Ecommerce Website Development Services

Ecommerce website development services cover everything a store needs to sell online: storefront design and build, product catalog structure, payments, shipping and tax setup, and the tracking that shows which products and channels make money. Done well, the result is a store your own team can run, not one that needs an agency on retainer for every price change.

Lumien builds stores on Shopify and WooCommerce. We are a senior-only team with no junior bench, 15+ years of combined experience and 60+ shipped projects, and we publish our pricing instead of hiding it behind a discovery call.

We are skeptical of ecommerce hype for a reason. Most stores do not fail for lack of features. They fail because checkout is slow on mobile, product data is a mess, and nobody wired up tracking well enough to see the problem. That is where we put the work.

You can check the claims. Our case studies name real businesses, including a food-trailer dealer whose store runs on a parametric 3D configurator we built, and every price on this page comes from our public rate card.

Every store project covers the same core scope, written into a proposal you receive within 3 business days. No mystery line items.

Store architecture

Category tree, navigation, filtering and URL structure planned before design starts. Get this wrong and both shoppers and Google get lost in your catalog.

Design and build

A storefront designed around your products and margins, built for speed on mobile, which is where most of your buyers already are.

Payments, shipping and taxes

Payment providers, shipping rates and tax rules configured and tested with real checkout scenarios before launch, not after the first support ticket.

Product data

Variants, options, images, descriptions and SEO fields structured and imported. On larger catalogs this is often the single biggest chunk of work, so we scope it honestly up front instead of burying it in change orders.

Analytics and conversion tracking

Revenue and conversion tracking wired into your analytics and ad accounts, so every marketing dollar can be traced to orders rather than sessions.

Honest answer: it depends on who runs the store after launch, and we will tell you which one we would pick for your case before you sign anything.

Shopify development services

Shopify is the faster path to a store that mostly runs itself. Hosting, security and PCI compliance are Shopify’s problem, not yours. We handle theme customization, app integrations and checkout configuration, and if you only need to hire a Shopify developer for a specific fix, we do that at our published $40-95/hr rates.

WooCommerce development services

WooCommerce makes sense when the store lives inside a content-heavy WordPress site, when you need custom checkout or B2B logic, or when you want full ownership of the stack. WordPress is our home platform: we build and run our own sites on it, so we know exactly where WooCommerce performs and where it needs discipline.

Neither platform is better in the abstract. Shopify trades flexibility for simplicity; WooCommerce trades simplicity for control. Pick based on your team and your catalog, not on a blog post written to earn affiliate commissions.

Yes, and the migration plan matters more than the new design. Replatforming to Shopify or WooCommerce means moving products, customers, order history and URLs, and any one of those done sloppily costs you revenue or rankings.

Our migration scope always includes:

• A 1:1 URL redirect map, treated as a launch gate rather than an afterthought
• Product, customer and order data migrated and spot-checked against the source store
• Meta data and schema markup preserved so search engines re-index the new store cleanly
• A staging crawl before DNS flips, so broken links are found by us and not by your customers

Timelines depend on catalog size and how clean the source data is. Most migrations fit inside our normal 4-12 week engagement window: a small, tidy catalog moves in a few weeks, while a large catalog with messy variant data takes longer. We will say which one yours is in the proposal, not discover it mid-project.

Straight answer from our public rate card: marketing sites start at $4,500, full custom builds start at $20,000, and ecommerce website development typically scopes between those anchors. Hourly work runs $40-95, and every project is billed against milestones, so you pay for shipped work, not promises.

What moves the number: how many products and variants you have, whether we are migrating an existing platform, ERP or fulfillment integrations, custom checkout logic, and product configurators. A clean catalog on a customized theme sits near the low end. A replatform with custom B2B pricing rules sits near the high end.

Timeline follows the same logic. Engagements ship in 4-12 weeks depending on scope. We reply within 24 hours on business days and send a written proposal within 3 business days, so you know your number and your dates before committing to anything.

The full rate card, including what every tier covers, is on our pricing page.

We would rather show shipped work than quote invented statistics, so here is what you can actually check.

Golden State Trailers is a food-trailer dealer whose site is built around a 3D trailer configurator: buyers spec their build in real time and each configured lead lands in the CRM with the full spec attached. Golden State Coffee Carts is a store selling turnkey coffee carts and espresso equipment, with pre-configured packages and an accessory catalog built for first-time operators.

The configurator work is not a mockup. Real parametric configurators are live at our 3D configurator hub, and you can spin the models yourself before deciding whether that capability fits your catalog.

One more honest note: a store without traffic is just rent. When the build is done, the same team can run ecommerce PPC management and ecommerce email marketing, so the people who built your tracking are the ones spending against it, and your developer, ads and email vendors stop pointing fingers at each other.