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HDC Consultancy.

Web design & marketing for e-commerce

Online stores that sell, synced to your real stock

For retailers, rental fleets and any business selling from a live catalogue.

Whether you sell products, hire out a fleet or list stock that changes by the day, we build fast online stores wired straight into your back-end, so what a customer sees is always what you actually have, and the checkout or enquiry is built to convert.

How we help

Your next steps

  1. 1 Map the catalogue We map your products, stock system and the data feed that keeps listings live and accurate.
  2. 2 Build & integrate We build the store, wire it into your back-end and connect the checkout, CRM and follow-up.
  3. 3 Sell & scale We launch paid and organic traffic, then optimise the listings and journeys that convert best.

Challenges we solve

  • Stock the site doesn't know about Manually re-listing products and availability is slow and error-prone. A customer enquires about something you sold last week, and the trust is gone.
  • Browsers who never buy Plenty of traffic, very few sales. A slow, cluttered store or a clunky checkout quietly loses the people who were ready to spend.
  • One-off sales, no repeat You win the first order and never hear from them again, because nothing follows up, cross-sells or brings them back.

Why it pays off

  • 70% of online shopping baskets are abandoned before checkout (Baymard Institute)
  • 59% of retail e-commerce sales now happen on a mobile phone (Statista)
  • 32% more visitors leave as a page slows from one to three seconds (Google)

Live showcase

See our work, live

Real client sites we've designed and built. Load a live preview, or open the site in a new tab.

allseasongardenrooms.co.uk

All Season Garden Rooms

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driveonvehiclerental.co.uk

DriveOn Vehicle Rental

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mwgroundscrewsltd.co.uk

MW Ground Screws

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Free Solar UK

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warmhomesfunding.com

Warm Homes Funding

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UK Housing Claims

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bikecrashclaims.co.uk

Bike Crash Claims

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smarterbuild.co.uk

Smarter Build

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Smarter Clean

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G10 Events

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PPA Funding

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Why choose HDC

What to expect from us

Fixed price, no surprises

We agree a fixed price up front based on what you actually need, no hourly billing and no scope creep.

You own everything

Your site, domain and data are all yours, with no lock-in if you ever move on.

A senior UK team

You work directly with experienced people who know UK local markets, not a call centre or offshore template factory.

Built for booked work

We measure success in enquiries and jobs won, not clicks, likes or impressions.

Honest advice

We'll tell you what you genuinely need, even when that's less than you came expecting to spend.

Free website audit

Already have a website that isn't pulling its weight?

We'll audit it properly and for free, your speed, SEO, design and conversions, then show you exactly what's costing you enquiries and how we'd fix it. No obligation and no hard sell. We give away genuine, high-value advice because we're confident in it: take it and act on it, with us or without us.

Get my free audit

A clear, no-jargon report, usually within a couple of business days.

Going deeper

Why digital works for e-commerce

In e-commerce the website isn’t a brochure, it is the shop. The till, the shelves, the salesperson and the window display all rolled into one. So every second of load time, every confusing product page and every listing that’s actually sold out is money walking back out the door. Get the shop right and the rest of your marketing finally has somewhere worth sending people.

The numbers explain why this is so unforgiving. Roughly seven in ten online baskets are abandoned before checkout, and most of that is fixable friction, a slow page, a surprise delivery cost, an account you’re forced to create, a checkout that asks for too much. The majority of shopping now happens on a phone, so a store that’s awkward on mobile isn’t losing a few sales, it’s losing most of them. And speed is doing quiet damage all the way through: as a page drags from one second to three, far more visitors give up and leave before they ever see the product. None of these are exotic problems. They’re the ordinary things a well-built store simply doesn’t do.

That’s where most of our work goes. We build the store on a fast, modern foundation, clean web development with the product pages, basket and checkout structured to remove friction, not add it, and we wire it straight into your stock so listings update themselves and never sell you something you no longer have. When availability changes by the day, that single integration is the difference between a customer who trusts you and one who’s already gone.

Selling is more than the sale

A good store earns the first order. A good system earns the next ten. Plenty of e-commerce businesses pour budget into winning a customer once, then never speak to them again, no follow-up on the basket they left, no nudge to come back, no reason to return before they’ve forgotten you exist. The cost of that silence adds up fast, because the hardest and most expensive sale is always the first one.

We close that gap on two sides. On the way in, paid advertising and SEO bring the right people to the right products, paid traffic for quick, controllable volume, organic search for the buyers who keep arriving for free once you rank. On the way back, CRM automation, abandoned-basket flows and retargeting recover the people who hesitated and keep you in front of past buyers, so one sale becomes a habit rather than a one-off.

We built exactly this for DriveOn Vehicle Rental: a high-converting site with live listings pulled straight from their backend stocking system, plus CRM automation, an AI chatbot and autonomous email marketing. As their web and marketing team we generated over 500 leads between February and June 2026 on a £10-a-day Meta budget, helping grow them to 64 vehicles on-rent. You can see how the store and the systems behind it work together in our case studies. We build the shop, wire it into your stock, and run the traffic and follow-up that keep it selling, long after launch.

Client stories

What our clients say

Verified Client
Our inventory moves faster now because customers can actually find what they're looking for. The corporate portal has secured us three major national contracts.
KR Kevin Rodgers DriveOn Vehicle Rental

Automotive & Vehicle Rental

E-commerce: your questions answered

Can the site pull stock from our existing system?

Yes. For DriveOn Vehicle Rental we built a high-converting site with live vehicle listings pulled straight from their backend stocking system, so availability is always current without anyone re-listing by hand. We can integrate most catalogues, databases or stock feeds the same way.

We don't take payment online, does e-commerce still apply?

Yes. A live catalogue with an enquiry or booking step works exactly like a store. DriveOn list a live fleet and convert through enquiry rather than card checkout, the build is the same discipline whether the final step is a basket or a booking.

How do you stop people abandoning the basket or enquiry?

With speed, clarity and follow-up. We build fast, clear product and checkout pages, then add CRM automations, abandoned-cart and email flows so warm buyers get a timely nudge instead of slipping away.

Can you bring repeat orders, not just first sales?

That's where automation earns its keep. Autonomous email marketing, retargeting and a WhatsApp or community channel keep you in front of past buyers, the same stack we run for DriveOn alongside their store.

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