WooCommerce

Almost always the same way: one plugin at a time. Something is needed, a plugin is installed, it works, and nobody removes it when the need passes. Two years later the shop is carrying thirty of them, several doing overlapping jobs, a few no longer maintained by whoever wrote them, and every one of them a thing that can break when WordPress updates.

The result is a shop that is slow for reasons nobody can name and fragile in ways nobody can predict. Sorting it out is painstaking but pays for itself, because a faster shop sells more and a simpler one costs less to keep running.

We build sites for WooCommerce, add WooCommerce functionality to existing WordPress sites or we can take over the day-to-day running of a working WooCommerce site. That means working out what each plugin is actually for, removing what is doing nothing, replacing what is abandoned, and writing the small pieces of code that let three plugins become one. It also means the ordinary shopkeeping: delivery rules that match your courier’s charges, payment that works first time on a phone, and tax that is right for every combination rather than most of them.

Migrations are common in both directions. Coming from a hosted platform, the usual motive is escaping a monthly fee and a percentage of every sale. Coming from an older or abandoned platform, it is usually that nobody will support the old one any more. Either way the products, the customers, the orders and the search rankings all have to arrive intact, and the last of those is the one most often forgotten.

Tell us what the shop sells and what you want it to do better, whether that is a shop built from scratch, more speed, a plugin nobody dares update, or a platform you want to leave. We will tell you what it would take.