Should I build my store on Shopify or WooCommerce?
It depends on how you want to spend your time. Shopify is hosted, fast to launch, and handles security, updates, and payments for you, which suits most stores that want to sell rather than administer software. WooCommerce runs on WordPress and gives you total control over data, checkout logic, and cost structure, which suits stores with unusual products, custom pricing, or an existing WordPress site. We build on both and recommend based on your catalog, your team, and your margins rather than a house preference.
Can you move my existing store to a new platform?
Yes. Migrations are routine work here: products, variants, customers, order history, reviews, and URLs move across, and the old URLs get redirected so the rankings and links you already earned follow you instead of dying at the switch. The redirect map is the part most migrations get wrong, and it is the part that decides whether traffic survives the move.
How long does it take to build an ecommerce site?
A focused store on either platform typically launches in weeks rather than months, because we start with the catalog and the checkout and leave the nice-to-haves for after you are selling. Complex catalogs, custom pricing rules, ERP connections, or subscription logic add time. We scope it honestly in your first session instead of quoting a number before we have seen your products.
Do you handle the marketing for the store too?
That is the point of building it here. The same team runs SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and social, so the store is built for the traffic it is about to receive rather than handed off to whoever has to make it convert later. Product pages get structured data, the site gets built to load fast, and the tracking is wired correctly before a dollar of ad spend goes near it.
Will my products show up in Google Shopping and AI answers?
That is built in, not bolted on. Product schema, clean feeds, and correct inventory and pricing signals are what let Google Shopping and AI assistants read your catalog and recommend it. As more buyers ask an AI what to buy instead of scrolling a results page, structured product data stops being an SEO detail and becomes how you get found at all.
What does ecommerce development cost?
Ecommerce stores start at $4,500, with fifty percent to start and the balance at launch. That covers a clean store on a standard catalog: design, build, product and payment setup, shipping and tax configuration, analytics and launch. Catalog size, migrations, ERP or inventory integrations, subscriptions and custom checkout logic move the number, so every store is scoped in your free AI Growth Session and you approve one fixed price in writing before any work begins. Your platform subscription, or hosting for a WooCommerce store from $250 a year with us, is billed separately and stays in your name. Every starting price is on our pricing page, and the market ranges for stores are in our website design cost guide.
