An online store built on whichever platform actually fits your business.

WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so if you already have a WordPress site or were planning to build one anyway, adding a store extends what you already have instead of standing up a separate system next to it. There's no percentage taken off your sales beyond standard payment processing fees, you get full control over the product pages and checkout experience, and the WordPress plugin ecosystem covers almost anything you need for shipping, tax, and marketing. The tradeoff is that you, or we, are responsible for keeping the site maintained, since WooCommerce is software you host and manage rather than a service someone else runs for you.

Shopify takes the opposite tradeoff. It's a hosted platform, which means checkout, PCI compliance, inventory, and server maintenance are all handled for you behind the scenes, and a store can be live and taking orders faster than almost any other route. That convenience comes with a monthly platform fee and, depending on the plan and the apps you add, sometimes additional transaction costs. For a business that wants to focus on running the store rather than maintaining the software underneath it, that tradeoff is usually a good one.

In practice, the decision usually comes down to one question: do you want more control and no platform fee, or less to manage and a faster launch. Both are legitimate answers, and we have real experience building on both, so we're not steering you toward the one that's easier for us.

Every so often a business needs something a standard e-commerce platform was not built to do: a checkout flow tied to a custom booking system, unusual inventory rules, or a buying process that doesn't look like a normal storefront at all. For those situations, our custom-coded website design work is the better fit. It's not where most e-commerce projects land, and we'll always try WooCommerce or Shopify first, but when a business genuinely needs it, we've built that kind of system before.