Have a WooCommerce Shop Built

Installing WooCommerce takes an afternoon. The work sits in what comes afterwards, in your prices, your shipping rules, your tax cases and the connection to your inventory system. We build WooCommerce shops for companies where exactly that part decides whether the shop earns its keep.

Get expert advice

When WooCommerce is the right choice

We advise without a product agenda. If you sell a standard range with no special logic and have nobody in house for the technical side, a SaaS solution often serves you better, and we will say so. WooCommerce pays off once the requirements get specific and you want to keep data and code in your own hands. Our general approach to shop projects is on the page about online shop development. This page is about what WooCommerce contributes in practice.

Typical reasons that speak for WooCommerce

Business logic of your own: tiered pricing, customer groups, approval processes or configurators that no standard shop covers in that shape.
An existing system landscape: the shop adapts to your inventory system, ERP or CRM, not the other way round.
Content and sales together: editorial content and shop live in the same system.
No revenue share: there are no ongoing licence or transaction fees to the platform.
Full control over your data: code, database and hosting location stay with you.

Product range and shop architecture first

When a shop turns unwieldy later on, the reason is usually a product structure that was fixed too early. Variable products, variants, bundles and accessories behave differently in WooCommerce, in day to day maintenance as much as in stock levels and on the page. So before the first line of code we work out how your range is really built and where it is heading over the next few years.

What we settle at that stage

Product types and variants: how sizes, colours or versions are mapped without multiplying the maintenance work.
Categories and attributes: which properties have to be filterable and which are display data only.
Stock handling: whether stock levels are maintained in the shop or come from a leading system.
Data maintenance: who creates products in future, and how that path stays short.
Import routes: whether product data is migrated once or synchronised continuously.

Payment, shipping and tax

Payment integration, shipping rules and tax rates rarely come up in the kickoff. Later they produce most of the questions. We connect Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, SEPA direct debit and invoice purchase, and we watch out for SCA compliant flows, proper error handling and a mapping your accounting can work with.

For shipping we map rules by weight, value or zone, including bulky goods, freight forwarding and collection in person. On tax we take care of the cases the standard does not cover, such as different rates per product group, intra community deliveries, the small business rule and B2B sales with a VAT identification number.

Interfaces to inventory management, ERP and accounting

A shop whose orders somebody then types into another system by hand saves no work. It only moves it. We connect WooCommerce to the systems your company actually works in, and we treat that connection as software that has to keep working when the other side goes quiet.

How we build interfaces

Idempotent transfers, so a repeated call does not create a duplicate order
Retry logic with backoff for when the other system is briefly unreachable
Traceable logging that shows which record got stuck where when something fails
Two-way stock handling, so the shop does not sell what left the warehouse long ago
Clearly defined error cases instead of silent data loss

Custom extensions instead of a pile of plugins

There is a ready made plugin for almost every requirement. The price of that shows up at the first big update, when fifteen extensions from twelve vendors all have to be compatible at once and each of them brings its own CSS, its own JavaScript and its own tables. Where an extension is established and properly maintained, we use it. The rest we write ourselves.

Custom code does exactly what is needed. It can be versioned, tested and traced, and no vendor will discontinue it one day. How we handle WordPress extensions in general is described on the page about plugin development.

From briefing to go live

We work in manageable steps and keep showing the current state on a staging environment. So you do not end up with a finished shop that behaves differently from what you had in mind at one decisive point.

The typical project steps

Briefing and goals: product range, target group, existing systems and the question of what the shop should achieve commercially.
Concept and shop architecture: product structure, checkout path, interfaces and roles.
Design and development: implementation in the theme, payment and shipping routes, custom extensions.
QA and test orders: the whole order path gets played through, including cancellation, refund and email dispatch.
Go live and afterwards: the switch, watching the first real orders, ongoing support.

Frequent questions about building a shop

What does it cost to have a WooCommerce shop built?

That depends on the size of the range, the payment and shipping requirements, the interfaces and the depth of the design. A shop with a manageable range and standard payment routes is a different project from one with an ERP connection and pricing logic of its own. In a free first conversation we go through your plans and give you a written estimate of the effort before anything is commissioned.

How long does the build take?

Smaller shops are done in a few weeks. With a custom theme, individual extensions, a payment route and an ERP connection you are looking at several months. We agree the timeframe up front instead of letting it emerge as the project goes along.

Can you take over or migrate an existing shop?

Yes, both. We take on existing WooCommerce shops for further development and we migrate shops from other systems. Before taking one on we look at the code, the extensions, the data structure and the hosting, so it is clear what we are building on.

Who maintains the shop later on?

That is your call. We set up the editing side so your team can handle products, prices and content itself, and we train them on it. For the technical level, meaning updates, security and further development, we offer ongoing support.

Is WooCommerce suitable for larger product ranges?

Yes, though not without planning. With a large range the architecture decides everything: how variants are mapped, how filters are built, whether stock comes from a leading system. We settle that beforehand, because those decisions are expensive to correct later.

Ready for your WooCommerce project?

Tell us about your project. We'll get back to you promptly with an honest assessment.