Picture a children's clothes shop two streets from the Porxada. On a Thursday market day, someone from La Garriga sends a WhatsApp asking whether a coat comes in size 6, parks in the centre and takes it home that same morning. The owner has been told that these days you have to sell online, and is thinking about an online shop with 600 products. Maybe that is what the business needs. Or maybe a good catalogue and a WhatsApp button would do, for half the money and half the work. Good web design in Granollers starts by deciding that.
Web design in Granollers: a town that shops in shops
The town council says so itself on its retail page (in Catalan): retail is the sector that employs the most people in town, Granollers is the municipality in Catalonia with the highest density of shops, and people who visit come mainly to shop. It adds that online shopping is growing, but locals still do most of their shopping in town and traditional shops remain their preferred format.
The figures from Idescat, the Catalan statistics institute, point the same way. Granollers had 65,123 residents in 2025, and retail generated 17.4% of the town's gross value added in 2023, compared with 13.0% across Catalonia. Then there is the Thursday market, with more than 400 stalls: according to the council, the largest held on a working day in Catalonia.
For most businesses here, that means one thing: your website has to bring people into the shop. Selling online can come later, or never be needed.
Three kinds of website for three ways of selling
Web design in Granollers that brings people to the shop
This is what nearly every shop and service in town needs. It has to answer quickly what someone about to visit wants to know: what you sell, your price range, your opening hours and how to get there. According to the council, 70% of visitors arrive by car, so saying where to park (the nearest car park, or the streets where there is usually space) saves more than one phone call. And a visible WhatsApp button for people who want to ask before leaving home.
The catalogue with a WhatsApp button
It is the middle ground, and for many shops in Granollers the best fit. Products appear with a photo, a description and a price, but there is no basket or checkout: a WhatsApp button on each product starts the conversation, and the customer reserves, asks about sizes or arranges to collect. If people order what you sell by phone or WhatsApp, a well-made catalogue sells just as well and costs half as much as a shop. How to organise the messages that come in is in our article on WhatsApp Business.
The online shop
It makes sense when what you sell travels well, your margins can absorb shipping and someone in the business can spend time every day packing orders and answering. There is more work behind an online shop than it seems: the payment gateway, shipping, terms of sale and returns. Spanish consumer law (in Spanish) gives customers 14 calendar days to return a purchase without giving a reason, and you also have to refund the outbound delivery. How to choose how to take payments is in our article on the payment gateway.
Five questions before asking for a quote
How do people buy from you today? If nearly everything comes through the door or WhatsApp, start with the website that brings people in, or with the catalogue.
How many products do you have, and how often do they change? Ten fixed products are not six hundred items with sizes that come and go every season. The more the range changes, the more work it takes to keep up to date.
Can your margin absorb shipping out and back? If a return wipes out the profit on a sale, an online shop will teach you that quickly and expensively.
Who will pack the orders? An idle shop does more harm than none at all. If nobody has an hour a day for orders and messages, it is not the right time yet.
Have you tried it by hand? Before ordering a shop, sell ten units with a WhatsApp button and take payment by Bizum. If they sell, you know what to put first in the shop.
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How to build a catalogue that sells
A catalogue works if people find what they are looking for and can ask with one tap. Every product needs:
- Your own photo, with good light and a clean background. The supplier's photo is on the shop next door's website too.
- The name your customers use, not the warehouse code: “navy quilted coat”, not “REF 2231-B”.
- Price and sizes or dimensions. Without a price, some people would rather not ask.
- Whether it is in the shop or made to order, so nobody comes in for something you do not have.
- A WhatsApp button with the product already written in. WhatsApp links can carry a pre-filled message, so when customers tap, they already see “Hi, I am interested in the navy quilted coat” and only have to send it. You know which product they mean without asking.
And next to the button, your house rule: for example, that you hold an item for 48 hours for collection. That is what turns the catalogue into a visit to the shop rather than a conversation that fizzles out.
What any web design in Granollers needs
Whatever kind of website you choose, some things cannot be missing:
- It has to look good on a phone, because that is where people decide whether to come.
- The same details on the website and the Google profile: hours, address and phone number. If they do not match, people hesitate. We explain how to set it up in our article on the Google Business Profile.
- Catalan and Spanish, each version with its own wording and its own address. We cover it in a website in Catalan and Spanish.
- Hours for special days: if you open differently on Thursday market days or during the Fira de l'Ascensió, say so.
- A contact button people can see, without scrolling to the bottom of the page.
What web design in Granollers costs
Our rates are on our prices page and are the same in Granollers as anywhere else:
- Your Landing, €100 a month. A single page that explains what you do and collects enquiries, with hosting and one mailbox.
- Your Website, €200 a month. Up to ten subpages, with hosting, two mailboxes and one article a month to keep it alive. One of those pages can be a catalogue of your best sellers.
- Presence plans, €400 to €1,500 a month, for those who also want monthly articles on the website and the Google profile, replies to all reviews and visibility in AI answers.
All plus VAT, with no lock-in and no setup fee. An online shop is quoted separately, like custom software: per project and at a fixed price in writing, depending on the size of the range, shipping and whether it has to connect to your stock or invoicing. We break it down in how much an online shop costs.
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Web design in Granollers, from the Palau Firal
We are three partners working at the same table, in the Palau Firal in Sant Antoni de Calonge. Ivan builds the website, Jordi handles the design and the copy, and Izan checks security and sets up tracking so you can see where visits and messages come from. With businesses in Granollers and the Vallès Oriental we combine remote work with visits when we need to meet.
Tell us what you sell and how people buy from you today, and we will tell you which website fits and what it costs. No commitment. You can also write to us through the contact form.
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