E-commerce design and development

Sell direct, and the cut you were leaving to the platforms stays with you.

Selling online is not putting a cart on a website. It's building a system: catalogue, payments, shipping, stock, order emails, customer support. When one piece jams, your customer notices before you do — and buys somewhere else.

We design and build stores on WooCommerce, Shopify and custom platforms, and we stay for the whole journey: from the first product upload to the first sale. We work with physical shops opening their online channel, makers and producers selling beyond the island, and brands born digital.

Over 200 projects have taught us one thing worth more than any technology: the platform matters less than the sales model. First we understand how you sell — margins, volumes, who ships, who answers customers — then we choose the tool. Never the other way around.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

What's included.

  • TRY IT

    Three steps, and no forced sign-up in the middle.

    Steps to checkout

    Cart: buy as a guest

  • 02

    Sales model analysis

    How many products, how many variants, what margins, who packs the boxes, how returns work. It looks like paperwork; it is the project. Every answer changes the platform, the catalogue structure and your future running costs.

  • 03

    Store design and product pages

    Not a bought theme with your logo on it. The product page is the page that sells — photos, variants, availability, shipping times and costs, return conditions. Every unanswered question there is a sale that stops there.

  • 04

    Payments

    Stripe and PayPal as the baseline: cards, digital wallets, plus bank transfer and cash on delivery where they make sense. Fast checkout, 3-D Secure, automatic receipts. Payment is the moment of maximum distrust — it has to be the cleanest step on the site.

  • 05

    Shipping and inventory

    Carriers and rates by zone, weight and order value — with a free-shipping threshold if your margins can carry it. Tracking sent automatically, stock updated on every order, alerts when a product runs low.

  • 06

    E-commerce SEO

    Product and category pages optimised for search, Product structured data showing price and availability in Google results, clean URLs, lightweight images. Ongoing SEO can come later; the foundations go in from day one.

  • 07

    Migration from other systems

    From PrestaShop, Magento, an old WooCommerce or a closed platform: we move products, customers and order history across, and set 301 redirects on every page. A store that migrates without a redirect map loses years of rankings in a week.

  • 08

    Training and handover

    In the end the store is yours: a hands-on session covering products, orders, discounts and content, plus written documentation. We don't keep clients hostage.

METHOD
A complete e-commerce build takes 6–10 weeks. The path is always the same, whatever the platform.

Sales model

Catalogue architecture

Design and build

Integrations and testing

Launch and iteration

TOOLS

What we build it with.

On Shopify we build custom themes without piling on apps that slow the store down and multiply monthly fees. On WooCommerce we pick a few solid extensions and keep everything current through monthly maintenance. Custom projects run on Next.js and React with Stripe and server-side rendering, so product pages are readable by Google from the first byte. Around the store: GA4 with e-commerce tracking, Search Console, and transactional emails treated with the same care as the pages — the order confirmation is the most-opened email you'll ever send — plus Ads campaigns with conversion tracking already in place.

  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • WordPress
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • GA4 E-commerce
  • Search Console
  • Figma
THE POINT

Shopify, WooCommerce or custom?

It's the first question in every project, and the honest answer is: it depends on how you sell and who runs the store day to day.

  1. Shopify, the simple option

    Hosting included, automatic updates, a tidy admin, payments out of the box. In exchange you pay a platform fee and accept its limits: deep customisation goes through third-party apps. For a straightforward catalogue and no appetite for maintenance.

  2. WooCommerce, the flexible option

    No platform fee, full control over content and features, a huge ecosystem of extensions. The flip side: hosting, updates and security are your responsibility — or ours. For stores sharing a site with rich editorial content or unusual pricing logic.

  3. Custom, when the model doesn't fit

    Product configurators, on-demand production, multi-vendor marketplaces, sales tied to calendars. When the purchase flow is the heart of the business, bending a template costs more than building the right platform — like the AVOY marketplace or hoopit ordering.

The mistakes that block sales

We've watched these repeat for years, even on well-built stores. Not one of the four is a design problem.

  1. Opening and waiting

    A store with no traffic is a warehouse with the shutter down. Organic visibility and campaigns get planned with the store, not "later, if there's budget left".

  2. Copy-pasted product pages

    The supplier's description, identical on a hundred sites, doesn't rank and doesn't convince anyone. Writing original product copy takes time — the best-spent time in the whole project.

  3. Surprise shipping costs

    The number-one cause of abandoned carts: a cost nobody mentioned appears at checkout. Times and costs belong on the product page, before the cart exists.

  4. Obstacle-course checkouts

    Forced registration, pointless fields, steps that restart on the first error. Every extra field is a percentage of orders lost: a checkout is designed to be finished.

SERVICE

Real projects.

Fionard homepage hero with the Not Ordinary claim

Fionard

Sustainable streetwear printed on demand: a colour/size configurator handling oversize and regular fits of the same garment, filters by fabric and collection, an AI assistant inside support. Zero unsold stock.

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SERVICE

Frequently asked.

It depends on catalogue, variants, integrations and goals: those are the items that shape the price, and they differ a lot between a platform (WooCommerce or Shopify) and a custom build. Tell us about your sales model in the configurator at /en/quote/ and you'll get a free written quote.

WooCommerce, Shopify, or custom development. It depends on what you need: WooCommerce for maximum flexibility, Shopify for ease of management, custom when your sales model doesn't fit the mould.

Yes. We provide hands-on training and written documentation so you can manage products, orders and content on your own. We stay available when you need us.

Yes: monthly maintenance plans with updates, backups, security monitoring and ongoing technical support.

E-commerce

Sell direct, and the cut you were leaving to the platforms stays with you.

Per project

A WooCommerce or Shopify store covers design, development, payment and shipping integration, SEO foundations and training. A custom platform gets a dedicated quote based on flows and integrations. Around the store: monthly maintenance, migration, an extra language with SEO, email marketing setup. Before looking at the price, look at the cost of a store that doesn't sell: you pay that one every month, forever.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • WooCommerce stores
  • Shopify stores
  • Custom-built platforms
  • Payment integration (Stripe, PayPal)
  • Inventory and shipping setup
  • Conversion optimisation