Shopify Core Features

  • Shopify are the leading e-commerce platform for small and large businesses alike. As an affordable cloud-hosted e-commerce platform, they allow for unlimited products, bandwidth and online storage for all merchants included in the cost of your monthly subscription.

  • Easily create reports and monitor your store’s performance through their sophisticated built-in analytics and reporting capabilities. Sync your store seamlessly with Google Analytics to make informed decisions on optimising your store for conversions, performance and UX.

  • Managing your online or physical store couldn’t be easier on Shopify. Manually create orders, automate your discount codes, create gift cards, abandoned cart recovery emails and many other features makes your store management easy.

  • With Shopify you don’t just have the option to build a website and sell on there alone. You can choose from a host of the most popular sales channels to connect to your Shopify store. Sell seamlessly through Instagram, Facebook, Amazon and more through Shopify, handling all orders within your Shopify admin.

  • Shopify isn’t exclusively for online retailers. Physical store owners can sell in-store with Shopify POS, a versatile system for unifying your online and in-store sales all under one roof. Say goodbye to cross-referencing stock lists, orders & inventory management issues.

  • Unlike many other web hosting platforms, Shopify has the capability to work with all of the popular payment gateways, including Google Pay, ApplePay, Amazon Pay and Shopify Pay. You won’t be limited to just one or two options, losing less sales & serving more customers.

 

 

Squarespace Core Features

  • Mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of all website traffic. Squarespace ensures that your website will adapt for every screen size. All their templates include a unique mobile experience that matches the overall style of the website, so you can easily optimise your mobile experience.

  • Squarespace eradicates the need to purchase themes, child themes, domains and hosting on separate platforms. You have the option to have all this managed in your Squarespace account and everything works together seamlessly.

  • So your new website looks fantastic, but you also need to ensure your customers can find you! Every Squarespace website is equipped with all the elements needed for a strong SEO strategy, automatically built in for you. It’s really simple to use and manage your long-term SEO strategies.

  • Most importantly, making edits and updates to your website in the future will be a breeze using their intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

  • Squarespace pride themselves on their automatic updates. All your behind the scenes worries are taken care of, such as security, software updates, and integrations. They also provide award-winning customer support.

  • Not only are Squarespace templates clean, modern and follow web design best-practices right off the bat, but when paired with the inbuilt Style Editor, your website can be completely customised. As Squarespace experts, Hatch can inject custom code, to ensure that your website will be totally and utterly bespoke to you.

General FAQs

  • We work with all sorts of business owners & entrepreneurs, and love to take on different projects. We’ve worked with: Sustainable Fashion Brands; Wedding + Bridal Experts; Conscious Homeware Stores; Health + Wellness Brands; Beauty + Cosmetics; Branding Specialists; Photographers and more.

  • After filling out the client application, you'll hear back within 48 business hours (M—F) to talk more about details we will schedule a call & prepare your custom proposal. From there, you’ll receive the design contract to review & sign as well as the project deposit invoice to secure your slot in the studio calendar

  • Our payment terms are 50% before work begins to secure your booking, and 50% when the website ownership is handed over. If you need a longer term payment plan we suggest making smaller payments earlier on before work begins. We’ll keep your project booked out and ready to start when you are.

  • At this time, we solely work on Shopify & Squarespace.

  • Head over to our services page to see a breakdown of our prices where applicable. Due to the nature of our e-commerce clients, prices vary. We offer custom packages based on the specific goals of the client. Before your custom proposal is created, we'll discuss your budget and unique website needs.

  • There are plenty of talented designers & developers out there - so why should you work with us? Aside from being both Squarespace Circle Members & Shopify Partners, we pride ourselves on approaching website design as not just creating something beautiful, but working with you to build a website that is going to work just as hard as you do.