Drupal as a content management system has acquired great reputation for building customized and unique ecommerce websites. Drupal e-commerce development is lately at its prime, mainly because of the platform’s extensive modules and distribution packages. It is however worthy to note that building and maintaining a Drupal website requires considerable expertise and therefore, hiring expert developers for your e-commerce project is very important. Let us look at the steps that you must take when you are hiring an individual developer or a team of developers:
Ascertain Your E-commerce Needs:
What kind of functionalities do you want in your e-commerce website? Do you want it to be a simple product display and shopping cart ecommerce website? Or do you have advanced features such as personalization in mind? What kind of a checkout process do you want? Would your project require Drupal Customization Services?
After ascertaining your project requirements in detail, you can convey these to developers perfectly. Moreover, at a later stage while shortlisting a developer, you can see if he has been able to accomplish a project with requirements similar to yours.
Find Suitable Developers:
You can find suitable Drupal e-commerce developers by using freelancing portals, social media platforms, hiring an agency or even manually shortlist by digging through search engine results. Using freelancing portals, social media platforms or an agency for the hiring process would require you to post your project requirements. On the other hand, digging through search engine results would require you to find out the services rendered by a development company, taking a look at their online portfolio, and accordingly send queries of your project requirements.
Shortlist:
After developers or/and development companies get back to you, you can shortlist them on the following basis:
Experience: Check their experience. Have they worked on e-commerce websites before? If yes, have they worked on projects similar to yours? For how long have they been rendering Drupal development services? And what Drupal versions have they worked upon?
Answers to these questions will help you gauge a developer/team’s experience and their ability to fulfil your project requirements. Moreover, an experienced developer is more likely to deliver your project with success and within your favorable deadline.
Client Reviews: Check what their clients have to say about the work delivered to them. Did they meet their expectations? Did they find them cost-effective? Did they receive their project on time? If possible, talk to their clients directly and check their satisfaction level.
Portfolio: Check the quality of work they have delivered in the past. They are more likely to continue working in the same style and deliver similar quality in the future too.
Price: Finally, put your money on a team/developer who can provide the most cost-effective solution for your project.
With the execution of the above-mentioned three-step process, you can find the right developer(s) for the accomplishment of your e-commerce website project.
