From your first product to your thousandth order — we design fast, secure, conversion-focused e-commerce websites for South African businesses.
Transparent, fixed-price online store packages — pick your starting point and scale up any time.
You load and manage your own products, with full training included. Four pages, a working checkout and a store you run yourself from day one.
From R4 000 once off
A compact online shop with your first 20 products loaded for you across seven pages. Ideal for a focused range you want selling quickly.
From R6 000 once off
A growing catalogue with 70 products loaded across ten pages. The right step up when the range is expanding and you need room for categories.
From R8 000 once off
A full catalogue store for established retailers — 200 products loaded across fifteen pages, structured for a wide range with many categories.
From R15 000 once off
Every online store we build comes fully equipped with the features your customers expect and your business needs — no costly add-ons required.
When it comes to building your online store, we keep things simple, powerful and beginner-friendly.
Our e-commerce websites are designed using WordPress, one of the most trusted content management systems in the world. We integrate WooCommerce, a reliable platform that turns your website into a fully working online store — so you can add or remove products, change prices, check orders, accept payments and manage delivery options, all without needing coding skills.
Everything is built in a way that makes it easy to use, even if it’s your first time selling online.
One of the reasons clients love our e-commerce design services is because we don’t just build your store and leave you on your own. We walk the journey with you and give you full training on how to run your website.
We build your store to be fast, mobile-friendly and secured with SSL, so your customers can shop easily and safely from any device. Whether you’re selling clothes, gadgets, handmade crafts or anything else, we make sure your site looks great and works perfectly.
Your customers are already shopping online. An e-commerce website turns your business into a shop that never closes — reaching more people, taking payments automatically and growing without the limits of a physical store.
Selling through a marketplace means paying their fees and playing by their rules. Here is what changes when the store is yours.
No marketplace approval process, no commission on every sale, and no competing against twenty other sellers listing the same product. Your store, your rules, your margins.
A physical shop closes at five. A website never does. You can wake up to orders that came in overnight — you make money while you sleep.
A proper online store builds trust. When customers see a real website with real product pages, they feel far safer buying from you.
You are not limited to your own town. Customers in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg or anywhere in South Africa can order from you.
We connect your store to The Courier Guy, Pargo or Aramex, so once an order comes in it goes straight to the customer’s door.
Spring sales, Black Friday, Christmas promotions — launch them whenever you like. You do not need anyone’s permission.
Your own store also grows your brand. When people keep seeing your name, your products and your logo, they start to remember you — and you can collect customer emails and numbers, safely and legally, to tell them about new stock and specials.
If you are serious about selling online, your own e-commerce website is one of the smartest moves you can make.
Build Your Own StoreWe make it our priority to see your business flourish, and we’ve done that with local businesses around Johannesburg, Kempton Park, Boksburg, Germiston, Durban, Cape Town and many other towns. Take a look at what businesses like yours had to say about our affordable web design services.
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We build on proven, industry-standard platforms and languages — choosing the right tools to keep your store secure, scalable and easy to maintain.
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CSSGot questions about building an online store? These are the ones South African business owners ask us most.
An e-commerce website is simply an online shop. It lets you sell your products or services over the internet — instead of walking into a store, customers visit your website, browse your products, place an order and pay online. It works just like a physical shop, only online.
No, you don’t. We build your website on WordPress using WooCommerce, which is straightforward to use, and we show you how to log in, add products, check orders, update prices and manage your stock.
Yes. You can add as many products as you want — there is no limit. Even if you choose our smallest package, you can still add more products yourself later.
Then leave it with us. Our maintenance plans cover product uploads, price changes and content updates, so you can keep selling while we keep the store current.
Your domain is your website’s address, like www.yourshop.co.za — it’s what people type in to find your store. If you don’t have one yet, we register it and set up the hosting for you.
Yes. Most people in South Africa shop on their phones, so we build your website to be mobile-friendly. It works smoothly on smartphones, tablets and computers, adjusting to fit any screen.
The money goes straight into your payment account — PayFast, Yoco or PayPal, for example. You don’t have to send invoices or wait for proof of payment; it all happens automatically.
Yes. We help you set up your delivery options, whether that’s a courier like The Courier Guy or Fastway, or your own drivers. Your website can calculate delivery costs automatically from the customer’s location, and we can add rules like free delivery on orders over R1 000.
It depends on how ready your content is — your logo, product images and pricing. Once we have everything, your store can be live within 7 to 14 working days. If your content isn’t ready, we can help you prepare it.
Yes. We don’t leave you behind. Once your website is ready we run a full training session with you, covering everything from adding products to checking orders and updating stock.
Yes, and you should. Your online store becomes your second shop, working while your main shop is closed. It reaches people outside your area, including other provinces — and some owners end up making it their main source of income.
We don’t use copy-paste templates. Every store is built around what you actually sell — a site for baby clothes shouldn’t look like one for car parts. We focus on function, clean design and simplicity, and we build it so that you can run it yourself.