Partner with an expert WooCommerce development agency, delivering resilient and high-transaction enterprise ecommerce.
As WooCommerce development experts, Box UK has unique expertise when it comes to large-scale implementations of this popular and far-reaching ecommerce platform and, most recently, delivered the two largest ever instances of WooCommerce, both with extensive backend integrations (NetSuite & SAP) and full end-to-end journeys.
Advantages of using WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular ecommerce platform in the world today, delivering numerous benefits to organisations across all industries and sectors. Providing a powerful yet highly flexible foundation for your online store, WooCommerce supports rapid time-to-market and effortless scalability, allowing you to start selling products and generating revenue faster than before.
Its extensive feature set enables sophisticated ecommerce capabilities to be added to existing or new sites with ease, and as WooCommerce is built on WordPress a vast library of plugins and extensions is available to deliver specific functionality and open up your business up to new revenue streams and markets.
B2B and B2C ecommerce
WooCommerce works whether you’re B2B or B2C, and Box UK has long-standing development experience with both. Working with you from the outset to understand your business and its offer, we’ll deliver an ecommerce environment that:
- Supports the sale of physical goods, digital goods, memberships or subscriptions – or a multi-faceted combination of all if that’s what suits
- Surfaces the necessary content, imagery and related information for your entire product range, whether that runs to tens of SKUs, or tens of thousands of SKUs
- Optimises your ecommerce offer for all the major search engines, and search engine results pages (SERPs)
- Integrates with leading marketing and marketing automation platforms to support the ongoing optimisation of sales
- Distinguishes, as necessary, between retail and wholesale customers, leveraging restricted categories, catalogues and role-based payment/shipping methods in line with the intricacies of your business
- Easily handles restrictions around certain goods for specific countries, and enables the configuration of customised tax and shipping as required
Endless ecommerce integrations
Given its relationship to the world’s most popular content management system WordPress, WooCommerce of course seamlessly integrates commerce with content and gives you endless flexibility when it comes to exposing content within inventory, and inventory within content.
Payments are easy with inbuilt support for all major credit cards, PayPal, BACS and cash on delivery, plus 140 region-specific gateways such as Stripe, Authorize.Net and Amazon Payments.
Furthermore, with its REST API, custom AJAX endpoints and webhooks there’s the potential to integrate your ecommerce functionality with that of any other of your business systems – automating payment gateways, customer communications, logistical services, ERP, POS, tax management and more.
Customisation
All of WordPress’s plugins are available to your WooCommerce site, and there are endless dedicated extensions available too – from Avalara to FedEx, Mailchimp to Zapier.
Plus, where you have a specific need not served by existing plugins or extensions, our WooCommerce development experts will build something that’s custom to you – underpinning this with leading coding standards, a best practice approach to development, peer review, and automated testing and deployment processes.
Security and availability
All WooCommerce code is audited and secure, and our agency partnerships with WordPress VIP and WP Engine will guarantee your site 24/7 operational support, hourly backups, automatic vulnerability scans and security updates. What’s more, as an ISO 27001:2013-accredited supplier, Box UK’s processes are certified as having met the high information security standards set by global standards organisation, ISO – so you can trust in our handling of both your development, and data.
WooCommerce consultancy services
Box UK’s highly-experienced WooCommerce consultants will ensure that your solution is optimised to deliver against your specific requirements and goals. Taking a holistic approach to your ecommerce ecosystem, we’ll deliver you an architecture design that facilitates effective communication between your systems and a seamless journey for your users, that can then be used to guide the direction of your project – however you choose to implement it.
We’re also experienced in rescuing platforms and projects that may have spiralled out of control, so if you’re worried about the performance of your current systems let us review your codebase, and take the development and consultancy actions required to put you back on track.
WooCommerce migration consultation
If you’re looking to move your online store to WooCommerce from an existing platform such as Magento or Shopify, it’s important to do so in the right way, or you risk losing out on search visibility, traffic and sales. Our WooCommerce migration consultancy services will give you a plan to manage the move effectively – keeping your products, content and data consistent and accurate, and targeting high-value areas as a priority to minimise risk and lost opportunity.
Why choose Box UK?
Our multidisciplinary development team draws on decades of experience to help businesses achieve measurable returns from their digital investment and drive their digital transformation strategy forward, acting as strategic partners to an international roster of clients from our headquarters in the capital of Wales, offices in central London, and on-site as part of embedded teams.
WooCommerce development experts
As WooCommerce development experts, and the agency behind the largest ever instance of WooCommerce for the enterprise, Box UK has unique expertise when it comes to large-scale implementations of this popular and far-reaching ecommerce platform.
Built upon a strong and robust open source framework, WooCommerce was created from the ground up with customisation in mind – and as a result our expert WooCommerce developers are able to modify and scale your enterprise sales platforms without restriction, as well as integrate them with virtually any other service in your ecommerce ecosystem.
Box UK additionally has deep experience with WordPress, WP Engine and WordPress VIP and, as dedicated agency partners, is a key contributor to the global WordPress developer community.
Where others might work with both small and large installations of these technologies, we work exclusively with the enterprise – and liaise closely with WordPress and WooCommerce themselves to leverage the full potential of this powerful combination at the scale you require.
WooCommerce website design
To entice consumers to browse, engage with and ultimately purchase your products and services, clear and compelling design is crucial. Our team of User Experience (UX) consultants and user interface designers are extremely skilled in catering to the specific needs of ecommerce platforms, delivering high-impact WooCommerce website designs that draw on best practice from the retail sector and beyond.
From creating navigation and search solutions that increase product findability, to ensuring that labels, calls to action and important product details display accurately across different languages and character sets, we will ensure that your site not only looks beautiful, but works seamlessly too, supporting consumers at every stage of their journey.
Verticals
Box UK’s multidisciplinary team of consultants, designers and developers draw on a wealth of cross-sector experience to deliver you an ecommerce platform that meets and exceeds both technical standards and customer expectations. Sector-specific experience includes:
- Wholesale and distribution
- Consumer goods
- Finance
- Membership
- Education
- And more
Top 50 Client Rated Agency
OKdo
Running seven country sites in six languages from a single installation, OKdo.com is a feature-rich, widely-integrated technology ecosystem that serves as a flagship example of enterprise WordPress and WooCommerce.
As OKdo’s IT partner, we delivered this project in just eight months, bringing to life a global ecommerce platform that would underpin the launch of their new business into two of the fastest-growing markets in the technology space.
RS Components
Working fully remotely with regional client stakeholders, the Box UK team developed two ecommerce sites in just nine sprints, enabling RS Components to quickly target valuable new growth markets in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Providing customers with access to over 50,000 products across RS’ overarching industrial and electronics ranges, the sites accommodate multiple languages, multiple currencies and a complex pricing structure, showcasing the full power of WordPress and WooCommerce in the enterprise.
FAQs
What is WooCommerce?
Extendable, adaptable, scalable and eminently customisable, WooCommerce is the open source ecommerce platform for WordPress that today powers 20% of the world’s top 1 million online stores. Through WooCommerce, a complete online shop can be added to any WordPress installation, with an active marketplace of extensions, plugins and API integrations offering further valuable functionality.
Online retailers can leverage WooCommerce’s extensive feature set to easily manage the full ecommerce lifecycle, including setting up product lines and custom taxonomies, providing a wide range of payment methods, and coordinating order management and fulfilment. The ecommerce platform also supports multi-lingual and multi-currency offerings, to grow international reach and engagement.
Who should use WooCommerce?
As the ecommerce partner to WordPress VIP – the fully-managed, enterprise WordPress offering from Automattic – WooCommerce is ideal for organisations of any scale that are looking to build out their online retail proposition. Current WooCommerce clients include leading brand names from across the globe, including Aeropress, Weber, Singer, Dr Scholl’s and our own clients OKdo and RS Components.
Its high levels of customisation across content, functionality and appearance enable it to be tailored to suit the specific needs of different industries, audiences and geographical regions, across physical and digital products and both B2B and B2C markets.
Building on WordPress VIP also brings with it all the benefits of this powerful and flexible platform, including blazing-fast performance, enhanced security, and a comprehensive customer service offering to safeguard the availability and stability of your online store.
What are the main WooCommerce features?
A key feature of WooCommerce is its ease-of-use, integrating seamlessly with WordPress and providing a suite of readily-available Gutenberg blocks to enable organisations to rapidly launch a high-quality ecommerce offering. It also supports popular payment methods including major credit cards, bank transfers, cheques, and cash on delivery as standard, with over 140 additional channels available to integrate including Stripe, PayPal, Square, and Amazon Pay.
By partnering with an experienced WooCommerce development agency, retailers can further expand and enhance their platform with a range of product types including physical and digital items, subscriptions, bundles and even appointments. Your WooCommerce development partner can also help you integrate additional features and functionality from a large and active marketplace – another key feature of WooCommerce – ranging from analytics and marketing capabilities to multichannel and point of sale extensions.
How scalable is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is inherently scalable, able to support product ranges running to tens of thousands of SKUs and millions of orders a day. It also integrates with some of the world’s largest shipping and delivery companies including FedEx, USPS and Amazon Fulfilment, to ensure your products reach customers wherever they are across the globe.
WooCommerce is also built with international ecommerce considerations in mind, to support increased reach and geographical targeting. Working together with WordPress, translations across a wide variety of languages can be managed with ease, and product prices can be displayed in a user’s relevant currency to streamline the purchase process.
At Box UK our WordPress and WooCommerce developers are also highly skilled in integrating complex back-office integrations with the platforms, including tax and compliance engines that enable you to adhere to any region-specific requirements when selling your goods.
Why choose WooCommerce over other ecommerce options?
WooCommerce provides all the features and functionality online retailers need to deliver an intuitive and enjoyable shopping experience, whether they are extending their physical offering to digital channels or migrating an existing ecommerce platform to support continued growth and diversification.
WooCommerce also offers all the advantages of open source software, giving you access to a wide pool of knowledge and expertise when building and maintaining your WooCommerce installation. The open source nature of WooCommerce also powers its marketplace of plugins and extensions, which can help minimise custom development costs.
As it’s built on WordPress, the most popular content management system in the world, you also benefit from a familiar and proven back-end interface, speeding up onboarding and helping to reduce administration costs.
What are the basic steps involved in the creation of a WooCommerce website for my business?
To ensure that your WooCommerce development project delivers you a platform that can effectively serve your goals, it’s important to gather key business requirements at the outset. This will inform a robust development roadmap that details key features, functionality and milestones, to support effective planning and testing activities.
If you choose to work with a WooCommerce development agency such as Box UK, you can be confident that every step of the development process will adhere to industry best practice and effective testing processes, supporting fast, frequent and quality deployments.
As an enterprise ecommerce partner we will also ensure that all development is underpinned by the appropriate architecture to manage the end-to-end purchase lifecycle. We’ll help coordinate your full ecommerce ecosystem, integrating key systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Inventory Management (PIM) and Third Party Logistics (3PL) solutions, as well as any necessary marketing systems, analytics products and transactional email service providers.
How much does WooCommerce cost?
As an open source solution WooCommerce has no additional licensing costs and there is no fee on any transaction costs beyond that of the service provider, making it a highly cost-effective ecommerce solution.
WooCommerce can be added quickly and easily to any WordPress site you’re currently managing, and for enterprise ecommerce platforms that may have a significant degree of additional complexity it’s recommended that you work with an experienced WooCommerce developer to ensure your solution is robust and fit-for-purpose.
At the outset of any engagement we will work closely with you to understand your specific requirements in order to provide a confident estimate of project size, and to mitigate any potential risk to delivery.
