E-Commerce Web Design Bristol

The platform decision is about your catalogue, your operations and your appetite for control. Shopify is superb at getting out of the way: hosting, security and payments handled, at the cost of monthly fees and platform rules. WooCommerce gives you full ownership and endless flexibility on top of WordPress, at the cost of being responsible for more.

We build on both, so the recommendation follows your requirements rather than our comfort zone. Large catalogue with complex pricing rules? Probably Woo. Straightforward product range and a preference for hands-off? Probably Shopify. Either way it's your store, your data, your customer list.

Most e-commerce browsing happens on phones, and phone shoppers are the least patient users on earth. So we design product pages, filters and checkout for a thumb on a small screen first, then scale up to desktop. Guest checkout is on by default, delivery costs show early, and payment offers the fast options people actually use, including Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Launch includes the unglamorous essentials done properly: Stripe and PayPal configured and tested with real transactions, UK delivery rates and courier integration set up, order emails that don't land in spam, and product schema so your listings can show prices and stock in Google. Pair it with our e-commerce SEO service and the store opens with a traffic plan as well as a design.