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Starwebdesignsince 2008

WooCommerce

WooCommerce when you need control of the checkout

WooCommerce is the right choice when the selling has to bend to your business rather than the other way round — trade pricing, subscriptions, members-only ranges, quotes that become orders, or a shop that lives inside a much larger content site.

It asks more of you than Shopify. You are responsible for hosting, updates, security and performance, and a badly run Woo store is slower and more fragile than a Shopify one. Run properly it is hard to beat for flexibility. We build on a hosting setup sized for the catalogue, with caching that understands carts and sessions, payments and tax configured against real orders, and the whole thing on a care plan so updates happen on a schedule instead of when something breaks.

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What you get

What’s included

Store build

Products, variations and categories built inside your WordPress site, sharing its design and content.

Payments, shipping and tax

Gateways, shipping rules and VAT configured and tested against real orders before launch.

Pricing rules

Trade accounts, subscriptions, bundles or member pricing — the reasons you chose Woo in the first place.

Performance

Hosting and caching sized for a shop, where pages must not be cached for logged-in customers.

Maintenance

A care plan covering updates, backups and checkout monitoring, because a broken checkout is silent.

How it works

Three steps, and you see the work at each one.

  1. Rules first

    Pin down pricing, shipping, tax and account rules before the build — they decide the architecture.

  2. Build and test

    Store built, then real test orders through every payment and shipping combination.

  3. Launch and monitor

    Go live with checkout monitoring, so a failure is caught by us rather than reported by a customer.

FAQ

Questions before you call

Why not just use Shopify?

If Shopify does what you need, use Shopify. WooCommerce earns its place when you need pricing or checkout behaviour Shopify does not allow, or the shop is part of a much bigger content site.

Is it slower than Shopify?

It can be, and often is when it is run on cheap hosting with the wrong caching. Properly hosted and cached it is comparable. We size the hosting before quoting.

Who handles PCI and security?

Card data goes to the payment gateway, never to your server. The rest — updates, patching, backups — is the store owner's responsibility, which is what the care plan covers.

Can you migrate our products from another platform?

Yes, from a CSV or directly. Migration is priced separately because the effort depends entirely on how clean the source data is.

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