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E-Commerce Development

Every hundred milliseconds of latency costs you revenue, and your biggest sales day is when the platform is most likely to fail. We build commerce that's fast when it matters most.

Typical duration
8–18 weeks
Engagement
Team of 2–5 · Fixed scope
Right for you if
  • Retailers whose checkout abandonment is above industry norms
  • Brands who have outgrown a hosted platform's limits
  • Businesses selling B2B with contract pricing and approvals
  • Merchants whose site struggles on peak sales days
Problems

You're probably here because of one of these.

If more than one sounds familiar, that's normal — they usually share a root cause.

Carts get abandoned at checkout

Too many steps, forced account creation, surprise shipping costs, and no wallet payment options.

The store crawls on mobile

Unoptimized images and heavy third-party scripts, on the devices where most of your traffic actually is.

Inventory is out of sync

Stock levels drift between the store, warehouse and marketplace channels. You oversell and refund.

Peak days take you down

The platform holds up all year and fails on the one day that pays for the year.

Approach

How the work actually runs.

From first conversation to running in production. Typical end-to-end duration for e-commerce development is 8–18 weeks.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    1–2 weeks

    We map the problem before proposing a solution. Stakeholder interviews, constraint analysis, and a written scope you actually own.

    • Stakeholder interviews and workflow mapping
    • Technical constraints and integration audit
    • Written scope, risks and success metrics
    • Fixed-price proposal with a delivery plan
  2. 02

    Architecture & design

    2–3 weeks

    System design and interface design happen together, so the thing we draw is the thing we can actually build.

    • Checkout flow designed against measured drop-off
    • Catalog, variant and merchandising data model
    • Payment, tax and shipping architecture per market
    • Peak-load capacity plan sized to your busiest hour
  3. 03

    Build

    6–12 weeks

    Two-week iterations against a shared board. You get a working deployed environment from week one and a demo every sprint.

    • Storefront with server rendering and image optimization
    • Checkout with wallets, guest purchase and address validation
    • ERP, inventory and fulfilment integration with reconciliation
    • Search, faceted filtering and merchandising controls
  4. 04

    Hardening

    1–2 weeks

    Automated test coverage, load testing, accessibility audit and a security review before anything touches production.

    • Unit, integration and end-to-end test suites
    • Load and performance profiling under realistic traffic
    • WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility audit and remediation
    • Dependency, authentication and access-control review
  5. 05

    Launch

    1 week

    Staged rollout with monitoring in place before traffic arrives. Rollback is tested, not assumed.

    • Load testing at three times projected peak traffic
    • Analytics, funnel tracking and abandonment recovery
    • SEO migration with full redirect mapping
    • Merchandising and operations team training
  6. 06

    Operate

    Ongoing

    We stay on. Response-time SLAs, proactive dependency upgrades, and a roadmap review every quarter.

    • Uptime, error and performance monitoring with alerting
    • Defined severity levels and response-time commitments
    • Scheduled dependency and security patching
    • Quarterly roadmap and architecture review
Included

What you get, spelled out.

Every item here is part of the engagement, not an upsell discovered halfway through.

Optimized checkout

Guest purchase, wallet payments, address autocomplete and no surprise costs late in the flow.

Sub-second product pages

Server-rendered, image-optimized and edge-cached, measured on throttled mobile.

Inventory sync

Real-time reconciliation with your warehouse and marketplace channels so you stop overselling.

Multi-currency and tax

Correct pricing, VAT and duties per market, with the compliance handled.

Faceted search

Fast, typo-tolerant search with filtering your merchandising team controls.

B2B capabilities

Contract pricing, purchase orders, approval workflows and net terms where you need them.

Peak-load tested

Verified at three times your projected peak before your biggest day, not during it.

Abandonment recovery

Cart recovery flows and funnel analytics wired to the steps where you're actually losing people.

Stack

What we typically build this with.

A default, not a rule. If your team already runs something else and it fits the requirement, we work in your stack.

Next.js

Server rendering, streaming and edge delivery without hand-rolling the infrastructure.

TypeScript

Types across the whole stack. Most integration bugs stop being possible.

PostgreSQL

Our default. Transactional integrity, JSON, full-text search and row-level security in one engine.

Elasticsearch

Typo-tolerant search and log aggregation at volumes Postgres full-text stops handling well.

Redis

Caching, rate limiting, queues and sessions. Boring in the best way.

Stripe

Subscriptions, proration and dunning without your servers ever touching card data.

AWS

Widest service coverage and the compliance posture enterprises expect.

GraphQL

For clients that need flexible reads without a new endpoint per screen.

Why Devsock

The difference is in how the work is run.

Ten dimensions where engagements usually go wrong, and what we do instead. Every claim in the right-hand column is something you can verify in the first two weeks.

  • Estimates

    TypicalAn hourly rate and a range that grows once work starts.

    DevsockFixed scope and fixed price after a paid discovery. Changes are quoted before they enter a sprint.

  • Communication

    TypicalA weekly status email written by an account manager.

    DevsockDirect access to the engineers building it, a shared board you can read any time, and a demo every second week.

  • Code ownership

    TypicalDelivered at the end, sometimes with a proprietary framework attached.

    DevsockYour repository, your cloud account, from commit one. No proprietary layer, no licensing.

  • Testing

    TypicalManual clicking before launch, if the timeline allows.

    DevsockAutomated suites in CI, load testing at projected peak, and a WCAG 2.2 AA audit before release.

  • Architecture

    TypicalWhatever the available developer knows best.

    DevsockA written architecture decision record explaining what we chose, what we rejected, and why.

  • Security

    TypicalAddressed if the client raises it.

    DevsockDependency scanning in CI, least-privilege access, secrets management and a pre-launch review as standard.

  • Accessibility

    TypicalOut of scope unless legally forced.

    DevsockWCAG 2.2 AA designed in and audited. Keyboard and screen-reader tested, not assumed.

  • Handover

    TypicalA zip file and a phone number that stops answering.

    DevsockDocumented architecture, runbooks, and a paid handover period so your team can genuinely take over.

  • After launch

    TypicalA new quote for every bug.

    DevsockDefect fixes covered for 90 days. Support retainers carry response-time SLAs in the contract.

  • Saying no

    TypicalEvery request becomes a line item.

    DevsockWe'll tell you when a feature isn't worth building, or when the answer isn't software at all.

Work

What we've built, and what it changed.

Live products you can open and use. Each one names the constraint, the approach and what shipped.

SaaS · Waste management

Roll Off Rolodex

rolloffrolodex.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Stripe
  • AWS

Multi-tenant SaaS platform and driver apps for dumpster rental operators

Challenge

Dumpster rental operators run bookings, fleet position, driver assignments and invoicing across spreadsheets, whiteboards and phone calls. Nobody knows where a container actually is, proof of service arrives days after the job, and billing gets reconstructed from memory at month end.

Solution

A multi-tenant SaaS platform with self-serve signup, subscription billing and tiered plans, paired with native driver apps on iOS and Android. Operators get real-time container status, driver scheduling with route optimisation, customer and contract management, and automated invoicing. Drivers receive job assignments and upload proof of service from the field.

What shipped

  • Native driver apps published to both the App Store and Google Play
  • Multi-tenant architecture with per-operator data isolation
  • Self-serve onboarding with a 15-day trial and three subscription tiers
  • Real-time inventory and container status tracking
  • Driver scheduling with route optimisation
  • Automated invoicing and payment processing
Renewable energy

ISSC

issc-int.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vercel

Corporate platform for an independent renewable-energy consultancy

Challenge

An independent monitoring and evaluation consultancy for renewable energy projects needed to establish credibility with government, industrial and hospital buyers — a sector where procurement turns on verifiable regulatory standing and a demonstrable track record, not on marketing copy.

Solution

A structured corporate platform built around proof rather than persuasion: service definitions for independent oversight and technical training, a credentials section surfacing regulatory compliance across SECP, FBR, PRA and PEC, team profiles establishing sector experience, and a documented track record of verified installations. Enquiries route directly to the consultancy team.

What shipped

  • Structured service architecture across oversight and training lines
  • Regulatory credentials surfaced as the primary trust signal
  • Track record documented across government, industrial and public-health installations
  • Team credibility profiles with sector experience
  • Enquiry capture routed to the consultancy team
  • Server-rendered and fully indexable
Training & certification

Global Consulting for Safety and Environment

globalconsulting-int.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Tailwind CSS
  • AWS

Training platform with multi-country scheduling and certificate verification

Challenge

A QHSE training provider delivering internationally accredited certifications across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan needed to publish a constantly moving multi-city schedule, take registrations online, and let employers independently verify that a certificate is genuine — the last of which is what makes an accreditation worth anything.

Solution

A training platform combining a published course schedule across multiple countries with online registration, a separate corporate training enquiry path, and a public certificate verification tool employers can use to authenticate credentials. Accreditation bodies and trainer profiles are presented as structured, checkable content rather than a logo wall.

What shipped

  • Public certificate verification for employers
  • Multi-country training schedule with online registration
  • Separate paths for open-enrolment and corporate training
  • Course catalogue spanning ISO, OSHA, IOSH, NVQ and Lean Six Sigma
  • Accreditation bodies and trainer credentials as structured content
  • Server-rendered and fully indexable

Further work sits behind NDAs. We can walk you through the architecture and measured outcomes of those engagements under mutual NDA.

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FAQ

E-Commerce Development — common questions.

Specific to this service. The general questions about pricing, ownership and process are answered on the home page.

Still unsure? hello@devsock.com

Shopify or a similar platform is the right answer for a lot of merchants and we'll say so. Custom makes sense when you have complex B2B pricing, unusual fulfilment, or platform limits that are actively costing you revenue.

Next step

Let's scope your e-commerce development project.

Bring us the problem rather than a specification. Thirty minutes with an engineer will tell you whether this is the right service, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.

  • 30 minutes

    No slide deck, no sales team

  • An engineer

    You speak to someone who builds

  • A straight answer

    Including when it's don't build it