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Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento Customisation

Platform customisation applies where Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento is the right choice, but no ready theme or app carries one of your business rules. The code is written to survive platform updates.

Rules a standard app does not cover

Requests usually centre on one specific rule. Examples are a pack of three priced differently from three singles, a pin code excluded from cash on delivery, or a field the accounts team needs on every invoice.

Pricing and cart rules

Bundles, quantity breaks, trade logins and offers that a standard discount code cannot express.

Checkout changes

Extra fields, address validation, delivery slots and cash-on-delivery eligibility by pin code or order value.

Catalogue structure

Variants that your trade uses, such as shade, grade, length or pack, in place of forcing everything into size and colour.

Customisation that survives an update

Most problems trace to one habit. The theme or plugin was edited directly, the vendor released a new version, and the change was lost.

Extend, never edit in place

Child themes, hooks and private apps keep your changes and the vendor’s code separate.

Tested on a copy

A staging copy of the store carries the change first, using real catalogue data.

Written down

Each customisation is documented with what it does and where it lives. The next developer should not have to guess.

Knowing when to stop customising

There is a point where a platform is being fought and not used, and continuing costs more than moving.

Signs you have passed it

Every release breaks something, a simple change takes days, and nobody wants to touch the checkout.

A frank conversation

If half your rules live in code around the platform, the platform is no longer saving you effort.

No surprise either way

Which side of that line a request falls on is stated before the work is quoted, not halfway through it.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Will customisation break our Shopify or WooCommerce updates?

Not if it is built as an extension and not as an edit. Child themes, hooks and private apps keep your changes apart from vendor code, and updates are tested on a staging copy first.

Can you work on a store another agency built?

Yes, starting with a read of what is there. Sometimes the right fix is removing two old plugins that conflict, and that costs less than a new feature.

Do we get the code?

Yes. Custom code is yours, held in your own repository and your own store account. Nothing depends on a licence held in our name.

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