E-Commerce Development Agency for US Businesses
Stripe and PayPal checkout tested against real card failures before launch, and stores migrated off legacy platforms mid-season without a checkout outage — built by one in-house team, not handed between subcontractors.
What you actually get
A checkout tested against how US payments actually fail
Stripe and PayPal integrations get tested against declined transactions, expired cards and mid-payment timeouts before launch, not discovered by your first customer who hits a broken step and just leaves. We simulate the retry flow — a card that fails once but works on a second attempt, a customer who abandons and comes back — so the store recovers instead of showing a dead end. Skip that testing and the failure mode is silent: a percentage of real buyers hit a broken checkout and you only find out weeks later from a support email, if at all.
Migration timed to your sales calendar, not ours
We've moved stores off legacy platforms mid-season without a checkout outage — every product, customer record and order history mapped and verified before the switch, with both systems run in parallel long enough to catch discrepancies. For a US retailer, that matters most around Black Friday and the holiday quarter, when a migration gone wrong during peak traffic is the kind of mistake that costs a season's revenue, not just a bad week.
Mobile commerce that shares one catalog with the website
For brands that need more than a responsive site, we build native shopping apps in React Native that read from the same catalog and backend as the website, so pricing and stock never drift between platforms. A faster, app-native checkout with saved payment details cuts the friction a browser-based mobile checkout still carries — relevant given how much US retail traffic now arrives on a phone rather than a desktop.
A process built around the real timezone gap, not around pretending it isn't there
Pune runs roughly 10.5 hours ahead of US Eastern and 13.5 ahead of Pacific, give or take daylight saving. Rather than promise overlap we don't have, we schedule live calls inside the window that actually works — see below — and run checkout QA, catalog setup and everything else async with written specs and recorded walkthroughs of the staging store, so progress doesn't stall waiting on a call that has to happen at 2am for someone.
How this actually works
How a Pune-based team runs e-commerce projects for US clients
Our studio hours are Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00 IST. Depending on whether you're on US Eastern or Pacific time and the time of year, real-time overlap lands somewhere in your early morning — roughly 7:30 to 9:30am Eastern, closer to 4:30 to 6:30am on the West Coast. We'd rather say that plainly than oversell a bigger window that doesn't exist.
That narrow window is reserved for the calls that genuinely need to be live — kickoff, platform decisions, launch coordination. Everything else runs async: a staging store link updated the same day, a Loom walkthrough of a checkout flow or an admin workflow instead of a scheduled screen-share, and written specs so a scope decision doesn't depend on someone's memory of a call. You're reviewing real progress when your day starts, not waiting on us to wake up.
We invoice in USD, payable by international wire or card, with a fixed quote and written contract agreed before work starts. We don't have a US office or a US-registered entity — we're a Pune-based team working with US clients remotely, and we'd rather say that directly than dress up a virtual address as a local presence.
Built for US e-commerce clients
- USD invoicing
- Stripe / PayPal checkout testing
- Shopify, WooCommerce & Magento
- React Native mobile commerce
- Async QA workflow
Guide
US E-Commerce Pricing Guide
What an E-Commerce Store Actually Costs in the US
Public pricing guides for the US e-commerce market show a wide spread, mostly driven by platform choice and how much custom logic a store needs. A basic Shopify store using a purchased theme with light customization typically runs $500 to $3,000 through a freelancer or small studio. A custom-designed build on Shopify or WooCommerce, with standard integrations and a real design pass, sits closer to $3,000 to $15,000. Once a catalog is large or complex enough to justify Magento, or a store needs custom API work — inventory sync, a booking system tied to checkout, a loyalty program — costs climb to $15,000 to $75,000 or more.
The biggest swing factor inside that range is usually integration work, not the storefront itself: a checkout that has to talk to an ERP, a subscription billing system, or a booking flow (the kind of build we did for Pack Ur Bags Travel's Shopify Plus store) takes meaningfully longer to scope and test than a standard cart, and that time is where most of the cost difference actually lives.
These are general figures aggregated from public US market pricing guides, not a Webcomp quote — we don't publish a fixed rate because scope varies too much project to project. Every build is scoped against its actual catalog, integrations and platform, with a fixed number agreed in writing before work starts.
- Basic Shopify theme build: $500–3,000 — light customization, small catalog.
- Custom Shopify/WooCommerce build: $3,000–15,000 — real design pass, standard integrations.
- Magento or complex custom build: $15,000–75,000+ — large catalog, custom APIs, ongoing support.
FAQ
Questions before you get started.
That comes down to catalog size and how much custom logic the store needs — a fast, low-maintenance launch points to Shopify, an existing WordPress site points to WooCommerce, and a catalog large enough to justify the extra complexity points to Magento. Whichever one we recommend, it's because it fits what you're actually selling, not because it's the build we'd prefer to do.
We test checkout against real failure scenarios before launch — gateway timeouts, declined cards, retry flows — so the store shows a clear error and lets a customer try again instead of losing the order silently. That testing happens before you're live, not after a spike in abandoned carts tells you something's wrong.
Yes — we've moved stores off legacy platforms mid-season without a checkout outage. Products, customers and order history get mapped and verified before the old store goes offline, and we run both systems in parallel long enough to catch discrepancies before cutting over.
Roughly your early morning — 7:30 to 9:30am US Eastern is a workable window, earlier on the West Coast. We use that slot for decisions that genuinely need to be live and handle checkout QA, catalog work and reviews asynchronously the rest of the day.
We integrate tax calculation services like TaxJar or Shopify's built-in tax engine so rates apply correctly by ship-to state, but we're not accountants — how and where you're registered to collect sales tax is a decision for your own accountant, not something we'll guess at on your behalf.
Ready to start?
See the fuller service breakdown on our e-commerce development page.