Ecommerce website development company — WooCommerce, Shopify, or custom.
We build online stores on WooCommerce, Shopify or a custom stack — product architecture, collection and product pages, checkout, payments, shipping, GST — and connect them to the accounting, inventory and shipping systems your back office already runs. Stores start at ₹2,50,000 / $7,500 and take four to six weeks.
Choosing the platform, with the case against each
This is the decision that costs the most to reverse, and it is usually made by whoever you asked rather than by what you sell.
WooCommerce
You already run WordPress, and content matters as much as the catalogue
You own the whole stack, there is no platform fee on your revenue, and the store lives alongside the rest of your site rather than on a subdomain. Business rules can be anything you can write, which matters if yours are unusual.
You are responsible for hosting, security, updates and PCI scope. That is a real ongoing cost, and it is why we will not build one for someone who is not going to keep it maintained.
Shopify
You want it hosted, PCI handled, and you sell across currencies
The platform absorbs the infrastructure and the compliance. Multi-currency and multi-region are configuration. The app ecosystem covers most of what a growing store wants without custom code.
Platform fees plus transaction fees plus app subscriptions add up, and unusual business logic fights the platform. Once you are working around Shopify more than with it, you have outgrown the reason you chose it.
Custom or headless
The pricing logic is the product, or the catalogue is enormous
B2B quoting, contract pricing, inventory driven by an ERP, or a catalogue where the storefront has to be built for speed at a scale platforms struggle with.
It is the most expensive option to build and the only one where you carry every cost forever. Genuinely right for a minority of stores, and we will tell you if you are not one of them.
Ecommerce website design that is judged on orders
Store design is not decoration. Five things carry almost all of it, and four of them are decided before anyone opens a design tool.
Collection pages that stay fast
The page most people land on and the one most likely to be slow. Images, filters and pagination decided for a phone on a bad connection.
Filtering that actually filters
Built on structured product data rather than tags invented as you went along, so faceted browsing works and keeps working.
A product page built to answer objections
Price, availability, delivery, returns and the photograph that shows the thing at real size — in that order, above the fold, on a phone.
Checkout with nothing extra in it
Fewer fields, no forced account, obvious payment options, and a shipping cost that appears before the last step rather than after it.
Trust where it is needed
Returns policy, contact route, delivery timelines and payment marks near the button, not buried in the footer.
What the store has to talk to
The storefront is the visible half. The half that decides whether the business gets easier is what happens after someone presses buy.
- Payments
- Razorpay, Cashfree and UPI for India; Stripe, PayPal and Apple Pay internationally. Including the webhook handling that decides whether a failed payment becomes a lost order or a retried one.
- Shipping and 3PL
- Shiprocket and Delhivery in India, ShipStation and carrier APIs elsewhere. Rates at checkout, label generation, and tracking that reaches the customer.
- Tax and GST
- GST-compliant invoicing for Indian stores, and destination-based tax rules where you sell across borders.
- Accounting
- Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Xero and Tally. Some of these are an app you install in an afternoon and some need real work — we will tell you which yours is before you pay us for it.
- Inventory and ERP
- NetSuite, SAP Business One, Odoo, Zoho Inventory. Two-way stock sync is the hard one, and it is hard because of your rules, not the API.
- CRM and feeds
- HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, and product feeds for marketplaces and shopping channels.
Some of these are a connector you can install yourself in an afternoon, and we will point you at it rather than invoice you for it. The ones that need building are covered in more depth on Shopify integrations.
Price and timeline
From ₹2,50,000 / $7,500 — a store with a catalogue in the tens, standard payments and shipping, four to six weeks. Catalogue size and integration count are what move it. Terms are 50% / 40% / 10%.
After launch
Stores default to Care Pro rather than Essential — four hours a month, a 24-hour response, extension updates and a quarterly speed pass. A store that breaks quietly loses money by the hour.
Shopify specifically
If you already know it is Shopify, the theme work, app blocks, Plus builds and migrations have their own page — Shopify development — with store care afterwards.
Ecommerce questions, answered
How much does it cost to design an ecommerce website?
From ₹2,50,000 / $7,500 for a store built properly on WooCommerce or Shopify: design, product architecture, payments, shipping and tax, and about four to six weeks. The two things that move it are catalogue size and how many other systems the store has to talk to. A two-way sync with an ERP can cost as much again as the storefront.
How do I design an ecommerce website?
Start from the product data, not the home page. Decide what a product is, what varies, and how someone would narrow a hundred of them down to three — because that decides your collection pages, your filters and half your design. Then design the product page to answer the questions that stop someone buying, and the checkout to remove everything that is not the purchase.
Is ecommerce still worth it?
For a business with a product and an audience, yes — but the money has moved from having a store to running one well. The build is now the cheap part. What separates stores that work is product data somebody maintains, delivery that does what the page promised, and a site fast enough on a phone that people finish. If you are not going to invest in those, a marketplace listing may serve you better and we will say so.
WooCommerce or Shopify for an Indian business?
Shopify if you want it handled and you are comfortable with the platform fee — Razorpay and Cashfree both work, and GST invoicing is solved. WooCommerce if you already run WordPress, want no revenue share, or need business rules the platform resists. For most Indian small businesses selling under a few hundred orders a month, the honest answer is that either works and the deciding factor is who will maintain it.
Can you migrate my existing store?
Yes — products, variants, customers, orders, reviews and, most importantly, a 301 for every old URL. We rebuild on a staging store, run your real data through it and test checkout before anything switches. Moving onto Shopify specifically is covered on the Shopify page; moving hosts or systems more generally is a website migration.
Who handles PCI compliance?
On Shopify, Shopify does. On WooCommerce it depends on how payments are taken: with a hosted gateway like Razorpay or Stripe the card details never touch your server and your scope is small, which is how we build every store. We do not build stores that take card numbers directly, and you should be wary of anyone who offers to.
What about GST invoicing?
Handled at the store for Indian sales — GST-compliant invoices with the right fields, HSN codes on products, and place-of-supply rules applied. Where you already run an accounting system we would rather push the invoice there than duplicate the logic in two places.
What happens after launch?
A store loses money silently when it breaks, so ecommerce defaults to Care Pro rather than Essential: four hours a month, a 24-hour response, app and extension updates, and a quarterly speed pass. A store nobody is watching is the single most expensive kind of website to own.
Get a quote
What you sell, roughly how many products, and what the store has to connect to. If a platform you have already chosen is the wrong one for that, we would rather say it now than in month three.