Custom Plugin and App Development for Australian Businesses
One in-house team building Shopify apps, WordPress plugins, Magento extensions and the integrations that connect them — with a working overlap that lands inside a normal Australian afternoon.
What you actually get
A working overlap inside your afternoon, not just an evening call
Australia runs roughly 4.5 to 5.5 hours ahead of Pune depending on AEST versus AEDT (Perth is closer, about 2 hours earlier than the eastern states). That puts our morning — roughly 10:00am to 12:30pm IST — inside a normal Sydney or Melbourne afternoon, around 2:30 to 5:00pm AEST, later under daylight saving. That's a real window for a live call, not a single evening slot squeezed in after your day's done.
One in-house team, not a specialist per platform
An Australian retailer running a Shopify storefront, a WordPress content site and an older Magento catalog inherited from an acquisition doesn't need three separately-hired vendors keeping each one alive. We build and maintain Shopify apps, WordPress and WooCommerce plugins, Magento extensions, Chrome extensions and API integrations as one team, so a fix on either side of an integration doesn't have to wait for a second contractor to get briefed on what the first one already knows.
API integrations that keep inventory and orders in sync
Running separate systems for the storefront, inventory and fulfilment only works if they actually agree with each other, which means correct field mapping, a sane response when one system is unreachable or throws an error, and retry logic instead of a silently dropped update. We test for the failure that matters most in practice — a business relying on the sync for daily stock counts finding out six months in that it quietly stopped working — by building the recovery behaviour in from the start rather than bolting it on after a complaint.
A WordPress or WooCommerce plugin built to survive core updates
A plugin that's only ever been tested against the current WordPress version is one update away from breaking, which is a worse problem for a WooCommerce store than most — a core update landing mid-sale and taking a checkout customisation down with it costs real revenue, not just an inconvenience. We build to WordPress's coding standards and run plugins through major version bumps, including beta releases where they're available, specifically to catch that before it ships to a live store.
How this actually works
How the Pune–Australia working day lines up
Australia is ahead of Pune, not behind it — by roughly 4.5 to 5.5 hours depending on AEST or AEDT and which state. That means our morning overlaps your afternoon: our 10:00am to 12:30pm IST lands inside a Sydney or Melbourne working afternoon, around 2:30 to 5:00pm, a bit later under daylight saving. It's an unusual direction of overlap compared to most of our international clients, and worth spelling out plainly rather than leaving you to work out the math yourself.
For plugin and integration projects, that window covers the calls that genuinely benefit from being live — agreeing what an integration needs to sync, walking through a Shopify app's review feedback, confirming a Chrome extension's permission scope before submission. Outside that window, work continues async: written specs, a staging link updated the same day, a recorded walkthrough of progress, so an Australian afternoon check-in isn't the only point in the day where a project can move forward.
We invoice in AUD or USD by international transfer or card, with a fixed quote and written contract agreed before work starts. We're a Pune-based team without an Australian office — we'd rather say that plainly than let a generic 'we serve Australian businesses' claim suggest a local presence that isn't there.
Built for Australian businesses, across every platform
- Shopify apps
- WooCommerce & WordPress plugins
- Magento extensions
- Chrome extensions
- Custom API integrations
Guide
Plugin and App Development Pricing in Australia
What Australian Businesses Actually Pay for Custom Plugin and App Work
Public pricing guides for the Australian market show a basic WordPress or Shopify plugin at roughly AU$2,000–AU$6,500, a mid-complexity custom app or integration at AU$6,500–AU$18,000, and a larger multi-system integration or enterprise extension at AU$18,000–AU$50,000 or more.
As with most markets, the platform matters less than what the plugin has to keep doing after launch — a Shopify app built to clear App Store review and stay stable across a wide range of merchant setups is a different job from an internal WordPress tool used on one site. Australian local-agency rates also run higher than offshore rates for comparable scope, the same labor-cost gap that shows up in Australian website pricing generally.
These are general Australian market figures aggregated from public pricing guides, not a Webcomp quote — every plugin or integration is scoped against its actual requirements, with a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts.
- Basic plugin or small app: AU$2,000–AU$6,500 — single-platform, limited scope.
- Mid-complexity integration or app: AU$6,500–AU$18,000 — App Store review, cross-system sync.
- Enterprise-grade extension or integration: AU$18,000–AU$50,000+ — high reliability, multi-system, ongoing maintenance.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
Roughly our morning against your afternoon — 10:00am to 12:30pm IST lands inside a Sydney or Melbourne working afternoon, around 2:30 to 5:00pm depending on the time of year. That's a genuine window for live calls, not just an evening slot.
Yes — no need to run a Shopify specialist and a separate Magento contractor side by side. One team keeps both current, and neither side of that relationship gets deprioritised because it's not the vendor's main focus.
We build and test against WordPress coding standards through major version bumps, including beta releases where possible, so a core update doesn't quietly break a plugin already running your store.
We can invoice in AUD or USD, whichever is simpler for your accounting — the quote is fixed in writing before work starts either way.
Yes — we scope for that upfront, since a tool used by a distributed team has different requirements around permissions, update rollout and support than one used by a single office. Tell us how your team actually works before we quote, so the build matches real usage rather than a generic single-site assumption.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our plugin and app development page.