E-Commerce Development
Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and headless commerce builds optimised for conversion, not just checkout functionality.
- 90+
- Target PageSpeed score
- Multi
- Payment methods per market
- 6-16 wk
- Typical build
Our e-commerce development services
Each service below has its own dedicated page covering process, deliverables, and pricing tiers.
Marketplace Development
Multi-vendor marketplace platforms with vendor onboarding, split payments, commission handling, and dispute workflows.
View servicePayment Gateway Integration
Payment gateway and local method integration with fraud controls, retries, and reconciliation handled properly.
View serviceHeadless Commerce
Decoupled commerce with a Next.js storefront over Shopify or a commerce API, for maximum speed and multi-channel selling.
View serviceMagento Development
Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source builds for large catalogues, complex pricing, and B2B commerce.
View serviceWooCommerce Development
WooCommerce stores for content-led businesses already on WordPress, with performance and security handled properly.
View serviceShopify Development
Custom Shopify themes, apps, and Plus builds — hosted commerce with the best checkout in the market.
View serviceAbout e-commerce development
A store that takes payments is not the same as a store that sells. The functional build is the straightforward part; the difference between a mediocre and a strong store is almost always in product discovery, page speed, and checkout friction.
Platform chosen on catalogue and team
Shopify suits most merchants: hosted, secure, excellent checkout, and a large app ecosystem. WooCommerce suits content-led businesses already on WordPress that need flexibility. Magento suits large catalogues with complex B2B pricing and a team to operate it. The wrong platform choice is expensive to reverse, so we make it on your catalogue size, team capability, and margin structure.
Speed is revenue on commerce sites
Conversion is measurably sensitive to load time, and commerce sites accumulate weight quickly through apps, tracking scripts, and unoptimised imagery. We budget page weight, audit app impact, and treat performance as a commercial metric rather than a technical one.
Checkout friction is where revenue leaks
Forced account creation, surprise shipping costs, limited payment options, and long forms all cost completed orders. We reduce steps, show costs early, and support the payment methods your market actually uses.
Operations matter as much as the storefront
Inventory sync, order routing, returns, and accounting integration determine whether growth is manageable. A store that sells well but cannot fulfil cleanly creates a worse problem than slow sales.
What the engagement includes
Store design & build
Storefronts designed around product discovery and conversion.
Product & catalogue structure
Categories, variants, and filtering modelled for findability.
Payment gateway integration
Local and international methods with fraud controls.
Performance optimisation
Weight budgeting and app impact auditing.
Operations integration
Inventory, fulfilment, returns, and accounting connected.
What you get
The measurable results this service is accountable for.
- Platform matched to catalogue size, team, and margins
- Page speed treated as a commercial metric
- Checkout friction reduced with costs shown early
- Local payment methods supported per market
- Inventory, orders, and accounting integrated for scale
A process without surprises
Clear checkpoints at every stage, so you always know what is shipping and when.
- 1
Discovery & scoping
We map requirements, users, integrations, and constraints, then agree scope and a fixed quote before work starts.
- 2
Architecture & design
Technical architecture and user flows are agreed and prototyped before implementation begins.
- 3
Build & review
Development in reviewable increments, with a staging environment you can see and comment on throughout.
- 4
Launch & support
Performance and security checks, documented handover, deployment, and an agreed support window after go-live.
What is included at each tier
Engagements scale with your stage. Every tier includes everything below it.
| What's included | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform recommendation & scope | Included | Included | Included |
| Store design & build | Included | Included | Included |
| Payment gateway integration | Included | Included | Included |
| Performance optimisation | Not included | Included | Included |
| Inventory & fulfilment integration | Not included | Included | Included |
| Headless commerce architecture | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Ongoing CRO programme | Not included | Not included | Included |
Sectors we work in
We choose platform on your catalogue and team, and treat speed and checkout friction as revenue levers rather than technical details.
Common questions
Which platform should we choose?
How do we improve conversion rate?
Can you migrate our existing store?
Do apps slow the store down?
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