E-COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Custom ecommerce website development, when templates stop fitting

Plenty of shops should run on a standard platform. If you sell a modest range at fixed prices and ship them in a box, a hosted platform is often the sensible choice, and we will tell you so on the discovery call. Custom ecommerce earns its cost when the way you sell does not fit the template.

That usually looks like one of these: products with a lot of options or made to order, prices that change by customer, quantity or region, trade and retail customers on one site, subscriptions mixed with one-off orders, deposits and balances, or a shop that has to talk to systems the platform does not support. At that point you are paying for apps and workarounds that a proper build would simply include.

What we build

A storefront that loads quickly

Product and collection pages are hand-built in Laravel, so they carry only what they need. Fast pages help both your search rankings and your conversion rate, and we add product structured data so Google can show prices and availability. The storefront shares its design and code with the rest of your site, which we can build under our web design and development service.

A checkout that stays out of the way

We use Stripe for payments. It handles cards, wallets, subscriptions, saved payment details and strong customer authentication, and it keeps card data off your servers. We keep the checkout short, ask only for what is needed and make delivery costs clear before the last step, not on it.

An admin built for your team

The admin is where your team spends its day, so we build it in Filament around your real jobs: picking orders, updating stock, issuing refunds, creating discount codes, handling trade accounts. No hunting through menus designed for someone else's business.

Orders that go where they need to

A paid order often needs to reach your accounting software, your email platform, your CRM and whoever ships it. We connect those systems directly through our integrations and APIs work, so nobody rekeys an order again.

Back-office work we have done before

The hard part of a shop is often what happens after the sale. For a roofing business we work with, we built a custom office management system with AI document generation and QuickBooks-friendly quotes, so paperwork reaches the accounts without being typed in twice. That same attention to the admin and the order flow goes into every shop we build. For a site that takes payments online, see the Give a Gift case study, where donations are taken through GiveWP and Stripe.

How a shop build runs

After a discovery call we agree a fixed price for each stage. We design the product page, basket and checkout as a prototype and test them with real customers first. Then we build in weekly releases on a staging site, with Stripe in test mode, so you can place test orders, receive the emails and work through the admin as it grows.

At launch we move your products and customers across, redirect every old product URL and switch on purchase tracking. If you plan to advertise, the shop is ready for Google Ads and Shopping from the start, with revenue tracked back to each campaign.

Not sure whether you need custom code at all? Read custom code or a page builder for an honest look at what each really costs over time.