Web design in Strood
We build websites for Strood, Frindsbury, Wainscott, Higham and Cuxton businesses from a Medway studio across the bridge, and a good share of those businesses sell to other businesses rather than to the public. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month. A site with a catalogue, trade accounts or quote requests starts from £500.
If your customers are other firms, the website has a different job from a shop's: it has to make it easy for a buyer to find a product, check a specification and ask for a price without ringing you. That is what we build for.
From £0 build fee· fixed quote before we start
Websites for firms that sell to other businesses
Strood's business parks and the units along the river are full of suppliers, fabricators, wholesalers, hire firms and contractors. Their websites are often an afterthought, because the work comes through relationships, and then a buyer at a new customer searches for the firm and finds a page from 2015 with a broken contact form.
A B2B site does not need to be large. It needs a clear list of what you supply, a product or service page per line with the specification as text rather than a PDF, a quote request form that lands in the right inbox, and accreditations and insurance shown where a buyer will look for them. That is a simple site, and it carries no build fee.
Catalogues, trade accounts and repeat orders
The next step up is a site where a trade customer logs in, sees their prices, and reorders. That is a database behind the site, priced from £500, and it is where a website starts to pay for itself by taking phone orders off your desk.
We are building exactly that now for a manufacturer on Medway City Estate, a few minutes from Strood: a trade ordering app that sits on top of their existing online shop so their stockists can reorder from a phone. When the shop you already have is good enough but the ordering is not, that is the shape of the answer.
When the website is not the problem
Half the conversations we have with Strood firms turn out not to be about the website. The spreadsheet that runs the jobs has become the business system, the quoting is done by hand from a price list in someone's head, or three tools do not talk to each other. That is software, from £5,000, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a website that does not fix it.
Simple site: £0 build fee
Ten pages or fewer, no database and no logins. First-year hosting with us at £45 a month, which is £540 across year one and nothing up front.
Catalogue, trade accounts or quote requests with a database: from £500
A buyer can find, check and order or ask for a price without a phone call. Fixed price after a first conversation.
Business software: from £5,000
When the spreadsheet or the paper process has become the system. Scoped properly, quoted fixed, and yours to keep.
Hosting and upkeep: £45 a month
HTTPS, monitoring, backups, security patches and bug fixes. £90 a month if the site has a database. No minimum term after the first year.
Common questions
Who builds business websites in Strood?
Northbytes is a Medway-based web design and software studio across the bridge from Strood that builds websites for Strood, Frindsbury, Wainscott, Higham and Cuxton firms, with a focus on businesses that sell to other businesses. Simple sites carry no build fee with first-year hosting at £45 a month, catalogue and trade-account sites start from £500, and every project is a fixed quote agreed before work starts.
How much does a B2B website cost in Strood?
A site that lists what you supply, with a page per product line, your accreditations and a quote request form, is a simple site: no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month. Trade logins, customer-specific pricing or online ordering need a database and start from £500.
Can you add trade ordering to the online shop we already have?
Usually, yes. We are doing that now for a Medway City Estate manufacturer, building a trade ordering app on top of their existing shop rather than replacing it. We look at what you have first and only suggest replacing it if it is genuinely in the way.
How long does it take?
Two to four weeks for a simple site once the content is settled. A site with trade accounts or ordering depends on scope, and the timeline comes with the fixed quote.
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Get a fixed price for your Strood website
Tell us what you supply and who buys it. We will come back with a number and a timeline before any work starts.
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