Custom checkout
One-page or multi-step, the fields you actually need, address validation, and shipping and tax shown before the final click. Built on the Checkout Block or classic checkout depending on what your extensions support.
Grow · eCommerce
WooCommerce development for stores that outgrew their theme.
When a store starts making real money, the theme that launched it becomes the thing holding it back. We rebuild the parts that matter — checkout, subscriptions, pricing logic and the integrations behind them — without throwing away what already works. That is what our WooCommerce development work is built to fix.
- Custom checkout that fits how you actually sell
- Subscriptions, memberships and B2B pricing
- ERP, CRM and inventory kept in sync
The problem
When businesses come to us for WooCommerce development.
Checkout leaks money
Carts fill up and then empty. The default checkout asks for fields you don't need, hides costs until the last step, or breaks on mobile — and every extra step costs a percentage of revenue.
The catalogue outgrew the theme
What was fast with 200 products crawls at 20,000. Filters time out, admin pages hang, and logged-in traffic bypasses every cache you have.
Everything is manual
Orders get copied into the ERP by hand. Stock is wrong by the afternoon. Someone exports a CSV every morning because two systems have never spoken to each other.
Plugin stack is a house of cards
Fifteen extensions do the work of three, half are abandoned, and nobody updates anything because the last update took the store down for an hour.
How it works
How it actually runs.
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Store audit
Data model, extension stack, checkout funnel and performance under real traffic.
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Scope
A dated plan showing what gets rebuilt, what stays, and what we recommend removing.
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Build
Work happens on staging with your real catalogue, so nothing is a surprise at launch.
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Test
Checkout paths, payment edge cases, tax rules and load — before a customer meets them.
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Launch
Deployed in a low-traffic window with a rollback ready and someone watching orders.
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Support
Monitoring, updates and a channel for the questions that come after go-live.
Results
What the work produced.
Posh Plattz
A platter shop built around its busiest five weeks
A luxury fruit-platter and grazing-box business had no website at all — orders came through direct messages. The launch had to land before Valentine's, Ramadan, Eid and Mother's Day: the pre-order window that makes their year. Built the store from scratch in WooCommerce, in two phases, so the catalogue, checkout and delivery rules were finished and tested well ahead of the launch date. Includes tick-box add-ons…
5.0 / 5
on every review category
2 phases
scheduled around the launch
DCentral Magnetics
A store redesign, then the checkout that had stopped
After the redesign went live, orders dried up. The store was still running legacy PayPal Standard, whose guest checkout PayPal has been retiring — so anyone without a PayPal account could not pay at all. The owner had been changing PayPal settings that no longer did anything. Identified it as a payment-rail problem rather than a settings one, migrated the store to Stripe on a call with the owner driving his own…
Legacy PayPal
the actual cause
1 call
connected, tested and live
Capabilities
The WooCommerce development stack we work in.
Core & extensions
- WooCommerce
- Checkout Blocks
- WooCommerce Subscriptions
- Memberships
- Bookings
- Product Add-Ons
- Custom extensions
Payments & tax
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Klarna
- Apple & Google Pay
- SCA / 3DS
- Multi-currency
- Automated tax
Integrations
- REST API
- Webhooks
- Action Scheduler
- ERP sync
- CRM sync
- Inventory systems
- Shipping carriers
Scale & reliability
- Redis object cache
- Query optimisation
- Database indexing
- HPOS order tables
- Staging & Git deploys
- WP-CLI
Engagement
Three ways this usually runs.
Store audit
Fixed fee
A written report on your data model, extension stack, checkout funnel and performance, with a prioritised list of what to fix and what it is worth fixing.
- 2–3 weeks
- No obligation to continue
- Yours to take elsewhere
Project build
Fixed price after discovery
Scoped work with dated milestones — a checkout rebuild, a B2B layer, a migration or an integration. Quoted as a fixed price so there are no surprises mid-project.
- Dated milestone plan
- Staging with your real catalogue
- Documented handover
Ongoing retainer
Monthly
A set number of hours each month for improvements, extension updates, monitoring and the things that come up when a store is genuinely busy.
- Rolling monthly
- Priority response
- Cancel any time
Questions
WooCommerce development questions, answered plainly.
If your WooCommerce development question is not covered here, send us the details and we will reply with a straight answer.
Is WooCommerce good enough for a large store?
Yes, with the right architecture. WooCommerce handles large catalogues and high order volume when the database is indexed properly, High-Performance Order Storage is enabled, object caching is in place and the extension stack is lean. Most stores that "outgrow WooCommerce" have actually outgrown their hosting and their plugin choices, not the platform.
Can you customise the checkout without breaking my extensions?
That is exactly why we audit first. Some extensions only support the classic checkout, others only the Checkout Block. We map what your stack requires before choosing an approach, then build with hooks and filters rather than editing core files, so future WooCommerce updates do not undo the work.
Do you migrate stores from Shopify or Magento?
Yes. Products, variations, customers, order history and URLs are migrated and verified on staging before anything goes live, with 301 redirects mapped so you keep your rankings. Payment tokens usually cannot transfer between platforms, so we plan a card re-authorisation flow for subscription customers as part of the move.
My store is slow. Is that a WooCommerce problem?
Almost never on its own. Slow stores are usually a combination of uncached logged-in traffic, unindexed database queries, oversized images and too many extensions loading on every page. We measure with field data first, then fix the causes in order of impact rather than guessing.
Can we sell retail and wholesale from one store?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper to run than two separate sites. Customer groups drive pricing, quantity breaks and tax treatment, while quote requests and purchase orders sit alongside the normal cart. Retail customers never see trade pricing, and you maintain one catalogue instead of two.
What happens to my store during the rebuild?
It keeps trading. All work happens on a staging copy with your real catalogue and a recent database, so nothing we do touches live orders. Launch happens in a low-traffic window with a rollback ready and someone watching order flow for the first hours.
What does WooCommerce development cover beyond setup?
Checkout and payment flows, tax and shipping rules, subscriptions and renewals, integrations with your ERP or CRM, and the performance work a store needs because cart and checkout cannot be cached.
The platform itself is documented at wordpress.org.
Our checkout converts badly. Where do you start?
By measuring where people leave, then auditing the checkout fields against real orders rather than guessing which ones to remove.
Start here
Start your WooCommerce development project.
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- We read it and look at your site
- You get a written reply with our honest read
- If it fits, we scope it properly
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