Expert WordPress Developer

Unlimited Flexibility with WooCommerce for Your Online Store

Harness the full power of WordPress with a custom WooCommerce store. As expert WooCommerce developers in New Zealand, Spiral Compute builds scalable, feature-rich e-commerce websites tailored to your exact business requirements.

Why Build with WordPress and WooCommerce?

Limitless Customisation

Built on WordPress, WooCommerce offers unparalleled flexibility. From unique product configurations to complex business rules, if you can imagine it, we can build it. You own your data and have full control.

Lower Running Costs

With no monthly platform fees, your total cost of ownership can be significantly lower. You invest in the custom features you need, not in a recurring subscription, making it a cost-effective choice for growing NZ businesses.

Seamless Content & Commerce

Natively integrated with the world’s leading CMS, WooCommerce allows you to blend content and commerce seamlessly. Create rich, SEO-friendly landing pages, blog posts, and product stories all in one place.

Our Expert WooCommerce Development Services

Our services cover the full lifecycle of your WordPress e-commerce store, from bespoke design and development to integration and performance tuning.

Custom WooCommerce Theme Design

While thousands of pre-made WordPress themes exist, a truly successful e-commerce brand needs a unique identity and an optimised user experience that a generic template simply cannot provide. We specialise in designing and building completely custom WooCommerce themes from the ground up. This approach allows us to create a pixel-perfect design that embodies your brand and, more importantly, to construct a customer journey specifically tailored to your products and target audience, guiding them seamlessly from first click to final purchase.

Our process is rooted in a deep understanding of your business. We start with discovery and strategy, followed by creating wireframes and mockups to perfect the layout and user flow. Our Wellington-based developers then bring this vision to life, building a lightweight, fast, and fully responsive theme that follows WordPress best practices. The result is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind storefront that is not only easy for your team to manage but is also engineered for maximum performance and conversions.

Custom Plugin Development

WooCommerce's greatest strength is its unparalleled flexibility, which is primarily unlocked through plugins. However, businesses often have highly specific operational needs—such as complex shipping calculations, unique product customisation rules, or specialised inventory management—that off-the-shelf plugins cannot solve. Relying on a patchwork of generic plugins can lead to conflicts, slow performance, and inefficient workflows. This is where a custom-built plugin becomes a powerful asset.

As a software development company, we excel at creating bespoke WooCommerce plugins that are tailored to your exact requirements. We work with you to meticulously define the problem, then architect a secure, efficient, and scalable solution. Whether you need to integrate a proprietary booking system, create a members-only purchasing portal, or automate a complex fulfilment process, we can build it. A custom plugin ensures you get the precise functionality you need without the bloat, creating a more stable and powerful e-commerce platform.

Third-Party System Integration

An e-commerce store does not operate in a vacuum. To achieve true operational efficiency, your website must communicate seamlessly with the other critical software that runs your business. We specialise in performing complex third-party system integrations for WooCommerce, transforming your website into the central hub of a fully connected business ecosystem. This automation eliminates time-consuming manual data entry, reduces the risk of human error, and ensures you have a single source of truth for your business data.

Our team has the expertise to connect your WooCommerce store with a wide range of essential platforms. We can build robust integrations with New Zealand accounting software like Xero, ensuring sales data flows automatically for easy reconciliation. We can also connect your store to advanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms, inventory management systems, and local NZ shipping carriers. This creates a streamlined workflow from order placement and payment through to fulfilment and customer service.

Performance Optimisation

In the competitive world of e-commerce, speed is not a feature—it's a necessity. A slow-loading website leads to high bounce rates, poor customer satisfaction, and lost sales. For a platform as powerful and flexible as WooCommerce, performance depends on a finely tuned balance of hosting, theme quality, plugin configuration, and database health. Our team are experts in diagnosing and resolving the specific performance bottlenecks that can affect WordPress and WooCommerce sites.

Our performance optimisation service is a comprehensive process. We conduct a deep-dive audit of your entire setup, from analysing your hosting environment—recommending high-quality NZ-based hosts where appropriate—to optimising database queries and compressing images. We meticulously review your theme and plugins to identify and eliminate sources of bloat. By implementing best practices like server-side caching and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN), we ensure your store is lightning-fast, providing a superior experience for your customers and boosting your SEO rankings.

WooCommerce Support & Maintenance

A self-hosted platform like WooCommerce gives you ultimate control, but it also comes with the responsibility of ongoing maintenance. Keeping the WordPress core, WooCommerce, your theme, and all your plugins updated is essential for security and functionality. For a busy business owner, managing this can be a stressful and time-consuming task. Our WooCommerce support and maintenance plans are designed to remove this burden, giving you the peace of mind that your digital asset is being professionally managed and protected.

By partnering with us, you get a dedicated Wellington-based team of experts watching over your store. Our retainer packages include proactive updates, regular security scans and malware monitoring, performance checks, and uptime monitoring. We also provide a set number of development hours each month for troubleshooting, making small enhancements, or providing strategic advice. Think of us as your in-house technical team, ensuring your store remains secure, fast, and fully functional so you can concentrate on what you do best: growing your business.

Your Expert WooCommerce Partner in New Zealand

True Technical Experts for WordPress and WooCommerce

As a software development firm, we go far beyond surface-level theme installations. We are true WordPress and PHP experts, capable of deep customisation, performance engineering, and building secure, robust solutions that last.

We understand the New Zealand e-commerce market. We can integrate any local payment gateway or shipping provider, ensuring a smooth checkout experience for your Kiwi customers and simplifying your backend logistics.

✓ Deep WordPress & PHP Expertise
✓ Custom Plugin Architecture
✓ Focus on Security & Speed
✓ Local NZ Integration Knowledge
✓ Scalable for Business Growth

WordPress/WooCommerce Development FAQs

If you are still considering WordPress WooCommerce as your e-commerce platform, you can review the frequently asked questions about our service and support.

How much does a WooCommerce website cost?

The cost varies based on the level of customisation. A basic setup can be quite affordable, while complex stores with custom plugins will require a larger investment. We provide a detailed proposal after understanding your specific needs.

Do I need to pay for WooCommerce?

The WooCommerce plugin itself is free and open-source. Costs are associated with hosting, premium themes, paid extensions, and the professional development time required to build and customise your store.

Can you help make my existing WooCommerce site faster?

Absolutely. We specialise in WordPress performance optimisation. We can audit your current site to identify and fix bottlenecks related to hosting, themes, plugins, and database queries.

Who handles hosting for a WooCommerce site?

As WooCommerce is self-hosted, you have complete freedom to choose your hosting provider. We can recommend and manage high-quality hosting solutions in New Zealand perfectly suited for e-commerce.

Do you offer ongoing support and maintenance for WooCommerce stores?

Yes, we offer flexible support packages to keep your store secure, updated, and performing at its best. This includes regular updates, security monitoring, performance tuning, and adding new features as your business evolves.

Do I own the website and the custom theme once it's built?

Yes, absolutely. You maintain 100% ownership of all your content, data, products, and customer information. When we build a custom theme for you, you own the complete rights to that specific design and code. It is your asset to use for your store as you see fit.Our role is to provide the professional service to build and configure these assets on the WooCommerce platform. The only ongoing fee you will have is your hosting. All the custom creative and technical work we do for you is yours.

Can you integrate payment gateways like Afterpay or Stripe into my WooCommerce store?

Yes, we can integrate a wide range of payment gateways including Stripe, PayPal, Afterpay, Windcave, and more. We ensure each gateway is configured securely and tested thoroughly to deliver a seamless checkout experience.

Is WooCommerce scalable for larger online stores?

Definitely. WooCommerce is highly scalable when paired with the right infrastructure and development practices. We build with scalability in mind—optimising database structure, caching, and server performance to support growing product catalogs and traffic.

Can you migrate my existing store to WooCommerce?

Absolutely. Whether you’re coming from Shopify, Magento, Wix, or a custom platform, we handle the full migration process—including product data, customer information, order history, and SEO settings—with minimal downtime.

Ready to Build Your High-Performing WooCommerce Store?

Let's discuss your e-commerce goals. Contact our WordPress development team today for a free, no-obligation consultation, and let's build a store that delivers results.