Service / WooCommerce
WooCommerce development that doesn’t fall over in production.
You either need something built, or you need someone to finish what the last team walked away from. We do both. Custom plugins, storefront work, integrations with the systems you already run — written as real code, versioned, reviewed, tested on staging, and still working after the next WooCommerce update.
Symptoms
How WooCommerce development goes wrong.
- The last agency stopped replying halfway through the build
- Something breaks every time a plugin or core updates
- Every new feature means installing another plugin
- Nobody on your team will touch the checkout
- Your business rules live in snippets pasted into
functions.php - Two “custom features” write to the same data and one of them wins
What we do
Every feature ships as a plugin, not a snippet.
Open up most “custom WooCommerce” and you find functions.php snippets and copied template files nobody wants to touch. We do it the other way. Each feature becomes its own plugin, with a version number and declared dependencies, tested against HPOS and the checkout blocks, reviewed and run on staging before it ever sees a real order. Things still break sometimes. When they do, you get a changelog and a rollback instead of a dig through the theme.
Build it once, properly
- Custom plugins that hook in cleanly and stay out of the way
- Integrations with your ERP, REST APIs & webhooks
- HPOS & checkout blocks handled by default
- One codebase you own, instead of a shelf of plugins
The part customers see
- Child themes that survive the parent theme updating
- Block themes & template changes
- Checkout changes that don’t hack core
- A performance budget on every template we touch
Pick up someone else’s mess
- Half-finished and abandoned builds picked up and finished
- A code audit you get in writing, with a risk map
- Snippets moved out of the theme into versioned plugins
- Git, staging & a rollback path, set up properly
From the field
Customers on a subscriptions store were charged twice for the same renewal. Support refunded them one at a time. The previous developer blamed the payment gateway.
The same renewal-payment snippet sat in both the parent and the child theme. Each copy hooked the same renewal action. So every scheduled payment ran twice.
We deleted the duplicate and moved the logic into a versioned plugin that goes through review. An integration test now runs a renewal on staging before every deploy.
Questions
What people ask us about WooCommerce development.
What does WooCommerce development cost?
It depends on the work, so we triage for free first, then quote fixed or hourly. You see the estimate before anyone starts. If the work is ongoing, the Engineering retainer at $1,950/month buys dedicated senior capacity, and larger roadmaps run on Growth at $3,900/month. See plans.
Do we own the code you write?
Yes. All of it. Every plugin, theme and script lives in your repository from day one. If we stop working together, you keep a documented codebase any competent developer can pick up on a Monday.
Is your work compatible with HPOS and checkout blocks?
Yes. Everything we ship declares HPOS compatibility and gets tested against the block-based checkout. That’s where WooCommerce is going. Code written for the legacy order table is technical debt on arrival.
Can you take over a half-finished build from another agency?
Yes, and we do it often. We start with an audit: what’s there, what actually works, what’s about to hurt you. Then you get a written risk map and a call on each part, keep, refactor or rebuild. That happens before anyone writes new code.
How do you make sure new features don’t break the store?
Code review first. Then a staging site running production-like data. Then a deploy you can roll back. Checkout and payment paths get automated tests on top of that. Nobody on our side edits anything live on production.
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Free triage
Tell us what needs building. Or unbreaking.
Send us the brief, in whatever shape it’s in. A senior WooCommerce engineer reads it and replies within two hours with a first take on scope and risk. It’s free and you’re not committing to anything.