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WooCommerce stores built to trade reliably

A store is an operational system, not a brochure with a basket. We build WooCommerce around how you actually take orders, get them out of the door and keep the numbers straight.

  • New stores, rebuilds and platform migrations
  • Payments, shipping, tax and stock configured against real rules
  • Product and order data migrated with its history intact
  • Checkout and product templates designed for conversion
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When is WooCommerce the right choice?

WooCommerce suits merchants who want full ownership of their store data, unusual product or pricing rules, tight integration with WordPress content, or a checkout they can change without asking a platform's permission. It is less suitable if you want somebody else to own hosting, security and PCI scope entirely — that is the case for Shopify. We make that recommendation during discovery rather than defaulting to whichever we prefer.

  • Full control of product data, checkout and customer records
  • Content and commerce in one system rather than bolted together
  • You carry the hosting, security and update responsibility, so plan for it

Common situations

What usually brings a WooCommerce store to us

  • The store is slow once the catalogue grows

    Product queries, uncached admin pages and image handling that was fine at two hundred products falls over at five thousand.

  • Checkout abandons more than it converts

    Too many steps, surprise shipping costs, and a mobile layout that fights the customer at the payment stage.

  • Stock and orders live in two places

    The store and the accounting or inventory system disagree, and somebody reconciles them by hand every week.

  • Shipping rules do not match reality

    Real rates depend on weight, zone, product type or supplier, and the current configuration approximates all of it.

  • Extension sprawl

    Fifteen paid extensions, several overlapping, some no longer maintained, all needing renewal.

  • Migrating off a platform that no longer fits

    Moving from Shopify, OpenCart or a bespoke store, with years of orders, customers and URLs that must survive the move.

Scope

What a WooCommerce engagement covers

Store foundations

  • Product types, variations and attribute structure
  • Category and filtering architecture
  • Customer accounts and order flow
  • Tax and currency configuration

Payments and fulfilment

  • Payment gateway integration and testing
  • Shipping zones, rates and carrier rules
  • Stock management and low-stock handling
  • Order notification and packing workflow

Conversion

  • Product page templates built around buying decisions
  • Cart and checkout simplification
  • Mobile-first layouts tested on real widths
  • Clear delivery and returns information before payment

Data

  • Product, customer and order migration
  • Historic order preservation
  • URL mapping and redirects
  • Import routines for ongoing catalogue updates

Integration

  • Accounting and ERP connections
  • Inventory and supplier feeds
  • Email marketing and abandoned-cart flows
  • Shipping and tracking providers

Performance and safety

  • Object caching and query optimisation
  • Image handling for large catalogues
  • Staging environment for every change
  • Backups with a tested restore before launch

Migration

Moving an existing store without losing the history

The risky part of a store migration is rarely the products. It is the orders, the customer accounts, the URLs that already rank, and the integrations that quietly depend on a field nobody documented.

We map all of it before moving anything: what data exists, what it becomes on the new platform, what cannot be carried across, and what has to be redirected. The migration is rehearsed on staging and verified against record counts and spot checks before the switch, so launch day is a cutover rather than a discovery exercise.

  • Full inventory of products, variants, customers and orders
  • A written mapping of old fields to new ones, including what is dropped
  • Redirect map covering every indexed product and category URL
  • A rehearsal migration on staging before the live cutover
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Stack

What we work with on WooCommerce

Core

  • WooCommerce
  • WordPress
  • Custom product types
  • Variable and grouped products
  • Subscriptions
  • Bookings

Payments and shipping

  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Local gateways
  • Carrier-calculated shipping
  • Tax rules
  • Multi-currency

Data and integration

  • REST API
  • Scheduled imports
  • Accounting integrations
  • Inventory feeds
  • Email platforms
  • Webhooks

Questions

WooCommerce questions

WooCommerce or Shopify?
WooCommerce if you need control over data, unusual pricing or product logic, or deep integration with WordPress content. Shopify if you would rather someone else owned hosting, uptime and PCI scope and your product model is conventional. Both are good; the wrong one is expensive. We make the recommendation in discovery, in writing, with the trade-offs stated.
Can you speed up an existing WooCommerce store?
Usually. Slow stores are typically a combination of unoptimised product queries, missing object caching, oversized images and too many extensions loading assets on every page. We measure before changing anything, so you can see which change produced which improvement rather than taking it on faith.
Will our historic orders survive a migration?
That is a requirement we plan for explicitly. Orders, customers and their history are mapped and rehearsed on staging before the live migration, and verified by record counts and sampling afterwards. Where a field genuinely cannot be carried across, you are told before the migration, not after.
Do you build custom checkout flows?
Yes, within reason. Simplifying steps, adjusting field logic and improving the mobile experience are usually worth it. Rewriting the checkout wholesale is rarely worth the maintenance burden and the risk it introduces to the one page that must never fail.
Who handles PCI compliance?
With a hosted gateway such as Stripe or PayPal, card details do not touch your server, which keeps your scope small. We build to keep it that way. Compliance itself remains your responsibility as the merchant, and we will tell you plainly where the boundary sits.

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