Growth, at $189€189, adds SEO, AI SEO (GEO), order emails and marketing emails.

One monthly price, with the store included. As your ecommerce website design company, we build and manage the whole shop: product pages, the cart and checkout, online payments, and bookings if you take them, hosted on our own servers behind Cloudflare, maintained, monitored and backed up every night, for$99€99 a month on Basic. Growth, at $189€189, adds higher rankings on Google, AI SEO (GEO), blog posts, automatic order emails, emails that bring customers back, and off-site backups. The build is $299€299, charged only when you approve the design, and free on a yearly plan, so your ecommerce website cost is known before you commit. Already selling online? We rebuild your store with its current products, or with new photos and text you send, and redirect every product address so its rankings move with it; see website redesign services. Start with your free website design, or see every price.

Why do most online shoppers leave without buying?

Baymard Institute averages 50 studies and puts the documented cart abandonment rate at 70.22% (updated September 2025). The top reasons given during checkout are extra costs such as shipping and tax (40%), slow delivery (20%), not trusting the site with card details (19%) and being forced to create an account (18%). Most are design decisions, not prices.

Mostly because of the checkout, which is why we design it with the most care. Baymard Institute averages 50 separate studies of shopping-cart abandonment and puts the figure at "70.22% – average documented online shopping cart abandonment rate" (Baymard Institute, updated September 22, 2025). Its survey of why shoppers give up during checkout puts extra costs first, and almost everything on the list is a design decision rather than a price: a surprise at the last step, a forced account, a form that is too long, a page that does not feel safe enough for a card number. Baymard estimates that a large store can raise its conversion rate by 35.26% through better checkout design alone, without changing a single price.

Extra costs too high (shipping, tax, fees)40%
Delivery was too slow20%
Didn't trust the site with card details19%
The site required an account18%
Checkout too long or complicated17%
The website had errors or crashed17%
Reasons shoppers abandoned during checkout. Source: Baymard Institute, cart abandonment research, updated September 22, 2025.

Should a small online store use Shopify, WooCommerce or a store built for it?

Each suits a different business. A hosted platform such as Shopify runs the software on a monthly plan, with features added as apps. WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin that someone must host and keep updated. A store built and run for you has one monthly price, with design, hosting, security and updates handled by one team. Large catalogs with their own team usually suit a platform; businesses that want selling handled suit the third.

Three models, each suited to a different kind of business. A hosted platform such as Shopify runs the shop software for you on a monthly plan, with extra features added as apps. WooCommerce is a free plugin for WordPress, which you or someone you hire hosts and keeps updated. The third is a store built and run for you by an ecommerce web designer: one monthly price, with the design, hosting, security and updates handled by one team. A large catalog with its own ecommerce department usually suits a platform it controls; a business that wants selling handled, not administered, is who our stores are built for.

ModelHostingUpdatesWho runs it
Hosted platform, such as ShopifyThe platformThe platform; you run the appsYou
WooCommerce on WordPressYou or your hostYou: WordPress, plugin, extensionsYou or a developer
Built and run for youUsUsUs, with you in charge
Can I move my existing online store without losing sales?

Yes. Each product page has its own rankings, so we move your product data intact and redirect every old product address to its new page before launch, then check your old product links on the day the new store goes live.

Is ecommerce for small business worth it?

If customers can buy, book or pay without calling you, yes: a store takes orders at any hour. Start with your best-selling products, a simple checkout and online payments, and grow the catalog as orders come in.

If people can buy from you, book you or pay you without a phone call, yes: a store takes orders at any hour, even at three in the morning. Ecommerce for small business often starts on a marketplace, which brings traffic but keeps the customer. Your own store keeps the customer, the email address and the repeat order, and it cannot be taken away by a change of fees or rules. Most businesses do both, with their own store as the place customers come back to. With us, the domain, the content and your customer data are yours from day one.

How does Fablence compare with a website builder or a one-off build?

Fablence designs, builds, runs and grows your website for you. Here is how that compares with a website builder you run yourself and a one-off build from an agency or freelancer.

What you getFablenceWebsite builderOne-off build
See your design before you payFree, within 48 hoursYou design it yourselfUsually a deposit first
Designed and written for your storeEvery page, text includedA template you fill inText often extra
Hosting, security and backupsFully managed for youYou manage it on their platformYours to arrange after launch
Edits done for youWithin 24 hoursYou make themBilled each time
Rank higher on Google and BingDone for you every monthLeft to youUsually a separate contract
Get recommended by AI: AI SEO (GEO)Done for you every monthLeft to youUsually a separate contract
You own your domain, content and leadsAlways, with a free copy of your siteThe site cannot leave their platform wholeDepends on the contract

Sources: Wix Help Center, Exporting or embedding your Wix site elsewhere; Squarespace Help Center, Exporting your site.

What do our ecommerce website design services include?

Everything a store needs to take orders, get paid and rank, designed and built as one system:

What we buildWhat it gives your business
Product pagesPhotos, price, options, stock and delivery time, each product on its own address
Catalog and searchCategories, filters and search that work on a phone
CartThe full cost shown before checkout, so there are no surprises
CheckoutGuest checkout with no forced account, short and fast
PaymentsCards, wallets and PayPal on the payment provider's own secure page
Delivery and taxYour real rates, zones and tax rules
Order emailsConfirmations, receipts and dispatch notices from your own domain, on Growth
Product data for searchPrice and stock shown right in Google search
Speed on phonesPages served from Cloudflare's network, close to every shopper
ReportsVisitors, sales and where your buyers came from, in your dashboard

Does speed change how much an online store sells?

Yes, measurably. In a study Deloitte ran for Google across 37 brand sites and more than 30 million sessions, "a 0.1 second improvement of mobile site speed increases conversion rates by 8.4% for retail sites", and retail shoppers "also spent 9.2% more" (web.dev, Milliseconds make millions, 2020). A tenth of a second is below what anyone notices, so we measure speed rather than judge it by eye, on a phone as well as a desktop. Every store we build runs on our own servers behind Cloudflare's global network, so pages load from close to the shopper, and we keep checking speed as the shop grows.

What are the ecommerce website design best practices?

The ones with evidence behind them, each answering a reason on Baymard's list or the speed finding above. Every store we build follows all seven:

  • Show the full cost before checkout. Delivery and tax on the product page or in the cart, never first at the last step. Extra costs are the first reason shoppers leave.
  • Let people check out as guests. A forced account is the reason 18% of those who abandon give. Offer the account after the order, not before it.
  • Keep the checkout short. Ask for what the order needs and nothing else; 17% leave because it is too long or complicated.
  • Take cards on the payment provider's page. It is the safest place for a card number, and a familiar payment page reassures the 19% who did not trust the site.
  • Make every page fast on a phone. A tenth of a second moved retail conversions by 8.4% in the study above.
  • Write each product description for your shop. Text copied from the manufacturer is the same text as every other shop selling the product.
  • Show every product in Google with its price. Price, stock and reviews added in the form Google reads, covered in the next section.

How does an online store rank on Google?

Google's own ecommerce guidance opens with the challenge: "A critical challenge for any ecommerce website is being discovered in Search." Its answer is careful groundwork: share product data with Google, add structured data to product pages, give the store a clear URL and category structure, and handle long product lists without hiding items from search. On structured data it is direct: "Help Google understand and appropriately present your content by providing explicit information about the meaning of your page with structured data" (Google Search Central, updated December 10, 2025). That is what lets a product appear with its price and stock in the results, and every store we build has it from launch. Our Growth plan adds the ongoing work that brings shoppers: higher rankings on Google, AI SEO (GEO) and blog posts.

See your new website before you pay anything

Tell us about your business. Your proposal shows your website, designed for you, and how it will bring you customers from Google, maps and AI.

Your new website, designed free within 48 hours. You pay only if you keep it.