CUSTOM ECOMMERCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Most of our clients run on Shopify or WooCommerce they are both great platforms and make it easy to sell online, manage stock and grow without needing a big tech team.
What really matters isn’t which technology platform you use, it’s how well it performs in attracting new visitors, how many of them turn into sales and customers, and how can we improve the basket and checkout values.
We’re ecommerce developers based in London and Surrey, building and optimising Shopify, WooCommerce and custom stores for founders, retailers and scale-ups who see ecommerce as a key component of their business, and sometimes It is the business.
ECOMMERCE SOLUTIONS
What Success Looks Like
A good ecommerce site should be your best sales person, customers find what they are looking for, your sales are going up and your ranking highly in the search engines.
Problems We Solve
Most of the time clients dont come to us with broken sites, they are underperforming, maybe your ranking are declining, sales numbers are down and conversions have dropped.
We Optimise
We track and monitor your audiences behaviour, where they go, where they get frustrated and where they leave, we run A/B tests and raise conversions and customer lifetime value.
A few successful ecommerce projects
CARP PORTER
Turning browsers into buyers
PURE HYDRATION
Designing a Shopify oasis for eco-friendly and health conscious shoppers
KORDA CLOTHING
Elevating Korda’s e-commerce with seamless Shopify integration
Results in 12 months:
+55% traffic year-on-year
30,000+ visits/month
120% increase in Google top 10 terms
WE WORK WITH POPULAR ECOMMERCE PLATFORMS
Shopify
Shopify handles payments, inventory and reporting straight out of the box, and lets you start selling quickly.
Shopify Development Agency
WooCommerce
WooCommerce turns WordPress into a full online store, It’s flexible, familiar and completely yours to control.
WooCommerce Agency
Custom Apps
Some businesses need a system that handles complex products, subscriptions, or something built around how they trade and integrates with internal systems.
Bespoke Software Development CompanyECOMMERCE SOLUTIONS
What We Build
Ecommerce stores: We build stores that feel natural to shop from and easy to run. Most of our work starts with Shopify or WooCommerce, both solid platforms that just need adapting to how you trade.
Custom builds: Some businesses need something a little complex, large product catalogues, subscriptions, mobile apps and connections to internal systems.
Headless: For those brands that are looking for serious growth we build headless sites that have any layout, load quickly and can handle high volumes of traffic.
Everything joined up: We make sure your ecommerce store talks to stock system. your fulfilment systems and your finance systems so it becomes the front-end to everything you already do.
ECOMMERCE BUSINESS
How We Deliver It
We start with strategy: In our discovery we ask lots of questions about your business, your ambitions, whats working, what could be improved and what the key functions and features are.
Design and UX: A great user experience is what makes people buy and what makes them come back. We design stores that feel intuitive to use, have natural user journeys and convert better.
Build: We work in a transparent agile way meaning you will always know what’s being worked on and what’s ready to test, We ensure our code is fully tested internally by our development team and externally by an independent QA agency.
Search: We perform keyword research, write engaging content that earns clicks as well as optimising every Meta title and description and ensuring the right schema markup is applied.
Optimise: We track how people use it, where they drop off and what makes them buy. We apply conversation rate optimisation techniques to ensure you get the maximum out of your digital marketing efforts,
AN ECOMMERCE PROJECT SHOULD DRIVE REVENUE
Our Point of View
Opening an online store doesn’t mean you wil immediately get sales, you still need people to find you, trust you and choose you. That means spending money on digital marketing, SEO and content marketing just to get people through the front door.
Shopify works well when you want a platform that’s easy to manage and is backed by a strong ecosystem of plugins and infrastructure. WooCommerce is get when you more control over your user journeys and looking to reduce fees on subscriptions.
We also remind everyone of our clients that Amazon is not the enemy, it’s where huge numbers of your audience are already shopping. Make the first sale on Amazon to get the brand exposure then through your loyalty programmes and CRM system ask them to make the second purchase on your store.
FAQs
Questions we are asked before we are hired
Which platform should we use?
For most teams the right ecommerce platform comes down to several factors like your product range, your budget and what integrations. We will work closely with you and your team to compare the big 2 popular ecommerce platforms and pick the best technology that suits your business goals.
What happens after launch?
This depends on you, we offer technical support and ongoing maintenance packages to apply security patches, add new features or grow the store through SEO and digital marketing. We bring certified ecommerce developers and real development services to add extra functionality and improvements to yoru CRO to improve your sales.
Can you fix my existing website?
Yes we can, a lot of our client work starts that way. We always audit your existing website, look at the code, what it integrates with, look at the SEO metrics and the website design across a number of browsers and devices. Sometimes its easier to build on whats already there and sometimes its more efficient to start again either way our skilled developers we always discuss the pros and cons with you before making that decision.
How long does a project take?
The truth is ecommerce web design always a bit longer than you think and really depends on how ready you are, the integrations and the size of the store. There are trends though, smaller Shopify builds can be live in 4-6 weeks, medium builds can take 8-12 week and some larger more custom projects take up 8-12 months. We go through in our discovery phase when we create you a digital strategy with a clear roadmap of times and fees alongside the deliverables.
Do you only work on Shopify?
No, not at all. Shopify’s great, but we also build on WooCommerce, bespoke software builds and other content management systems. For the majority of clients Shopify is the best ecommerce platform with a wide range of integrations, scalable hosting and a range of plugins and developers.
Can you connect our internal systems?
Yes at our ecommerce web design agency we handle this all the time, Whether is through api integrations or direct to the database we have integrated into stock management systems, order management systems and finance systems. For some larger businesses we have built a suite of bespoke software for automated digital marketing and internal systems.
Can you migrate our store?
Yes, we have done this a fair few time and migrating between popular ecommerce platforms like Shopify or WooCommerce needs careful planning and a number of trial runs to ensure your product data, customer accounts, orders and SEO rankings are all maintained during the transition. Our certified ecommerce developers manage the whole process should hopefully go as smoothly as possible.
Do you help with content and SEO?
Yes, we are a full service digital product agency able to hand digital strategy, product design and build as well as CRO and digital marketing. SEO is never a one time job, it’s reseaching topics, keywords, writing copy for products, landing pages and articles, it’s optimising the page meta data and schemas. So we are more than an ecommerce web design agency and understand that growth only comes from sales and we are help to help with that.
Can you build something custom for us?
Yes of course we can, but today there are many robust content management systems and the two most popular ecommerce platforms are really strong and can take you a long way. We can build Shopify plugins or extend WordPress and Woocommerce with custom code which can take you a long way before you need bespoke solutions.
How do you handle payments and security?
We use a number of trusted payment gateways like Stripe, Shopify Payments, PayPal and the high street banks. The choice depends on your companies existing relationships, volume of transactions and how you want to manage fees.
Do you work with international stores?
Yes we do, quite a few of our clients trade across multiple countries and in multiple currencies . We can set up multi-currency, multi-language and regional pricing inside Shopify or WooCommerce or build separate storefronts if needed. We also help with tax settings, duties and local payment options so the experience feels local to every buyer.
Can you train our team to manage the store
Yes, and we think it’s essential, there is no point in us owning every update so we ttrain your team on how to edit content, add products, and track sales inside the CMS so you’re not waiting on on ongoing support tickets.
We were going in circles until Ronins stepped in, they got us focused, showed us what mattered, and built a solution that didn’t rip out everything we’d already invested in.
Neil RaffertyAmbitious brands trust us to turn online stores into growth engines
