eCommerce

Custom eCommerce development

Most retailers shouldn’t build custom eCommerce. It’s for business models that standard platforms can’t support, or where the buying experience itself is your competitive edge.

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Building your own commerce platform means owning checkout, tax, payments, security and everything else that Shopify would handle for you. So the case needs to be strong. It usually rests on something structural: you’re running a multi-vendor marketplace, your products need configuring with complicated rules, your pricing depends on live data or negotiated terms, or commerce is one small part of a larger bespoke system.

There’s a useful middle ground. Commerce engines such as Medusa, along with headless options on established platforms, give you tested carts and order management while you control the experience. You don’t need to write your own tax logic to have a bespoke store, and we’d look carefully at what can be bought before building anything.

Payments and compliance

Keep card data away from your servers. Providers such as Stripe offer hosted fields that reduce your PCI DSS scope significantly, and they manage Strong Customer Authentication. Marketplaces need particular care, as Stripe Connect and similar services help with paying out to sellers, while the rules on identity checks and on VAT for online marketplaces deserve proper advice.

When custom is justified

Marketplaces

Multiple sellers, commissions, split payments, and seller onboarding and payouts.

Configurable products

Rules, measurements and live pricing, with made-to-order products that can’t be expressed as simple variants.

Unusual commercial models

Rental, auctions, negotiated contract pricing or usage-based charging.

What we build

Marketplace platforms

Seller portals, commission logic and split payouts using Stripe Connect.

Product configurators

Step-by-step builders with validation, live pricing and production-ready output.

Headless storefronts

Bespoke front ends connected to Shopify, Medusa or commercetools.

Trade and B2B portals

Account pricing, quotes, approvals and reordering.

Order and stock systems

Allocation, multi-warehouse stock and fulfilment built around your operation.

Where it fits

  • Multi-vendor marketplaces
  • Made-to-measure products
  • Trade portals with negotiated pricing

Technology

  • Laravel
  • Medusa
  • Next.js
  • Stripe
  • Stripe Connect
  • commercetools
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch

Custom eCommerce questions

Is custom eCommerce more expensive than Shopify?
Significantly so, both to build and to run, since you’re responsible for far more. It’s justified only when the platforms can’t do what your business needs.
How do you handle card security?
We use payment providers’ hosted fields, so card numbers don’t reach your servers. This greatly reduces your PCI DSS scope, though it doesn’t remove it altogether.
Can you start on a platform and go custom later?
Often that’s the wisest path, as it proves demand first. Keeping your data portable makes the later move easier.

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