Kivo Marketing does web design in Miami, FL for businesses that sell across the US: sites and online stores in English and Spanish, Stripe checkout in dollars with sales tax by state, and connections to systems such as Zoho. The same team designs and codes each site. Its Miami client is JD Yuversity, a Korean aesthetics academy and shop.
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Web design in Miami: what a site selling to US buyers has to handle
A good-looking homepage is the easy part. A site that sells from Miami has to charge in dollars, add the right sales tax at checkout, speak to buyers who move between English and Spanish, and pass every order to whatever system keeps your stock and invoices. Miss one of those and somebody ends up fixing it by hand.
Those are design decisions, so we settle them before the first screen is drawn. This is how each one played out on sites Kivo has shipped for the US market:
| What the site has to do | How we built it | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Charge in dollars, with the right sales tax | Stripe checkout that adds sales tax by state | Nadiva Lab |
| Keep the back office in step with every sale | Academy and shop on one site, wired to Zoho for stock, orders and invoices | JD Yuversity, Miami |
| Sell a clinical catalog without an e-commerce platform | One page with filters by line and by skin concern, a wishlist, shipping calculation and Stripe | JeuDerm USA |
| Show professional buyers a catalog, not a price list | 111 SKUs with filters, sorting and a quote list, and no prices published | Aion Biogenx |
| Reach clinics, spas and distributors in two languages | Bilingual corporate site that sends them on to the partner portal | Nuderma Group |
Web design services for small business in Miami: start with one job
A small business site doesn't need every feature on the list. It needs to do one job well: sell a product, take a sign-up, or get a professional buyer to ask for a quote. Pick that job first and the rest of the site gets simpler, and so does the build.
JeuDerm USA's job is to sell a clinical Korean skincare catalog. It does it from a single page, with filters, a wishlist, shipping calculation and Stripe checkout, and no e-commerce platform underneath. Aion Biogenx needed the opposite: a wholesale catalog of 111 SKUs that professional buyers can filter and sort, ending in a quote list instead of a cart. No prices on the page, on purpose.
When a platform fits, we use one. What we avoid is paying for a platform to run a single page. How we choose between WordPress, Next.js and hand-written code is on web design and development.
Website design in Miami for buyers who switch between English and Spanish
In Miami, the same customer may read your product page in English and send the question in Spanish. A bilingual site has to hold up in both, and the pages are only part of it. What breaks first is the text nobody writes on purpose: form errors, the checkout, the email that confirms the order.
Kivo Marketing works in English and Spanish, and each language gets its own search terms. Nuderma Group's corporate site, built for clinics, spas and distributors in the US and Spain, runs in both. The SEO side (URLs, hreflang, keyword research) is in our guide to bilingual marketing in Miami. Before launch, check these in each language:
- Forms. Labels, error messages and the thank-you page.
- Checkout. Cart, shipping, the tax line and the receipt.
- Automatic emails. Order confirmations and any reply the site sends on its own.
- Policies. Shipping, returns and privacy, readable in both versions.
Why a web design company in Miami should connect your site to the back office
A website that doesn't talk to the rest of the business creates a second job. Every sale gets typed into another system, stock gets adjusted by hand, invoices go out late. On a busy day, that's where the mistakes get in.
JD Yuversity, a Korean aesthetics academy and shop in Miami, runs courses, a product catalog, a customer portal and event landings from one site, wired to Zoho for stock, orders and invoices. It is built with PHP, Stripe, n8n, Zoho Inventory, Zoho CRM and Meta CAPI, Meta's Conversions API. The details are in the JD Yuversity case study.
Payments are part of the same job. Nadiva Lab, an electrolyte and collagen supplement sold across the US, charges in dollars through Stripe and adds the buyer's state sales tax at checkout. The Nadiva Lab case study shows how that line is designed.
Zoho is simply what JD Yuversity already ran on. The rule holds for any system with an API: the site talks to it, so nobody retypes an order.
What to ask a web design agency in Miami before you sign
A portfolio shows how a site looks. These questions show how yours will be built:
- Can I click through live sites you built? On your phone, in both languages and as far as the checkout. Not a mockup in a deck.
- Who writes the code? If design and development sit in different companies, ask who owns what falls between them.
- Where does SEO sit in the process? Structure, speed and structured data are set during the build, not after launch.
- Who writes the Spanish? A person writing for Spanish searches, or a translation tool.
- What will the site connect to? Payments, stock, CRM and ad tracking, and who keeps those connections working.
- Who edits the site after launch? That answer often picks the stack.
Work we have shipped
- JD Yuversity
Korean aesthetics academy and shop in Miami: courses, catalog, customer portal and event landings, wired to Zoho for stock, orders and invoices. PHP, Stripe, n8n, Zoho Inventory, Zoho CRM and Meta CAPI.
See the project - Nadiva Lab
US store for an electrolyte and collagen supplement: flavor picker, Supplement Facts panel, science page and Stripe checkout in dollars with sales tax by state.
See the project - JeuDerm USA
Single-page store for a clinical Korean skincare catalog, sold in the US: filters by line and by skin concern, wishlist, shipping calculation and Stripe checkout, with no e-commerce platform underneath.
See the project - Aion Biogenx
Wholesale catalog for professional buyers in the US: 111 SKUs with filters, sorting and a quote list, without publishing a single price.
See the project
Frequently asked questions
How much does web design cost in Miami?
It depends on the number of page types, the languages, whether the site sells online and how many systems it talks to. A one-page store and a bilingual academy site wired to Zoho are different projects. Stripe and Zoho charge for their own services, separately from the build. Kivo Marketing doesn't publish rates yet, so we quote after the brief.
Is SEO included in web design?
Technical SEO is, because it lives in the code: page structure, loading speed and structured data, like the JSON-LD on JeuDerm USA's store. Ranking for a competitive search such as web design in Miami also takes content, reviews and links built up over time. No launch does that on its own.
Do I need a web design company based in Miami, FL?
The address matters less than what the team knows: that a US checkout needs sales tax by state, and that some of your buyers may search in Spanish. Kivo Marketing has a team in Miami, FL and a studio in Barcelona. We don't publish a street address yet, so the way in is info@kivomarketing.com. More about Kivo Marketing in Miami.
How do I check reviews of a web design company in Miami?
Read them on Google and Clutch, then check the work behind them. Open two or three live sites the agency built, on your phone, switch the language and go as far as the checkout. A review tells you how the project felt; a live site tells you how it was built. Our live sites are on the work page.
Can my website track which ads bring in sales?
It is one of the connections worth deciding while the site is designed. JD Yuversity's site has Meta's Conversions API (Meta CAPI) connected, which sends events to Meta from the server and not only from the browser. If you sell or fill events with Meta ads, that is the data Meta uses to attribute a sale to an ad.