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Ecommerce - the engine room
WooCommerce development
Builds, rescues, speed work and maintenance for WordPress stores - and honest advice about when WooCommerce is the right tool versus when it’s costing you.
- Builds, rescues & speed work
- Plugin stacks tamed, not grown
- Security & backups done properly
- Honest stay-or-move advice
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38 active plugins, 6 abandoned
19 plugins, all current, all needed
checkout loads in 5.2s
checkout loads in 1.4s
backups: "the host probably does it"
nightly backups, tested restores
When to call us
The WooCommerce trouble patterns
Checkout is slow and sales show it
Every second of checkout load costs conversions. Woo can be quick - but not under a page builder, forty plugins and shared hosting.
Plugins are fighting each other
One update breaks another’s feature, the white screen makes guest appearances, and nobody remembers what half the plugins do.
You’re not sure the store is secure
WordPress stores get probed constantly. If backups are a hope and updates are a fear, the store is running on luck.
You’ve outgrown the setup, not necessarily the platform
Growing volume, B2B needs, or a warehouse to integrate. Sometimes that means better engineering on Woo; sometimes it means moving. We’ll tell you which.
The work
What we do
From full builds to making an existing store fast, stable and safe - with the plugin stack shrinking, not growing.
- Build
Store builds & redesigns
Clean WooCommerce builds on fast themes - custom where it earns it - without the page-builder bloat that slows Woo down.
- Speed
Performance & stability
Plugin audits, caching, image and database work, better hosting. Measured on checkout speed, because that’s where money leaks.
- Secure
Security & maintenance
Hardening, tested backups, staged updates and monitoring - the boring routine that keeps a WordPress store off the incident list.
- Custom
Custom plugin development
When the requirement doesn’t exist in the plugin directory: built lean, documented, and maintained so updates never scare you again.
- Migrate
Migrations - in and out
Into Woo from legacy carts, or out to Shopify (or a WordPress-to-Astro split for content) when that’s the honest recommendation.
- Connect
Accounting & shipping integration
Xero, MYOB, 3PLs and shipping platforms wired in, so orders stop being retyped.
Our stance
Woo is good - when it’s treated like software
WooCommerce runs a huge share of the world’s stores, and it earns its place: content and commerce in one place, no platform fees, infinite flexibility. Its problems are almost never Woo itself - they’re accumulated plugins, cheap hosting and years without maintenance.
Our job is either to give your Woo store the engineering it never had, or to tell you plainly that your business has outgrown it. Both conversations are cheaper than another year of limping.
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Subtraction before addition
Most Woo fixes start by removing plugins, not adding them. Fewer moving parts is the performance plan and the security plan.
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Updates without fear
Staging environments and tested backups turn updates from a gamble into a routine. That alone changes how a store feels to own.
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No platform loyalty
We build on Woo, Shopify, Magento and BigCommerce - so "stay on Woo" means it’s right for you, not convenient for us.
How it runs
Audit, stabilise, then improve
- 1
Store audit
Plugins, theme, hosting, security posture and speed - the true state of the store, in writing.
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Fixed quote
Ranked fixes with prices - urgent stability separated from improvements.
- 3
Stabilise
Backups, security and the worst performance issues first, tested on staging.
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Improve
Design, features, integrations - built on a store that’s now safe to build on.
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Maintain
A monthly care routine: updates, monitoring, backups and a developer who answers.
Fair questions
Before you ask
Should we stay on WooCommerce or move to Shopify?
The honest split: stay on Woo when content and commerce genuinely live together, you value owning everything, and the store gets real maintenance. Move when the plugin stack is the product, volume is climbing, or nobody wants to own updates. We build on both, so the recommendation follows your situation - not our convenience.
Can you fix our store without a full rebuild?
Usually, yes. Most "broken" Woo stores are a plugin audit, a hosting move and some performance work away from healthy. The audit tells you whether repair or rebuild is better value - with prices on both.
Our site uses Elementor / Divi / WPBakery. Is that a problem?
For a content site, it’s a choice. For a store, page builders are usually the main speed problem - especially through checkout. We either tune around it or rebuild key templates without it; the audit shows the trade-off in load-time numbers.
What hosting should a WooCommerce store be on?
Managed WordPress or a properly configured VPS - sized for a store, not a blog. If you’re on $5/month shared hosting, that’s often the single biggest upgrade available. We set it up in your name; no reseller markup.
Do you offer ongoing maintenance plans?
Yes - updates on staging, tested backups, security monitoring and small fixes as a flat monthly arrangement. It exists so the answer to "when did we last update?" is always "this month, safely".
What does WooCommerce work cost?
A modest flat-fee audit first, then fixed quotes per item - stability work at the small end, builds and custom plugins larger, maintenance as a flat monthly. You always know the number before we start.
Talk Woo
Tell us what the store is doing to you
Slow checkout, plugin roulette, a rebuild, or just wanting someone to own maintenance - describe it and you’ll get a straight answer with a price.
0413 997 229- Flat-fee audit, findings in writing
- Repair-vs-rebuild advice with prices
- Maintenance plans that actually maintain