WooCommerce or Shopify — which should I pick?

WooCommerce if you want to own everything, avoid platform fees, and you are already on WordPress. Shopify if you want to start selling quickly and do not mind the monthly fee. We will tell you which one fits on the first call, and we make the same money either way, so there is no reason for us to push you.

I am just one person. Is that too small for you?

No. We have built stores for people selling out of their living room and for companies shipping pallets. The work is the same, the scale is different, and the price reflects that. You are not too small.

How long until I can start selling?

A straightforward store is three to four weeks. A bigger one with custom design and integrations is five to eight. The main delay is usually product photos and descriptions — that part is on you, and it always takes longer than people expect.

Can I add products and change prices myself?

Yes. That is the whole point. You get a training call at handover and a recording of it. If you can use email, you can run your store.

I already sell on Etsy / Instagram. Do I need a store?

Maybe not yet, and we will say so if we think that. But you do not own those platforms — they can change the rules or the fees tomorrow. A store is yours. Most people move once the marketplace fees start hurting.

What about payments in my country?

Stripe and PayPal cover most of the world, and we set up whatever local gateway your customers actually use. Tell us where you are selling and we will sort it.

All of it. Code, accounts, customer data, the lot. No lock-in.

Online stores that actually sell

WooCommerce or Shopify, whichever suits how you work. We build the store, wire up payments and shipping, and fix the checkout so people finish buying instead of giving up halfway.

People are visiting your store. They are just not buying.

The checkout has too many steps. Every extra field is another chance for someone to close the tab. Most abandoned carts are not a pricing problem, they are a friction problem.

The product pages are slow. On a phone, on mobile data, a slow store is a closed store.

Nothing is connected. Orders come in, then you copy them into a spreadsheet, then into the shipping tool, by hand, every day.

All three are fixable. That is most of what we do.

What is actually included

Checkout that works

Fewer steps, guest checkout, saved details. The single biggest lever on sales.

Payments wired up

Stripe, PayPal, and whatever your customers actually use where they live.

Fast product pages

Compressed images, lazy loading, Core Web Vitals in the green.

Shipping & tax sorted

Rates, zones, labels, and the boring compliance bits done properly.

You run it yourself

Add products, change prices, run a sale. No developer needed.

Full handover

Store, code, accounts, docs. All yours.

Every kind of store we build

WooCommerce development

Most of our store work is WooCommerce, and for good reason. It sits on WordPress, so there is no monthly platform cut and you own the whole thing. You keep the fees down, you control every part of it, and it grows with you — the natural choice if you are already on WordPress or expect to need something custom later.

WooCommerceWordPressPayment gatewaysSubscriptions

Shopify development

The fastest way to start selling. Shopify hosts it, handles security, and takes payments out of the box — you just run your shop. We build custom themes so your store does not look like the other million Shopify stores, and set up the apps you actually need instead of twelve you do not.

Custom themesShopify appsShopify PlusLiquid

Custom ecommerce builds

When you have outgrown what the templates allow. A custom store built from the ground up — a Next.js front end with a Node, Express or NestJS back end, or a headless setup with Shopify or Woo handling orders behind it. Faster, fully yours, and no design or feature compromises.

Next.jsNode.jsExpressNestJSHeadless

Checkout optimisation

Your store already works. It just leaks money at the last step. We cut the checkout down, add guest checkout, fix the mobile flow, and remove the fields nobody needed. This is usually the cheapest thing you can do that actually moves sales.

Cart recoveryOne-page checkoutMobile UX

Store migration

Moving from Wix, Squarespace, Etsy, or an older platform. We bring your products, customers, and order history across without losing your Google rankings or breaking the links people have already bookmarked.

Platform migrationSEO redirectsData transfer

Store maintenance

Stores break quietly. A plugin update kills the checkout on a Friday night and you find out on Monday from an angry customer. We watch it, patch it, and fix it before that happens.

MonitoringUpdatesBackups

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The tools behind it

WordPressWooCommerceShopifyStripePayPalLiquidWordPressWooCommerceShopifyStripePayPalLiquidWordPressWooCommerceShopifyStripePayPalLiquid

Next.jsReactKlaviyoMailchimpStripePayPalNext.jsReactKlaviyoMailchimpStripePayPalNext.jsReactKlaviyoMailchimpStripePayPal

How a store gets built

Scope

One call. What are you selling, to whom, and where do they pay from.

Design

Figma mockups of the store and the checkout. You approve before we build.

Build

Products, payments, shipping, tax. Weekly demos on a live link.

Launch

Test orders, real payments, then go live. We watch the first week closely.

Handover

Training call so you can run it. Thirty days of free support after.

Store projects

A sample of stores we have shipped. Yours could be next.

Online stores

Cutting checkout abandonment by 34% for a skincare brand

A skincare brand in Australia · Australia

−34%Checkout abandonment

A five-step checkout was losing two thirds of the people who reached it. We rebuilt it as one page, added guest checkout, and cut the fields nobody needed.

See all our work

What it costs

Real numbers, not 'contact us'. Fixed after one call — it does not creep.

Starter

$800 – $2,500

A clean store to start selling. Up to 50 products, WooCommerce or Shopify, standard theme customised properly. Live in 3–4 weeks.

Store setup
Payments & shipping
Custom theme styling
Mobile responsive
30 days support

Most common

Growth

$2,500 – $8,000

A bigger store with custom design and the integrations you need. Subscriptions, multi-currency, email tools, custom features. 5–8 weeks.

Everything in Starter
Custom design
Third-party integrations
Checkout optimisation
Speed work
Training call

Custom

$8,000+

Headless storefronts, custom back-end logic, complex catalogues, or anything the platforms cannot do on their own.

Everything in Growth
Headless build
Custom integrations
API work
Ongoing retainer option

Selling handmade things from home, or shipping ten thousand orders a month? Both are fine. Book a call and we will tell you honestly what you need.

Questions we get asked

Tell us what you are selling

A rough idea is enough to start. Send us a paragraph and we will come back within 24 hours with an honest read on scope, cost, and timeline.