PLATFORM SPECIALISM
WooCommerce
Web Design
Online stores built on WordPress, with no cut taken from your sales.
- ✓ Free, no-obligation quote
- ✓ Stirling-based, UK-wide reach
- ✓ Direct, no account managers
experience
THE APPROACH
Design decisions, made
deliberately.
WooCommerce turns a WordPress site into a shop. That sounds like a small distinction and it's the whole argument: your store isn't a separate thing rented from a platform, it's part of a site you already own, sitting alongside your content and your service pages rather than on a different domain with a different login.
The practical consequence is that nothing stands between you and your revenue. No platform fee, no percentage of every order, and no supplier who can change the terms once you depend on them.
THE BASELINE
Why WooCommerce
No cut of your sales
no transaction fee on top of whatever your payment processor charges, which over a few years at volume is usually the single largest cost difference between platforms
No licence fee
the plugin itself is free and open source, so the spend goes on hosting, extensions and the build rather than on rent
You own the store
the database and the files are yours, so moving host is routine rather than a migration project
No design ceiling
the shop can look like anything, rather than like a recognisable theme with your logo on it
Content and commerce together
blog, service pages and products in one site, which matters when content is what drives the traffic that drives the sales
It handles unusual requirements
trade pricing, quote-on-request, subscriptions, bookings attached to products, deep integration with stock or accounting software
SCOPE
What a build covers
Product and category structure
planned around how customers actually search rather than how the business files things internally
A checkout that converts
fewer steps, no surprise costs late on, and tested on a phone rather than only on a desktop
Payments, shipping and tax
gateways, shipping rules and VAT configured properly, so the store can genuinely take orders on day one
Performance
a lean theme, a deliberately short extension list, caching configured, and cart fragments kept off pages that don't need them
Search visibility
clean URLs, product schema, and category pages built to rank rather than left as bare product grids
Migration where needed
products, customers, orders and the redirects that stop a replatform costing you your rankings
THE HONEST LIMITS
The honest limits
WooCommerce asks more of you than a hosted platform does. You're responsible for hosting, updates, backups and security — either doing that yourself or paying someone to. On a shop, that isn't optional maintenance: it's the thing protecting your customers' payment details.
If nobody is going to maintain it and you don't want to pay for that, a hosted platform is the better answer and you should hear that before the quote, not after. Shopify vs WooCommerce works through where each one genuinely wins.
Where WooCommerce is the right call, the store gets built cleanly, kept fast, and set up so you can run it without needing me for every change. Based in Stirling, working with businesses across Stirling, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, and remotely with clients across the UK.
❝Online stores built on WordPress, with no cut taken from your sales.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About WooCommerce Web Design
Why WooCommerce rather than Shopify?
Mainly because nothing sits between you and your revenue. WooCommerce takes no percentage of your sales, there's no monthly platform fee, and the store is yours to move whenever you want. Shopify is genuinely better for some businesses, usually the ones that want to be trading in a fortnight with a simple catalogue and no appetite for maintenance, and you'll be told when that's you.
What does a WooCommerce store actually cost to run?
Hosting that can handle a shop (£20–£60 a month — budget shared hosting is a false economy here), your payment processor's own charges, and any premium extensions, which are usually annual licences rather than monthly subscriptions. No licence fee for WooCommerce itself and no transaction cut on top.
Can you migrate my existing store without losing orders or customers?
Yes. Products, customers, order history and URLs are all planned into the migration, and the redirects matter as much as the data: a store that changes every product URL without mapping the old ones loses its search visibility overnight.
How many products can it handle?
Thousands, with proper category structure, decent hosting and the database looked after. Large catalogues need more thought about filtering, indexing and search than a fifty-product store does, but the ceiling is much higher than WooCommerce's reputation suggests.
Can it do trade pricing, subscriptions or bookings?
Yes, and this is usually where WooCommerce earns its place. Customer-specific pricing, wholesale tiers, quote-on-request items, recurring subscriptions and bookings attached to products are all achievable, either through established extensions or custom work when nothing off the shelf fits properly.
Who keeps it updated after launch?
Either you, or me. A shop is the one kind of WordPress site you should not leave unpatched, because it handles payments and customer data. Ongoing management covers updates, backups, security and monitoring if you'd rather it wasn't your problem.
Will it be fast? WooCommerce has a reputation.
It has a reputation earned by bloated themes, twenty plugins and cheap hosting rather than by WooCommerce itself. Built on a lean theme with the extension list kept deliberately short, properly cached, with cart fragments handled rather than left running on every page, it performs well.
Ready to talk
it through?
Tell me about your project and I'll get back to you within a day or two.