Commerce that lives inside the content.

WooCommerce is a free, open-source ecommerce plugin that turns a WordPress site into a full online store. It handles products, cart, checkout, and payments while WordPress handles everything around the store — content, blog, and brand pages.

Shopify is faster to launch and easier to hand off, but you're renting the platform — transaction fees, template limits, and app-store lock-in follow you as you scale. WooCommerce costs more to build and needs a real dev partner, but you own the code, the data, and the economics outright. For startups planning to grow content, SEO, and custom logic together, that ownership usually pays for itself within a year or two.

Yes — that's the strongest argument for WooCommerce over most hosted platforms. Because it sits inside WordPress, product pages, blog content, and landing pages share the same URL structure, template system, and SEO tooling, so a content-heavy growth strategy doesn't fight the store the way it can on more checkout-first platforms.

A focused store with a handful of core plugins typically runs 2–4 weeks. A fuller build with custom product logic, subscriptions, or an ERP/CRM integration is closer to 6–8 weeks. Cost tracks scope rather than a flat platform fee, so we scope it against your catalog and integrations before quoting a number.

Yes. We map every existing URL to its new equivalent, put 301 redirects in place before launch, and carry over metadata, structured data, and canonical tags. Rankings can dip briefly around any platform switch, but a mapped migration typically recovers within a few weeks rather than starting from zero.

No — products, customers, order history, and content are exported from the source platform and imported into WooCommerce as part of the migration, then verified line by line before the old store is retired. Nothing goes live until the data checks out.

There are tens of thousands of plugins available, which is a strength and a risk at the same time. We stick to a short list of well-maintained, security-audited plugins for each function — payments, shipping, SEO — rather than stacking whatever looks convenient, which keeps the site fast and reduces conflict risk.

That's the main operational risk with WordPress, and it's manageable with discipline: we test new plugins on a staging copy before touching production, keep the plugin count lean, and document what each one does so conflicts are easy to trace instead of guessed at.

Stripe, PayPal, and most major regional gateways connect natively or through a maintained extension, and shipping integrates with carriers like UPS, FedEx, Royal Mail, and Australia Post, plus real-time rate calculators. We configure the set that matches where your customers actually are.

Yes — multi-currency pricing, region-based tax rules, and localized checkout are standard requirements for our US/UK/Australia clients, and we set them up with vetted extensions rather than hand-rolled logic so tax compliance stays accurate as rules change.

Yes, when it's hardened properly — PCI-compliant payment processing (card data never touches your server), managed hosting with a web application firewall, and a regular update cadence for core, theme, and plugins. Security here is mostly a matter of ongoing discipline, not a platform limitation.

We offer ongoing maintenance retainers that cover core, theme, and plugin updates, staging-tested before they touch production, plus uptime and security monitoring. Some clients prefer to hand this to an internal hire once they're established — either way, we document the setup so nothing depends on tribal knowledge.

Yes, with the right hosting and architecture — managed WooCommerce hosting, database optimization, and caching handle stores with thousands of SKUs and high order volume well. We plan for your 18-month growth trajectory up front rather than rebuilding the foundation later.

A generalist can build a site; we build stores that have to perform — migrations that protect SEO, integrations with the CRM and ops tools you already run, and a build that's ready for the audits and due diligence that come with fundraising or acquisition.

Brand assets, a rough product/catalog list, and access to any existing store or CMS you're migrating from. If you already know your payment and shipping providers, that helps us scope faster — but it's fine to work those out together during discovery.