WooCommerce built for the rules you actually trade by.
Custom WooCommerce development for stores that have outgrown the defaults — trade pricing, subscriptions, product configurators, ERP and fulfilment integrations, and the performance work that keeps a large catalogue fast. Builds from £8,000.
The work that starts where plugins stop.
Most WooCommerce problems are not solved by another extension. They are solved by writing the thing your business actually does.
Custom Checkouts
Fields, validation, shipping logic and payment flows built for how you actually sell — not bent into shape around a checkout plugin.
Subscriptions & Memberships
Recurring billing, renewals, dunning, gated content and the failure cases — expired cards, mid-term upgrades, partial refunds.
Product Configurators
Made-to-order, dimension-based and dependency-driven products, priced correctly at every combination.
ERP & Inventory Integration
Stock, pricing and orders kept in step with the system that is actually in charge — built to fail loudly rather than silently.
B2B & Trade
Customer-group pricing, quantity breaks, quote requests, credit terms, tax exemption and account-specific catalogues.
Performance
Large catalogues, faceted filtering and category pages that stay fast on a phone — where most WooCommerce stores quietly lose money.
Choose it for control, not to save money.
WooCommerce is often pitched as the cheap alternative to Shopify. That is the wrong reason to pick it and usually ends badly — a store assembled from twenty extensions, each with its own update cycle, none of which quite does what the business needs.
The real argument is ownership. You control the checkout, the data, the hosting and the roadmap. Nobody takes a percentage of your revenue. When your business has a rule that does not fit standard retail — trade accounts, unusual tax treatment, configurable products, an ERP that is the source of truth — you can implement it exactly rather than approximate it.
The cost of that is real: you are responsible for hosting, security, updates and performance. That responsibility is worth taking when the control buys you something specific. If you sell standard products to consumers and nothing about your operation is unusual, Shopify is very likely the better answer, and we will tell you so — we build on both, so the recommendation costs us nothing either way. Our ecommerce development page covers the comparison in full.
If your store is slow, fragile, or nobody will touch it.
A large share of our WooCommerce work is rescue rather than greenfield. The pattern is consistent: a store built quickly, extended repeatedly, and now slow enough to lose sales and fragile enough that nobody wants to change anything before a busy period.
- Plugin audit — most stores carry several extensions doing overlapping work, and a few doing nothing at all. Removing them is usually the fastest performance gain available.
- Database health — bloated options tables, orphaned metadata and unindexed queries. This is why the admin is slow, and it is fixable.
- Front-end performance — category and search pages under real catalogue size, on a real phone, on a real connection.
- Checkout integrity — the failure paths nobody tests: declined cards, stock changing mid-checkout, duplicate orders on a double submit.
- Update path — getting a store that is three years behind back onto current WooCommerce without losing a day of trading.
We start with a paid audit rather than a quote. Committing to a number before reading an unfamiliar codebase is how agencies end up quoting figures they cannot honour — and occasionally the honest finding is that a rebuild costs less than the rescue.
WooCommerce pricing.
The budget goes on business logic — tax, shipping, inventory, payments, fulfilment — not on the storefront design.
Standard store — from £8,000
Custom design and theme, clean catalogue structure, standard payments and shipping, performance work included.
Complex commerce — £15,000+
Subscriptions, configurators, trade pricing, multi-currency, or an ERP integration that has to hold.
Replatform — up to £45,000
Moving from Shopify, Magento or a legacy store. Data integrity and URL continuity are the work; the storefront is the easy part.
Support retainers
From £150/month for updates, monitoring, backups and priority fixes. Team augmentation at £900 per day.
The catalogue conversation comes first.
Storefront design is the visible part and rarely the hard part. What decides the budget is how your products, pricing and stock actually behave.
Catalogue & rules audit
Product structure, variations, pricing rules, tax, shipping and which system genuinely owns stock.
Architecture
Product types, attributes and taxonomy modelled properly. Getting this wrong is the single most common cause of a WooCommerce rebuild.
Design
Category, product and checkout designed against your real catalogue — long names, missing images, hundreds of variations.
Build
Custom theme, custom checkout where needed, and bespoke logic instead of another extension.
Integrate & migrate
ERP, inventory and fulfilment connections with alerting. Data migrated, URLs mapped, redirects written.
Launch & watch
Away from a peak window, with order and revenue monitoring for the first two weeks.
When WooCommerce and when not.
We build on Shopify as well, so this is advice rather than a pitch. Choosing the wrong platform is the most expensive mistake available in ecommerce.
You are probably a good fit if:
- Your pricing has rules. Trade tiers, quantity breaks, contract pricing, regional variation or tax treatment that hosted platforms will not do.
- Products are configurable. Made-to-order, dimension-priced, or with dependencies between options.
- Another system owns your data. An ERP or inventory platform is the source of truth and the store has to follow it.
- You want the checkout. Full control of fields, validation, flow and what happens on failure.
- Content matters as much as catalogue. If you publish seriously alongside selling, WordPress is a genuine advantage.
We are probably the wrong choice if:
- Standard products, standard rules. Shopify removes hosting, PCI and checkout reliability from your life. Take that deal if you can.
- Nobody will own maintenance. WooCommerce is yours, and that includes updates, security and performance. Without an owner it degrades.
- You need it live in weeks with no budget for integrations. A hosted platform will get you trading faster.
- You are chasing the cheaper option. WooCommerce is not cheaper — it is more controllable. Choosing it to save money is how stores end up with twenty conflicting extensions.
If you are unsure, describe the two or three rules that make your business unusual. That conversation settles the platform question faster than a feature comparison ever does.