Online stores built to handle real orders.
Custom WooCommerce builds for Australian businesses: proper product data, payments, shipping and tax set up correctly, and a store that stays fast once real customers start buying.
The problem
Stores that slow down once customers arrive.
A lot of WooCommerce stores get set up in a weekend. A default theme, every plugin the developer could find, and shipping rates nobody tested against a real order. It works fine in a demo. It struggles the day real traffic and real orders show up.
Payments, tax and shipping are the parts that go wrong first. Get GST set up wrong and your accountant has a mess to sort out later. Get shipping zones wrong and you’re either losing money on every order, or losing customers who bail at checkout.
A store built properly from the start avoids most of that. Product data set up correctly. Payments and tax configured for how your business actually works. Hosting that holds up the first time a sale goes well instead of falling over.
None of this is complicated once you’ve done it before. It’s just easy to skip when a store is rushed out the door to hit a launch date.
What you get
What’s included in a store build.
Product data done properly
Variations, categories, custom fields and bulk import set up so your catalogue is easy to manage as it grows, not a manual chore for every new product.
Payments
Checkout configured for the providers your customers actually use, commonly Stripe, PayPal and buy-now-pay-later options like Afterpay, set up securely and tested end to end.
Shipping and tax for Australia
Shipping zones and rates that reflect how you actually ship, and GST handled correctly from the first order, not fixed after your accountant flags it.
Performance under load
Caching, image handling and database tuning aimed specifically at WooCommerce’s extra load, so the store stays fast during a sale, not just in a quiet demo environment.
Integrations
Connections to accounting software, inventory systems and email marketing tools, so orders flow into the systems your business already runs on without manual re-entry.
Migration if you need it
Moving an existing store from Shopify, Magento or another WooCommerce setup, with products, customers and order history carried across intact, checked line by line before you go live.
Process
How a store build runs.
Discovery
We map your product catalogue, shipping rules, tax setup and the systems the store needs to connect to, then agree a fixed scope.
Design and build
A custom theme and store configuration built around your actual products, not a demo catalogue of three sample items.
Payments, shipping and tax
Checkout, shipping zones and GST configured and tested against real order scenarios, not just a single sample product.
Load testing
We check the store holds up under realistic traffic and order volume before it goes live, so launch day isn’t the first real test.
Launch and handover
The store goes live with a walkthrough of managing products, orders and reports, so your team can run it day to day.
Why Maku
Why businesses pick us for WooCommerce.
WooCommerce rewards being set up properly. Skip a step and it shows up later, usually at the worst possible time. We set stores up right from the start instead of fixing problems after launch.
- Australian tax and shipping handled correctly from day one, not fixed after your first GST report comes out wrong.
- Catalogue setup and test orders are partly automated, which is why a store with hundreds of products does not cost hundreds of hours.
- You own the store outright. No per-order platform fee, and no lock-in to a proprietary checkout you can’t leave.
- Need to move an existing store first? See our migrations page, or our hosting page for where the store actually runs.
Pitfalls
What most rushed stores get wrong.
The same handful of mistakes show up again and again in stores we’re asked to fix. Shipping rates copied from a template and never checked against real parcel weights. Product variations set up in a way that makes bulk price changes a nightmare. Payment methods added without testing what happens when a payment fails. None of these are hard to avoid. They just need someone who’s set up enough stores to know where the problems usually hide, and who checks for them before launch instead of after a customer complains.
WooCommerce or Shopify, which should we use?
Honestly, it depends. Shopify is quicker to launch and simpler to run if you want a standard store with minimal customisation. WooCommerce costs more upfront but gives you full ownership of the code, no transaction fees to the platform, and far more room to customise checkout, product data and integrations. If your store needs to do anything non-standard, WooCommerce usually wins.
How much does a WooCommerce build cost?
It depends on product count, custom fields and integrations, so we scope before quoting. A simple catalogue costs considerably less than a build with complex shipping rules, custom product options and accounting integrations. Tell us about the store and we’ll quote a fixed price.
Can you migrate our store from Shopify or Magento?
Yes. We move products, customers, order history and content across, then rebuild the theme and any custom functionality on WooCommerce. See our migrations page for how we handle the move itself.
Will a WooCommerce store stay fast under real traffic?
With the right hosting and setup, yes. WooCommerce’s reputation for slowing down usually comes from cheap hosting, too many plugins and unoptimised product images, not the platform itself. We build and host stores to handle real order volume without falling over during a sale.
What are the ongoing costs of running a WooCommerce store?
Hosting, and a maintenance plan if you want us handling updates and monitoring. Unlike Shopify, there’s no per-order transaction fee to the platform itself, so your ongoing cost is mostly what you choose to spend on hosting and support.