Renting a Magento website

[georgel]

Hi Everyone, was looking for guidance folks. Have contacted two business who rent rather than sell there services. The problems I have experienced they both talk a good game but when it comes to doing the work even showing me a design of any description they keep putting me of with delays. Can anyone suggest a company they use for this who are reliable.

Thanks

George.

 

[ryedale]

Are you fixed with Magento or open to other alternatives?

 

[georgel]

Hi, Thanks for your reply. No it's certainly not a deal breaker, just that's what we have so open to have a look at anything that is responsive.

 

[antropy]

Hi Everyone, was looking for guidance folks. Have contacted two business who rent rather than sell there services.

I haven't seen this business model in web development before, how does it work?

 

[pippoetopolino]

I too would be interested to know how it works

 

[ryedale]

We offer payments for a new build over 4 months after completion but it wouldn't really be financially viable for us to do it over a longer period than that.

 

[georgel]

Like your style Mark. Anyway in practice I don't know, but in theory the company builds you an ecommerce website on a choose platform they sort out the hosting and ssl. The reason I would prefer rental is that 2012 we made a substantial investment and now need to change to responsive design. Albeit the site we currently have is performing well but we can't keep investing large sums of money every 2 years. So spoke to two people who said rental was the way forward but as per earlier post never came up with anything.

Thinking of getting someone from people per hour just to sort us a responsive template. Or possibly getting VTS after we chat tomorrow.

 

[ryedale]

No problem George, we'll see what we can come up with tomorrow

 

[Faevilangel]

just to sort us a responsive template.

Any decent developer should be able to turn your website into a responsive with very little hassle as it's just creating a new stylesheet.

Cost wise depends on how many page "designs" you have and who does it but I would budget anywhere from £300 to £1000 to do this.

Loads of companies do website rentals but you need to check the terms and conditions as who owns what and what happens when your term ends etc

 

[BrandUK]

To have a magento website setup is not such a huge cost outlay. I use a good local company who provide reasonable rates. Also as mentioned above. On People per hour you can find a highly rated company to do it for you.

I would make sure you choose a good host for your site. One optimised for magento sites.

 

[ryedale]

I believe he's looking for a serious E-Commerce solution to take his business forward. He's not going to get that with the likes of Wix etc.