Picking a platform without theology
The right answer is almost always one of Shopify, WooCommerce or a headless stack on top of a commerce engine. Which one depends on your catalogue size, your team's appetite, and the integrations you cannot live without. We do not have a favourite — we have a checklist.
For most Malaysian merchants under 500 SKUs, Shopify ships fastest and stays cheapest to run. WooCommerce earns its keep when you already have a strong WordPress setup and need a flexible content layer alongside the store. Headless wins when AOV is high, the catalogue is large or the brand needs editorial freedom that templates cannot offer.
What an eCommerce build covers
Catalogue architecture
Categories, attributes, variants, collections. We design this with your merchandising lead before any product page is built — because retrofitting categories after launch is the costliest mistake in eCommerce.
Storefront design
Editorial product pages, calm collection pages, a checkout that does not ask for permission to do its job. Tested on real Malaysian phones over real Malaysian 4G — not just the office Wi-Fi.
Payments, logistics & ERP
Billplz, Stripe, iPay88, PayNet FPX, GrabPay, ShopeePay. Lalamove, EasyParcel, DHL, Pos Laju, J&T. SQL Account, AutoCount, Bukku, Xero. We wire what you actually use, monitored properly so failures surface before customers do.
Merchandising tools
Loyalty, bundles, gift cards, subscriptions, returns. We pick the smallest set of apps that get the job done — and write them yourself if the off-the-shelf option costs more than it saves.
SEO & performance
Schema markup on every product, fast image pipelines, structured data fed to Google Merchant Centre, and a Lighthouse score that survives the first few hundred SKUs being live.