Online Store & Order Management
A store customers can buy from quickly, connected to accurate stock, with a back office where the team processes orders, refunds and returns in one place.
Indicative scope
- 1
- accurate stock figure
- 6–12 wks
- typical build
- Shopify or custom
- chosen on your catalogue
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Why businesses ask for this.
A retailer sells through a shop, a website and at least one marketplace. Stock numbers disagree between them, so items sell that are not there. Orders are processed across the store admin, a spreadsheet and an email inbox, and the team spends the first hour of every day answering the same questions about delivery times.
What it's made of.
- 1The storefrontProduct pages that load fast on a phone, search and filtering that matches how people actually look for your products, and a checkout with guest ordering and the payment methods your customers expect.
- 2Stock across every channelOne stock figure shared between the shop floor, the website and any marketplace, updated as orders come in, so overselling stops.
- 3Order and returns handlingPicking, packing, dispatch, refunds and returns on one screen, with shipping labels and tracking generated in place rather than in a separate tool.
- 4Connected systems and automated repliesAccounting, shipping and marketing tools connected so information is entered once, plus a chat assistant handling the delivery and returns questions that fill the inbox.
What changes once it's live.
Customers stop abandoning a slow or awkward checkout
Stock is right, so orders are not cancelled after they are placed
The team processes an order in one place instead of three
Routine delivery and returns questions are answered without a person
Sales, stock and accounting figures agree with each other
Timeline
Usually 6–12 weeks including migrating products, customers and past orders. Building on Shopify or WooCommerce is faster; a custom store is warranted when pricing or product rules do not fit a standard platform.
Who does the work.
Typically built with
- Shopify / WooCommerce / custom
- Payment providers
- Stock sync
- Shipping integration
- AI chat assistant
Roughly what you get.
Placeholders showing the screens a build of this kind contains — replaced with your own once a project starts.
Product page and options Checkout on mobile Order processing screen Stock across locations
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