Mobile-first checkout
Most Indian store traffic is on a phone, so the cart and checkout are designed and tested there first, including the payment redirect.
Freelance WooCommerce Developer in Bangalore
Online stores built to be run by you, not by your developer.
I build and fix WooCommerce stores – product structure, checkout, payments, shipping and stock – and hand them over with the training to run them yourself. Quoted as a fixed price before the work starts.
- WooCommerce from ₹30,000
- Razorpay, PayU, Stripe, PayPal
- Training handover included
- Replies within one working day
Overview
Where WooCommerce stores go wrong.
WooCommerce turns WordPress into a shop, and because it is free and installs in a minute, a great many stores get built by installing it and hoping. That works until the catalogue grows, or a customer abandons a checkout that asks for a company name they do not have, or someone realises the tax is being calculated wrong on interstate orders.
The work that actually matters happens before any of that: deciding how your products are modelled. Whether something is a variable product or three simple ones, where attributes end and categories begin, how bundles and kits are represented, what happens to stock when an order is cancelled. Get that right and the store scales quietly. Get it wrong and every later change is a migration.
The businesses this suits are the ones selling something with structure – sizes and colours, subscriptions, bundles, made-to-order items, B2B pricing tiers, or a catalogue that turns over. If you sell six things that never change, a simpler setup will do. If your catalogue has shape to it, that shape needs designing.
The problems it solves are the ones that cost real money: a checkout that loses people at the payment step, shipping rules that undercharge on heavy orders, stock that drifts out of step with what you actually hold, a product page that takes eight seconds on a phone, or an admin so awkward that adding a product is a twenty-minute job.
Done properly, a WooCommerce store is genuinely yours. The platform is open source, the data is in your own database, there is no per-transaction platform fee on top of what the gateway takes, and nobody can change the terms underneath you. That is the trade for having to look after it – which is what a care plan is for.
What I offer
WooCommerceservices
01
Custom store development
A store built around your catalogue, from product modelling through to the thank-you page, rather than a theme demo with your logo on it.
The store fits how you actually sell, so your team is not working around it every day.
02
Product & catalogue structure
Simple, variable, grouped and bundled products modelled properly, with attributes, taxonomies and filters that still make sense at a thousand SKUs.
Adding the next hundred products is a content job, not a restructuring project.
03
Checkout optimisation
Trimming the fields, fixing the order of steps, handling guest checkout, and removing the friction that makes people give up at the last screen.
Fewer abandoned carts from a checkout that asks less and explains more.
04
Payment gateway integration
Razorpay, PayU, Stripe, PayPal, Cashfree and cash on delivery, configured and tested in the provider’s sandbox before a rupee moves.
Payments that work on launch day, including the failure paths nobody tests.
05
Shipping, tax & logistics
Weight and zone-based rates, courier integrations, pickup options, and GST configured for the way you actually invoice.
Accurate charges on every order, instead of margin quietly lost on the heavy ones.
06
Store migration
Moving from Shopify, Magento, OpenCart or a spreadsheet – products, customers, orders and URLs, with redirects mapped.
You keep your catalogue, your customer accounts and the search visibility you already had.
07
Performance for large catalogues
Query and index work, image pipelines, caching that understands carts and sessions, and hosting sized for the traffic you get.
Product and category pages that stay quick as the catalogue and the traffic grow.
08
Custom WooCommerce functionality
Product configurators, B2B pricing tiers, subscriptions, wholesale rules and bespoke order workflows written as proper extensions.
The thing your business does differently is supported, rather than worked around by hand.
Key benefits
What every store ships with.
Standard on every build, not line items added to the quote.
Gateways tested properly
Every payment method is exercised in sandbox – success, failure, timeout and refund – before the store takes a real order.
Stock that stays honest
Stock rules, backorder handling and low-stock alerts set up so what the site shows matches what is on the shelf.
Built for speed
Product images in WebP at display size, lazy loading, object caching and page caching configured to leave carts and sessions alone.
Secure by default
SSL, hardened configuration, least-privilege roles for staff, and payment data handled by the gateway rather than touching your server.
Search-friendly products
Product schema, clean category URLs, canonical handling for variations and filters, and titles and descriptions that read like sentences.
An admin you can use
Order screens, bulk editing and reporting arranged around your workflow, with a walkthrough and written notes at handover.
Returns and refunds
The unglamorous flows set up too, because a store that cannot process a return properly creates work for someone every week.
Measurable from day one
GA4 e-commerce events, Search Console and conversion tracking configured before launch, so you know what is happening from the first order.
Who this is for
Who a WooCommerce build suits.
WooCommerce earns its keep when the catalogue has structure or the selling has rules.
Retail & D2C brands
Selling direct with sizes, colours and seasonal ranges, where the catalogue changes often and the brand has to look like itself.
Businesses leaving a hosted platform
Stores outgrowing Shopify’s per-transaction fees or app subscriptions, where owning the platform outright starts to pay.
B2B & wholesale
Customer-specific pricing, minimum order quantities, quote requests and account-based ordering that standard retail checkouts do not cover.
Manufacturers selling direct
Specification-heavy products, distributor information, and enquiry paths alongside the buy button.
Subscription & repeat purchase
Recurring orders, delivery schedules and customer self-service, where the value is in the second order rather than the first.
Food, grocery & local delivery
Delivery zones, time slots, minimum baskets and stock that changes through the day.
Stores that already exist and struggle
A working shop that is slow, awkward to run, or losing people at checkout, where a rebuild is not the only option.
Agencies with a store to deliver
White-label WooCommerce build capacity for a developer who works inside your process and your deadlines.
Services sold as products
Bookings, courses, memberships and packages, where the checkout is the same but what is bought is not a box.
Where I work
WooCommerce developer in Bangalore.
I am based in Bangalore and build stores for businesses across the city and the rest of India, as well as for clients overseas. For a store project in particular, meeting once at the start is often worth it – walking through how you pack, ship and invoice tells me more in an hour than a written brief does in a week.
Indian stores have their own requirements, and they are not optional: GST on invoices, interstate tax handling, cash on delivery as a real payment method rather than an afterthought, courier integrations for the services people actually use, and pin-code-level serviceability checks. These are configured as part of the build, not discovered after launch.
Everything after that first conversation happens remotely – a staging store you can place test orders on, scheduled calls, and written updates at each stage. That is the same way I work with store owners in the UK, USA, Canada, the UAE and Singapore, where the tax and shipping rules differ but the process does not.
Bangalore based
In-person at the start of a store project, where it helps.
GST configured
Tax classes, interstate rules and invoice formats set up correctly.
Indian logistics
Courier integrations, COD and pin-code serviceability handled.
Selling overseas
Multi-currency and international shipping where you sell abroad.
Serving Chennai, Bangalore, India, Canada, UK, USA, Dubai, Singapore.
Industries
Stores I build.
What a store needs depends entirely on what is in it.
Fashion & apparel
Typically needs: Size and colour variations, lookbooks, seasonal collections and a high rate of returns.
How I help: Variable products modelled properly, size guides on the product page, and a returns flow your team can actually process.
Electronics & gadgets
Typically needs: Specification comparison, warranty information, bundles and fast-moving stock.
How I help: Specification tables as structured fields, comparison views, bundle products and stock alerts that fire before you sell out.
Food & grocery
Typically needs: Delivery slots, zone limits, minimum baskets and short shelf life.
How I help: Pin-code serviceability, slot booking at checkout, and per-zone minimums and charges set as rules rather than manual checks.
Health & beauty
Typically needs: Ingredient and usage information, subscriptions and repeat purchase.
How I help: Rich product content, subscription support and re-order prompts tied to the customer’s own order history.
Furniture & home
Typically needs: Heavy shipping, made-to-order lead times and configurable options.
How I help: Weight and dimension based shipping, per-product lead times shown up front, and configurators for options that change the price.
Books, courses & digital
Typically needs: Instant delivery, licence limits and no shipping at all.
How I help: Digital product delivery with download limits, plus course or membership access tied to the order.
B2B & industrial
Typically needs: Account pricing, bulk orders, quote requests and GST invoices.
How I help: Role-based pricing tiers, minimum order quantities, a quote-request path beside the buy button, and compliant invoicing.
Jewellery & high value
Typically needs: Zoomed imagery, certification details, made-to-order and secure payment.
How I help: High-resolution image handling that is still fast, certificate fields on the product, and gateways configured for higher-value baskets.
Pharmacy & wellness
Typically needs: Prescription handling, regulated categories and careful data handling.
How I help: Prescription upload at checkout, category rules that block what cannot be sold openly, and tight handling of customer data.
How I work
How a store gets built.
Six stages. You can place a test order well before anyone else can place a real one.
Discovery
I start with how you sell: the catalogue and how it varies, the price rules, how you pack and ship, how you invoice, who runs the store daily and what systems it has to talk to.
Planning
I model the products – what is variable, what is grouped, which attributes are filterable – and settle the tax, shipping and gateway configuration, plus hosting sized for your traffic.
Design
Layouts for the pages that actually sell: category, product, cart and checkout, designed at phone width first with real product content rather than demo images.
Development
I build the theme and custom functionality, load the catalogue, and wire up gateways, shipping and any integrations. Everything goes onto a staging store you can browse and test-order on.
Testing & SEO
Full order testing across devices – success, failure, timeout, refund and cancellation – plus tax and shipping verified against real scenarios, speed measured, and product schema, sitemap and redirects put in place.
Launch & support
Going live at a quiet hour, with DNS, SSL, live gateway keys, analytics and Search Console set up, then a training session on running orders, stock and products, with written notes.
Technology
What the store runs on.
WooCommerce at the centre, and the surrounding pieces chosen to fit how you sell.
Store platform
WooCommerceThe core: products, cart, checkout, orders, coupons and reporting, extended with custom code where needed.
WordPressEverything around the shop – content pages, blog, landing pages and the admin your team works in.
ACFExtra product data modelled as proper fields: specifications, certificates, lead times, downloads.
WP-CLIBulk catalogue imports and migrations run as repeatable scripts rather than by hand.
Payments & logistics
Razorpay & PayUThe usual Indian gateways, including UPI, netbanking and card, sandbox tested first.
Stripe & PayPalFor international sales and multi-currency pricing.
Cash on deliveryConfigured as a first-class method with the serviceability rules to match.
Courier integrationsShipping providers connected for rates, labels and tracking rather than manual entry.
Alternatives I also build
ShopifyWhen a hosted store with no maintenance burden suits the business better.
Magento 2For large catalogues and complex B2B rules that outgrow WooCommerce.
OpenCart & PrestaShopWhere a store already runs on one and needs work rather than replacing.
Features
Store functionality I build.
Specified against your catalogue and your rules, not bundled as a package.
Variable productsSizes, colours and options with their own stock and prices.
Product filteringFaceted search that stays fast across a large catalogue.
Bundles & kitsGrouped and composite products with their own pricing rules.
B2B pricing tiersRole-based prices, minimum quantities and quote requests.
SubscriptionsRecurring orders with customer self-service and card updates.
Delivery slotsDate and time selection at checkout, limited by zone and capacity.
Abandoned cart recoveryFollow-up email flows tied to real cart data.
Multi-currencyPrices and checkout in the currency your buyer expects.
Wishlists & compareSaved items and side-by-side comparison where the catalogue warrants it.
Order dashboardsFulfilment views built around how your team actually picks and packs.
ERP & inventory syncTwo-way stock and order sync with the system you already run.
GA4 e-commerce trackingProduct views, add-to-cart, checkout steps and purchases.
SEO & performance
Stores search engines can read.
A store has SEO problems a brochure site never has: thousands of near-identical variation URLs, filters that generate infinite combinations, out-of-stock products that still rank, and category pages competing with each other. Most of that is settled by how the store is configured, not by writing more content.
No one can guarantee a position on Google, for a product or anything else. What is controllable is making sure the store is not the reason you are held back.
- Product and Offer schema matching what is on the page
- Canonical handling for variations, filters and sort orders
- Category pages with real content, not just a product grid
- Clean product and category URLs without ID clutter
- Out-of-stock and discontinued products handled deliberately
- Product images compressed, sized and served as WebP
- Core Web Vitals measured on category and product templates
- XML sitemaps that include products and categories
- 301 redirects mapped when migrating from another platform
- Breadcrumbs marked up and consistent with the catalogue
AI search
Products that answer questions.
People increasingly ask an assistant what to buy rather than typing a product name into a search box. Those answers get assembled from content that states things plainly: what the product is, what it costs, whether it is in stock, who sells it and where they are.
Nobody can promise inclusion in any AI answer engine. What is possible is keeping the store’s facts accurate, structured and easy to attribute.
- Product data stated in structured form, matching the page
- Availability and price kept accurate in the markup
- Specifications as real fields rather than images of tables
- Buying questions answered on the product page itself
- Clear seller identity, location and contact details
- Category pages that explain the category, not just list it
- Shipping and returns terms stated in plain language
- Reviews left to genuine customers, never fabricated
Why me
Why bring the store to me.
The practical reasons, rather than the adjectives.
Stores, not just sites
A shop has failure modes a brochure site does not – payment timeouts, stock drift, tax edge cases, abandoned checkouts. Those are the parts I test hardest, because they are the parts that cost you money quietly.
The catalogue gets designed
How your products are modelled decides what the store can do for the next five years. That decision gets made deliberately, at the start, with you in the room.
Payments tested before they are live
Every gateway is exercised in sandbox across success, failure, timeout and refund. Finding out a refund path is broken from an angry customer is not a test strategy.
You run it afterwards
Handover includes real training on orders, stock and products, with written notes. If adding a product needs a developer, the store was built wrong.
Fixed quotes, written first
The price is agreed before work starts. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately and only begun once you have said yes to it.
Still there for the busy season
Care plans cover the updates, backups and monitoring a live store needs, and I am reachable when something breaks on a Saturday.
FAQ
WooCommerce questions.
Planning your product structure, designing and building the store templates, configuring payments, shipping, tax and stock, loading the catalogue, integrating any systems you already run, testing the full order path across devices, and launching. Training on running the store and written handover notes are included, so your team can manage products and orders without me.
Stores start at ₹30,000. What moves the number is catalogue size and complexity, how much custom functionality is needed, how many integrations there are, and whether products and customers are being migrated from an existing store. You get a fixed, itemised quote before anything starts, and anything outside it is quoted separately.
Usually four to eight weeks, sometimes longer where there are ERP integrations or a large catalogue to migrate. Product data is almost always the slow part – getting images, descriptions and specifications ready takes longer than people expect. You get a stage-by-stage timeline up front with the dates that depend on you marked.
Yes. I am based in Bangalore and work with store owners across the city, and meeting once at the start of a store project is usually worth the hour. The rest runs remotely on a staging store you can place test orders on, which is also how I work with clients elsewhere in India and in the UK, USA, Canada, the UAE and Singapore.
Yes. Products, variations, customers, order history and content come across with their structure intact, and the URL map is translated into 301 redirects so you keep your search visibility. Your existing store stays live and selling until the new one is tested and signed off, so there is no window where you cannot take orders.
Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, Stripe, PayPal and cash on delivery, among others. Each one is tested in the provider’s sandbox across success, failure, timeout and refund before the store goes live. If you already have a merchant account, I will work with that provider rather than asking you to switch.
Yes. Tax classes, rates, interstate rules and invoice formats are configured as part of the build. If you have a chartered accountant, I would rather confirm the setup with them than assume – tax rules change and getting them wrong is expensive in a way that is not obvious until filing time.
Yes, and it is common once a catalogue passes a few hundred products. The usual causes are unoptimised product images, missing database indexes, too many plugins running on every page load, caching that is not cart-aware, or hosting that is undersized. I measure first and fix the cause rather than installing another cache plugin on top.
Yes. Product configurators, B2B pricing tiers, subscription rules, bespoke checkout fields and custom order workflows can all be added to a store that already runs. I will audit what is there first and tell you whether building on it or rebuilding is the better spend, with the cost of both.
Neither is better in general; they suit different situations. WooCommerce means you own the platform outright, pay no per-transaction platform fee, and can customise anything – in exchange for being responsible for updates, security and hosting. Shopify handles all of that for you, at a monthly cost plus fees and within its limits. I build both and will tell you honestly which fits your case.
Yes. Monthly care plans cover WordPress and WooCommerce updates, security monitoring, backups with tested restores, uptime and speed checks, and priority support for small changes. Stores need this more than brochure sites do, because an update that breaks checkout costs money every hour it is broken.
Your product data in whatever form it exists – a spreadsheet is fine – along with images, how prices and variations work, how you ship and to where, your tax setup, and which payment provider you want. Plus your logo and brand guidelines. If the product data is incomplete we start with a sample and load the rest as it is ready.