WooCommerce Development

WooCommerce when you want to own the store outright, avoid per-transaction platform fees, run content and commerce from one WordPress install, or need customisation a hosted platform will not allow. Shopify when you would rather not think about hosting, security and updates at all, and the default way of doing things fits how you trade. The honest test is whether you have someone — us or in-house — who will actually maintain it.

Usually, yes — and usually without a rebuild. Slow WooCommerce is rarely WooCommerce. It is more often years of accumulated plugins, an unindexed database, uncached queries on category pages, or hosting picked on price. We audit first and give you a written view of what is actually causing it, so you can decide what is worth fixing.

Both directions, yes. The parts that decide whether a migration goes well are unglamorous: mapping products, variants, customers and order history accurately, and preserving URLs so you keep the search rankings you already have. We plan those before anything else — a migration that quietly loses your organic traffic is an expensive kind of success.

Yes. GST display and reporting, Australian carriers and live rate calculation, local payment gateways, and multi-currency for selling overseas. Where the rules get genuinely complex — wholesale tiers, B2B pricing, duty-free — that is configuration and custom work rather than something any platform gives you out of the box.

Yes, and card data does not touch your server in a properly built store — payment gateways handle that, which keeps your PCI scope small. The real risk in WooCommerce is the same as in any WordPress site: abandoned plugins and unpatched versions. We keep the plugin count low, patch on a schedule, and put managed hosting and real backups behind it.

Our head office is in Sydney and we work with clients across Australia — Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and regional NSW included. Delivery has been remote-first for years, so a project runs the same way whether you are ten minutes away or in another state: scheduled calls, a shared board you can see at any time, and one named point of contact. We are happy to meet in person in Sydney.

WooCommerce itself is free, so the budget goes on the build, the extensions you actually need and the integrations — payments, shipping, ERP or POS. Owning the platform outright avoids per-transaction fees, which changes the total cost of ownership over a few years rather than the build price. It depends far more on integrations, content and certainty of scope than on page count, so we would rather scope it than quote a number blind. Our guide to what a website costs in Australia sets out the typical market ranges, and how we engage explains the models.

A straightforward catalogue on a customised theme is weeks. Complex pricing rules, B2B account logic or a migration with years of order history are what extend it. The honest answer is that scope decides it, not the platform. How we engage sets out the engagement models and the timeline ranges each one tends to run to, and we give you a milestone plan once we have scoped the work rather than a number before.