E-commerce Platform
£2,499
When Off-the-Shelf
Won’t Cut It.
Fully custom e-commerce platform: bespoke architecture, custom checkout flows, advanced inventory, multi-vendor support. For businesses Shopify can’t handle and Magento makes too painful.
Revenue
£82.4k
+18% WoW
Orders
1,247
+12% WoW
AOV
£66
+5% WoW
Vendors
42
+3 WoW
Revenue, last 14 days
Off-the-shelf platforms cover 80% of e-commerce brilliantly. Bespoke is for the 20%: the unusual pricing, the complex inventory, the multi-vendor model, the conversion-killing checkout you can’t change.
Shopify and WooCommerce make you fight their checkout. Bespoke means you design it for your conversion, your funnel, your unusual product configuration, not theirs.
No “you’ve hit Shopify Plus pricing” surprise. Custom platform scales to whatever volume you can throw at it, and the hosting cost grows linearly, not in £2,000/month jumps.
The models off-the-shelf platforms struggle with: marketplace with vendor onboarding and payouts, B2B with tiered pricing and credit terms, recurring billing with custom dunning. Built in from day one.
When standard platforms can’t accommodate your business model, we build the right thing.
Marketplace platforms where multiple vendors list and sell. Vendor onboarding, commission, payouts, ratings, dispute handling.
Tiered pricing, tax-exempt accounts, bulk ordering, credit terms, quote requests. Built for B2B distribution at scale.
Recurring billing, subscription management, dunning, cancellation flows. Box subscriptions, refills, members-only.
Custom-built when no off-the-shelf fits: unusual pricing, complex inventory, specialised industries.
From discovery and architecture through to launch and 30-day support, every project is fully owned and documented.
Discovery + architecture
System design + data model
Custom UI/UX
Designed for conversion
Modern stack build
Next.js, Node.js, Postgres
Payment + checkout
Custom flows, Stripe Connect
Inventory + orders
Real-time stock, pipeline
Admin dashboards
Order, product, vendor mgmt
Full source code
Git repository handover
30-day support
Post-launch fixes incl.
No Shopify Plus rent, no transaction fees on top of Stripe’s, no platform owning your customer data. Everything below is yours from go-live:
For most stores, off-the-shelf wins. Here’s when bespoke is the right call.
Below £100k/year revenue or simple product range? Try our E-commerce Website service first.
A structured 5-stage process. Weekly demos. You sign off at every gate before code goes near production.
Workshop your model. Architecture proposal. Fixed quote.
UI/UX in Figma: storefront + admin + checkout signed off.
Iterative build with weekly demos and a working staging site.
Load testing, payment testing, UAT with your team.
Production launch, monitoring on, training, 30-day support.
A native customer app on top of your platform: iOS + Android.
Connect inventory, ERP, fulfilment and accounting to your platform.
Smart product recommendations, order routing, support automation.
E-commerce Platform Development
Project price · Bespoke · Full source code
Next.js + Stripe Connect. Custom checkout. Multi-vendor capable. Documented, scalable, owned by you. Live in 8-16 weeks.
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