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WooCommerce Development

WooCommerce suits brands whose store and content live together in WordPress and who want full control of the code. We build, extend, speed up and support WooCommerce stores — and tell you plainly when a move to a hosted platform would serve you better.

Where it fits

Where WooCommerce fits

It is the right platform when owning the stack is an advantage — and a burden when nobody is looking after it.

  1. Content-led brands

    Editorial, guides and products in one WordPress install, managed by the same team in the same editor.

  2. Full code ownership

    Open source, self-hosted and portable. No platform transaction fees, and nothing you cannot change.

  3. Unusual product logic

    Bookings, subscriptions, configurators or custom pricing that are easier to build into a plugin than work around.

  4. An existing WordPress estate

    A site, plugins and a team already invested in WordPress, where adding a store beats adding a second platform.

WooCommerce at a glance

Best for
Content-led stores already on WordPress that want full code ownership
Hosting
Self-hosted on any PHP host you choose; you own updates and security
B2B
Through extensions: wholesale pricing, quotes and company accounts
Headless
REST API and Store API for a decoupled frontend
Pricing model
Free core; you pay for hosting, premium extensions and upkeep

Our view

Control is the point — and the cost

WooCommerce gives you what hosted platforms cannot: the whole codebase, your choice of host, and a store that sits inside the WordPress site your content team already runs.

The price of that control is upkeep. WordPress, WooCommerce and every plugin need updating and testing, and the hosting has to keep pace with your traffic. Stores that treat this as a project, not an afterthought, run well for years.

When to stay, and when to move

If your store needs content and commerce in one place, custom logic in the code, or freedom from platform fees, WooCommerce remains a strong choice — and our job is to keep it fast and well integrated.

If the upkeep is outgrowing your team, a hosted platform such as Shopify Plus moves that weight off your plate. Our platform migration service covers the move in either direction.

Capabilities

What we do on WooCommerce

From a first build to keeping a mature store fast, secure and up to date.

  • Store builds and theme work

    Block-theme or custom-theme builds, and redesigns of existing stores, made to your brand rather than a template.

  • Custom plugins

    Purpose-built plugins for the logic your store needs, written to WordPress and WooCommerce coding standards and update-safe.

  • Payments, shipping and ERP

    Payment gateways, carriers, ERP, CRM and marketing tools connected through the REST API and webhooks.

  • Speed and Core Web Vitals

    Plugin audits, caching, image and database work, and High-Performance Order Storage where it helps.

  • Migrations, in and out

    Moves to WooCommerce from other platforms, and off it when you have outgrown it — with URLs and redirects mapped.

  • Maintenance and support

    WordPress, WooCommerce and plugin updates tested on staging, security monitoring and fixes on an agreed cadence.

Free to install is not free to run

WooCommerce has no licence fee, but every store pays for hosting, extensions, updates and security — and plugin sprawl is the usual reason a store gets slow. We keep the plugin list short, test every update before it reaches production, and will tell you when the running cost points to a hosted platform instead.

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Services

What we deliver on WooCommerce

The same services run across our platforms. These are the ones WooCommerce projects most often need.

Compare

How the platforms compare

The right platform depends on where your complexity sits, not on a feature list. This is the short version of the conversation we have in discovery.

Shopify Plus BigCommerce Adobe Commerce Salesforce Commerce Cloud commercetools WooCommerceThis page
Best for Brands that want speed to launch and a store their own team can runB2B and B2C on one hosted platform, several storefronts and open APIsComplex catalogues, contract pricing and deep ERP couplingRetailers and B2B sellers whose business already runs on SalesforceMulti-brand and multi-region models, and requirements no single suite fitsContent-led stores already on WordPress that want full code ownership
Hosting Fully hosted SaaS; Shopify runs infrastructure, security and upgradesFully hosted SaaS; BigCommerce runs infrastructure, security and upgradesAdobe-managed cloud or self-hosted, with more of the stack in your controlFully hosted SaaS, run by SalesforceVendor-run cloud SaaS; you host the frontend and any services you addSelf-hosted on any PHP host you choose; you own updates and security
B2B Built-in B2B features on Plus: company accounts, catalogues, price lists, payment termsB2B Edition: company accounts, buyer roles, quotes, price lists and buyer portalNative B2B module: company accounts, shared catalogues, quotes and approvalsSeparate B2B Commerce product, on the same CRM dataB2B in the core APIs: business units, buyer roles, quotes and approvalsThrough extensions: wholesale pricing, quotes and company accounts
Headless Hydrogen framework and Oxygen hosting, over the Storefront APICatalyst (Next.js) storefront or any frontend on the GraphQL Storefront APIGraphQL and REST APIs for a decoupled frontendCommerce API with the PWA Kit composable storefrontAPI-first by design: the storefront is always a separate frontendREST API and Store API for a decoupled frontend
Pricing model Monthly subscription, with a variable fee that scales with revenueCore, Growth and Scale plans tiered by annual sales; Performance priced by agreementAnnual licence, typically tiered by revenueTypically a share of gross merchandise valueAnnual subscription, typically linked to order volume or GMVFree core; you pay for hosting, premium extensions and upkeep

Vendor pricing and plan features change. Confirm current commercial terms with the vendor before you decide.

How it runs

How a WooCommerce project runs

  1. Audit

    Theme, plugins, hosting and integrations reviewed, so we know what the store does today and what is slowing it down.

  2. Plan

    What to keep, replace or build, written down with the trade-offs — including whether WooCommerce is still the right platform.

  3. Build and test

    Theme, plugins and integrations built on a staging copy of your store and tested with real products and orders.

  4. Launch and support

    A monitored release, then updates, backups and fixes on an agreed cadence.

Clients

In their words

  • The CommerceBolt (Perigeon) team is exceptionally detail-oriented and aligns closely with the client's vision. They approached our project with a fresh perspective, openly embracing our requirements. The result? A robust eCommerce store that exceeded our expectations and brought our vision to life.

    Willem B. Netherlands-based agriculture company

  • I've been working with CommerceBolt (Perigeon) for our wellness store, starting with a small feature set, which has now grown into an extensive, full-featured store. We're extremely pleased with the service and support provided by CommerceBolt — truly a great team to work with!

    Paul M. Florida-based pharmacy chain

Frequently asked questions

Is WooCommerce right for a growing store?

It can be, if someone owns hosting, updates and performance. WooCommerce scales well on good hosting with a lean plugin set; most stores that struggle are carrying too many plugins on hosting that was never sized for them. If nobody on your side wants that responsibility, a hosted platform such as Shopify is usually the better fit.

Can you speed up our existing WooCommerce store?

Usually, yes. We start with an audit of plugins, theme, database and hosting, then fix the largest causes first — often unused plugins, unoptimised images, uncached pages and a bloated options table. We measure Core Web Vitals before and after so you can see what changed.

Do you build custom WooCommerce plugins?

Yes. When an off-the-shelf extension does not fit, or several are doing one job badly, we write a single plugin for it — following WordPress coding standards and using WooCommerce hooks, so it survives core updates.

Can you migrate us to WooCommerce, or from it to Shopify?

Both. We move products, customers and order history, map every URL to a 301 redirect and carry metadata across so search rankings are protected. Which direction makes sense depends on how much control you need and how much upkeep you want to own.

Do you support WooCommerce stores you did not build?

Yes. Support starts with a short audit of the theme, plugins and hosting, so we know what we are taking on before agreeing response times.

Planning a WooCommerce build or migration?

Tell us where it hurts. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

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