Hosted platforms rent you a store: monthly fees, transaction cuts, and their rules about what you can customize. WooCommerce — the commerce engine behind roughly a third of all online stores — gives you the store outright, on WordPress, where you already own the content and SEO. For a growing business, the difference compounds monthly.
A store that sells is more than a theme with products in it. Mine launch with a catalogue structured for real browsing, payment and shipping configured for Canadian realities (taxes by province, Canada Post rates, currency), a checkout stripped of friction, and — the part most builds skip — product SEO: schema for price and availability, category pages that rank, and image optimization that keeps things fast at 200 products, not just 12.
I have built and grown stores from mushroom-cultivation supplies to wellness brands — you can see them in the portfolio. Already selling on Shopify or an aging Woo build? Migrations preserve products, customers and rankings. After launch, store-aware maintenance keeps checkout fast and safe. Tell me what you sell and get a plan and fixed quote within two days.
Orders doubled the quarter after relaunch. The product pages finally show up on Google.
Custom WooCommerce design around your products and buyers — home, category, product and cart, all conversion-first.
Products, variations, categories and attributes structured for browsing, filtering and search from day one.
Stripe, PayPal and more; Canadian tax rules and real shipping rates — configured and verified with live test orders.
Product schema, optimized category pages and clean URLs, so items get found by people searching to buy them.
Caching and image pipelines that stay fast as the catalogue grows, plus hardening where the money moves.
From Shopify or an old store: products, customers and order history moved, URLs redirected, rankings kept.
Free consult on products, volumes and workflows — then a written plan with fixed price and timeline.
Store design, then development on a private staging site with weekly check-ins as pages come alive.
Catalogue loaded, payments and shipping configured, and real test transactions run end-to-end — including refunds.
Checklist launch with analytics and training, then optional maintenance and growth work as orders build.
Typical small-business stores land between $5,000 and $15,000 depending on catalogue size and custom features; simple stores can come in under that. Fixed written quote before work starts — and unlike hosted platforms, no percentage of every sale afterwards.
Custom Shopify stores: theme design, store setup, migrations and the SEO that gets products found.
Technical SEO, keyword research and content working together to move your site up Google, measurably.
Landing pages, A/B tests and analytics that turn the traffic you already have into more enquiries.