Do you need a website to sell your book inventory online?

• Cut out the middleman and sell your books directly to your customers with a fast-loading website
• A bespoke design for your website and easy-to-use content management (CMS) to keep your website updated.
• Take payments online
• Promote books on your home page to sell more and encourage users to explore your range of books.
• Our websites are all mobile-friendly so your customers will be able to search and buy your products whatever device they are using and wherever they are.

What will it cost me?
Prices for the BookWorks system starts from £1500 for a standard setup.
We can customise your website to you requirements, and will quote costs for any additional work.


How do I take payments online?
You will need a payment gateway, we highly recommened Stripe. Stripe integration is included in all our systems. It is easy to create an account with Stripe, you can see more here... link

If you need more than one payment gateway, or would like to integrate a different one, there may be an extra cost.


Can the website have addtional functionality?
Yes, we have various extra plugins, they cost a one off £150 (which includes setup)
Blog, News, Image Gallery, Testimonials, Document Downloads, FAQs


Can I use the system as an inventory system?
Yes. It can be used to manage your book inventory, or we can integrate with a third party inventory system like BookTrakker or BookXXX

Do you have an inventory system already?
We can integrate your inventory system into the ecommerce system, The cost for this starts from £500, and you may need to review your inventory data if you have unusual ways of storing your book data.
BookTrakker
BookSeller
etc...


Do you need to send your books to Amazon or Abe?
We can set up feeds for your books to send to Amazon or Abe. One off set up fee £XXX


What does the hosting cost and cover?
Most systems charge you based on the number of books you have, and charge you more the more books you have.
We charge based on space used, so the more images you store the more the cost.

Data Backup and Tech Support - (3 hours per year included) £225+vat
SSL £25+vat per year
Hosting Space (for upto 5gb) £110+vat

Pay monthly £35+vat

Need space for more images? no problem
Extra 2.5gb space per year £25



 

BookWorks gives you:

A bespoke design for your website and easy-to-use content management (CMS) to keep your website updated.
Design-led user navigation and functionality that will help increase book sales and enquiries.
Discount codes, social media links and website analytics to help drive traffic to your site and measure conversions.

Booksellers inventory management software

Integrate BookTrakker, Bookseller and other applications used by booksellers to manage your inventory.

Real-time data feeds from the management software enable you to continually update the information on your website.

Payment gateway of your choice

We will integrate your preferred payment gateway into the CMS to take payments so you can manage the entire process from order to delivery and receiving the funds into your bank account.

Featured products

Promote books on your home page to sell more products and encourage users to explore your range of books.

Mobile ready

Our websites are all mobile-friendly so your customers will be able to search and buy your products whatever device they are using and wherever they are.

Search Engine Optimisation

Edit your pages and book descriptions to improve your search engine rankings and help users to find your books.

Set Up Costs:

We aim to make things affordable so that you can make a return on your investment, but also get the service and support you expect. Our prices start from £2,000 +vat
 

Ongoing Monthly Fees:

		£32.00+vat
Web hosting space (up to 5GB)*		✔
Daily website backup		✔
Annual Domain and SSL renewal		✔
Technical support (3 hours p/a)		✔

* 5GB gives you enough space for approximately 10,000 average sized images.

Examples of some of our recent book selling websites:
www.dworskibooks.com
www.booksbynuggetbox.co.uk
www.sandstonebooks.co.uk
www.dodmanbooks.com

Why Crystal Thought

Our Guarantees

 

Testimonial

Being my first Website I knew what I didn't want but knowing what I did want was much more difficult. The only thing I did know was that I wanted a Website that would work with my book listing software.

In Crystal Thought I was really pleased to discover that they had previous experience of it and I now have a fresh custom built Website that is very easy to run and operate. Throughout each stage of the process I was involved in the build and the outcome surpassed all my expectations. If you need a Website then I would highly recommend Crystal Thought.

B. Welsh
www.booksbynuggetbox.co.uk

Testimonial

Crystal Thought designed and built, from scratch, our attractive, customer-friendly website, with great care for our specific requirements in a very specialist area of commerce, and despite the complexities of the database which underpins it. Their client liaison was exceptional, both extremely efficient and very friendly, so that we always felt we were in safe hands.

Stephen Oliver-Jones QC
www.oj-books.com

Testimonial

I recommend Crystal Thought wholeheartedly. They dealt with the challenges involved with setting up my website very efficiently and listened to me carefully to make sure that I got both what I wanted and needed.  My website looks good and works well. My customers seem to find it easy to use and I find it easy to maintain. Crystal Thought customer support is always excellent and my queries are dealt with very quickly, often within minutes.

Catherine Hawley
www.clhawley.co.uk

Call William on +44 797 414 8202 to discuss your exact requirements.