WooCommerce Web Design & Development Gold Coast

Q: Are there ongoing costs for a WooCommerce website?

Ongoing costs start as low as $30 a month. Thankfully, WooCommerce is a free open source plugin, which means you only need to pay for premium add-ons, which are very affordable!

Custom WooCommerce stores, built to sell.

Online stores designed and developed on the Gold Coast by Platinum Certified WooCommerce Experts. Fast, flexible and fully yours, on hosting you control.

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400+

eCom sites

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5 star reviews

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Years experience

We create custom WooCommerce websites tailored to your specific needs

Thrive is a Gold Coast WooCommerce web design agency and development team. For more than a decade we have designed and built WooCommerce websites for Gold Coast businesses and brands across Australia, and we are Platinum Certified WooCommerce Experts. WooCommerce runs inside WordPress, so your shop, your content and your marketing live in one system you fully own, on hosting you control. We design every store from the ground up, with no bought themes, and build the custom product options, pricing rules and integrations that off-the-shelf shops cannot handle.

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WooCommerce Experts

For years, we have been expertly designing WooCommerce websites and provide ongoing assistance to a multitude of WooCommerce sites. As creators and innovators, we take pride in developing our own array of popular plugins. We're the Gold Coast WooCommerce experts.

Custom WooCommerce

We've got you covered with tailor-made solutions built using popular frameworks like Laravel, React, or Angular. If you need an out-of-the-box solution, our team is equipped to deliver a smooth WooCommerce experience that perfectly suits your unique needs. .

WooCommerce Partners

WooCommerce is the perfect choice if you want a seamless online store that stands up to big spikes in traffic. We've been working with WooCommerce for many years and we are big fans of its clean and user-friendly interface.

High-Performing

We know time is money, so our Gold Coast web developers go above and beyond to create fast loading websites with lightweight code that is hand-coded to perfection.

Web Design Experts

You won't find any templates around here. We design premium, high-performing websites which are design approach around your branding, content, and products to ensure the best representation of your identity.

Setup and Ongoing Support

From start to finish, and beyond, we are here to help. You can count on our support from the initial stages of design right through to sales tracking.

"Thrive did an amazing job of my website at Precinct Skate Shop! Extremely happy with the service from their whole team… I highly recommend them if you’re looking for a developer that will take your website to the forefront of your industry."

Julian Lee

Owner, Precinct Skate Shop

What we build with WooCommerce

Custom theme design

Designed from scratch on a lightweight base, so the store looks like your brand and loads fast.

Product options and pricing

Configurators, add-ons, bundles and variable pricing for products that need choices.

Wholesale and B2B

Trade accounts with tiered pricing, minimum quantities and quote requests.

Shipping and fulfilment

Live carrier rates, shipping rules, click and collect and local delivery zones.

Subscriptions and bookings

Recurring orders, memberships and bookings where the business model calls for them.

Migrations

Moves from Shopify, Magento, Squarespace or an older WooCommerce site, redirects included.

WooCommerce developers on the Gold Coast

Design gets a store noticed. Development is what makes it work every day. Our WooCommerce developers are in-house at Burleigh Heads, not outsourced, and they build the parts of a store that themes and plugins alone cannot: custom checkout steps, pricing logic, product data and the integrations that connect the shop to the rest of your business.

We also take on stores built elsewhere, fixing slow checkouts, plugin conflicts and broken updates, and bringing them up to a standard we would put our name to.

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Custom plugins and extensions

Written for your store rather than bought off the shelf, so they do exactly what you need.

Checkout customisation

Custom fields, conditional steps and express payment options that lift completion rates.

Integrations

Accounting, inventory, point of sale, shipping and marketing platforms connected to the store.

Performance

Database tuning, caching, image pipelines and lean code so large catalogues stay fast.

Rescue and repair

Existing WooCommerce websites fixed properly, starting with an audit of what is wrong.

Ongoing development

A retainer for stores that keep evolving, with a developer who already knows the site.

Hosting and support after launch

A WooCommerce store needs looking after. Our WordPress hosting and support plans cover the server, updates, backups and security monitoring, managed from our Burleigh Heads studio by the people who built the site.

WordPress hosting and support

WooCommerce SEO from a Platinum WooExpert

Filter and attribute archives, variants, speed and Product schema: WooCommerce stores need SEO done in the codebase. Our ecommerce SEO service fixes the technical side and optimises the pages that sell.

Ecommerce SEO services

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WooCommerce Web Design FAQs

Are there ongoing costs for a WooCommerce website?

Ongoing costs start as low as $30 a month. Thankfully, WooCommerce is a free open source plugin, which means you only need to pay for premium add-ons, which are very affordable!

What plugins do your expert web developers recommend?

After years of working with WooCommerce, our Gold Coast web developers understand the essentials for ecommerce. Some of our favourite WooCommerce plugins include PDF Invoices & Packing Slips, Product Add-Ons, Smart Coupons and Checkout Field Editor.

What are the main benefits of WooCommerce?

WooCommerce has many advantages, including:

Because you host the code on your own server, you have full access to the code base.
It’s free to use.
It’s customisable and can be tailored to meet the needs of your business.
A huge variety of plugins to elevate your shop and the overall user experience.
WooCommerce seamlessly integrates into your WordPress site.
With WooCommerce businesses have complete control and ownership of the site.

What payment gateway is the best for ecommerce?

For WooCommerce we recommend WooCommerce Payments which is built with Stripe but tightly integrated into the backend.

Is WooCommerce right for my store, or should I use Shopify?

WooCommerce suits stores that want full ownership and control, run on WordPress already, or need custom products, pricing or integrations that a hosted platform makes hard. Shopify suits stores that want fewer moving parts and are happy with a subscription. We build on both, and our ecommerce page sets out the differences.

Can you move my store to WooCommerce from Shopify or another platform?

Yes. We migrate products, categories, images, customers and order history from Shopify, Magento, Squarespace, Wix and older WooCommerce sites, and we map the old URLs to the new ones with redirects so your rankings carry across.

Can WooCommerce connect to my accounting, shipping and point-of-sale systems?

Yes. We regularly connect WooCommerce to Xero and MYOB for accounting, to carriers such as Australia Post and Sendle for live shipping rates and labels, and to point-of-sale and inventory systems so stock stays in sync between the shop floor and the website.

Do you host and look after WooCommerce websites?

We do. Our WordPress hosting and support plans cover the server, WooCommerce and plugin updates, daily backups and security monitoring, managed from the Gold Coast by the team that built your store.

Will I be able to manage products and orders myself?

Yes. WooCommerce is built on WordPress, so adding products, updating prices, running sales and processing orders all happen in a dashboard your team can learn in an afternoon. We provide training at handover and support afterwards.

Do you offer WooCommerce development services as well as design?

Yes. Our WooCommerce developers are part of the same Gold Coast team as our designers, so a store can be designed and built under one roof, and we also take on development-only work: custom plugins, integrations, checkout changes, performance fixes and repairs to WooCommerce websites built by someone else.