+314%
Net sales
E-Commerce · WooCommerce build
Boba Licious
A DIY store rebuilt into a proper WooCommerce business in three weeks. Net sales reached R482,934, up from R116,553.
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WooCommerce builds · South Africa
Custom online stores, built on WooCommerce.
A store built around your products and how you actually sell them — not a template with your logo dropped in. You own the whole thing, and nobody takes a cut of what you sell.
3–5 wks
To launch
0%
Sales commission
+314%
Best sales result
5.0 ★
Google rating
The platform
Why build a store on WooCommerce?
Because you end up owning the shop rather than renting it. There is no monthly fee simply to keep the store online, no percentage taken from every sale, and no limit on what can be changed. Hosted platforms are quicker to start on; WooCommerce costs less over the years and never holds your catalogue hostage.
You own it outright
The store, the data and the customer list are yours. If you ever want to move to another developer, everything goes with you.
No cut of your sales
You pay your payment gateway's fee and nothing else. On a busy store, a percentage taken off the top adds up to a salary.
It bends to your business
Unusual product types, trade pricing, booking rules — if the logic can be written down, it can be built rather than worked around.
Widely supported
One of the most used store platforms in the world, which means help, documentation and developers are never hard to find.
Custom build
What makes a custom build different from a template?
A template decides how your store works and you adapt to it. A custom build starts from your products, your margins and the way your buyers decide, then builds only what serves that. The visible difference is a store that fits; the invisible difference is far less weight, which is what makes it fast.
Built around your range
Categories, filters and variations shaped by what you actually sell, so the store still makes sense when the catalogue doubles.
Only what you use
Templates carry features for every business that might buy them. Yours carries only yours, which is most of where the speed comes from.
Designed to convert
Product pages built to answer the questions that stop a purchase, rather than to look impressive in a theme demo.
What we set up
What does a WooCommerce build include?
Everything needed to take a real order: catalogue and variations, payment gateways, delivery rules, tax settings, order emails and customer accounts — all tested with live test purchases before launch. You get a store that works on day one, not a shell you still have to configure.
Catalogue & variations
Products, categories, sizes, colours, bundles and stock, structured so adding the next hundred products stays easy.
Payments & checkout
Local gateways connected and the checkout stripped back to what is genuinely needed, because every extra field costs orders.
Delivery & tax rules
Shipping zones, courier rates and tax configured so the total a buyer sees is the total they are charged.
Order emails & accounts
Confirmations, shipping notices and customer accounts set up and branded, so buyers are never left wondering what happened.
The process
How does a WooCommerce build run?
In four stages over three to five weeks, with a fixed scope agreed before anything is built. Nothing goes live until real test orders have been placed and followed all the way through to the confirmation email and the stock count.
01
Discovery
Understand what you sell
Your range, your margins, how orders reach you now and what your team can realistically maintain. Some businesses need less than they think, and we will say so.
02
Structure
Catalogue and rules first
Categories, variations, delivery zones and tax mapped before design starts. Getting this wrong is the single most expensive thing to fix later.
03
Build
Built and test-purchased
Developed on staging, then real test orders end to end — payment, confirmation email, stock movement and refund all checked before anyone can buy.
04
Handover
Live, and yours to run
We launch, then show your team how to add products and process orders. Hosting and care is there if you would rather not maintain it yourself.
Proof
What has a WooCommerce rebuild produced?
A DIY store rebuilt properly on WooCommerce grew net sales 314% to R482,934, up from R116,553, in a three-week build. A retailer's redesign and SEO lifted organic traffic 184%. Both figures come from client Google Analytics and WooCommerce reporting, not projections.
+184%
Active users
Retail · Redesign & SEO
GX Slingshots
After redesign and SEO, Q1 2026 traffic alone passed the whole of the previous year, at an 8.9% click-through rate from search.
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Pricing
What does a WooCommerce build cost?
Builds are quoted at a fixed scope before work begins. The price follows how many products you carry and how complicated payments, delivery and pricing rules need to be — not how long the work happens to take us.
Questions, answered
WooCommerce questions we get asked most.
No harder than any other store platform once it is set up properly. Adding a product, checking an order and marking it shipped are a few clicks each. We walk your team through the handful of screens they will actually use, and skip the rest.
Hosting, a domain, and your payment gateway's transaction fees. Some stores also need a paid extension for a specific feature, which we flag during scoping rather than after. There is no platform fee and no commission on sales.
Usually, yes — variations, bundles, made-to-order items, minimum quantities and trade pricing are all workable. Anything genuinely unusual falls under custom development, and we scope it against a written specification first.
Yes. Products, customers and order history can usually be migrated, and we keep your existing URLs working so you do not lose the search rankings you have already earned. That work sits under store redesign.
Card details are handled by your payment gateway, not stored on your site, which is how the large majority of online stores work. Your side needs an SSL certificate, current software and regular backups — all of which are covered under hosting and care.
We build the catalogue structure and load an agreed number of products so the pattern is set, then hand over. If your range is large and already in a spreadsheet, importing it in bulk is far quicker than typing — send us what you have and we will tell you the fastest route.
Yes. We are based in Gauteng and build stores for businesses across South Africa, including Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Projects run remotely with scheduled review calls.
Free scoping call
Ready to start selling properly?
Book a free 30-minute call. Tell us what you sell and how orders reach you now, and we'll map out what the store needs to do and what it would take to build.