WooCommerce stores that don't fall over on sale day
A store is a website with money moving through it — which changes everything about how it should be built and maintained. We build WooCommerce stores engineered for speed, tested at the checkout, and integrated with the systems that actually run your business.
WooCommerce work we take on
New store builds
From product catalogue to payment gateway: a store built lean, without the plugin sprawl that makes most WooCommerce sites slow and fragile from day one.
Store rebuilds & replatforming
Outgrown a page-builder store, or moving from Shopify or Magento? We rebuild on clean foundations, keeping your products, customers, order history and SEO.
Custom shipping, tax & payment logic
Trade pricing, quantity breaks, regional shipping rules, deposit payments, B2B quote flows — the logic plugins almost do, built properly in code.
Integrations
Stock synced with your ERP or EPOS, orders flowing to your fulfilment provider, customers into your CRM and accounts package. No more re-keying.
Performance work
Slow stores lose sales measurably. We tune WooCommerce specifically — cart fragments, session handling, database bloat — not just generic caching.
WooCommerce-aware care plans
Updates are riskier when checkout revenue is on the line. Our care plans test the purchase journey with every update round.
Is WooCommerce even the right choice?
Sometimes it isn't — and we'll say so before you spend. If you have a simple catalogue, no custom logic and no integration needs, Shopify may serve you better. WooCommerce wins when you need ownership of your data, custom business rules, content and commerce living together, or freedom from per-transaction platform fees. That's the conversation we have first, for free.
Where WooCommerce budgets actually go
Store builds start from £6,000, and the honest breakdown of where money goes is worth knowing before you brief anyone. Catalogue complexity is the first driver: fifty simple products cost little; three thousand products with variations, tiered trade pricing and unit conversions are a data-modelling project before they're a design project. Checkout customisation is the second — the default WooCommerce checkout is decent, but deposits, split payments, B2B quote-to-order flows or subscription mixing mean custom development in the most failure-intolerant part of the store. We build those flows with automated tests that literally place orders on staging before every deploy.
Integrations are the third and usually largest: stock syncing with an ERP or EPOS, orders flowing to a 3PL, invoices landing in Xero. Each one replaces hours of weekly re-keying and each one needs building defensively — queued, retried, and alerting a human when the third party misbehaves — because a silent sync failure sells stock you don't have. Finally, performance engineering: WooCommerce is a database-heavy application wearing a CMS costume, and stores slow down in WooCommerce-specific ways (cart fragments, session storage, unindexed lookups on order tables) that generic caching plugins can't fix. Our builds address these at the architecture stage; our speed work retrofits the same fixes to stores built elsewhere.
One number worth holding onto: checkout conversion. Industry studies consistently show measurable basket abandonment for every extra second of checkout latency — on a store doing £300,000 a year, a one-percentage-point conversion improvement pays for a great deal of engineering. That's the lens we quote through: not "what does the feature cost" but "what does the feature return".
Common questions
Can you take over a store another agency built?
Yes — that's a large share of our WooCommerce work. We start with a health check of code, plugins and checkout flow, so we both know what we're inheriting.
What does a WooCommerce build cost?
Store builds typically start from £6,000; rebuilds and heavily integrated stores more. Custom logic and integrations are quoted as fixed-price phases, so you always know what a feature costs before we build it.
Will updates break our checkout?
Not on our watch: every update round on a care plan is staged first and the full purchase journey is tested — browse, add to cart, pay, confirmation email — before anything touches production.
Can you migrate our store from Shopify or Magento?
Yes — products, customers, order history and SEO equity, with a rehearsed cutover so trading doesn't stop. Magento migrations are common as businesses tire of its hosting costs; Shopify migrations usually happen when custom logic or transaction fees outgrow the platform. Either way, the discovery phase maps your data first so the quote reflects reality.
How do you handle updates without breaking the store?
Staging first, always — and for stores, every update round ends with an automated test placing a real order on staging: browse, add to cart, pay with a test card, confirm the email arrives. Only then does anything touch production. That's the WooCommerce-aware difference in our care plans.
Tell us about your store
New build, rebuild, or a store that's misbehaving — a developer will give you honest first thoughts, usually the same day.
Discuss your store