E-commerce Websites That Actually Sell
WooCommerce stores and fully bespoke online shops, engineered for speed in Cheltenham — by the team that built its own commerce platform.
An Online Shop Is a Business System, Not a Brochure
An e-commerce website is your shop, your till and your stockroom in one, and it earns or loses money every hour it's open. We build online shops for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire businesses that are fast, easy to run and engineered to convert: from straightforward WooCommerce stores to fully bespoke commerce platforms.
And we're not guessing at any of it. We sell our own software online, through a commerce engine we built ourselves, so every recommendation comes from running a shop, not just building them.
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Everything a Serious Online Shop Needs
WooCommerce Specialists
We build and sell commercial WooCommerce plugins — we know the platform at code level.
Bespoke When It Counts
Fully custom commerce on our own engine, WLU Commerce, when off-the-shelf runs out.
Engineered for Speed
Lean builds on NVMe UK hosting with server-level caching. Slow stores lose baskets.
Payments & Integrations
Stripe, PayPal and friends, plus connections to your stock and accounting systems.
Easy to Run
Manage products and orders yourself with confidence, or let us handle it.
Looked After
UK hosting, maintenance and a local team that answers when the shop needs help.
WooCommerce, Done Properly
For most UK businesses WooCommerce is the right answer: you own the platform outright, there are no per-sale platform fees, and it can be shaped to almost any business. The catch is that most WooCommerce sites are assembled from heavy themes and a pile of conflicting plugins, which is why so many are slow and fragile.
We work from the inside instead. We develop and sell our own commercial WooCommerce plugins, so we know the platform at code level: lean builds, custom order workflows, proper staging, and stores that stay quick as the catalogue grows.
See Our WooCommerce PluginsFully Bespoke Commerce, When You Need It
Some businesses outgrow what any off-the-shelf platform does well: licensing models, trade pricing, customer portals, subscriptions with unusual rules, deep integrations with stock or accounts. That's where most agencies stop, and where we keep going.
We built WLU Commerce, our own commerce and licensing engine, and it's what sells and licenses our software products today. If your business model doesn't fit the template, we can engineer the platform that does, and you'll own it.
Explore Custom SoftwareStore Speed Is Revenue, Measured in Seconds
Nowhere does page speed bite harder than checkout. Every extra second of load time measurably cuts conversions, and slow stores quietly bleed baskets that never become orders. Most e-commerce performance problems are baked in on day one: heavy themes, oversold hosting, unoptimised images.
Our stores run on our own NVMe UK hosting with server-level caching, built lean from the start. This site scores 99/100 in Google's Lighthouse, and we build client stores on the same principles.
See Our UK HostingWhat Does an E-commerce Website Cost in the UK?
Honestly: it ranges. A clean WooCommerce store for a focused catalogue sits at the accessible end. Costs climb with catalogue size and complexity, custom functionality, integrations with stock or accounting systems, and migration from an existing platform. Fully bespoke commerce is an investment that makes sense when the business model demands it.
What you'll always get from us is a clear, itemised quote before any work starts, an honest recommendation about which level you actually need, and no surprise extras. If a simpler store would serve you better, we'll say so.
Get a Clear QuoteA Cheltenham E-commerce Team You Can Sit Down With
Design, development, hosting, maintenance and marketing under one roof, ten minutes from anywhere in Cheltenham. When your shop is your livelihood, you want the people who run it within reach, not a ticket queue in another timezone.
Talk to us before you commit to anything: a free review of your current store, or a straight conversation about what a new one would involve. Call 07734 221392.
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