E-shop design and development in Cyprus.

Much of my work in the last few years has been on e-shops. I usually build them on WooCommerce, because it does most of what a shop needs, and so many shops run on it that almost every problem has already been solved by someone. When your shipping or checkout needs more than WooCommerce offers, I write a small plugin for that part.

The parts customers never see

The back office. Every order passes through this part. It has to be right from the first day. Shipping causes the most problems, because it's rarely one price for every order, so I set the rules to match how you pack and send your orders. Stock needs the same care. Often the same items sell in two places at once, like the e-shop and a physical shop. Then the numbers have to match in both, or you sell something that you no longer have. Payments and VAT seem simpler, but a mistake there costs money. I connect the checkout to the payment providers that people here use, and I set up EU VAT so that the tax on every order is exactly right.

Running it yourself. I record two or three short videos inside your own shop. Each one shows a job that you will actually do, like adding a product or refunding an order. A new member of staff can watch one instead of asking you. The standard WooCommerce back office sometimes makes a routine job slower than it should be. In that case I build a page for that one job.

The parts customers do see

Organised the way people shop. If the categories are arranged like the stockroom, visitors leave without finding anything. So I organise them the way your customers shop, even when that means ignoring how the stock is sorted. The rest is mostly about saving your visitors effort. A filter should narrow a long list in a click or two, and the search should still find the right product even when someone mistypes it. The checkout needs the most attention, because people abandon their purchase there. I keep it short enough for them to finish the order.

From €2000. E-shops start at €2000, depending on the number of products, the payment and delivery setup, and any custom functionality beyond the platform's default. I quote a fixed price before we start. The aim is a shop that keeps running for years, which often costs less over its life than a cheaper build you'd be replacing sooner.

A fixed quote. Some shops come to me already running, on Shopify, Wix, or an older build, when the monthly fees have added up or the platform won't do something the business now needs. Moving a shop is a defined job with a fixed quote, like a new build. The products come across with their images, variations, and prices, along with the customer accounts and the order history. We check the numbers together before the old shop is switched off.

Your place in Google moves with the shop. After a few years online, a shop appears in Google when someone searches for the things it sells, and people have shared its links in messages and social posts. I protect both as part of the move, so the links keep working afterwards, together with the position in Google that the shop has earned. Skipping this part is the usual reason that a shop's traffic drops after changing platform.

Audit before rebuild. If your shop is already live but slow, hard to manage, or not selling the way it should, a rebuild or a migration isn't necessarily the answer. The website audit is a flat-fee review of an existing WooCommerce shop that tells you what's actually wrong, and you decide what to do with the findings. Bring them to me or to any developer.