Why WooCommerce and not Shopify?

With WooCommerce you own the code and the data, pay no platform fee on top of your payment processor, and can change any part of checkout and order logic. Shopify is quicker to start and handles hosting for you, but fees, customisation and data access are controlled by the platform.

Can we start standard and move to headless later?

Yes. Products, customers and orders live in WooCommerce in both cases. Moving to headless means building a new storefront on top of the same back office, then switching over with redirects.

How long does an online shop take to build?

A standard WooCommerce shop takes 25 to 45 business days depending on the package, counted from the day we receive all content and materials. Headless builds are estimated per project.

Do you connect couriers, invoicing and Google Merchant?

Yes. Courier automation, billing automation and Google Merchant are included in the standard packages. On headless builds they are scoped and quoted per project because the storefront side is custom.

What does maintenance cost?

Maintenance is billed by the hour, from 60 EUR per hour for standard shops and 120 EUR per hour for headless shops. A yearly maintenance visit that updates plugin licences and modules starts at 100 EUR per site.

Do you offer hosting?

For European customers we optionally offer hosting on LiteSpeed servers with HTTP/3, cPanel access, Imunify360 security, DDoS protection and free SSL. The first year is free for shops we build.

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Online shops

Online shops on WooCommerce, with no platform fee and no cut on your sales. Standard builds connect payments, couriers, invoicing and Google Merchant and launch in 25 to 45 business days; headless builds replace the theme with a Next.js storefront for shops where speed and brand carry the revenue.

Overview

Online shops built on WooCommerce, two ways

We build online shops on WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform that runs on WordPress. You own the code, the data and the customer list, there is no platform fee on your sales, and any part of the shop can be changed when the business needs it.

What differs from one project to the next is the storefront. A standard WooCommerce build uses a page builder and launches quickly. A headless build replaces the theme with a custom Next.js application for shops where speed and brand carry the revenue. Both share the same back office, so moving from one to the other later does not mean starting again.

Options

Choose how your shop is built

Same WooCommerce back office, two different storefronts. Pick the one that matches where the business is today.

Decide

Standard or headless: which one fits

A short way to decide. If most of your answers sit in the left column, start standard. If they sit in the right column, headless will pay for itself.

Standard WooCommerce compared with Headless WooCommerce
Criterion	Standard WooCommerce	Headless WooCommerce
Stage of the business	New shop or a market still being validated	Established shop with steady orders
Catalogue	Up to around 100 products at launch	Large or fast-changing catalogue
Design	Clean, on-brand, within a page builder	Fully custom, no template limits
Speed	Good, with server caching and next-gen images	App-like, pre-rendered pages
Time to launch	25 to 45 business days	Estimated per project
Layout changes after launch	Your team, in the page builder	A developer
Budget	Lower	Higher

Included

Included in every shop we build

All the pages a shop needs
Homepage, category, product, cart, checkout, about, contact, FAQ, legal pages and a proper 404.
Payment processor integration
Card payments through the gateway that suits your market, tested end to end before launch.
On-page SEO
Clean URLs, titles and descriptions, structured data and a sitemap from day one.
Next-gen images
WebP and AVIF formats so product photos load fast on mobile connections.
Analytics and cookie consent
Google Analytics set up with a consent banner that respects EU rules.
Security hardening
Security tooling installed and configured, plus advice on choosing the right hosting.
Discovery meeting
We agree scope, integrations and content before any work starts, so the quote holds.
Review sessions
You inspect the finished shop and send a list of changes. We apply them before launch.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you might want to know before reaching out. Can't find what you're looking for?

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: With WooCommerce you own the code and the data, pay no platform fee on top of your payment processor, and can change any part of checkout and order logic. Shopify is quicker to start and handles hosting for you, but fees, customisation and data access are controlled by the platform.
: Yes. Products, customers and orders live in WooCommerce in both cases. Moving to headless means building a new storefront on top of the same back office, then switching over with redirects.
: A standard WooCommerce shop takes 25 to 45 business days depending on the package, counted from the day we receive all content and materials. Headless builds are estimated per project.
: Yes. Courier automation, billing automation and Google Merchant are included in the standard packages. On headless builds they are scoped and quoted per project because the storefront side is custom.
: Maintenance is billed by the hour, from 60 EUR per hour for standard shops and 120 EUR per hour for headless shops. A yearly maintenance visit that updates plugin licences and modules starts at 100 EUR per site.
: For European customers we optionally offer hosting on LiteSpeed servers with HTTP/3, cPanel access, Imunify360 security, DDoS protection and free SSL. The first year is free for shops we build.

Online shops

Online shops built on WooCommerce, two ways

Choose how your shop is built

Standard or headless: which one fits

Included in every shop we build

All the pages a shop needs

Payment processor integration

On-page SEO

Next-gen images

Analytics and cookie consent

Security hardening

Discovery meeting

Review sessions

Frequently asked questions

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