WooCommerce Website Design

WooCommerce stores start from $8,000 + GST.

Where yours lands comes down to three things: how many products you sell and how they need to be organised, what the store has to connect to (payment, freight, accounting or stock systems), and whether you are migrating an existing catalogue or starting fresh.

A straightforward store with a tidy catalogue sits near the bottom of that range. Multi-category stores with integrations and a migration behind them sit higher.

We quote on scope rather than a package price, so you are not paying for functionality you will never use. Tell us what you sell and we will give you a firm number.

Most WooCommerce builds take 8 to 12 weeks from kick-off to launch.

The two things that move that timeline most are product data and integrations. If your catalogue is clean and ready to import, the build moves quickly. If products still need photographing, writing, or untangling from an old system, that becomes the critical path rather than the build itself.

We will give you a realistic date at quote stage and keep you posted as we go.

The short version is ownership. WooCommerce is open source and runs on your own WordPress hosting, so the store, the data, and the customer list are all yours. There is no monthly platform subscription and no per-transaction platform fee on top of what your payment provider charges.

It also means no limits on how the store works. If you need a product configurator, trade pricing, or a checkout that behaves differently for certain customers, that is a build decision rather than a question of whether the platform allows it.

Shopify is a good product and genuinely simpler if you want to be hands-off. If that suits you better we will tell you honestly.

Yes. We regularly move stores across from Shopify, Trade Me, Squarespace and Wix, as well as older custom and legacy carts that have aged out.

A migration covers products, categories, images, customer accounts and order history, as far as the source platform will let us export it. We also map your old URLs to the new ones with redirects, so the search rankings you have built up carry across instead of getting reset.

If you are moving off a marketplace like Trade Me, this is also the point where you stop renting your customer relationships and start owning them.

We have set up Windcave, Stripe, POLi and direct bank transfer, along with buy-now-pay-later options including Afterpay, Laybuy and Klarna.

Beyond those, WordPress has a large ecosystem of payment providers behind it. If you already have a merchant facility with your bank, or a provider you would rather stay with, there is almost always a way to connect it.

Which option suits you usually comes down to your fees, your average order value, and whether you have a merchant facility set up already. Most stores run a card gateway plus one buy-now-pay-later option.

Completely. The site, the database, the product data and the customer list are yours, sitting on hosting in your name.

That matters more than it sounds. If you ever want to move to a different host, or a different agency, you can take the whole store with you. There is nothing locking you to us and nothing locking you to a platform vendor.

There are three ongoing costs to plan for.

Hosting. Our WooCommerce hosting starts at $450 + GST per month. Stores work a server considerably harder than a brochure site does, so they need infrastructure built for the job rather than cheap shared hosting.

Extensions. WooCommerce itself is free. You only pay for extensions if your store needs specific functionality such as advanced shipping rules or subscriptions, and those are usually an annual licence.

Payment fees. Charged by your payment provider on each transaction. Those go to them, not to us and not to WooCommerce.

Yes, and most of our clients do. Adding products, updating prices, running a sale, processing orders and issuing refunds are all things you handle from the WordPress dashboard without needing us.

We set the store up so the day-to-day jobs are obvious rather than buried, and we walk your team through it before launch.

WooCommerce has a reputation for being slow, and that reputation comes almost entirely from stores built on bloated page-builder themes with thirty plugins stacked on top.

We build custom rather than assembling a theme, which means the store only loads what it actually needs. Combine that with proper hosting, caching configured for e-commerce, and optimised product images, and a WooCommerce store is quick.

Speed matters commercially here. A slow product page loses the sale before the customer ever reaches the checkout.

Yes. Most New Zealand stores need shipping rules rather than one flat rate, so we set up things like free-shipping thresholds, rural delivery surcharges, different pricing for the North and South Islands, and separate rules for bulky items.

We also set up live rates from NZ Post and CourierPost, so the price your customer sees at checkout is the real one rather than an estimate you end up absorbing.

Click and collect is straightforward as well, if you have a shop or depot customers can pick up from.