WooCommerce stores that hold up
on the day you need them to
Most ecommerce problems don't show up on a quiet Tuesday. They show up when you send a campaign to 100,000 people and the site goes down. We build WordPress and WooCommerce stores on AWS infrastructure sized for that moment, then stay on to run them.
Illustrative monitoring view
Most growing stores end up in the same place
The site was built by someone who has moved on. Page load has crept up. The database hasn't been touched in two years. Inventory is updated by hand into a spreadsheet. And nobody is sure who to call when checkout breaks at 9pm on a sale day.
We take that whole layer off your plate: ecommerce platform management, end to end.
Nobody owns the build
The original developer is gone and no one has the full picture of how it fits together.
Load time keeps creeping
Database bloat, unoptimised images and twenty plugins, quietly costing conversions.
Stock lives in a spreadsheet
Inventory and orders are re-keyed by hand, so the store and the books never quite agree.
No one to call at 9pm
Checkout fails mid-promotion and there's no monitoring, no runbook and no number to ring.
Most agencies run your campaign. We tell you what it should have cost.
We run SMS and email campaigns to lists of 100,000+ from your own customer data, and we run them cheaply. We build custom send infrastructure instead of leaning on off-the-shelf bulk tools, and we have gone directly to Twilio to negotiate discounted rates on a client's volume.
Most businesses pay list price because nobody asks. On a six-figure send list, that one conversation changes your campaign economics.
Illustrative console view. Your own delivery and cost figures sit here once we have run a send.
“Before a single message goes out, we go to the carrier and argue the rate down on your volume. Same list, same campaign, and the client keeps the difference on every send after that.”
Ecommerce platform management, without the headcount
Ecommerce platform management covers everything below (either built custom or configured properly for your store), not a plugin stack with twenty dependencies hoping for the best.
Build and rebuild
Stores built for your catalogue, not a template's idea of it, with custom code in place of plugin stacks.
- →WordPress and WooCommerce builds
- →Rebuilds of stores that outgrew their build
- →Headless front ends on your existing back end
- →Fewer dependencies to carry
Scaling and traffic
AWS hosting configured for your actual traffic pattern, spikes included, and tested before the campaign, not after.
- →Sale-day and campaign-day preparation
- →Caching, CDN and query optimisation
- →Load testing ahead of the event
Performance
Page load work across the full stack, plus the database cleanup that's usually the single biggest win on an older store.
- →Images, scripts, queries and hosting
- →Core Web Vitals for conversion and ranking
- →Database optimisation and cleanup
Backups, crashes and recovery
Backups you can actually restore from, with the restore procedure tested so recovery is routine rather than an emergency.
- →Scheduled backups and tested restores
- →Database crash recovery and repair
- →Monitoring that tells us before customers do
Custom shipping
Off-the-shelf shipping rules break as soon as your business gets specific. We build the model around how you actually ship.
- →Zone, weight and dimension logic
- →Carrier rules and product-specific handling
- →Free shipping thresholds that behave as intended
Inventory and systems integration
Stock levels that reflect reality across systems, and orders that land in your books without manual re-entry.
- →Digital inventory connections
- →Finance and accounting integration
- →Connections to the tools your team already uses
Payment processing
Gateways set up properly, with the money operations that follow handled inside your admin.
- →Gateway setup and integration
- →Subscriptions and recurring billing
- →Refunds, disputes and failed payments
SMS and email at scale
Twilio-based SMS to 100,000+ customers with email running alongside it, from the same customer data.
- →Custom send infrastructure, not a bulk tool
- →Negotiated carrier rates on your volume
- →Segmentation, timing and routing tuned for cost
- →Consent, opt-out and sender identification
Day-to-day operations
The ecommerce platform management work that keeps a store selling: new products, new pages, new promotions, handled the same week you ask.
- →Ongoing site and content updates
- →Plugin and core updates, staged first
- →Feature development as the business changes


Three ways to start with us
Most engagements start with an audit. We look at your hosting, your database, your load times and your plugin stack, and tell you what's actually costing you money. It's the fastest route into ecommerce platform management shaped around your store.
Full management
Full ecommerce platform management: build, hosting, performance, integrations, campaigns and daily updates.
Project work
A rebuild, a migration to AWS, a headless front end, a custom shipping model, or a performance rescue.
Campaign support
You're running a big promotion and need the site to survive it. We prepare the infrastructure and stand by on the day.
Illustrative store front end
We have run stores, not just built them
Backups, restores, database crashes and 9pm checkout failures are familiar territory. That experience is what shapes how we build, and what ecommerce platform management has to cover in practice.
WooCommerce development, answered
Running prize draws or competitions as well? See our raffle & competition platforms page, or our Halaxy integration work. Want to see what we build from scratch? Explore the custom software platforms we designed, built and still run.
Need a site rather than a store? Start with web development, or just get in touch.
Built on WooCommerce, hosted on AWS, with campaigns sent through Twilio.
Start with an audit
Send us your store. We'll look at your hosting, load times, database and plugin stack, and tell you what's slowing you down and what it costs to fix.
Book a store audit
We'll only use your details to respond to this enquiry. We don't need admin access to run an initial audit.