A WooCommerce store
built to actually sell
Hire a WooCommerce developer who has built and maintained real stores — not a themed demo with your products dropped in. Fast, secure, payment-ready, and handed over entirely in your name.
Most WooCommerce stores lose sales at checkout
A slow store, a confusing checkout or a payment gateway that silently fails will quietly cost you more than the build ever did. I build stores around the part that actually makes money — the path from product page to paid order.
Fixed-price store builds
Scope and price agreed before anything starts. No hourly meter, no surprise invoice halfway through.
Store Launch
- Full WooCommerce build
- Up to 30 products loaded
- Payment & shipping configured
- Cart & checkout optimised
- Order & email automation
- Staff walkthrough call
Store Growth
- Everything in Store Launch
- Up to 200 products imported
- Variations, filters & search
- Subscriptions or bookings
- Custom checkout fields & upsells
- Abandoned-cart recovery
- 60 days post-launch support
Move to WooCommerce
- Migrate from Shopify, Wix or other
- Products, customers & orders moved
- URL structure & SEO preserved
- 301 redirects mapped properly
- No downtime at switchover
- Rankings protected
Bigger catalogue, multi-currency, wholesale pricing or a custom integration? Message me and I’ll quote it properly.
Already have a store?
These can be booked on their own — no rebuild needed.
Store Speed Tune — $120
WooCommerce stores get slow fast. Caching, image work, database cleanup and cart-fragment fixes, with before/after scores.
How the speed work is done →Payment Gateway Setup — $80
Stripe, PayPal or a local gateway installed, tested with real transactions, and refunds verified before you go live.
Bulk Product Import — $100
Hundreds of products imported from CSV or another platform, with images, variations and categories mapped correctly.
Store Rescue — from $90
Checkout errors, failed orders, broken layouts after an update, or a hacked store cleaned up and hardened.
Emergency fixes explained →A store needs looking after
An online shop takes payments every day — a broken update is lost revenue, not just an inconvenience. This is the plan store owners stay on.
Free for the first 30 days on any new store build.
From first message to first order
Tell me about the store
What you sell, how many products, and how you want to take payment. You get a fixed quote, usually same day.
Build on staging
I build on a private staging site you can watch. Products, payments and shipping all set up before anything goes public.
Test real orders
We place live test orders end to end — payment, confirmation email, refund — so nothing fails on a paying customer.
Launch & hand over
Store goes live on your hosting and your accounts, with every login and a walkthrough so your team can run it.
A shop is not a website with a buy button
Most of what goes wrong on a WooCommerce store goes wrong in places an ordinary WordPress site does not even have. These are the three that cause the most damage.
WooCommerce moved order data into dedicated database tables — High-Performance Order Storage, previously called Custom Order Tables — instead of keeping every order in the same shared table as your blog posts. Plenty of stores built a few years ago were never switched over, and they get slower with every order they take. Checking which one you are on takes a minute and tells me a lot about how the store was looked after.
Cart, checkout and account pages have to be excluded from full-page caching, or customers start seeing each other’s baskets. This is exactly where a general-purpose speed plugin, installed with default settings, quietly breaks a store — and why store speed work is a different job from speeding up a brochure site.
On a normal site a broken layout is embarrassing. On a store it is lost revenue, and you usually find out from a customer rather than from your own monitoring. Updates get tested on a staging copy with a real test order pushed all the way through to a confirmation email before anything touches the live shop.
What a store actually needs to run
Worth checking before you pay for a year of hosting up front. A surprising amount of budget shared hosting still ships well below these, and no amount of optimisation fixes a server that is short on memory.
| Requirement | Minimum |
|---|---|
| WordPress | 6.9 or greater |
| PHP | 8.3 or greater (tested to 8.4) |
| Database | MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.6+ |
| HTTPS | Required |
| WordPress memory limit | 256 MB or greater |
Official minimums for WooCommerce 10.8 and later, published at woocommerce.com. WooCommerce will still run on PHP 7.4 and MySQL 5.6, but both are past end of life — which is precisely where a lot of cheap hosting still sits. Send me your store URL and I will tell you what yours is running.
Frequently asked questions
Do I own the store completely?
Yes. It’s built on your hosting, your domain and your accounts, and at handover you receive every login. Nothing is locked to me — you can move developer whenever you want.
What about premium extension licences?
Any premium WooCommerce extension your store needs is bought in your name, on your own account, so the licence is yours and updates and support come straight from the vendor. I can purchase and configure them for you and include the cost in the quote, or you buy them and I’ll set them up.
Which payment methods can you set up?
Stripe and PayPal are the usual choices, plus most regional gateways. Tell me which country you’re taking payments in and I’ll confirm what’s supported before we start, so there are no surprises at launch.
Will migrating hurt my Google rankings?
Not if it’s done properly. URLs are mapped one-to-one, 301 redirects are put in place and the site structure is preserved. That’s exactly why the migration package exists as its own job rather than a quick copy-paste.
What ongoing costs should I expect?
Hosting, your domain, and any premium extensions you choose — all paid by you, directly, so you can see and control them. The care plan is optional and separate. I’ll give you an honest estimate of the running cost before you commit.
How do I pay?
50% to book the work in, 50% on completion before launch. Add-ons and care plans are paid up front. Message me on Telegram and I’ll send payment details that work for you.
Other services
Not quite what you need? One of these may be a better fit.
WordPress Design & Development
Custom WordPress sites designed and built from scratch — fixed prices from $250, speed-tuned and handed over fully in your name.
See packages →Hire a WordPress Developer
Work directly with the developer writing the code — fixed-price projects from $250, $25/hr, or a monthly retainer.
See how it works →WordPress Speed Optimization
Fix what is actually slowing the site down, from $80 — with measured before-and-after numbers you can check yourself.
See speed packages →WordPress Maintenance & Care
Tested updates, daily backups and monitoring from $39/month — the boring alternative to an emergency.
See care plans →WordPress Migration
New host, platform or domain, moved from $60 — rankings, email and content intact, with no visible downtime.
See migration pricing →Emergency WordPress Fix
Site down, hacked or locked out? Free diagnosis and a fixed price before any work starts, from $70.
Get it looked at →SEO, Blogging & AdSense Websites
A done-for-you site built to rank and earn — $70 one-time setup plus $70/month keyword-targeted blogging.
See how it works →Ready to build your store?
Tell me what you sell and I’ll send a fixed quote — usually the same day.