VDEV Studio
Services · E-commerce

Storefronts designed to sell.

Fast, on-brand online stores — designed and hand-coded around how your customers buy, with the checkout, stock and follow-ups working as one machine.

Trusted by 40+ growing businesses & teams — from bootstrapped startups to household names.

Oakline, Brightly, Vantage, Cedar & Co, Lumen, Pace, Northwind, Halo & Co, Meridian, Fernwood
3×
average lift in conversion after relaunch
0.9s
typical load time on the sites we ship
4wk
from kickoff to launch on most builds
98+
Lighthouse performance target, every page
The outcome

A store that runs the numbers up.

Every decision — from product page to payment — is made to move one metric: sales. Not awards for decoration, orders in the till.

  • A checkout that converts instead of leaking customers
  • Product pages that answer questions before they're asked
  • Stock, orders and customer data flowing into one place
  • A store your team can run without calling a developer
What's included

The whole store, wired together.

One studio accountable for the storefront your customers see and the machinery underneath it.

Storefront design

A bespoke, on-brand shop designed around how your customers actually buy — not a theme thousands of stores already use.

Checkout & payments

Frictionless checkout with the payment methods your customers expect — cards, wallets, and buy-now-pay-later where it fits.

Product & catalogue

Products, variants, collections and search set up properly — imported, structured and easy to keep accurate.

Store management

Orders, stock and content in one admin your team can drive from day one — with training included in handover.

Store SEO

Product schema, clean category structure and fast pages — the groundwork that gets products found and clicked.

Email & follow-ups

Abandoned-cart recovery, order updates and post-purchase flows wired in — revenue that arrives while you sleep.

How it works

From catalogue to checkout.

Four steps, no mystery — and if you're moving platforms, a migration plan that never leaves the store dark.

  1. Discover

    Your products, customers and numbers — we map what the store must do and where the current one leaks.

  2. Design

    From product page to paid — every step of the buying journey designed and reviewed together before build.

  3. Build & migrate

    Hand-coded storefront, payments and shipping wired in, products and customers migrated without losing a sale.

  4. Launch & grow

    Tested end to end, tracking live from day one, and follow-up flows switched on. Then we tune what the data shows.

Selected work

Built by the same hands.

A few recent builds — every one designed and coded in-house.

See all work
Ways to start

Launch, replatform or optimise.

Three ways in — each scoped to a fixed, tailored quote after a quick chat about your catalogue and goals.

Launch

A new store, done properly
Tailored quote
fixed price, scoped to you
  • Bespoke storefront design
  • Checkout, payments & shipping
  • Catalogue set up and structured
  • Analytics + follow-up flows

Replatform

Popular
Move a store that's outgrown its platform
Tailored quote
fixed price, scoped to you
  • Everything in Launch
  • Products, customers & orders migrated
  • SEO preserved (redirects, schema, rankings)
  • Zero-downtime switchover plan

Optimise

Make an existing store convert harder
Tailored quote
fixed price, scoped to you
  • Conversion & speed audit
  • Checkout and product-page fixes
  • Recovery + email flows tuned
  • Measured before and after
They rebuilt our site and the messy systems behind it. Leads doubled, and half our admin now just… runs itself.
Priya AnandFounder, Northwind
The busywork bill

What's manual admin costing you?

Drag the sliders. If a system did the busywork instead, this is what your time is worth back.

£75/hr
£20/hr£500/hr
8 hrs
1 hrs40 hrs
Time you could reclaim
£31,200
every year
£600 / week£93,600 over 3 years

Your rate × hours × 52 weeks. Conservative — ignores the leads, errors and evenings the busywork also costs.

FAQ

E-commerce, answered.

Anything else on your mind? Ask us directly — we reply within one business day.

The right one for your business — Shopify or WooCommerce where they fit, or a headless storefront on a modern stack when you need full control and speed. We recommend after understanding your catalogue, team and plans, not before.

Yes — replatforming is one of our core engagements. Products, customers and order history are migrated, every old URL is redirected, and the switchover is planned so the store never goes dark.

It depends on catalogue size, integrations and whether we're launching, replatforming or optimising — so we scope a tailored quote after a quick chat. You'll get a fixed price before anything starts, and the price we agree is the price you pay.

Most stores go from kickoff to launch in around four to six weeks. Migrations depend on catalogue size and integrations — you'll get a phased plan up front so you always know what lands when.

Yes. Inventory, fulfilment, accounting and CRM integrations are wired in as part of the build — and if you want the surrounding busywork automated too, that's exactly what our automations service does.

Every store ships with product and offer schema, clean category structure, fast pages and proper metadata — the groundwork Google Shopping and organic rankings are built on.

You own everything — store, content and accounts. We offer optional care plans covering updates, monitoring and conversion tuning, or we hand over full access and training if you'd rather run it in-house.

Ready for a store that sells while you sleep?

Tell us what you sell and where it's stuck — we'll reply within one business day with honest advice, whether or not we're the right fit.