Ecommerce developers in the UK
Ecommerce development for businesses that need more than a standard store
We design, build and support ecommerce platforms with complex integrations, custom functionality and demanding operational requirements.
Building commercial web systems since 2000 · A specialist service from eplatforms
- For
- Established retailers, manufacturers, distributors and B2B sellers
- Platforms
- Shopify, Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, Magento and Adobe Commerce, and custom-built ecommerce
- Systems
- ERP, CRM, PIM, warehouse and fulfilment, accounting, payments, marketplaces and supplier feeds
What we solve
The problems we’re usually brought in to solve
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Maintenance
Your ecommerce platform has become difficult to maintain.
We take over inherited platforms – undocumented code, updates nobody dares apply, a previous developer who has gone quiet – then stabilise them and improve them in planned steps.
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Integration
Your systems don’t talk to each other.
We build integrations between ecommerce and the ERP, CRM, stock, fulfilment and internal systems around it, so orders, stock and customer records stop being re-keyed by hand.
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Functionality
Off-the-shelf functionality isn’t enough.
When your pricing, ordering, approval or fulfilment rules are specific to the business, we build functionality around how the business actually operates instead of stacking another app on top.
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Platform
Your existing platform is holding you back.
We plan and deliver migrations without rebuilding everything unnecessarily: data, URLs, customer accounts and integrations are moved and tested together. And if the platform is fine, we’ll say so.
Services
What we do
Ecommerce development
New platforms and new functionality: trade pricing, configurators, ordering rules, account areas and checkout logic.
Integrations
Orders, stock, prices, products and customers moving reliably between ecommerce and ERP, CRM, PIM, warehouse and supplier systems.
Replatforming
Moving to a platform that fits, with data, redirects, accounts and integrations planned together – or advice to stay put.
Ecommerce rescue
Taking over unreliable, undocumented or abandoned platforms: triage first, then stabilisation, then a plan.
Automation
Removing the manual work around order processing, fraud review, supplier orders, stock, returns, refunds and reporting.
Ongoing development
A team that stays after launch: monitoring, updates, fixes and a planned list of improvements.
Integrations
Ecommerce connected to the rest of the business
Need Shopify to exchange orders and stock with an existing ERP? We can build the integration. If an off-the-shelf connector doesn’t exist, we can build one.
ERP and finance
- Shopify and Sage 200orders, stock and customer accounts
- WooCommerce and Xeroinvoices, payments and refunds
Stock and fulfilment
- An online store and MetaPackshipments and delivery options
- Supplier XML feeds and the catalogueproducts, prices and availability
Payments and customers
- BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Shopware and a refund monitorrefunds checked against gateway transactions
- Magento and Salesforcecustomer records and order history
These illustrate the kinds of connection we build; the systems named are examples, not a client list.
Rescue
Ecommerce platform gone wrong?
We take over ecommerce systems that have become unreliable, difficult to maintain or abandoned by their previous developers.
- Failed development projects
- Broken or intermittent checkout
- Unreliable integrations
- API failures
- Outdated code
- An agency that has stopped responding
- Slow pages and a slow admin
- App and plugin conflicts
- Unexplained errors
- Upgrades nobody will attempt
- Security issues
- Undocumented custom functionality
Approach
How we work
- 01
Understand
How the business sells, what the platform must do and which systems it touches – from the people who use it every day as well as the people who commissioned it.
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Diagnose
We read the code, the data and the integrations before proposing anything, and write down what’s sound, what’s fragile and what the work involves.
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Build
In small, reviewable pieces on a staging copy, with integrations tested against real data rather than tidy samples.
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Launch
A planned cut-over with a way back, redirects and monitoring in place, timed around your trading calendar.
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Support
We stay: monitoring, updates, fixes and the next round of improvements.
Platforms
Platform-neutral by design
We recommend the platform that fits the business rather than forcing the business onto the platform we happen to sell.
Shopify
Hosted and quick to run, extended with apps, custom apps and Shopify Functions. Works well until the business rules get very specific.
Shopify Plus
Customer-specific B2B catalogues, checkout extensions, custom Functions apps and multi-store operations.
WooCommerce
Open source on WordPress: full control over code and data, and full responsibility for hosting, plugins and updates.
Magento and Adobe Commerce
Large catalogues, multiple stores and B2B, with the upgrade and hosting discipline that comes with them.
Custom ecommerce
For pricing, configuration, trade ordering or logistics rules that no platform handles without contortion.
Choosing a platform
A neutral guide that starts from your requirements, not from a feature grid.
Where to start
Start with a review, not a commitment
Each review has a defined scope, agreed before we start, and ends with a written report you can act on – with us or with someone else.
Ecommerce technical review
An independent look at the code, hosting, apps or plugins, performance and security of your current platform.
Integration review
Where data should flow between ecommerce and your other systems, where it breaks today, and what to build.
Rescue assessment
For a platform in trouble: access secured, risks ranked, and the first fixes identified quickly.
Replatforming review
Whether to move, where to, and what a migration would really involve – including when fixing is the better answer.
Who we are
A specialist service from eplatforms
Ecommerce Developers is a specialist service from eplatforms, a UK software and web development company established in 2000 and based in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.
You deal directly with the engineers who build and support your platform. eplatforms builds systems and then runs them: in its own words, “Most of our clients have been with us for over ten years.”
- Operated by
- eplatforms ltd
- Established
- 2000
- Company no.
- 03954521, registered in England and Wales
- ICO registration
- Z871919X
- Payments
- Official Checkout.com partner
- Office
- Basepoint Business Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5EG
Next step
Tell us what the platform needs to do.
A short description is enough to start. An engineer reads it and replies within 1 business day.