WooCommerce vs Shopify for Growing Online Stores
Both platforms can run a serious store, so the real decision is about control, cost of ownership and who maintains what. Here is how we help clients choose between WooCommerce and Shopify.
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Shopify removes hosting, PCI compliance and platform updates from your plate, which is exactly right for some merchants. What it does not remove is the work of building a store that looks like your brand and sells like it should. We handle the theme customisation, catalogue design, app decisions and tracking that separate a real store from an installed template.
Included as standard on every engagement — not an upsell list.
We start from a solid theme and modify sections, snippets and templates in Liquid to match your design. You get the layouts your brand needs while keeping the theme updatable, rather than a fork nobody dares to touch again.
Automated collections driven by tags and conditions, plus metafields and metaobjects for spec tables, care instructions, ingredient lists or size guides. Merchandising rules run themselves instead of needing manual curation every season.
Shopify Payments and alternative gateways, shipping profiles and rates, tax regions, discount logic, abandoned-cart recovery and branded order status and notification emails, all tested with real test orders before you open.
Every app costs money monthly and adds scripts to your storefront. We pick the smallest set that covers reviews, email, shipping and subscriptions, remove the ones you inherited, and document what each remaining app is actually for.
Shopify hosting is fast; most slow Shopify stores are slowed by their own theme and apps. We audit script weight, defer and remove what is not needed, right-size imagery, and measure the product and collection templates that carry your traffic.
GA4 with enhanced e-commerce, Google Tag Manager where needed, conversion tracking for your ad channels, and a walkthrough of Shopify Analytics so your team reads sessions, conversion rate and AOV correctly instead of only revenue.
Stage by stage, with the approval points marked. Shopify Development follows the same rhythm on every project.
We map your product structure into Shopify’s model — products, variants, options, tags and collections — and identify anything that needs metafields or an app. Doing this before import prevents painful restructuring later.
We choose a base theme whose section structure fits your design intent, then map each designed page to sections we will customise or build, so effort goes into what differentiates your store rather than rebuilding the basics.
Liquid customisation, product import, collection rules, navigation, payments, shipping and tax setup, plus the app installs your operations genuinely require, all assembled in a development environment.
We run test transactions across devices and payment methods, verify emails, taxes, discounts and refunds, connect the domain, and go live with redirects from any previous store in place.
The concrete artefacts handed over at the end — files, access and documentation you keep.
If two or three of these sound like your situation, this is the right place to start.
Standard, portable tooling. The licences, accounts and source stay in your name, so nothing here is a reason you cannot leave.
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Send us the brief — or just the problem. You will get a written scope, a timeline and a fixed price, usually within one working day.