WooCommerce development for US stores that ship

We set up the catalog, checkout, payments, shipping and sales tax, write custom code where no extension fits, keep the store fast and patched, and connect orders to systems like Zoho Inventory and Zoho Books. On an existing store we usually start by listing every plugin and what it does.

The WooCommerce plugin itself is free and open source. You still pay for hosting, a domain, payment processing and any paid extensions, which renew yearly. That is why we list every extension and its renewal in the BRD before the build begins.

For a store based in the United States, WooPayments charges 2.9% plus $0.30 per sale on US-issued cards. Cards issued outside the US add 1.5%, currency conversion adds 1%, and a dispute costs $15, refunded if you win it. There is no setup or monthly fee.

Pick WooCommerce if you publish a lot of content, need custom product logic or want to own the code and hosting. Pick Shopify if you want hosting, security and checkout handled for you and expect big traffic spikes. We build on both, and as a Shopify Partner we will tell you plainly when Shopify is the better fit.

Yes. Zoho Inventory connects to WooCommerce as a sales channel, bringing orders in and sending stock levels back. Because Zoho Inventory and Zoho Books share one organization, invoices and payments carry through to your ledger. We add mapping for SKUs, tax and shipping, plus custom code for bundles or partial refunds.

Small stores selling into a few states can use manual rate tables. Most of our clients use WooCommerce Tax for automatic rates by address, or Avalara AvaTax when they file in many states or need exemption certificates. We test orders to each state you collect in before launch.

Yes, with the paid WooCommerce Subscriptions extension, which handles renewals, trials and plan switches inside WordPress. If finance already runs on Zoho, we sometimes keep renewals in Zoho Billing instead, so recurring revenue and dunning live next to your books.

Common causes are too many plugins loading on every page, an old order table, no object caching and cheap shared hosting. We profile the store, switch orders to High-Performance Order Storage, remove what isn’t needed and tune caching and hosting, then measure checkout speed again.

Often. We start with a copy on staging, list every plugin, theme change and custom function, and update them one at a time with test orders after each step. Anything risky gets written up before we touch the live store.

The first call costs nothing. After it, the store’s scope, extensions, Zoho links and test plan go into a signed BRD at one fixed price with a delivery schedule. Large catalogs or complex Zoho work may need a short paid scoping phase first, quoted up front.