Ecommerce Development Services

Selling online is a solved problem until your business stops looking like the examples in the documentation.

Products configured rather than picked. Pricing that depends on who is logged in. Stock held in a system the storefront cannot see. Fulfilment that has to reach a warehouse platform written in the nineties. These are the projects we get, and they are the ones a theme and a plugin stop being able to solve.

We work in Shopify and WooCommerce where those fit, and build custom where they do not. The judgement about which is which is most of the value, and it is cheaper to get right before the build than after it.

What We Build

Not every project needs all of this. These are the parts we go deep on when a product calls for them.

  • Shopify

    Custom themes, app integration, and the extensions the platform allows. Right for most stores, and we will tell you when it is right for yours.

  • WooCommerce

    Custom themes, plugin development and performance work on stores that have outgrown their original build. Strongest when the site is as much content as catalogue. See WordPress development.

  • Custom storefronts

    Where the platforms genuinely cannot do it — complex configurators, unusual pricing models, B2B ordering with account-specific terms. Built as a product rather than as a store.

  • Catalogue and inventory sync

    Keeping products, prices and stock aligned between the store and whatever holds the real numbers. Usually the part that decides whether the project succeeds.

  • ERP and back-office integration

    Orders out, stock in, customers synchronised, in both directions and reliably. See backend and API development.

  • Payment and fulfilment

    Payment providers, tax handling, shipping rates, carrier integration and the returns flow that everyone leaves until last.

  • Replatforming and migration

    Moving a store between platforms with products, customers, order history and search rankings intact. The rankings part is a real piece of work and we scope it explicitly.

  • Performance

    Store speed is revenue, and it is one of the few places where that link is directly measurable. See performance and security.

When Teams
Come to Us

  • The template has run out of road

    Every new requirement needs another plugin, and the store is now slow, fragile and hard to change.

  • The store has to talk to the business

    Stock, pricing or orders live in an ERP or an in-house system, and keeping them aligned is currently somebody’s manual job.

  • B2B rules on a B2C platform

    Account-specific pricing, order approval, credit terms, bulk ordering. Standard platforms do some of this and rarely all of it.

  • Replatforming without losing rankings

    The migration is the easy half. Preserving search visibility through it takes a redirect map and a plan.

  • An inherited store nobody wants to touch

    Thirty plugins, a modified theme, and no record of what was changed. We audit before committing. See project takeover and modernisation.

Do You Have a Project Idea?

Tell us what you want to build. We come back with a rough estimate and an honest view of what it takes, before anyone signs anything.

Let's discuss

How We Work

The catalogue, the pricing rules, the systems involved and the exceptions. The output is a scope you can price and argue with.

Shopify, WooCommerce or custom, decided on evidence and stated with reasons rather than on preference.

Sprints, with something you can click through at the end of each one.

Checkout tested properly, across devices, payment methods and failure cases, because that is the path where every error costs money.

Migration, redirects and monitoring, rehearsed before launch day.

Every project includes one month of bug fixing after launch at no extra cost.

Stack

  • Platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce
  • Custom builds: React and Next.js on the front, with PHP and Laravel, Node.js with NestJS, or Python with Django behind
  • Payments: major providers, with tax and multi-currency handled as part of the scope
  • Integration: ERP, inventory, fulfilment and carrier systems
  • Performance: Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement on storefronts
  • Delivery: CI pipelines, staged deployment, error and uptime monitoring

Performance and Quality

We set numeric targets during scoping and test against them. On a storefront that means Core Web Vitals thresholds and a checkout that holds up under the traffic a campaign actually produces.

Accessibility works the same way. WCAG 2.1 AA is a line in our estimates, not an aspiration — and on a store it is also the difference between a customer completing a purchase and leaving.

Selected Work

  • Outdoor Furniture E-commerce Build. Catalogue-led store with product configuration and fulfilment integration.
  • Postmuseum. Content-heavy site with commerce attached, where editorial and catalogue had to work as one thing rather than two.
See all work

We build stores across retail and consumer brands, and the commerce side of booking and scheduling platforms and travel and mobility products.

How We
Work Together

  • Fixed scope

    A defined build, priced per module, with a timeline.

  • Ongoing team

    Developers working to your roadmap for stores that keep changing — seasonal campaigns, new ranges, new markets.

  • Support retainer

    Stores need maintaining more than most sites, because the platforms and plugins underneath them update constantly. See
    We price every project individually. There are no packages, because the work does not arrive in packages.

Questions We
Get Asked

  • Shopify for most stores: hosting, payments, security and platform updates are handled, and that is worth a lot. WooCommerce where the site is as much content as catalogue, where you need control the platform will not give you, or where the business already runs on WordPress. We decide on your requirements and tell you why rather than defaulting to whichever we prefer.

  • Less often than people hope. Usually when the pricing or configuration model is genuinely unusual, or when the store is really a product with a checkout attached. If a platform can do it, a platform should do it.

  • It can, and the mitigation is a redirect map built before launch rather than after. We treat that as a deliverable in its own right, not a task at the end of the list.

  • Usually yes, including systems with no documentation. That part is scoped separately because it is where the real uncertainty lives.

  • Rough estimate once we understand the catalogue and the integrations, detailed per-module estimate once the scope is agreed.

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