Headless WordPress development agency, and Shopify and Webflow builds

The headless build you can open today is this website: a Next.js front end reading from Payload CMS, which is the same split with a different editing system behind it. The WordPress half is ordinary WordPress, which we build for clients, as the projects on this page show. Much of our client work sits under NDA, so on a call we walk you through the architecture for your site: the content model, the API, previews and the hosting of both halves.

Yes, we take on Shopify Plus work. Plus uses the same themes and apps as every other Shopify plan, which is the work we already do, for stores such as Classy5 and Office Furniture Scotland. The Plus-only parts, such as checkout customisation, B2B price lists and extra stores for other markets, are scoped line by line, built on a development store first and priced in writing before we start. Much of our client work sits under NDA, so we walk you through the approach on a call.

An agency: eighteen people in Mohali, trading since 2017, rated 4.9 across 20 reviews on Clutch and GoodFirms. Our Webflow developers build CMS collections your team can edit, keep interactions light and hand the site over in your own Webflow workspace. Much of our client work is under NDA, so if Webflow is a firm choice, we walk you through how the build would run on a call. If the platform is still open, we will tell you whether Webflow or WordPress fits your team.

Shopify if you are mainly selling products, because it handles hosting, payments and security for you. WordPress if content is the main job and you want to own the hosting and choose from thousands of plugins, at the cost of keeping them updated. Webflow if a marketing team wants to publish pages without a developer and can live with its plan limits. Headless only when one of those has run out of road.

A custom site or store starts at US$4,000, scoped once. A small business that mainly needs enquiries is usually better served by the local business package at US$550 a month, which covers the site, the Google listing and reviews. Smaller changes are US$12-30 an hour, and a developer by the month starts at US$2,000 a month. Headless costs more than all of these to build and to host, which is part of why we rarely recommend it for small sites.

Usually, yes. Slow WordPress sites are most often too many plugins, oversized images or cheap hosting. Slow Shopify stores are most often app scripts loading on every page. We measure first on a phone, remove what is not earning its place and fix what remains. It is often days of work, not a rebuild, and we say which before quoting.

Yes, for stores that already live in WordPress and want to stay there. For a new store we usually recommend Shopify instead, because WooCommerce leaves the hosting, security and plugin updates with you. If your products and content are closely mixed, such as a publisher that also sells, WooCommerce can still be the better fit.

On WordPress, updates are tested on a copy of the site before they reach the live one, because a plugin update is the most common way a working site breaks. We switch on two-factor login and keep the plugin list short. Shopify and Webflow handle hosting security themselves, so there the work is keeping apps and custom code current.

You do. The hosting, the domain, the Shopify or Webflow account and the code are in your name from the start, and we are added as users. If we part ways, you remove our access and nothing has to be transferred. Theme code we write for you is yours to keep and change.