For businesses that sell online or are about to start

eCommerce Development

We build online stores that load fast, are easy for you to run and connect to your payments, couriers and accounting tools. Custom-built or on WooCommerce or PrestaShop, whichever suits your catalog and budget.

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Overview

eCommerce development for online stores that have to run smoothly every day

An online store is a catalog, a checkout and a pile of connections: payments, couriers, stock, invoices. We build all of it, so an order placed on your site reaches the courier and your accounts without anyone retyping it.

We pick the platform with you. WooCommerce or PrestaShop when they fit your catalog, a custom build when they don’t. Either way you get a store that’s fast on phones and simple for your team to run.

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  • Categories, filters, search and product pages built around your catalog and for search engines.

  • Guest checkout, the payment methods your customers use, clear shipping options and error messages that help.

  • Stock, couriers, invoicing and your ERP or CRM, linked so orders flow through without retyping.

Our projects

Featured work

A selection of products we’ve shipped.

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Scope

What’s included in eCommerce development

What an online store project covers, from the first workshop to the weeks after launch. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted separately.

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Plan

  • Workshop on your catalog, customers and goals
  • Choice of platform, explained honestly
  • Store structure, categories and URLs
  • Integration plan for payments, couriers and accounting

Build

  • Product catalog, filters and search
  • Cart, checkout and customer accounts
  • Payments, shipping and tax rules
  • An admin your team can run without a developer

Launch and grow

  • Import of your products and past orders
  • Speed, SEO and analytics set up
  • Testing of the complete order flow
  • Training, documentation and support

Recognition

Recognized by the industry

Independent awards and client reviews, not just our own word.

5.0
Average rating on TechBehemoths & Clutch
30+
clients across the globe
7+
years of building digital products

Some of the companies we work with

Why Softclaire

A store earns its money at the checkout.

Visitors who reach the cart already want to buy. Every extra field, slow page or confusing shipping option loses some of them. We build the checkout first and the rest around it.

Tell us about your store

  • Fast on phones

    Most shoppers browse on a phone. We keep pages light so product pages open quickly even on a mobile connection.

  • The payments and couriers you use

    Cards, bank transfer and cash on delivery where your market uses it, and the couriers your customers expect, connected from the start.

  • Orders without retyping

    An order goes to your courier and your invoicing tool automatically, so nobody copies data between systems.

  • Yours to keep

    Code, data and accounts are in your name, and customer data is handled under GDPR.

What we build

What we build for online stores

The parts of a store that decide whether orders arrive, and arrive correctly.

  • Product catalogs

    Categories, variants, filters and search, with product pages that sell and that search engines can read.

  • Checkout and payments

    A short path from cart to paid order, with card payments, transfers and the options your customers expect.

  • Courier and shipping

    Shipping rates, label creation and tracking links from the couriers you work with.

  • Invoicing and accounting

    Invoices created automatically for each order and passed to your accounting tool.

  • B2B ordering and customer accounts

    Company accounts, price lists, order history and reordering for business customers.

  • Stock and ERP sync

    Stock levels and orders kept in line between the store and the system your warehouse uses.

Process

How an online store project runs

Short cycles, with a store you can click through and place a test order on early.

  1. Discovery and platform choice

    We go through your catalog, customers and systems, then agree the platform, the scope and a fixed price per phase.

  2. Structure and templates

    Categories, URLs and the templates for category, product and checkout pages, reviewed with you before the build.

  3. Build and connect

    We build the store and connect payments, couriers and invoicing, with a test order at the end of each sprint.

  4. Test, launch and grow

    We test the whole order flow, import your data, launch, and keep improving what the first orders show.

Technology

Technology behind our online stores

Proven platforms and the providers your customers know, chosen per store.

  • Platforms

    • WooCommerce
    • PrestaShop
    • custom builds

  • Front-end

    • React
    • Next.js
    • Tailwind CSS

  • Back-end

    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • Node.js
    • MySQL

  • Payments

    • Stripe
    • PayPal
    • Netopia
    • PayU

  • Couriers and invoicing

    • Fan Courier
    • Sameday
    • Cargus
    • SmartBill
    • Oblio

Engagement models

Ways to work with us on your online store

Build the store at a fixed price, keep improving it month by month and keep it selling after launch. You always talk to the people who build it.

  • Fixed-price online store

    Most common

    Platform choice and plan first, then the store built, connected and launched in phases with fixed prices.

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    • Phase one: platforms and integrations compared
    • A test order at the end of every sprint
    • Code and accounts in your name

    Best for a new store or a rebuild.

  • Ongoing store development

    Monthly

    Monthly capacity for new features, integrations and checkout improvements, guided by your orders and customers.

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    • Priorities set with you every sprint
    • Changes based on sales and customer data
    • Scale up or down with notice

    Best once the store is live and selling.

  • Store maintenance and support

    After launch

    Updates, monitoring, backups and fixes, so the store keeps selling safely.

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    • Platform, plugin and security updates
    • Uptime, payments and backups watched
    • Bug fixes within agreed response times

    Best for stores that can’t afford downtime.

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Testimonials

What our clients say

Reviews from founders and teams we have built products with, also published on Clutch and TechBehemoths.

  • TechBehemoths

    Softclaire is development company unlike (many) others. Friendly and flexible, good with deadlines and trustworthy. Experts in multiple fields. We are very happy to work with them as development partner. Very much recommended!

    Arno Bakker Co-owner at Mediascape
  • TechBehemoths

    We have been working with Softclaire for almost 2 years now, on our main product - an online gaming website, play-games.com. Being in the web games niche, things change fast so we need to adapt on the go - and we can trust them with this. They are easy to work with, proactive, and manage work flow very well. We value their transparency and their perseverance in every task they undertake.

    Stefan Naghi Co-founder at FIRST PIXEL SRL
  • TechBehemoths

    We approached Softclaire with nothing more than an idea and a few initial mockups for our SaaS product. Their team stepped in guiding us through strategic planning, development and devops. We are still working with them for ongoing maintenance and feature updates. If you're looking for a reliable, long-term technical partner, I highly recommend them.

    Alexandru Mihalache
  • Clutch

    Within 6 months of our app launch we have gained 750 users. We have had a huge boost in traffic on the platform since launch and have multiple 5 star ratings on the App Store. We have also had comments from other software developers commenting on how brilliant the app is structured.

    Nassouh Kabbani CFO at Pocketask Inc.
  • Clutch

    The team delivered everything on time and provided a mind map to showcase the progress. Overall, they were very flexible and committed to meeting expectations.

    Mihai Brebu Director at Puapi
  • TechBehemoths

    We had an idea for a tech startup in the medical niche, but we lacked the expertise to design and develop a product of this scale. Thankfully we found an amazing team that guided us through the process every step of the way.

    Aron Dumitrache Medtech Innovator
  • TechBehemoths

    A few months ago, I contacted them for a custom Perfex CRM module and the e-Invoice module. Their work is of exceptional quality, and I am extremely satisfied with both the quality and the budget. I highly recommend Softclaire to all businesses and investors!

    Mirela Marin
  • TechBehemoths

    Softclaire created a beautiful, functional website for us, exactly as we instructed.

    Paul Radovan CEO at Print Services

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

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How much does it cost to build an online store?
It depends on the platform, the number of products and variants, and the integrations. A store on a standard platform with a few connections is a modest project, a custom store with ERP sync and B2B pricing is a large one. After a short discovery we give you a fixed price per phase.
How long does it take to build an online store?
A store on WooCommerce or PrestaShop with standard features can take a few weeks to a couple of months, depending on the catalog and integrations. A custom build takes longer. We agree the timeline with the scope and show you the store as it grows.
Which platform should I choose: WooCommerce, PrestaShop or custom?
If your catalog and checkout are fairly standard, WooCommerce or PrestaShop are faster and cheaper, and your team can manage them easily. A custom build makes sense when you have unusual pricing, B2B rules or deep integrations. We tell you which one we’d pick and why.
Can you move my existing store without losing orders and rankings?
Yes. We import products, customers and past orders, keep the URLs that already bring traffic or redirect them, and test the full order flow before the switch.
Can the store connect to our couriers, payment provider and invoicing tool?
Yes. We connect payment providers, couriers and accounting tools through their APIs, so orders, labels and invoices are created without manual work. We check that your provider has an API before we plan around it.
Will the store rank in search?
We build the foundations: clean category and product URLs, fast pages, structured product data and a sensible page structure. Rankings also depend on your content and competition, so we don’t promise positions.
Do you also design the store and look after it after launch?
Yes, both are available. For the look of the store, see website design. For the monthly care of content, products and hosting, see website administration.

Let’s talk about your online store

Tell us what you want to build. We reply with the next steps.

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Related services

Related services

Want the store designed first? See website design. Need products and content kept up to date every month? That’s website administration. Building something wider than a store? See web development.