Custom WooCommerce builds for SMEs ready to sell online properly. Lean themes, optimised checkouts, abandoned cart recovery, integrated email marketing.
A few of the many businesses we've worked with, big and small
Honest answer: it depends. Shopify is brilliant for product-focused stores that don’t need much customisation. WooCommerce wins when you need flexibility, custom workflows, content marketing alongside ecommerce, or you don’t want to pay platform fees forever.
WooCommerce gives you full control of the data, the code, and the customer experience. No platform tax. No ‘you need an app for that’ moments. No transaction fees on top of payment processing.
The catch is WooCommerce only works well when it’s built well. Generic themes plus 30 plugins equals a slow, unstable site. Custom theme plus minimal plugins equals an ecommerce platform you can actually scale on.
Book a free chatSingle-page checkout, smart shipping, Apple Pay, guest checkout. Friction killed, conversion lifted.
Custom themes, query optimisation, LiteSpeed caching. Most WooCommerce sites we audit cut load times by 60% on rebuild.
Brevo or Klaviyo integration. Welcome flows, abandoned cart, post-purchase, win-back. Set up properly from day one.
SEO, Google Ads and a full site rebuild for a 40-year Yorkshire furniture brand. Strong organic growth, efficient ad spend, and a faster, better-looking store.
The capabilities we use day-to-day on WooCommerce projects.
Properly built themes optimised for the products you actually sell.
Single-page, mobile-first, Apple Pay and Google Pay enabled.
Full transactional and marketing email integration.
WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring revenue models.
Sell internationally with proper currency and language switching.
Plus Klarna, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and BACS for B2B.
Royal Mail, DPD, ParcelForce integrations. Automated VAT calculation.
Sage, Xero, Linnworks, Brightpearl integrations available.
Every store is built on our own theme rather than Storefront, with product pages that don't lean on blocks, cached category pages, schema on every product and GA4 conversion tracking. The welcome, abandoned cart and post-purchase review emails are set up from the start.
Cheshire Cat Marketing is Rhiannon and Darren. We started in 2016 because we'd seen too many small businesses burn through agency budgets and end up with a slow site and a stack of invoices.
We build WooCommerce properly, by hand. You deal with a senior person who's actually doing the work, not an account manager relaying messages from a separate team.
Google Partner, Shopify Partner, Mailchimp Partner. We're officially certified across the platforms that matter for ecommerce growth.
Certified for Google Ads & Analytics
Facebook & Instagram advertising
Building Shopify stores since 2015
Enterprise ecommerce builds
Email automation specialists
Up-front cost is similar. Ongoing cost is where WooCommerce wins. Shopify charges 0.6-2% on every sale plus the monthly platform fee. WooCommerce charges nothing beyond your hosting and payment processor. For high-revenue stores, the difference adds up fast.
Yes, with proper development. Most slow WooCommerce sites we audit are slow because of badly-built themes and plugin sprawl, not because of WooCommerce itself. Done right, WooCommerce handles thousands of products with sub-2-second page loads.
Yes. Products, orders, customers, all of it. We use migration tools plus manual cleanup for anything custom. Typical Shopify-to-WooCommerce migration is 4-6 weeks including theme rebuild.
Yes. Trade pricing, customer-specific catalogues, BACS payment, credit accounts, bulk ordering, sales rep dashboards. We’ve built B2B-only WooCommerce stores and B2B/B2C hybrids.
We use the official WooCommerce Subscriptions extension. Recurring billing, subscription management, customer self-service portal, dunning for failed payments. Set up properly, it’s a strong recurring revenue model.
Yes. Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, FreshBooks. Order export, customer sync, automated invoice creation. We’ve also done custom ERP integrations for clients with bespoke systems.
Real reviews from clients we've built for. No filtering, no pay-to-play.
I just want to say, the guys over at Cheshire Cat Marketing are amazing! I couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of people to constantly be in contact with. Whether it was checking up on me and my business or being open to listening to my ever changing ideas! Everything in between too! I would recommend them to anyone wanting, social media or anything marketing wise for your business!
I’ve just phoned and spoken to Rhi, who has been absolutely incredible! I phoned to cheekily ask for some advice, as I am fundraising for a charity event. She was incredible, offering advice, guidance and ideas. The support was truly incredible and has allowed me now to hopefully generate more publicity and support for the event I am supporting.I am in awe of her friendly disposition and her generosity of her experience.Her entire demeanour was approachable and supportive and offered a true unique perspective, whilst being situational and economically aware.So pleased, and touched to have had such a wonderful and postive interaction and would encourage anyone to use their services again.
The Cheshire Cat team are fantastic. They really care about understanding your business and doing a great job. Each time they send me some posts to approve I'm always thrilled with the results - and with 20+ years marketing experience, I'm not an easy person to please! We've seen our followers steadily grow whilst we've been working with them - recommended!
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