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Ecommerce Website Design
High-performance WooCommerce stores, built to stay fast as your catalogue grows.
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Online stores that stay fast as they grow
Most ecommerce sites are quick on day one and slow within a year, as plugins, images, and an unoptimised database pile up. We build the other kind: a custom store designed around your products, with performance and SEO handled from the start.
A simple shop should be clean and quick to launch. A large or complex store should hold up under a real catalogue and real order volume. Both are the same craft applied at different scales.
Need the broader picture first? See our WordPress web design approach, or our wider platform engineering work.
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Business Model
We build custom platforms for your setup.
01
Membership Sites
Gated content, tiered access levels, and member dashboards that keep people paying month after month. Online courses, professional communities, paid resource libraries, built around retention, not just registration.
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02
Subscription Products
Recurring billing that actually works. Subscription boxes, replenishment models, and SaaS-style plans with smart retry logic, dunning management, and churn tracking baked in from day one.
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03
Booking & Ticketing
Appointment scheduling, event tickets, and resource allocation with real-time availability. Calendar-driven checkout flows, automated confirmations, and capacity management that removes the back-and-forth.
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04
Publications & Paywalls
Digital magazines, news platforms, and premium content libraries with metered access and subscriber management. Built for publishers who think in issues and editions, not just product pages.
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05
Custom Storefronts
For the store that doesn't fit a template. Complex product configurations, B2B pricing tiers, bulk ordering, and multi-vendor setups. High-performance WooCommerce built around how your business actually sells.
Read moreLaunch is only the beginning.
We offer support agreements for clients who want ongoing cover after the build. That can include routine updates, maintenance, design refinements, site edits, and performance work as the site changes over time.
It is also a good place to layer in ongoing SEO and content work, including technical SEO and content updates, when the site needs to keep growing after launch.
Our retainer clients enjoy 24/7 priority support, including emergency fixes and performance work as needed.
A discounted rate is available for clients who want to sign up for a 12-month agreement and commit to a minimum of 4 hours of work per month.
Design and site edits
New sections, page refreshes, content layout changes, and the kind of day-to-day improvements teams usually need once the site is live.
Performance and stability
Speed checks, issue triage, and ongoing optimisation so the site stays fast and dependable as content, traffic, and integrations grow.
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A support agreement gives you a team to call when something needs attention, rather than a scramble every time a task appears.
When a theme stops being enough
Off-the-shelf themes handle a single product type, simple variants, and one customer segment well. Past that point they get in the way. This is the work we do when the store needs to match a real business.
B2B pricing and customer segmentation
Role-based pricing tables, volume tiers, and negotiated rates applied at the product and category level without cluttering the retail experience. Account applications, approval workflows, and purchase orders where the business trades on terms rather than cards.
Bulk ordering and quoting
Quick-order grids for customers who know their SKUs, CSV upload for recurring orders, saved order lists, and a quote flow that becomes a formal quote, converts to an order, and carries pricing forward intact. Cart performance tuned for line counts that crash a default checkout.
Configurable and composite products
Products that are genuinely configurable, with option dependencies, live pricing, and validation at each step, rather than a long variant matrix. Composite products that bundle components with their own stock behaviour, so inventory stays honest when the bundle sells.
Multi-vendor and fulfilment
Marketplace structures where multiple vendors list, sell, and ship independently, with commission, payout, and dispute flows modelled up front. Fulfilment integrations with the warehouse or 3PL you actually use, whether that is a custom API, an EDI feed, or a courier integration.
Make it shine
A strong development stack is only part of the job. The work around it shapes how the site looks, how it converts, and how much useful work it can handle after launch.
SEO & Audits
Technical audits, Core Web Vitals tuning, and search optimisation that turns traffic into measurable pipeline.
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Automation for lead handling, internal workflows, and service delivery when the site needs to do more than publish pages.
See our AI agent servicesWeb Design
Custom block themes with near-zero plugin bloat and a UX-first process, so the site loads fast and is built to convert.
See our web designNot sure what your project needs?
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Ecommerce questions, answered
How much does an ecommerce website cost?
A WooCommerce store typically starts from around R28,500, and the final figure depends on your catalogue size, the features you need, and how custom the buying experience is. Our pricing page breaks the numbers down per page, and the calculator gives an instant estimate.
WooCommerce or Shopify, which should I choose?
It depends on how you sell. WooCommerce gives you full control and no per-transaction platform fees, which suits custom catalogues, B2B rules, and tight WordPress integration. Shopify is simpler to run for a standard retail store. We build and maintain both, and recommend the one that fits your business rather than the one that is easiest for us.
Can you build B2B, wholesale, and bulk-ordering features?
Yes. Role-based and tiered pricing, account applications and approval workflows, purchase orders, quick-order grids, CSV uploads, and quote-to-order flows are all standard work for us. We model how your business actually trades, rather than forcing it through a retail cart.
Will my store stay fast with thousands of products?
That is the whole point of building it properly. We tune PHP-FPM and MariaDB to the real workload, wire object caching correctly, and move to custom order tables (HPOS) before the default schema becomes a bottleneck. A large catalogue and real order volume should not mean a slow store.
Do you build for businesses outside Cape Town?
Yes. We are based in Cape Town and work with businesses across South Africa and internationally. Delivery is remote-first and async-friendly, and international clients can be billed in US dollars.
Do you look after the store after launch?
Yes. Stores change constantly, so ongoing performance, security, and feature work sits under a monthly maintenance plan with hours reserved for the store. You can see those plans on the packages page.
From the Blog
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WordPress Performance Audit: A Cape Town Walkthrough
The actual checklist we work through on a WordPress audit, walked end to end against a real Cape Town site. PHP, MySQL, Redis, Cloudflare, and what the slow log actually says.
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