WooCommerce development is the design, build and customisation of online stores on WordPress using the WooCommerce plugin. I handle the full store stack — product catalog and variations, payment gateway integration (Stripe, PayPal, Afterpay/Clearpay, Klarna), shipping rate APIs (Australia Post eParcel PAC API, Royal Mail, UPS, FedEx), subscriptions and memberships, tax configuration, and checkout optimisation — so your store is fast, secure and ready to take orders. A straightforward WooCommerce build is typically live in two to three weeks on a fixed price.
Who it's for
What's included
How the process works
Scope & plan
We map your products, payment methods, shipping zones and any custom rules — subscriptions, memberships, B2B pricing tiers — then agree a clear build plan with a fixed price before any code is written.
Build on staging
I set up WooCommerce, the checkout, payment gateways and shipping integrations on a staging store — so nothing is ever tested on live and your existing site stays untouched throughout.
Test orders
We run real test orders through every payment method, shipping zone and tax rule to confirm every path — card, Afterpay/Clearpay, subscription renewals, refunds — works correctly before go-live.
Launch & support
Careful go-live with documentation, plus optional ongoing maintenance to keep WooCommerce, payment gateways and security plugins updated and performing as your store grows.
Common questions
Yes. I migrate products (including variants and images), customers, and order history from Shopify, Magento 2, Wix eCommerce, Squarespace Commerce, and other platforms into WooCommerce using WP All Import or platform-specific migration tools. 301 redirects are mapped from old product URLs to new ones so your Google rankings and any existing backlinks carry across — see also my full site migration service if you're also changing hosting or domain at the same time.
All major payment gateways — Stripe (including Stripe Link express checkout, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and card element), PayPal (standard, PayPal Commerce Platform, and Pay Later/Pay in 4), Afterpay/Clearpay (Block's official WooCommerce plugin), Klarna, Authorize.net, Square, and most region-specific gateways (Stripe AU, PayID/Osko via Stripe AU, Braintree, WorldPay, Sage Pay). I configure test-mode order flows before switching to live credentials, verify webhook handling, and confirm 3D Secure / SCA compliance for UK and European card payments.
Absolutely — a significant portion of my WooCommerce work is improving existing stores rather than building from scratch. Common improvement projects: checkout page speed (fixing LCP over 4 seconds caused by payment gateway scripts loading synchronously); fixing broken subscription renewals after a WooCommerce Subscriptions version update; adding Afterpay/Clearpay to an existing Stripe-only store; migrating from a slow shared host to Cloudways or Kinsta without losing order history. If the store has deeper structural problems, I'll tell you whether a targeted fix or a rebuild makes more commercial sense.
Yes. I set up recurring payments and subscription management using WooCommerce Subscriptions (Automattic's official plugin) — covering subscription products, variable subscription pricing, free trials, discounted renewal rates, and pause/cancel flows. For member-only content gating, I use WooCommerce Memberships alongside WooCommerce Subscriptions to create subscription-gated content. Stripe and PayPal both support automatic subscription renewal billing via the WooCommerce Subscriptions tokenisation layer. For more complex recurring billing requirements, custom API integrations with Stripe Billing or Chargebee are also an option.
WooCommerce checkout pages are notoriously difficult to optimise for Core Web Vitals because multiple payment gateway scripts (Stripe.js, PayPal SDK, Klarna), cookie consent banners, and live stock check AJAX requests all compete to load on the same page. I fix this by: deferring payment gateway scripts until the checkout form is interacted with (using Partytown or strategic defer attributes); using Stripe's lightweight payment element rather than the full Stripe.js embed where possible; excluding the cart and checkout pages from full-page caching (WP Rocket's cart exclusion list) while caching all other pages normally; and switching from legacy shortcode checkout to the new WooCommerce Blocks checkout (which ships significantly less JavaScript). Most stores reach LCP under 2.5 seconds on checkout after this work — which is the threshold where payment-page load time stops being a conversion factor.