3,500€ · 50/25/25 split · 8–16 Weeks
WooCommerce E-Commerce Store with Payment Processing and Customer Accounts
Turn your business into a 24/7 sales operation. The WooCommerce Store Development builds the complete infrastructure — products, payments, customer accounts, and order management — so your store works while you sleep.
What's Included in Pro Plan
Built to Sell: Not Just a WooCommerce Installation
Selling products manually — via DMs, emails, and bank transfers — works until it does not. The moment order volume grows, the process breaks: missed messages, payment errors, customers who want to re-order with no order history, and you spending hours processing transactions instead of running your business. Even businesses that already have a WooCommerce store frequently hit this wall, because the store was installed but never properly configured.
The Pro Plan was built for businesses serious about online revenue. For €3,500 — structured as €1,750 at project start, €875 when the staging store is ready for your review, and €875 on live launch — you get a complete, production-ready operation: a wireframed custom structure designed before any code is written, up to 10 pages plus a full Shop and Blog, Stripe and PayPal integrated with 3DS authentication and webhook order updates, customer account portals with order history and membership registration, 3 custom forms, shipping zones configured for Romanian domestic and EU international delivery; Romanian VAT and EU OSS tax rules set up correctly from day one; and premium performance optimisation that keeps product-heavy pages loading quickly. Domain registration and business-grade hosting for the first year are included — no separate accounts to set up before work begins. You also receive 6 months of post-launch support, the longest of any plan. Delivery takes 8–16 weeks depending on catalogue size and payment routing complexity.
The difference between a Pro Plan store and a self-installed WooCommerce setup is the infrastructure layer that most DIY stores skip: correctly tested payment flows including failed transactions and refunds, a GDPR-compliant checkout, mobile-optimised product pages, and an order management back end you can operate without calling a developer every time something changes.
Investment and Payment Schedule
At €3,500, the Pro Plan is a significant investment. The 50/25/25 payment structure is designed so you release funds at defined progress milestones — you have reviewed the built store on staging before the second payment is due.
Payment Schedule — Pro Plan (€3,500 total)
How the Pro Plan Works
Three phases over 8–16 weeks. The first phase plans the entire commerce architecture before a single line of code is written. The second phase builds and integrates. The third phase tests every purchase path — including the ones that fail — before anything goes live.
Wireframing, Commerce Architecture, and Catalogue Planning (Weeks 1–3)
Before any WooCommerce installation happens, we produce wireframes for your key page templates — homepage, category page, product detail page, cart, and checkout. Wireframes are low-fidelity structural blueprints: they define the layout, content zones, and user flow before visual design decisions are made. Catching layout problems at wireframe stage costs nothing to fix; catching them after the build is expensive. Alongside wireframing, we map out your entire store architecture:
- Product type decisions: simple, variable, grouped, or downloadable products
- Category and subcategory hierarchy for navigation and SEO
- Attribute and variant structure (sizes, colours, materials, quantities)
- Payment gateway selection and Romanian merchant account requirements
- Shipping zones: domestic Romanian delivery, EU international, local pickup
- Tax configuration: Romanian VAT rates, EU OSS one-stop-shop registration implications
- Customer account flow: registration, membership access, guest checkout, order history
You receive both the wireframes and a written architecture document at the end of Phase 1. You review and approve both before Phase 2 begins — structural changes after the build starts are significantly more expensive than changes to a wireframe or document.
WooCommerce Build, Product Upload, and Payment Integration (Weeks 3–12)
With the architecture confirmed, we install and configure WooCommerce, build your product catalogue using the planned category and attribute structure, and integrate your payment gateways. Stripe requires API key configuration, 3D Secure rule setup, and webhook registration so your store receives real-time order status updates from Stripe’s servers when a payment completes or fails. PayPal integration includes Smart Buttons configuration for the checkout page and order confirmation flows.
Customer account pages, order history screens, the checkout flow, and the order confirmation emails are all built and styled to match your brand at this stage. Performance optimisation — product image compression, WooCommerce database query caching, and lazy-loading for product grids — runs in parallel with the build so the staging store is fast from first review, not slow and then patched.
Purchase Flow Testing, Security Audit, and Handoff (Weeks 12–16)
Unlike a brochure website, an e-commerce store must be tested across every transaction path — not just the successful ones. Before requesting the final payment or launching the store, we run the full test matrix:
- Successful purchase via Stripe card — desktop and mobile
- Successful purchase via PayPal — desktop and mobile
- Failed card transaction: declined card, insufficient funds
- 3D Secure authentication challenge flow
- Partial and full refund issuance from the WooCommerce order screen
- Order cancellation and automatic stock restoration
- Guest checkout versus registered customer account checkout
- Order confirmation email delivery (including to spam-filtered addresses)
After testing passes, Google Analytics 4 is configured with WooCommerce e-commerce event tracking: add-to-cart, checkout-started, purchase, and refund events. You will see revenue, average order value, conversion rate, and abandoned cart data in your GA4 dashboard from the first live transaction.
The handoff session covers: adding and managing products, processing orders, issuing refunds, setting up discount codes, and reading your sales reports. You leave the call able to run your store without developer involvement for day-to-day operations.
Pro Plan — Frequently Asked Questions
Which payment gateways do you integrate?
Stripe and PayPal are integrated as standard. Stripe is configured with 3D Secure authentication (mandatory for EU card transactions under PSD2 regulations), webhook endpoints for real-time order status updates, and full test-mode verification before the store goes live. PayPal Smart Buttons are added to the checkout page for buyers who prefer not to enter card details directly.
If you need Romanian-specific gateways — Netopia Payments (formerly MobilPay) or euplatesc.ro — this is scoped during the architecture planning phase. These require a Romanian merchant account registration and have varying API complexity; we assess the integration scope and include it in the architecture document before the build begins.
How does the 50/25/25 payment structure work, and what’s included in the total?
€1,750 is paid at project start to secure your build slot and fund the wireframing and architecture planning phase. The second payment of €875 is triggered when the staging store is ready for your review — your actual products are uploaded, the checkout works, customer accounts and membership registration function, and you can walk through the full purchase flow on staging before releasing the payment. The final €875 is due on the day the store goes live. Domain registration and business-grade hosting for the first year are included in the €3,500 — no separate provider sign-ups needed before we begin. You also receive 6 months of post-launch support after go-live, covering issues that arise in the critical first period after launch. You never pay a milestone payment for work you have not yet reviewed.
Can I manage my own products and process orders after launch?
Yes. The WooCommerce back end is designed for non-technical store owners. The handoff session covers: adding new products including variant configuration and image uploads, updating prices and stock levels, marking orders as fulfilled, issuing refunds, creating discount codes, and reading your revenue and product performance reports. Routine store management — the work of running an online shop day-to-day — does not require a developer. Development involvement is only needed for adding new payment gateways, custom API integrations (with shipping carriers or inventory software), or significant checkout customisation.
What are the ongoing costs after the store is built?
WooCommerce itself is free and open source. Stripe charges 1.4% + €0.25 per successful EU card transaction (non-EU cards and certain card types are higher — Stripe publishes a full fee schedule). PayPal charges approximately 3.4% + €0.35 per transaction for European accounts. Hosting capable of running a WooCommerce store reliably costs €20–€50/month depending on traffic and catalogue size. Premium WooCommerce extensions, if needed post-launch (subscription billing, advanced reporting, booking systems), range from €50–€200/year each. We produce a written projected cost breakdown during the architecture planning phase — before any build money is spent — so you can budget the total cost of ownership accurately.
How many products can the store handle without slowing down?
A well-architected WooCommerce store on appropriate hosting handles 10,000+ products without performance issues. The catalogue architecture designed in Phase 1 defines the category depth, attribute indexing, and database query structure that determines how efficiently WooCommerce serves product pages at scale. Stores with fewer than 500 products have no meaningful performance constraints under the Pro Plan’s standard hosting configuration. If your catalogue exceeds 5,000 SKUs or involves complex variant matrices — for example, clothing with sizes, colours, and material options — this is discussed specifically in the planning phase and the appropriate hosting tier is specified before the build begins.
Schedule a Pro Plan Scoping Call
Build slots are limited to two Pro Plan projects per quarter to protect delivery timelines.
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