Service

Ecommerce development

Online shops and ordering platforms built around your actual products, pricing rules and fulfilment.

Customer completing an online order on a laptop

Off-the-shelf ecommerce is excellent right up to the point where your product does not fit the box. Custom sizes, artwork uploads, quantity-break pricing, made-to-order lead times, collection slots, trade accounts — that is where the templates start costing you sales.

We build shops that model your products properly. If a customer needs to upload artwork, pick a substrate, choose a finish and see the price update live, we build that. If a kitchen needs orders arriving on a screen in the right order, we build that too.

And because the storefront and the back office come from the same team, orders land where they need to be rather than in an inbox someone has to re-key.

What you get

What ecommerce development includes

Every engagement covers the same ground. Nothing here is an optional extra we spring on you halfway through.

Product models that fit

Variants, options, custom dimensions, artwork uploads, bundles and rules that reflect what you really sell.

Pricing logic that holds

Quantity breaks, trade tiers, per-customer rates, VAT handling and delivery rules calculated server-side.

Payments and payouts

Stripe, PayPal, GoCardless and SumUp, including split payments and marketplace payouts where you need them.

Order and fulfilment flow

Live order boards, picking lists, status emails and SMS, and exports into whatever ships the goods.

Ecommerce SEO

Product and category structured data, clean faceted URLs, fast image delivery and canonical handling done right.

Checkout tuned to convert

Guest checkout, saved details, mobile wallets and as few steps as your process will allow.

Is this you?

This service is a good fit if…

Your products are configurable, made to order or priced by rules
Shopify or WooCommerce needs a stack of plugins to almost work
Trade and retail customers need different prices on the same catalogue
Orders currently arrive by email and get typed into another system
You sell on behalf of others and need to pay them out automatically

Under the bonnet

Technology we use

Mainstream, well-supported technology chosen so your software is maintainable by anybody competent — not just by us.

Next.js
Django
PostgreSQL
Stripe Connect
PayPal
GoCardless
Product schema

Proof

Live work using this service

Open any of these in a new tab. They are running in production right now.

Website & ecommercePrint & manufacturing

CustomInked

Ecommerce for a UV flatbed printing business, where every product is configured, priced by area and supplied with customer artwork.

Case study custominked.co.uk

Website & ecommerceHospitality

Red Kite Pizza

A fast, appetite-led restaurant site with online ordering, built to load instantly on a phone outside the door.

Case study redkitepizza.co.uk

Questions

Ecommerce development FAQs

Including what it costs and how long it takes.

Why build a custom shop instead of using Shopify?

If you sell standard products from stock, Shopify is often the right answer and we will say so. Custom pays off when your pricing, configuration or fulfilment does not fit a template — at that point you are paying monthly for plugins that half-solve the problem and still leave manual work.

Can customers upload their own artwork or files?

Yes. We build upload, preview and validation into the product page, so the customer sees what they are buying and your studio receives a usable file with the order.

Do you handle payments and PCI compliance?

We integrate tokenised providers, so card details never touch your servers and you stay in the simplest PCI scope. We have shipped Stripe, PayPal, GoCardless and SumUp in production.

Can it connect to our accounting or stock system?

Yes — orders, invoices and stock levels can sync both ways with anything that exposes an API, and we can fall back to scheduled file exchange for older systems.