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Ecommerce Platforms

Ecommerce Platforms covers the design and build of shops and trade platforms, from a first online store to a restricted catalogue. Our experience includes House of Estila: Drupal Commerce, designer memberships, restricted pricing, sample and bespoke requests, and Algolia search. We choose the platform around the business and test the journeys its customers depend on.

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Who it is for

Clear support for the point you are at now.

The service is scoped around the current site, product or process so the next step is useful rather than overbuilt.

  • Interiors brands and makers selling direct, to trade, or both.
  • Suppliers who need trade pricing, account approval or sample and quote requests alongside a shop.
  • Businesses adding commerce to an existing site or moving between platforms.
  • Product businesses whose catalogue data has become the bottleneck.

We usually start with a review of your catalogue data and current platform, because that decides most of what follows.

Common problems

The practical issues this service is designed to clarify.

The work avoids broad promises and focuses on decisions, structure and code a business owner can act on.

Product data is inconsistent, so listings, search and feeds are unreliable.

Trade customers need pricing and workflows a standard shop template cannot offer.

Payments, shipping, tax or stock are handled by hand or by fragile plugins.

The shop, the CRM and the accounts system do not talk to each other.

Scope

What this can include, and what it does not include by default.

The exact scope is confirmed after an enquiry or audit. This keeps the work practical and avoids promises that need a larger brief.

Included

  • Platform selection and scoping across Shopify, WooCommerce, Medusa and Drupal Commerce.
  • Catalogue and product data modelling: variants, attributes, lead times, pricing tiers and imagery.
  • Checkout, payment and coupon setup, including Stripe.
  • Member, trade and guest journeys: account approval, member-only pricing, assisted purchase and payment links.
  • Integrations with search, CRM, email and fulfilment tools.
  • End-to-end testing of the buying journey before launch.

Not included by default

  • Product photography, product copy and catalogue population, unless scoped separately.
  • Merchant account, payment gateway or tax registration on your behalf.
  • Marketplace listings, paid advertising or marketing.
  • Order fulfilment, warehousing or customer service operations.

Related services

Useful next routes.

These routes can be combined once an audit or enquiry clarifies the safest scope.

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Websites and Digital Products

Websites, web applications and digital products designed around what people need to understand, then built to last.

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Platform Integrations and Modernisation

API integrations, legacy modernisation and performance work that keeps an existing platform useful instead of replacing it.

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Ecommerce Platforms

Ready to make this part of the work clearer?

Share the current website, platform, process or AI question and Studio Estila can recommend a sensible next step.

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