WooCommerce developer in the United Kingdom

WooCommerce suits you if you already use WordPress, have a substantial content library or want control over your code, data and hosting. Shopify is an option when you want hosting, security and updates handled for you. With WooCommerce, that control comes with decisions about hosting and ongoing maintenance. Think about who will handle those after launch.

Your theme affects both editing and flexibility. A lightweight block theme keeps pages fast; a page builder makes layout changes easier for staff but adds weight. A custom theme fits your brand and products exactly. Hosting is a separate choice: shared hosting suits a small, low-traffic store, managed WordPress hosting adds backups and staging, and a cloud server gives you more control but needs someone to run it.

We help you consider those choices against the work involved in designing, building and launching your store. The same team handles those stages, so your decisions about how staff edit pages and who manages the hosting can stay part of the build conversation.

Customers buying online must be told they can cancel an order up to 14 days after delivery without giving a reason. We add your written cancellation information to the store’s customer-facing policies so it is available as part of the buying process.

If you send marketing emails to individual customers, permission and an opt-out need to be part of the setup. We provide a way to record permission and include an opt-out in marketing emails.

If your business is a UK limited company, its website must show its registered number, registered office address, place of registration and limited-company status. We add the details you provide to the site.

These details help us understand what the store needs to contain and connect.

• A product sheet with names, descriptions, prices, SKUs, attributes, variations, weights and stock, plus consistent photos for each variation.
• Your tax and shipping rules, including whether prices include tax, the zones you serve and how delivery is charged.
• A payment gateway account approved in your business’s name, with written shipping, returns, privacy and terms policies.
• For an existing store, an admin login, a recent backup and a list of plugins you still need.
• Premium theme and extension licences bought in your business’s name, so renewals, updates and support stay with you.

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  Avoid pirated premium plugins. They can carry malware, miss security updates and expose customer data. Use properly licensed extensions.

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  Keep cart, checkout and account pages out of page caching. A cached page can show a shopper someone else’s cart or break checkout.

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  Map old product and category URLs to their new addresses when moving a store. Google recommends server-side permanent (301) redirects for changed URLs.

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  Do not update WooCommerce or plugins directly on the live store without a backup and staging test. An incompatible update can break checkout while failed orders go unnoticed.