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WooCommerce development

Builds, rescues, speed work and maintenance for WordPress stores. Plus a straight answer on whether WooCommerce is the right tool, or the thing that’s costing you.

  • Builds, rescues and speed work
  • Fewer plugins, not more
  • Security and backups done properly
  • Straight stay-or-move advice
woo / before and after

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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

How WooCommerce stores usually go wrong

Checkout is slow and sales show it

Every second of checkout load costs conversions. Woo can be quick. Not under a page builder, forty plugins and shared hosting.

Plugins are fighting each other

One update breaks another plugin’s feature. The white screen makes guest appearances. 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

Full builds, or making an existing store fast, stable and safe. Either way the plugin list gets shorter.

  • Build

    Store builds and redesigns

    Clean WooCommerce builds on fast themes, custom where it earns it. None of the page-builder bloat that slows Woo down.

  • Speed

    Performance and stability

    Plugin audits, caching, image and database work, better hosting. Measured on checkout speed, because that’s where money leaks.

  • Secure

    Security and 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 plugin directory doesn’t have it. Built lean, documented, and maintained, so updates stop being scary.

  • 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 and shipping integration

    Xero, MYOB, 3PLs and shipping platforms wired in, so nobody retypes orders.

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 together, no platform fees, endless flexibility. Its problems are almost never Woo itself. They’re piled-up plugins, cheap hosting and years without maintenance.

Our job is to give your store the engineering it never had, or to tell you plainly that your business has outgrown it. Both conversations cost less than another year of limping.

  • Subtraction before addition

    Most Woo fixes start by removing plugins, not adding them. Fewer moving parts is the performance plan and the security plan.

  • 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.

  • No platform loyalty

    We build on Woo, Shopify, Magento and BigCommerce. When we say "stay on Woo", it’s because it’s right for you, not convenient for us.

How it runs

Audit, stabilise, then improve

  1. 1

    Store audit

    Plugins, theme, hosting, security and speed. The true state of the store, in writing.

  2. 2

    Fixed quote

    Ranked fixes with prices. Urgent stability work kept separate from improvements.

  3. 3

    Stabilise

    Backups, security and the worst performance issues first, tested on staging.

  4. 4

    Improve

    Design, features and integrations, built on a store that’s now safe to build on.

  5. 5

    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?

Stay on Woo when content and commerce really do live together, you value owning everything, and the store gets real maintenance. Move when the plugin stack has become 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 or WPBakery. Is that a problem?

For a content site, it’s a choice. For a store, the page builder is 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 times.

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, moving off it is often the biggest single 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 fee. You know the number before we start.

Talk Woo

Tell us what the store is doing to you

Slow checkout, plugin roulette, a rebuild, or you just want 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

Goes straight to the people who do the work. No sales team, no autoresponder.