WooCommerce Development
WooCommerce stores built to sell, not just to launch.
We build and rebuild WooCommerce stores for UK businesses — bespoke themes, sensible integrations and a checkout that stays fast when the catalogue grows.
WooCommerce gets blamed for a lot of slow, awkward shops. Almost always the problem is a page builder, a bloated theme and a stack of plugins doing each other’s jobs. Built properly, it is the most flexible e-commerce platform there is, and you own all of it.
What we do with WooCommerce
WooCommerce store builds
A bespoke store on a hand-coded theme: catalogue, checkout, payments, delivery rules and VAT set up properly from the start.
Replatforming and migration
Moving from Shopify, Wix, Magento or an ageing WooCommerce build, with products, customers, orders and URLs carried across intact.
Checkout and conversion work
Finding where people abandon and fixing it — checkout steps, delivery messaging, payment options and mobile behaviour.
Custom plugins and integrations
Trade pricing, subscriptions, stock sync, ERP and accounting connections, written as proper code rather than stacked plugins.
Store speed and technical SEO
Core Web Vitals on category and product pages, product schema, and the crawl and indexing rules a large catalogue needs.
Ongoing store care
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring and a real person to call when an order stops going through on a Friday afternoon.
What a store costs.
Fixed price, quoted after a free audit. No day rates, no hourly creep.
- Starter store — from £3,500. Up to around 50 products, our theme tailored to your brand, UK payments, delivery and VAT configured, live in about six weeks.
- Growth store — from £6,500. Bespoke design, a larger catalogue, variations and trade or subscription pricing, plus integrations with the systems you already run.
- Replatform — from £9,500. Moving off Shopify, Wix or Magento with products, customers, order history and every URL carried across and redirected.
Prefer to spread it? The same build starts at £349 per month on our pay monthly website plans.
What is included in every build.
Not upsells. These are in the price, because a store without them is not finished.
- A hand-coded theme on Advanced Custom Fields — no page builder anywhere near it
- UK VAT, delivery zones and payment providers configured and tested with real transactions
- Product, breadcrumb and organisation schema, so listings can show price and availability
- Core Web Vitals budgeted on category and product pages, not just the home page
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, including a checkout that works by keyboard
- Staging URL, weekly demos, and a launch plan with redirects mapped before you switch
- Your code in your repository, documented, with nothing licensed back to us
How a store build runs.
Six to eight weeks, in four stages you can see from the outside.
1. Audit and scope
We go through your current store or your brief, your product data and how you actually take orders. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything is built.
2. Design and build
Templates for the pages that matter — category, product, basket, checkout — built on a hand-coded theme, with weekly demos on a staging URL.
3. Data and testing
Products, variations and customers imported, then payments, delivery, VAT and stock tested with real transactions rather than assumed to work.
4. Launch and after
Redirects mapped and checked before we switch, then two weeks of close monitoring while the first real orders come through.
Two builds, documented end to end
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Evidenced result
Read the full B2B rebuild case studyA decade of legacy code replaced with a B2B platform the team can run themselves. Quote-to-order with purchase order validation and duplicate detection, SKU and OEM reference search that tolerates part numbers typed from memory, and a content workflow that no longer needs a developer on standby.
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Evidenced result
See how the WhatsApp ordering was builtA catalogue scattered across Instagram posts and WhatsApp broadcasts replaced with a real WooCommerce storefront. Browsing by occasion and box size, visible pricing on every product, and a cart that closes out in a pre-filled WhatsApp message rather than a checkout form the owner never wanted.
What clients say on Google
WooCommerce questions we get asked
A straightforward store starts at £3,500, a larger catalogue with bespoke design and integrations from £6,500, and a full replatform from another system from £9,500. Every project is quoted at a fixed price after a free audit, so the figure you are given is the figure you pay. If you would rather spread it, the same build is available from £349 per month on our pay monthly website plans.
Usually six to eight weeks from sign-off, against two to four weeks for a marketing site. Stores take longer because payments, delivery rules, tax and stock all have to be tested against real transactions rather than just looked at. You get a target date with the quote and weekly demos on a real URL, so you can see it tracking. Content is the usual bottleneck: the faster product data and images come back, the faster we ship.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. Products, variations, customers, order history and reviews come across, and every old URL is redirected to its new home so the rankings and the links you have already earned are not thrown away. We run the new store on a staging URL alongside the live one until you are happy to switch.
Yes. VAT rates and inclusive or exclusive pricing are configured for UK selling, including zero-rated and reduced-rate goods where they apply, and delivery is set up by zone, weight or basket value as your business actually works. We integrate Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna. What we do not do is give tax advice — your accountant signs off the rates, and we implement them.
Yes, when it is built for it. Most slow WooCommerce stores are slow because of a page builder, a heavy off-the-shelf theme and thirty plugins, not because of WooCommerce. We hand-code the theme, keep the plugin count low, and use full-page and object caching with the cart and checkout deliberately excluded. Our own site scores 97+ on PageSpeed Insights, and we hold store pages to the same standard.
We do, if you want us to. Livan Care covers updates, backups, uptime monitoring and support from £49 per month, with e-commerce cover on the higher tiers. If you would rather look after it yourself, you can — the code is yours, in your repository, and we hand over documentation written for whoever comes next.
Tell us what you sell.
A free audit of your current store, a fixed price, and a straight answer on whether a rebuild is worth it.
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