The short answer
We design and build websites for Epping wholesalers, food distributors, transport companies and trades. Each site is built to answer a trade buyer's questions quickly on a phone: what you supply, where you deliver, how to open an account and who to call. Projects are fixed scope and fixed price, with Australian hosting.
Epping's working side starts before sunrise
Most of Melbourne knows Epping for its shopping centre and hospital, but a big part of the local economy starts in the dark. The Melbourne Market on Cooper Street, the wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market that moved here from West Melbourne, brings in growers, wholesalers, providores and buyers from restaurants and grocers across the state. Around it sit cold storage, packaging suppliers, transport operators and food businesses.
Further out along Cooper Street and in the industrial streets nearby, there are warehouses, workshops, trade suppliers and builders. Cooper Street links through to the Hume Freeway, which makes the area handy for freight heading north, and Thomastown's long established manufacturing base is just to the south.
These businesses don't sell to people browsing on a Sunday. Their customers are chefs, grocers, builders and fleet managers who need to know, fast, whether you can supply something, when you deliver and how to set up an account. They check your website on a phone, often in a truck or on a loading dock. A slow site or a missing phone number sends them to the next supplier.
What an Epping supplier's website needs
A clear list of what you supply.
Products, categories and brands written as text, so buyers can scan them and Google can find them.
Delivery areas and times.
Where you deliver, cut off times for orders and whether you do early morning drops for restaurants.
Trade account applications online.
A form that can be completed on a phone, instead of a PDF to print and scan.
A phone number that's easy to tap.
At the top of every page on mobile.
Wholesale and retail in one site.
Many Epping businesses sell to both trade and the public. We set up separate sections, pricing or logins, so each buyer sees what's relevant.
Order enquiries or online ordering.
From a simple enquiry form to a trade portal with account pricing, depending on your volume.
Fast, reliable hosting.
Australian servers, with Managed Support responding in 1 to 3 hours when something breaks.
How buyers search for Epping suppliers
Trade buyers often search by product and region, such as "wholesale produce Melbourne" or "pallet supplier northern suburbs", rather than by suburb. That means your product and service pages matter more than the map for many searches.
For trades and services, the map results do matter, and competition across Epping, Thomastown, Lalor and Mill Park can be strong in common categories like electricians or mechanics. Specialist suppliers often face thinner competition, and a detailed site can rank well without much fuss.
Northern suburbs where we also build sites
We also build websites for businesses in Thomastown and Wollert, as well as Lalor, Mill Park and South Morang. Further afield, we work in suburbs like Pakenham. See our service areas.
How your site gets built
A call about your buyers
Who orders from you, what they ask on the phone and what slows them down.
Scope and price in writing
Pages, forms, ordering features and launch date agreed before work starts.
Build on a staging site
You and your staff test it, including on phones, before launch.
Launch and ongoing support
Hosting, updates and fixes handled by our team.
Why suppliers choose our developers
A skilled development team.
Real developers who can build trade portals, account pricing and custom ordering tools.
Australian hosting.
Your site runs from a Sydney data centre, with support that responds in 1 to 3 hours.
"Our customers already know us. Why do we need a better site?"
Existing customers do, but new buyers check you online first. A clear site also cuts down the repeat questions your staff answer every day.