E-Commerce Development Agency for UK Businesses
One in-house team building GBP-ready stores on Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento — with a working day that overlaps yours for most of a UK morning and early afternoon, not a single early call.
What you actually get
A store you can actually run yourselves
Product uploads, inventory sync and order management get handed over with documentation your team can follow, not a support contract you're quietly locked into. We build the admin workflow around how your team will actually use the store day to day — adding a SKU, adjusting stock, processing a return — and walk someone through it before we call the project done. The alternative is a store only the agency who built it can operate, which turns every catalog change into a billable request, and that dependency tends to surface at the worst moment — right when a seasonal sale needs a fast update.
GDPR-aware data handling and GBP checkout, from the first scope call
Cookie consent, customer data handling and checkout flows are built with GDPR in mind as a default rather than retrofitted after the fact, alongside GBP-ready payment through Stripe or PayPal tested against real declined-card and timeout scenarios before launch. None of that is bolted on at the end — it's part of the initial conversation about what the store needs to do, the same way it would be for any store built for a UK audience, so a compliance gap doesn't surface after real customer data is already flowing through checkout.
A working day that genuinely overlaps yours
Because Pune is only 4.5 to 5.5 hours ahead of the UK depending on daylight saving, our 10:00–19:00 IST studio hours line up with a UK morning through early afternoon — a real multi-hour window most days, not a single call squeezed in before your day starts. For checkout testing and catalog reviews specifically, that means more of the back-and-forth can happen live rather than over an async thread, which shortens how long a small fix or a scope clarification takes to land.
Migration mapped before a single product moves
If you're consolidating from an older cart system onto Shopify or WooCommerce, the process starts with mapping — every product, customer record and order history verified against the new platform before anything cuts over, adjusted for whatever your current system actually exports. We run both platforms in parallel afterward, long enough to catch any discrepancy, so the old store doesn't go offline until we're confident nothing's been guessed at or rebuilt from memory.
How this actually works
Why the timezone gap with the UK is smaller than it looks on a map
Our studio runs Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00 IST. The UK sits 4.5 hours behind India for most of the year and 5.5 hours behind on GMT — either way, that overlaps a genuine chunk of a UK working day, roughly 9am to 1 or 2pm UK time, not just a narrow early-morning slot squeezed in before your day gets going.
That's enough for checkout reviews, catalog walkthroughs and quick clarifications to happen live, the same day, without either side working unusual hours. Anything outside that window still runs async — a written brief, a Loom recording of an admin workflow, a staging link to the store — so work keeps moving through our afternoon even after your live overlap ends for the day, and you're not blocked waiting on a single scheduled call to move the project forward.
Invoicing is in GBP or USD, whichever is simpler for your accounting, settled by international transfer or card against a fixed quote and written contract signed before work starts. We're a Pune-based studio rather than a UK-registered company with a local office, and we'd rather be upfront about that than let a virtual UK address suggest otherwise.
Built for UK e-commerce clients
- GBP or USD invoicing
- GDPR-aware checkout & data handling
- Shopify, WooCommerce & Magento
- Multi-hour daily overlap
Guide
UK E-Commerce Pricing Guide
What an E-Commerce Store Actually Costs in the UK
Public UK pricing guides put a basic Shopify or WooCommerce store, using a purchased theme with light customization, at roughly £800 to £3,000 through a freelancer or small studio. A custom-designed build with standard integrations — payment gateway, email marketing, basic inventory sync — typically runs £3,000 to £12,000. A Magento build or a store needing real custom functionality, like the tiered catalog work we did on MNG Makhana's WooCommerce store, sits in the £12,000 to £60,000-plus range depending on complexity.
VAT handling is one of the details that trips up a UK build more than most markets — a checkout that displays and calculates VAT correctly by default saves a support headache later, and it's not automatic on every platform out of the box. Post-Brexit EU sales add another layer worth confirming during scoping rather than discovering after launch.
These are general market figures aggregated from public UK pricing guides, not what we charge — we scope every project against its actual catalog and integrations, with a fixed quote agreed in writing before work starts rather than a range that grows once you're committed.
- Basic theme build: £800–3,000 — small catalog, minimal customization.
- Custom build with integrations: £3,000–12,000 — standard payment and inventory setup.
- Magento / complex custom build: £12,000–60,000+ — large catalog, custom functionality.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
Depends on what you're starting from more than any preference on our end. If you're already on WordPress, WooCommerce is usually the path of least resistance; Shopify suits a brand that wants to launch without taking on server management; and Magento only earns its extra complexity once a catalog is genuinely large. We size the recommendation to your actual store.
Yes — cookie consent and how checkout handles customer data both get scoped with GDPR in mind before the build starts, not added afterward. That said, we're developers rather than lawyers, so for anything specific to your industry we'd still point you to your own legal review rather than treat our default approach as a substitute for it.
We can invoice in GBP or USD, whichever is simpler for your accounting — the quote is fixed either way before any work starts.
No — we're a Pune-based in-house team, but the timezone overlap is genuine enough (roughly 9am to 1 or 2pm UK time) that live calls are a normal, regular part of the week rather than a rare early-morning exception.
Yes — VAT display and invoicing rules get configured into checkout as part of the build, but VAT registration itself and how you handle post-Brexit EU sales specifically are questions for your accountant, not something we'll decide on your behalf.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our e-commerce development page.