A motorcycle garage store in three languages, with delivery priced by postcode.
A multilingual WooCommerce store for motorcycle garages and parking stands: English, Lithuanian and German. Delivery is priced by the buyer's postcode, and the two products are bought in different ways: DockIT through the cart, MotoDome through an enquiry.
30 countriesbuyers see the delivery price in the cart, for their own postcode
In short
- Three languages: each with every page and product, and search engines see all three
- Delivery priced by postcode rather than by country: 30 countries
- Two buying paths: DockIT drops into the cart, MotoDome goes to an enquiry with the model already chosen
- Statistics starts only after consent: before it nothing is sent anywhere
- The move onto the client's domain without losing SEO: rankings held, old addresses lead to the new ones
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How it was built
The work.
A multilingual store: two products, three languages
MotoDome makes two things in Vilnius: MotoDome, a garage for a motorcycle in stainless steel and tempered glass, and DockIT, a rotating stand for an underground car park that turns the bike towards the wall and frees the space for a car. The store runs in English, Lithuanian and German. Each language has every page, both products and their categories, and search engines see all three.
The products differ in more than size. DockIT is chosen by colour, MotoDome by model and colour. Every language shows the same prices and variations, so the translations never fall behind the products.
Delivery priced by postcode, not by country
In the carrier's rate card the price depends on the postcode rather than the country. So the WooCommerce shipping method was built for the job and covers 30 countries. Off-the-shelf settings will not do it: they do not cover some countries' codes, and the buyer would see a request to get in touch instead of a price.
The difference is large even within one country: a city, a village and an island cost differently. One price per country would mean either an overcharge for most buyers or a loss on the remotest addresses, so the buyer sees the price for their own address in the cart, before the checkout.
Two buying paths: the cart and an enquiry
DockIT is bought like any other product: one of four colours, a quantity, the button to the cart. In the cart the buyer enters a country and a postcode, sees the price for that address and pays by bank or by card. On the product page, under the colours, sits the lowest delivery price with a link to the prices by country, so it is visible before the cart.
MotoDome cannot be bought that way. It arrives fully assembled and is unloaded by crane, so the delivery price depends on the address and on the access to it. Instead of a cart button the product page carries “Request a quote”: it opens a form with the model and the colour already filled in, and beside it a note on how payment works and when the answer comes.
Cookie consent: statistics only after consent
GDPR and cookie consent is handled by a consent banner. Every cookie is described with its lifetime and an explanation, in all three languages. The cookie policy carries only the cookies the site actually uses.
The statistics script is on the page, but it does nothing until the buyer clicks accept. Withdraw the consent and its cookies are cleared from the browser. The advertising tags follow the same path, so without consent not one request goes out.
The move onto the client's domain without losing SEO
The client's domain moto-dome.com ran an older site. We moved the new store into its place, and for visitors it passed unnoticed: the old address did not break.
The site migration was not allowed to lose what Google already knew. The old addresses were redirected to the new ones and checked one by one, in all three languages. The sitemap and the FAQ markup cover every language, so Google sees the pages, products and questions in all three.
How to order a project like this
If you have a product to sell in several countries, we start with two questions: how delivery is priced, and whether every product can be bought the same way. The answers decide whether WooCommerce settings are enough, or whether it takes a shipping method built for the job and a separate enquiry path.
We build a store like this as WooCommerce store development, with the delivery pricing and the enquiry path as custom development. Tell us how many languages you need, which countries you ship to and what already works on your current site, and we will go through the scope, the stages and the estimate. Get in touch.