Platforms · WooCommerce
WooCommerce development for stores that have outgrown their setup
Performance work, plugin clean-ups, custom plugins and integrations for established WooCommerce businesses – and honest advice on whether to fix the store or move it.
Fit
When WooCommerce is the right platform, and when it isn’t
Appropriate when
- You want to own the code and the data, and choose where it’s hosted
- Content and commerce belong in one WordPress site
- Business rules need custom PHP rather than a hosted platform’s extension points
- Someone – in house or a partner – will look after hosting, updates and security
Not appropriate when
- Nobody is responsible for keeping the stack patched and fast
- Order volumes and peaks make running your own infrastructure a permanent project
- Core B2B requirements would rest on a stack of overlapping plugins
- The team isn’t comfortable changing PHP and WordPress safely
Development
Typical WooCommerce development work
- Custom plugins. Business logic in a plugin of its own, not in theme files or edited copies of other people’s plugins that can never be updated.
- Performance. Hosting sized to the store, object caching, current PHP, and profiling of slow pages, admin screens and checkout requests.
- Order storage. Moving to High-Performance Order Storage, the default for new stores since WooCommerce 8.2, once the plugin set supports it.
- Scheduled work. WordPress only runs its scheduled jobs when someone visits the site, so imports, syncs and emails are moved to a real server scheduler.
- Plugin audits. Removing what’s unused, consolidating what overlaps and replacing the worst offenders.
Common problems
What we’re usually asked to fix
Slow pages and a slower admin
Usually hosting, database bloat, heavy plugins or a custom function running a query per product – code and infrastructure problems, not a verdict on WooCommerce.
Updates nobody dares apply
Edited plugin files, an outdated PHP version and no staging copy make every update a gamble. We make them routine again.
Plugin conflicts
Two plugins changing the same checkout field, cart or order status, with symptoms that only appear for some customers.
Refunds and payments that go wrong quietly
On WooCommerce a failed gateway refund usually errors when someone presses the button and leaves no refund record, while payments can sit in pending or on-hold unnoticed.
Integration
Connecting WooCommerce to your other systems
WooCommerce offers a REST API and webhooks, and anything else can be added in a custom plugin. We connect it to ERP, warehouse, accounting and CRM systems – Xero, Sage and Zoho among them – with queues and scheduled reconciliation so a busy day or an outage doesn’t leave data out of step.
Migration
Staying, moving on, or moving in
- Fix it first. Many WooCommerce problems are fixable where they are, at a fraction of the cost and disruption of a migration.
- To Shopify. Less infrastructure to run; plugins become apps or custom code, URLs change shape and customers set new passwords.
- To Magento or Adobe Commerce. For large catalogues, complex B2B and several storefronts where you want to keep control of code and hosting.
- Onto WooCommerce. Products, customers and order history imported with their relationships intact, and every old URL redirected.
In practice
What this work typically involves
WooCommerce work usually begins with a staging copy of the store, a list of every plugin and what it actually does, and profiling of the slowest pages, admin screens and checkout requests. Fixes then go live one at a time, scheduled work moves to a real server scheduler, and updates become routine again.
eplatforms’ own product, Order Exceptions, includes a live WooCommerce connector that uses read-only REST API keys, with monitoring run on eplatforms’ servers so quiet stores are still checked.
Next step
WooCommerce slow, fragile or hard to change?
Tell us what’s going wrong. It may well be fixable where it is.