Web developer in Bolpur for the order placed from home
For a craft seller, the site a web developer in Bolpur puts together is small: an order form that works on a phone, a page for each piece you sell, and your returns terms in plain words. Bolpur and Santiniketan see visitors on short stays, and more of them in the mela season. The site is there for what happens after they leave.
Overview
A smaller shop, on purpose
A craft site here is for the customer who has already met you. They bought one piece, liked it, and now want another without making the trip again.
Sell ten things you can post well before you list everything you make. A full shop has to be kept stocked, and that's time taken away from the work itself.
I scope stays that host visitors as a separate build, because they need bookings instead.
What gets built here
Before the site goes public
Small jobs, each one done before launch. I go through every one of them with you on a call.
- Packing and postage settled first, so you know what each parcel costs before anyone orders.
- Photographs taken when the workshop is quiet, in daylight, with time to get each one right.
- A test order placed from a phone, start to finish, before the site goes public.
- Stock counted once more, so nothing on the site has already sold out.
Put the address in the bag
Give every buyer something with the site's address on it. A printed slip tucked in with their purchase does the job.
What a scope from me looks like
Pinning down the launch list
Included
- A written scope: every page and feature as its own line, agreed before work starts
- Design to build, reviewed on a staging URL that stays open the whole project
- Mobile first — checked on a real phone
- Domain, hosting and every account created in your name from day one
- A way to order again from home, for the customer who has already been
- Basic on-page SEO: titles, descriptions, headings, sitemap, Search Console connected
- A runbook at handover: how to edit it, what renews and when
Phase two
- A shop with payment, once the first orders have gone smoothly
- Booking for a stay
- Ongoing SEO once the site has traffic to read
- A maintenance plan once the site is live
- Logo and brand design, quoted separately from the build
Not doing
- Guaranteed rankings
What moves the number
How the figure grows
A short list of pieces with an enquiry button is the smallest build. Anything added after that is its own line in the scope, with its own figure. The quote page goes through those lines one at a time.
- How many pieces you sell at launch
- Payment on the site, or enquiries by WhatsApp for now
- Whether the photographs need retaking
- A page for returns terms at launch, or later
- Who updates stock and prices after launch, you or me
Where this comes from
Built on familiar tools
My stack is React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Laravel and WordPress. For a seller who updates stock alone, the choice comes down to what you can edit without help.
The projects page has finished sites from 900+ projects completed.
Nearby
Further into Birbhum
The district, its headquarters town, and a few more.
FAQ
Before you decide
On cost, payment, the mela and breakages.
We sell craft to visitors. Is a website really worth it?
- It depends on what you make. If most of it's fragile or heavy, a single page with your number may be enough. If it travels well, a small order form is worth building.
Do we need to sell on the site, or is showing enough?
- An enquiry button and your WhatsApp number can carry the first orders. Once a few orders have gone through without trouble, adding payment on the site makes sense.
Our busiest weeks come with the mela. How does the site fit around that?
- The mela brings more visitors to Bolpur and Santiniketan, and every one who buys from you is someone who may want to order again from home. Photographs are easier in a slow stretch, so the shoot is planned well away from your busiest days.
What if a piece arrives damaged?
- What happens next is between you and the buyer, and your answer should be on the site before the first order. I put your returns terms on their own page, in plain words, so nobody has to guess.
What if a buyer wants a piece that isn't on the site?
- Your WhatsApp number sits beside the order form for that. You can answer, send a photograph and take the order the way you do now.
How is the price worked out?
- Every page and feature in the scope is a separate line, and each line carries its own figure. You can strike out anything you don't need before a single page is built.
Next step
A short list to start
Think about which pieces you'd want on the site first. We pick the launch list together on the call, and the written scope is built from it. Bring the names of two or three that sell best.
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