We build and rebuild WooCommerce stores that stay fast as the catalogue, traffic, and plugin count grow, because that is where almost every store actually breaks. Checkout, tax, shipping, and payment flows get tested against real orders before launch, not after.
“Our store got slow as we added products.”
Almost always query and index design, not hosting. The audit confirms which. Start with the audit
“Checkout abandons more than it should.”
Field-level checkout analytics locate the exact step people quit. See the process
“We’re outgrowing our current platform.”
Migration keeps orders, customers, and URLs intact. That’s the hard part. See the plans
“We need a store from scratch.”
The build track covers catalogue, payments, tax, and shipping properly. See the build
These figures cover every Gatilab service, not this one alone. We’d rather say that plainly than imply a per-service record we haven’t published.
Brands we’ve delivered work for
Store builds vary more than any other service here, because a 40-product store and a 40,000-product store share almost nothing. Build pricing starts at the figure below and gets quoted from your actual catalogue.
For live stores that are slow, leaking checkouts, or becoming expensive to change.
One store · 2 weeks
Credited against a build or growth retainer booked within 30 days.
For new stores, replatforming, and rebuilds where the current setup can’t be extended sensibly.
Quoted from catalogue size · 6 to 12 weeks
Fixed scope, fixed price. We test with real orders before you go live.
For stores shipping changes monthly, running promotions, or scaling catalogue and traffic.
3-month minimum
Hours are named and capped. We’ll right-size the plan rather than bank your budget.
Ecommerce failures are expensive and public, so every stage here ends in something testable.
Weeks 1 to 2
Catalogue structure, variations, tax rules, and shipping logic get mapped before any design. Getting the data model wrong here is what makes stores slow at 10,000 products.
You leave with: A catalogue and data architecture you can review and challenge.
Weeks 3 to 8
Development happens with a performance budget attached, so a page that exceeds it fails review. Checkout gets built early rather than last, because it is the part that must not break.
You leave with: A staging store you can place real test orders through.
Weeks 8 to 10
Payments, tax calculation, shipping rates, refunds, and order emails get tested against real transactions in sandbox and live modes. Then load testing at expected peak.
You leave with: A test log covering every payment, tax, and shipping path.
Weeks 10 to 12
Launch with URL mapping and redirects verified, then monitored closely through the first order cycle. Replatforming without redirect testing loses rankings permanently.
You leave with: A launched store, a redirect map, and first-week monitoring.
Ecommerce quotes vary wildly for good reasons and bad ones. Two of these are why we decline.
Something not covered? Ask directly and you’ll get a straight answer, not a calendar link.
Because below that you’re buying a theme with your logo dropped in, which is a legitimate purchase but not this one. That figure covers catalogue architecture, tested payment and tax configuration, a performance budget, and migration where relevant. A 40,000-product store with complex variations costs considerably more, and we quote from your actual catalogue rather than a package.
We’ll say so if it is. WooCommerce suits most stores and gives you ownership of your data, which hosted platforms don’t. But if your requirements point at a hosted platform or a headless setup, we’d rather tell you than sell you a build we think is wrong. We have nothing riding on the platform choice.
This is the risk that gets underestimated most. Every existing URL gets mapped to its new equivalent and the redirects get tested before launch, not discovered afterwards. Stores that skip this lose rankings that take many months to recover, and some never do.
Yes, and migrating them is usually the most delicate part of the project. Orders, customers, and subscription state come across with verification counts on both sides. We reconcile totals before switching over, because discovering a shortfall after launch is a different kind of problem.
Load testing at expected peak is part of the build, and peak readiness is part of the retainer. If your business is concentrated into a few high-traffic days, tell us early, because it changes caching and hosting decisions from the start rather than in a panic in week eleven.
No. We don’t resell hosting, so you keep the account in your name and can leave us without moving your store. We’ll recommend and configure hosting appropriate to your catalogue and traffic, and if your current host is the bottleneck we’ll show you the numbers.
Send your catalogue size, rough monthly orders, and what’s breaking or missing. We’ll tell you whether the audit, a rebuild, or nothing at all is the right next step.
Free to download, no email required. The contract and proposal structure we use on store builds, free to take.
Scope, change control, IP transfer on final payment, and a termination clause. Use it on whoever builds your site.
The structure a proposal should follow, so you can tell a considered quote from a padded one.
If you would rather have this done than do it yourself, tell us what you are working on. If not, the templates are still yours.
