B2B Ecommerce Website Agency

B2B (business-to-business) website development is the process of creating and designing a website that boosts a company's visibility in the digital space and makes its goods or services easily reachable to other businesses. The complexity of ecommerce websites may vary depending on the desired functionality and the number of integrations.

All kinds of digital platforms, online stores, mobile apps, and websites that allow companies to sell goods and services to their business clients are the products of B2B ecommerce software development. As a rule, such solutions have eye-catching digital storefronts, contain product listings, process payments, and are integrated with banks, third-party services, and existing CRM systems.

Ecommerce developers are highly-skilled specialists who take control of all technical aspects of your online store. Not only do they build ecommerce solutions, but also keep a close eye on their performance, scalability, traffic, and capacity.

Ecommerce is an all-encompassing and complicated business field, as it targets each part of the value chain. It is not just an eye-catching ecommerce site or digital sales, but also procurement, logistics, distribution, warehousing, data analytics, and much more.

Among the most well-known B2B eCommerce platforms, you may find Amazon, Alibaba, BigCommerce, and TradeGecko.

It's possible to divide B2B markets into the 4 key categories:

• Resellers;
• Governments;
• Producers;
• Institutions.

These groups have a different target audience, peculiar purchasing behavior, and unique characteristics.

When a company sells its products or services directly to consumers via a digital platform (like Amazon, Etsy, Allegro, or other) we are witnessing a vivid example of B2C e-commerce. B2C presupposes longer sales cycles and a more personalized approach.

The B2C ecommerce development cycle embraces such stages as ideation, requirements analysis, project roadmap elaboration in compliance with the desired architecture and design concepts, development process, testing stage, platform deployment, and maintenance.

It's better to launch a successful B2B ecommerce development project with a well-defined plan in mind. If you don't know how to create one, just use our tips as a basis.

1. Set your business goals and allocate the required budget.
2. Define your customer group and analyze its needs.
3. Hire an experienced ecommerce development team like Qulix.
4. Share your project vision.
5. Select the design, tech stack, and architecture that answers your requirements (if you lack expertise, feel free to ask for a consultation).
6. Develop and test an MVP version, launch it, and analyze the results.
7. Fix flaws, enhance security mechanisms, and deploy a website.
8. Gather feedback and don't forget to maintain and update your product.

Innovative software tools and feature-rich platforms are an integral part of e-commerce web development. Shopify, Wix, Magento, Squarespace, and WooCommerce, as well as Google Analytics, WordPress, 3dcart, and HubSpot are the most famous and frequently employed technologies you may also explore.

The four pillars that drive an e-commerce project toward success are data analytics, customer relationship management systems, intuitive mobile interfaces, and big data. Therefore, while working on your e-commerce solution, make sure all the technologies are included in your development strategy.

While an e-commerce website usually represents the products of a particular company, a marketplace is a more complex solution that provides online space and marketing tools for multiple sellers. To better remember the difference, think of a marketplace and a website as a shopping mall and a single store. In case you plan to launch any of these solutions, turn to a trustworthy B2B ecommerce marketplace & website development company, like Qulix.

Headless commerce (the term was coined in 2013) is one of the approaches to software architecture. In such architecture, the back-end functionality is separated from the frontend, which allows developers to enhance and update the frontend without changing the backend. Among the most widespread headless ecommerce platforms, you may find Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Swell.

While working on complex ecommerce solutions, we follow the Agile approach. Instead of analyzing and changing the entire code base, our experts split it into small parts, test them, fix the errors, and automatically integrate the enhanced pieces of code into the base. It adds way more efficiency and flexibility to the development process.

Moreover, we have skillful DevOps engineers on board our team, who are responsible for interdepartmental cooperation and routine task automation.

The final cost of ecommerce web development depends on your project vision, the complexity of features and functions, the number of integrations and payment gateways, security mechanisms, and many other factors. On average, the development process lasts 2 to12 months and requires $100–3000 of monthly investments.