WooCommerce website design
We design and develop WooCommerce stores that sell, and that you own outright: no monthly platform fees, no percentage of your sales, no limits on what your store can do. Built by a Woo Pro Agency Partner, recognised by the team behind WooCommerce itself.
Our latest WooCommerce websites
Mermaids Swimwear
A new e-commerce website and paid search strategy for a boutique swimwear brand.
PoolBar London
An e-commerce website with a glamorous approach to the suncare market in the US.
Firework Crazy
A redesigned store for one of the largest fireworks suppliers in the UK.
WooCommerce, done properly
Anyone can bolt WooCommerce onto WordPress. The difference is in how the store is designed, how far it's built around the way you actually sell, and the fact that every part of it belongs to you. We obsess over all three.
Designed, never templated
Your store shouldn't look like a theme with your logo dropped in. Every WooCommerce store we build starts as a blank canvas and becomes a custom design around your products, your customers and your brand, then gets built as its own lean, fast theme.
Nothing your competitors can buy. A store that's yours alone, built to load fast and rank well from day one.
Built around how you actually sell
Trade pricing for account customers. Product configurators. Quote requests beside the buy button. A checkout shaped to your exact process. Whatever your business needs, WooCommerce can do it, and when the right plugin doesn't exist, we design and build it ourselves. No workarounds, no third-party limitations, no "the platform doesn't allow that".
Custom plugins and custom integrations, built in-house, built how you need them.
Yours, forever, and connected to everything
WooCommerce is open source, so your store belongs to you: no monthly platform fees, no percentage of your sales, and no landlord who can change the rules. And behind the scenes we connect it to your EPOS and tills, stock, accounting and fulfilment, so a sale anywhere updates everything, everywhere. One stock pot, no double-typing, no overselling.
Own the asset, keep every penny of every sale, and run it all from one place.
Whatever you sell, however you sell it
Retail, trade or both: a great fashion store and a great parts catalogue are not the same store. We design every WooCommerce build around the way your product is bought, and who's buying it.
Fashion and apparel stores where the brand does as much selling as the product.
Fashion & apparel
Trade and building supplies stores with account pricing and bulk ordering.
Trade & building supplies
Parts and components catalogues with thousands of SKUs, findable in seconds.
Parts & components
Food and drink brands, from small batch to nationwide delivery.
Food & drink
Homeware and furniture stores that sell the lifestyle, then the product.
Homeware & furniture
Health and supplement brands with subscriptions and trust signals built in.
Health & supplements
B2B and wholesale stores with customer-specific pricing and ordering.
B2B & wholesale
Gifting brands with occasions, personalisation and gift vouchers.
Gifts & occasions
Subscription products with recurring revenue you can count on.
Subscription products
Drinks and alcohol brands, with age gates and shipping rules handled.
Drinks & alcohol
Garden and outdoor stores with seasonal ranges and bulky delivery handled.
Garden & outdoor
Pet brands with repeat-purchase products and loyal customers.
Pet products
How our WooCommerce web design process works
Five clear stages from first call to life after launch. You'll always know what's happening, what's next and who's doing it.
Discovery
Before anything gets designed, we get to know your business inside out, so every decision from here has a purpose.
- Kick-off call to understand your goals, customers and competitors
- Review of your existing site, what’s working and what isn’t
- Sitemap agreed so we know exactly what we’re building
- Project timeline confirmed with clear milestones
Design
We create a design built around your brand and your customers. You'll see and approve everything before we write a single line of code.
- Wireframes to map the journey from landing page to checkout
- Full visual design presented for your feedback
- Two rounds of revisions included as standard
- Final sign-off from you before we move to build
Build
Our developers bring the approved design to life. Every website we build is custom, fast and built to grow with your business.
- Custom WooCommerce build from scratch, lean and fast
- Fully responsive across all devices
- Plugins vetted, custom development where it’s needed, integrations done properly
- Tested across browsers and devices before you see it
Handover and training
Before we go live, we make sure you and your team are completely comfortable running the store. No technical knowledge needed.
- Walkthrough of your new store on a staging link before launch
- Full training so your team can manage products, orders and content
- Bespoke training videos provided for future reference
- Any final amends completed before sign-off
Launch and beyond
Go-live is just the beginning. We handle the technical side of the launch and stay on hand to make sure everything runs smoothly.
- Pre-launch checklist completed in full
- Redirects and SEO migration handled to protect your existing rankings
- 30 days of post-launch support included as standard
- WooCommerce care plans to keep your store fast, secure and converting
What we can build into your WooCommerce store
Every store is different, so every build is scoped around what yours actually needs. These are the kinds of things we can do for you with WooCommerce, and because we develop custom plugins and integrations in-house, the honest answer to "can it do this?" is almost always yes.
A custom WooCommerce theme
Designed from scratch around your brand and built lean. Nothing off the shelf, nothing your competitors are running.
Complex products, configured
Options, variations, personalisation and quantity breaks, made effortless however complicated your catalogue is.
Trade and B2B pricing
Account pricing, quote requests, minimum orders and pay-on-account, so trade customers buy the way trade customers buy.
Custom plugins, built for you
When the right plugin doesn’t exist, we design and develop it in-house. Your feature, built your way, without third-party limits.
Custom integrations and APIs
EPOS, ERP, suppliers, couriers, accounting: if it has an API, we can connect your store to it, cleanly and reliably.
No rent, no percentage
WooCommerce charges no monthly platform fee and takes no cut of your sales. The store is an asset you own, not a subscription you rent.
Our proven cart and checkout
We replace WooCommerce’s dated defaults with a system honed across hundreds of stores: quick, simple payment with Stripe, PayPal, Klarna and more.
Subscriptions built in
Subscribe-and-save on the products your customers reorder, with recurring revenue you keep every penny of.
Abandoned carts, recovered
Automatic recovery emails that bring shoppers back to a basket that’s exactly as they left it.
Shipping that works your way
Flat rate, free shipping, click and collect or carrier-calculated. Configured to match how you and your customers work.
Products and stock, easy to manage
Add, edit and organise products without technical knowledge. Stock updates automatically so you’re never caught short.
Orders and returns, all in one place
See every order as it comes in, process refunds and keep customers updated without switching systems.
Customer accounts and wishlists
Order history, saved details and one-click reordering, exactly what trade customers and regulars want.
Back-in-stock and pre-order alerts
Sold out doesn’t mean sale lost. Customers get notified the moment it’s back, and pre-orders capture demand early.
Gift vouchers
Sell digital gift cards that bring new customers to your store and let happy ones spread the word.
Search and filtering that finds it fast
Live search and layered filters that take customers from 4,000 SKUs to the right one in seconds.
Discounts, done properly
Codes, automatic discounts, bulk pricing and launch offers that lift orders without eroding your margin.
Upselling and cross-selling built in
Related products, add-ons and frequently-bought-together suggestions, built into your product pages and cart at the perfect moment, nudging every order a little higher.
Product bundles
Bundle products together at a better price, built natively into your WooCommerce catalogue. Bigger baskets for your customers, better margins for you.
Sell worldwide
Multi-currency, multilingual and local payment methods, so borders don’t cost you sales.
Security, hardened
Hardened logins, SSL, firewalls, daily backups and monitoring. Open source and properly protected.
Woo, but fast
Badly built WooCommerce is slow; ours isn’t. Lean custom themes and Google Cloud hosting deliver speed scores most stores can’t touch.
Plugins, governed
Only vetted plugins make it onto your store, and when the right one doesn’t exist, we build our own instead of settling.
Reviews doing the selling
Ratings and photo reviews collected automatically and shown exactly where they win the decision.
Analytics you can act on
Know which products, pages and channels drive revenue, with GA4 and tracking set up properly from day one.
A real team behind your store
Questions answered by people who know your build, not a ticket queue. Care plans that grow with you.
The cart WooCommerce should have come with
Here's some honesty: WooCommerce's default cart is its weakest link, dated, blocky and a place where sales go to die. So we don't use it. Every store we build gets our proven cart and checkout system instead: effortless to buy from, quick and simple payment, and upselling built in, so the ease of purchasing itself sets you apart from your competitors.
- Integrated free shipping progress bar that encourages one more item
- Customers make changes right from the cart, no page reloads
- Order bumps at the perfect moment to increase average order values
- Discount codes applied directly, so offers never cause drop-off
Partnered with the people behind WooCommerce
designbox is one of the few UK agencies in the Woo Pro Agency Partner programme, run by Automattic, the company behind WooCommerce and WordPress. It's the platform's own makers vouching for the quality of our builds.
Woo Pro Agency Partner
Partner agencies are vetted for the standard of their WooCommerce work and get direct access to the teams and resources behind the platform, from early feature access to expert support when it matters. We’re an Automattic Pro Agency Partner on the WordPress side too, and every store we build benefits from both.
Fluent in the alternative
We’re also a Shopify Partner agency, building Shopify stores every month. That matters because it keeps our advice honest: when we recommend WooCommerce for your business, it’s a genuine recommendation based on how you sell, not the only thing we know how to build.
Real businesses, real results
Every one of these started as a store that wasn't pulling its weight. Here's what a proper WooCommerce build changed, and what it did for the business.
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A website that works for your business
Your store should feed the tools that run your business. We connect WooCommerce to your email, accounting, shipping and marketing stack, and when a ready-made connection doesn't exist, we build a custom integration that does. Here are just some of the solutions we can integrate for you.
Migrate to WooCommerce without losing a sale
Tired of monthly fees, rising app costs or a platform that won't bend? We move stores onto WooCommerce carefully: your products, your customers, your rankings and your revenue, all protected while the switch happens around them.
- Every product, customer and order record moved intact
- Existing SEO protected with a full redirect and migration plan
- Zero downtime: your current store sells until the moment we switch
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What our clients say about working with us
Sarah Aspinall
Breaking Ballet
“We have seen great work from the team at designbox. From WordPress development to liaising with our in-house and remote dev teams, to paid search, the results have been great. I would highly recommend them.”
Kim Waller
Lick Library
“I have been working with designbox for the past two years and have always had exceptional customer service and support. We used them initially to redesign our website. The work is always delivered to the highest standard and the team are fantastic. Highly recommend.”
Emily Bryant
Amberjack
Nicole Osborne
Wunderstars
“Great hands-on service from start to finish. From idea generation, logo and branding through to a functioning website, the team were always on hand with suggestions and high quality implementation. Would happily recommend to all.”
Richard Combs
Intrinsic Capital
“designbox have been brilliant in supporting us in both marketing and web development. The team have been reliable and efficient in everything they have done for us.”
Esther Smith
Battlesbridge Horse & Country
Tommie Hession-Harris
Player Path
“designbox have been a huge support for me and my business for the past five years. Their up-to-date knowledge of digital design, marketing and the tech industry itself is fantastic, and I would recommend them to anyone.”
Samantha Wells
Tern Heads
“We’re absolutely delighted with the service we receive from designbox, who manage my website and SEO among other things. They have helped us to grow the business over the last few years with a website to be proud of and a steady stream of new clients. Would highly recommend.”
Penny Hawker
CHC Aesthetics
Dale Harris
Greenoaks
“Very helpful and professional company with some of the most friendly and talented staff I’ve met. They made us a beautiful website and have been cooperative with any assistance that we’ve needed since. Would highly recommend!”
Danny Whitefoord
Chiltern Co
“We have been working with Brandon and the team for the last few years and are very happy with their work. Brandon is very responsive and easy to work with.”
Tom Billings
Beach Equity
Kirsty Pile
KA Naturals
“Excellent service, highly professional staff who are all more than happy to give an extensive insight into online marketing campaigns in a digestible, understandable presentation. We have since moved all of my online marketing over to designbox across multiple companies.”
Robert Foster-Jones
Sunshine Co
“designbox completely saved my website and have created a completely unique website tailored to my needs. The support is second to none, nothing is ever too much to ask, and they go above and beyond to provide solutions or meet my design requirements. I have had nothing but great feedback from customers and the team are always at the end of the phone if we have any queries.”
Daisy Lethbridge
Mermaids Swimwear
Why designbox
A few honest reasons clients choose us, and stay with us.
Ecommerce is what we do
Online stores aren’t a section of our services, they’re the core of our reputation. We’ve launched WooCommerce stores across dozens of industries, deeply enough that the team behind WooCommerce counts us among its Pro Agency Partners.
You talk to the people doing the work
No account managers in the middle. From your first call to your launch day, you deal directly with the designers, developers and content writers building your site. Faster decisions, clearer communication, no misunderstandings.
We think beyond the build
A well-designed store that nobody finds isn’t much use to anyone. We build with SEO, speed and conversion in mind from day one, so your site is set up to perform from the moment it goes live.
Our clients don’t tend to leave
We think that says more than any award could. When an agency gets results and treats clients well, they stick around. We’re proud of the long-term relationships we’ve built and we work hard to keep earning them.
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A WooCommerce store is just the start
The best WooCommerce stores are launched, then grown. Because everything at designbox is in-house, the team that built your store can also fill it with customers.
Ecommerce SEO
Get your products found on Google. Category and product page optimisation, technical SEO and content that ranks.
AI search optimisation
Show up when customers ask ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI what to buy. The next frontier of being found.
Google Ads & Shopping
Search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns that catch buyers at the exact moment they’re looking, managed by a Google Partner.
WooCommerce care and support
Updates, security, backups and a team on call. WooCommerce care plans that keep your store fast, safe and converting.
Meta ads
Facebook and Instagram campaigns that put your products in front of the people most likely to buy them.
Email marketing
Automated flows, abandoned basket recovery and campaigns that turn one-time buyers into regulars.
Questions we're asked most
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WooCommerce website design at designbox
designbox is a WooCommerce website design and development agency based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, helping brands and trade businesses across the UK sell more online. We’re one of the few UK agencies in the Woo Pro Agency Partner programme, recognised by Automattic, the company behind WooCommerce and WordPress.
We’re an Automattic Pro Agency Partner and Shopify Partner too, so our platform advice is honest and our builds are backed by the platform’s own makers. Behind every store sits Cyber Essentials certification, Google Cloud hosting and a full-service in-house team managing over £2 million in Google Ads spend every year.
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