Lightweight, purposeful build
Plugins audited for necessity rather than installed for convenience.
Phase 1 · Build
WooCommerce Development in London
Ecommerce built on WordPress, for businesses that need content and selling in the same place. Full control over checkout, no percentage taken from every sale.
- From £1,950
- 3–6 weeks
- You own the whole thing
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Revenue0% platform fee
Trade account−20%
You own it
Content + commerce
The problem
When a hosted platform starts getting in the way
WooCommerce is usually chosen for one of two reasons: content matters as much as commerce, or the numbers on a hosted platform stopped making sense. Both are good reasons.
The trouble is that WooCommerce gives you complete freedom, and complete freedom is how stores end up with thirty plugins, a checkout customised past the point anyone understands, and a site that takes twelve seconds to load a category page.
WooCommerce rewards being built carefully and punishes being built casually — far more than Shopify does, because Shopify simply won’t let you make some of the mistakes WooCommerce will.
Built properly, it’s the most flexible ecommerce platform available. Built casually, it becomes the thing you’re paying someone to keep alive.
30plugins on a store built casually
12 secto load a category page
Why WordPress sites end up slow
The honest trade-off
WooCommerce has no monthly platform fee and takes no percentage of your sales. That’s the headline, and it’s real. Here’s what it costs instead.
- 01
Hosting — £25 to £150 a month
Hosting that can actually handle a store, not the £3 shared hosting a brochure site runs on. This is not optional and it’s where most underperforming WooCommerce stores went wrong.
- 02
Maintenance — someone has to own it
WordPress core, WooCommerce, the theme and every plugin need updating regularly, and updates occasionally break things. If nobody owns this, you eventually have a security incident or a broken checkout.
- 03
Plugins — often one-off rather than monthly
Many are annual or one-time rather than subscription, which usually works out cheaper than Shopify’s app costs over time, but the licences still add up.
- 04
Development time — more is configurable
More configuration than Shopify, precisely because more can be configured.
The honest summary
WooCommerce is generally cheaper at volume and more expensive in attention. It suits businesses that either have technical capacity in-house or are happy paying for maintenance. If you want ecommerce you never have to think about, Shopify is the better answer and we’ll say so.
Our process
How a store build runs
- Step 01 of 05
Audit & scope
We look at catalogue size, volume and who’ll maintain it, then agree a fixed scope and price.
- Step 02 of 05
Structure & architecture
Product taxonomy, category hierarchy and URL structure decided first, because rankings depend on them.
- Step 03 of 05
Design
Custom design from Growth upward, built on a lightweight foundation rather than a heavy multipurpose theme.
- Step 04 of 05
Build & configure
Products, payments, shipping, tax, plugins audited for necessity, plus schema, speed work and tracking.
- Step 05 of 05
Launch & handover
Redirects mapped, hosting configured properly, everything in your name, and training on running it.
What’s included
In every WooCommerce build
Product and category structure
Organised for how buyers browse and how search engines crawl.
Payments, shipping and tax
Configured for UK and international selling, with the right gateways.
Hosting configured properly
Set up for ecommerce load, with caching and a delivery layer.
Ecommerce schema markup
Product, price, availability and review markup for rich search results.
Security and backups
Hardened login, automated backups, SSL and a monitored update routine.
Migration with redirects
Every old product and category URL mapped to its replacement.
Everything in your name
Domain, hosting, store and all logins registered to you permanently.
Who this is for
WooCommerce is probably right for you if
- 01Content marketing and SEO matter as much as the shop
- 02You want full control over checkout and customer experience
- 03Per-sale platform fees are eating into thin margins
- 04You need custom pricing, roles or B2B functionality
- 05You have, or will pay for, ongoing maintenance capacity
- Sounds like you?Get a free store audit
Probably not a fit if
Nobody will own ongoing maintenance
You want ecommerce that runs itself
You’re launching fast and iterating later
Shopify handles those situations better and we’d rather tell you now.
ShopifyWhere this fits
Build is phase one of four
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WooCommerce is often chosen precisely because phase two matters — content and commerce on one domain, with no platform limits on how you structure or publish.
That advantage only exists if the taxonomy and URL structure are right at build time. Getting them wrong means migrating them later, which costs rankings.
Tracking installed at launch gives phase two a baseline, and customer records structured properly mean phase three connects without rebuilding.
Pricing
WooCommerce development pricing
Ecommerce — Shopify / WooCommerce
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| Feature | Essential | GrowthMost Popular | Advanced | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £1,950 | £3,950 | £6,950 | From£12,000 |
| Products | Up to 25 | Up to 100 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Design | Theme, customised | Custom design | Bespoke | Bespoke |
| Included | Payments, shipping, basic SEO | + apps, email flows, ecommerce SEO | + subscriptions, integrations, CRO | + ERP, inventory, multi-market |
| Support | 30 days | 90 days | 6 months | Agreed |
Maintenance from £245/month. Hosting and plugin licences billed at cost, in your name.
01Is WooCommerce cheaper than Shopify?
Usually at volume, because there's no per-sale fee. Less so at low volume, once hosting and maintenance are counted. We'll model both for your numbers before you decide.
02Can you migrate my store from Shopify?
Yes. The critical part is mapping every product and collection URL to its replacement before launch, so rankings and existing links survive the move.
03Who handles updates and security?
Either you, or us on a maintenance plan from £245 a month. What matters is that somebody does — unmaintained WooCommerce stores are where most WordPress security problems start.
04Will it be fast?
Yes, if built for it — proper hosting, disciplined plugin use, caching and image optimisation. WooCommerce isn't inherently slow; casually built WooCommerce is.
05Can it handle a large catalogue?
Yes, with the right hosting and database configuration. Thousands of products is entirely normal. Scale is a hosting and build decision more than a platform limit.
06Can you build B2B functionality?
Yes — trade pricing, customer groups, quote requests, minimum orders and account-based access. This is one of the areas where WooCommerce clearly beats hosted platforms.
Next step
Find out what your store actually needs
Get a free store audit. We’ll check speed, plugin load, product structure, checkout flow and search readiness, then tell you honestly whether you need a rebuild or a repair.
- Based in Ilford, East London
- Call +44 7366 355562
- Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm