Online store on WooCommerce or Shopify

Online store development means a turnkey store on WooCommerce or Shopify with a catalogue, cart, online payments, shipping, orders flowing into your CRM and e-commerce analytics set up from day one. It suits brands and retailers that sell through social media, offline or on a clunky site and want steady online sales. Prices start at €2,000 and timelines at 45 days.

Who needs an online store

• You sell only through Instagram or messengers. Every order is a chat, a manual invoice and a manual shipping label, and your reach depends on an algorithm. See selling only on Instagram.
• You have a store, but it is slow and clumsy, especially on mobile, and shoppers abandon their carts at checkout.
• Orders, stock and shipping are handled by hand: someone copies data from the site into a spreadsheet, the CRM and the carrier’s dashboard.
• Your range lives in an accounting or ERP system, while prices and stock on the website are out of date.
• You are entering a new market and need more languages, currencies and payment methods.

WooCommerce or Shopify

If your store already runs on BigCommerce, we can work with that too.

Process and timeline

The overall timeline starts at 45 days. The split between phases is approximate and depends on catalogue size and the number of integrations.

1. Discovery and platform choice. Range, order volume, payment and shipping options, accounting system, CRM. This is where WooCommerce versus Shopify gets decided.
2. Catalogue structure. Categories, attributes and filters organised the way shoppers search, not the way the warehouse labels things. The SEO structure of category pages follows from this.
3. Design of product pages, listings, cart and checkout, mobile first.
4. Development and integrations. Payments, shipping, CRM, team notifications, imports from your accounting system.
5. Content. Bulk import of products, images and attributes; migration from your old store with 301 redirects.
6. Analytics and launch. GA4 e-commerce events, Meta Pixel, a Google product feed and test orders for every payment and shipping option.
7. Training and support. How to add products, promotions and discount codes without a developer.

How much an online store costs

What changes the price most:

• Catalogue size and attribute complexity: a hundred products with three attributes is a different job from thousands of SKUs with variants and filters.
• Where products come from: manual entry, a spreadsheet import or regular sync with an ERP.
• Custom checkout logic: pickup points or lockers, several warehouses, prepayment or cash on delivery.
• Languages and currencies.
• Integrations with CRM, accounting, marketplaces and e-mail marketing.

Platforms, payments and shipping

We build stores on WooCommerce (WordPress) and Shopify and extend stores on BigCommerce. We connect the payment and shipping providers your platform supports in your market, send orders to your CRM and your team’s chat, and set up GA4 e-commerce events, Meta Pixel and a Google product feed. Logic the platform cannot handle goes into a small separate Node.js back end, so the store stays upgradeable.

Examples from our work

• Shopify store for a supplements brand: a custom checkout with local carrier pickup points and online payment, orders routed automatically to KeyCRM and Telegram, discount codes, reviews and an English version.
• Building materials store on WooCommerce: catalogue imported from the accounting system, carrier integration at checkout, performance tuning across thousands of SKUs and ongoing support.
• Bookstore on BigCommerce: a Cornerstone-based theme for a lifestyle medicine bookstore, a product import template and an admin guide.

Common mistakes when launching a store

• A catalogue without thought-through filters and attributes. Shoppers cannot find products and Google has no category pages to rank.
• A multi-screen checkout with forced registration and unnecessary fields, a leading cause of abandoned carts.
• No e-commerce analytics. Ad platforms optimise on incomplete data and you cannot see which products and channels make money.
• Prices and stock updated by hand. Sooner or later someone pays for an item you do not have.
• Migration without redirects: old product pages disappear from Google along with their traffic.
• A store your team cannot run. If every promotion needs a developer, sales stall.

Getting started

Not sure which platform fits? Our comparison Shopify vs WooCommerce covers running costs, payments and SEO. If your store is already live but shoppers drop off before paying, start with abandoned carts: what actually works.

Tell us what you sell, how many products you have, where you keep stock records and how you take orders today. We will recommend a platform, scope the integrations and send a proposal with phases, price and timeline. Discuss your online store.