WooCommerce Agency London
What is WooCommerce development?
WooCommerce development is the discipline of building, customising and scaling stores on the WooCommerce platform inside WordPress. For a London retailer in 2026 it covers custom block development, product type extensions, UK payment gateway integration, performance tuning at catalogue scale and the careful plugin selection that keeps the stack maintainable. Done well, WooCommerce is one of the most flexible commerce platforms available.
What our WooCommerce development covers
Custom Gutenberg blocks and product types
Most WooCommerce sites carry page builders that bloat the stack. We build Gutenberg-native custom blocks that your marketing team can edit, with theme support for reusable patterns. Product types extended where the catalogue needs more than simple, variable and grouped.
- ✓Native Gutenberg blocks, no Elementor or Divi
- ✓Reusable block patterns library
- ✓Custom product types where needed
- ✓Block templates documented
Database and query performance tuning
WooCommerce at scale slows down quickly without query and database optimisation. We audit slow queries, add indices where missing, optimise wp_options autoload, and configure object caching properly. Stores carrying 5,000+ SKUs need this work as a default.
- ✓Query Monitor audit and slow-query log review
- ✓Database index recommendations
- ✓Object caching (Redis or Memcached)
- ✓Autoload size monitoring
UK payment gateway integration
Stripe, GoCardless, Klarna, Clearpay, Worldpay, PayPal. We integrate UK payment gateways with proper handling of 3D Secure 2, Strong Customer Authentication and recurring payment edge cases. Tax handling for UK and EU configured correctly.
- ✓Gateway integration with SCA compliance
- ✓Recurring payment handling for subscriptions
- ✓Tax configuration for UK and EU sales
- ✓Refund and dispute workflow
Shipping rule and zone configuration
UK shipping is more complex than other markets. Royal Mail, ParcelForce, DPD, Yodel, Hermes, plus international zones. We configure shipping zones, weight bands, table-rate rules and live carrier rates from Royal Mail Click & Drop and similar APIs.
- ✓Shipping zone setup by carrier and region
- ✓Live carrier rate integration
- ✓Click & Drop or shipping platform sync
- ✓Free shipping and threshold logic
WooCommerce migrations
Migrating to WooCommerce from Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce or legacy systems. Products, customers, orders, content and SEO redirects all migrated in stages. Staging environment built first. Every URL change tracked in the redirect map. No equity left on the table.
- ✓Full data migration with parity audit
- ✓URL redirect map verified before launch
- ✓Customer password reset flow
- ✓Order history preserved
Plugin audit and consolidation
Most WooCommerce sites run 30 to 80 plugins. Each one adds load time, security risk and update friction. We audit, replace bloated plugins with native code or metafields, and consolidate where one plugin can do three jobs. Less surface area, less risk.
- ✓Plugin inventory with security and performance scoring
- ✓Replacement plan for bloated plugins
- ✓Consolidation opportunities mapped
- ✓Quarterly plugin review
Our WooCommerce development process
Audit and brief
Current site audited for performance, security and plugin bloat. Buyer journey mapped. Brief signed off before any code ships.
Build and integrate
Custom theme blocks. Payment gateways. Shipping configuration. Performance tuning from the first commit.
Migration with redirects
Data migrated in stages with parity check. URL redirect map verified on staging before DNS cutover.
Launch and optimise
Launch checklist applied. 30-day post-launch support included. Quarterly performance and security review thereafter.
"WooCommerce is content-led commerce. The right answer when products live alongside editorial, when configurations get complex, or when full stack ownership matters."
What Makes Us Worth Paying For
Transparency about what's working. Honesty about what isn't. A management structure where the person who built your account is the person managing it.
No page builders
Native Gutenberg blocks. Maintainable code.
UK-specific gateways
SCA, GoCardless and HMRC tax compliance.
Performance-disciplined
Query Monitor and object cache as standard.
Common Questions
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