Storefront design
The shop front does the selling. Category and product pages are designed around your photography, with browsing paths that match how customers actually shop — by occasion, by category, by price, or by collection.
Service
E-commerce Development
Online stores built around the way your products are actually browsed and bought — from a small catalogue with WhatsApp enquiries to a multi-category storefront with payments, accounts and order management.
Who it is for
E-commerce Development suits businesses in these situations.
Retail businesses selling through social media that need a real storefront
Brands with a catalogue too large to manage by message
Businesses that need enquiry-based ordering rather than card checkout
Stores outgrowing a hosted platform they cannot customise
What is included
What e-commerce development covers.
Each part below is delivered as standard within the agreed scope — none of it is a premium upgrade.
Product catalogue
A catalogue structure that holds up as the range grows: categories and sub-categories, variants such as size, colour or material, stock status, and product content fields that keep every listing consistent.
- Categories, sub-categories and collections
- Product variants and options
- Search and filtering across the catalogue
- Consistent product content structure for SEO
Cart and checkout
A checkout designed to be finished. Cart state that survives a page refresh, a short address step, visible shipping and totals before payment, and clear validation and error messages when something goes wrong.
Payment integration
Integration with a payment gateway you hold the account for — so settlements, refunds and payouts stay in your name. Card details are handled by the gateway, never stored on your site.
Order management
Orders arrive somewhere you can act on them: an order list with status, customer details, items and totals, plus email notification when a new order comes in.
WhatsApp enquiry and ordering
Not every business wants card checkout on day one. Where it suits the audience, product pages can hand off to WhatsApp with the item pre-filled, so an enquiry arrives with context instead of "is this available?".
Admin capabilities
An admin area where you add products, edit prices, mark items out of stock and read orders — without needing a developer for routine changes.
Mobile optimisation
Most storefront traffic is mobile. Product grids, image galleries, filters and the checkout are all built and tested on small screens first.
Security considerations
HTTPS across the site, payment handled by the gateway rather than your server, server-side validation on everything a customer submits, hashed admin passwords and authenticated admin routes.
- HTTPS enforced sitewide
- No card data stored on your infrastructure
- Server-side validation on every submitted field
- Authenticated, role-checked admin endpoints
Process
How the work runs.
Four stages, each with a clear output, so you always know what is happening and what comes next.
Step 01
Catalogue planning
We map your products, categories and variants first — the data model decides how easily the store grows later.
Step 02
Storefront design
Category, product, cart and checkout screens designed together so the buying path is continuous.
Step 03
Build & integrate
Storefront, admin and payment gateway built and connected, with test orders running end to end.
Step 04
Launch & handover
Live payment keys, test purchase verified, and a walkthrough of adding products and processing orders.
Deliverables
What you receive.
- Responsive storefront with category and product pages
- Cart and checkout flow
- Payment gateway integration using your merchant account
- Order list and order detail in an admin area
- Product management: add, edit, stock status, pricing
- Order notification email
- WhatsApp enquiry handoff where required
- Launch checks including a live test transaction
Technologies
What it is built with.
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- SQL databases
- Payment gateway APIs
- Tailwind CSS
Tooling is chosen per project rather than by habit. If something simpler will do the job and leave you easier to support later, that is what gets used.
Related work
Projects involving this service.
Real, shipped projects — with what was built, and nothing invented about the results.
Questions
E-commerce Development — common questions.
Yes, and that is deliberate. The gateway account is registered to your business, so settlements and refunds are in your control. We handle the integration.
More answers on the full FAQ page.
Related services
Often delivered alongside this.
Next step
Ready to talk about e-commerce development?
Tell us what you need and you will get a straight answer on scope, approach and cost — with no obligation.
- Direct communication
- Written scope before work starts
- No jargon