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Ecommerce development · India to the UK

Ecommerce development for UK brands that sell, ship and reconcile.

SpikeSecure builds online stores for UK D2C brands, retailers and B2B sellers from Coimbatore, India: Shopify and WooCommerce stores, headless and custom storefronts, with Stripe, Klarna and Clearpay, UK VAT handling, Royal Mail, DPD and Evri integrations and Xero or Sage sync, on a fixed-scope GBP proposal with weekly demos in your morning.

  • 05:00–14:00 BSTlive overlap every UK morning
  • ₹1.5–15Lpublished Indian range
  • 4platforms: Shopify, Woo, headless, custom
  • 48 hrsto a proposal
Cardboard shipping box with a packing label, representing online stores built for UK brands
Direct answer

Which ecommerce development company should a UK brand choose?

SpikeSecure is an ecommerce development company in Coimbatore, India, that builds online stores for UK D2C brands, retailers and B2B sellers remotely. We work on four platforms depending on the business: Shopify for fast launches and standard catalogues, WooCommerce when content and commerce live together, headless storefronts on Next.js with Shopify or a commerce API behind them when performance and design are the differentiators, and fully custom stores for B2B pricing, configurators or unusual fulfilment.

UK stores need VAT-inclusive pricing and invoicing that your accountant can reconcile in Xero or Sage, the delivery options shoppers expect (Royal Mail, DPD, Evri, click-and-collect), buy-now-pay-later through Klarna or Clearpay, and cookie consent that satisfies PECR and UK GDPR. Everything is set up in accounts you own, invoiced in GBP, and sandbox-tested before launch, with weekly demos in your working morning.

  • Indicative cost: Shopify and WooCommerce stores from ₹1.5 lakh, headless and custom storefronts ₹6–15 lakh on our published Indian pricing (roughly GBP 1,500–13,000, an indicative conversion roughly ₹115 per pound); B2B and multi-warehouse builds at the upper end. Confirmed in a written GBP proposal. Platform subscriptions and gateway fees are paid by you at cost.
  • Timeline: Shopify or WooCommerce 4–8 weeks, headless or custom 8–12 weeks, B2B platforms 10–16 weeks, including a soft launch to a friends-and-family list before the public launch.
  • What is included: discovery and written scope, UX and conversion-focused design, theme or storefront build, payments and VAT, shipping rules and carrier integration, product and customer migration, analytics and cookie consent, training and a 30-day warranty.
  • Payments and VAT: Stripe, Shopify Payments, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Klarna or Clearpay for buy-now-pay-later, GoCardless for B2B Direct Debit where you hold accounts; VAT-inclusive pricing, VAT invoices and Xero or Sage sync with Making Tax Digital left to the accounting platform.
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What we build

Stores we build for UK sellers.

01

Shopify and Shopify Plus stores

Custom themes or Online Store 2.0 customisation, apps chosen to avoid subscription creep, Shopify Payments or Stripe with Klarna and Clearpay, UK VAT settings and invoices, and integrations with your 3PL, EPOS or ERP; Plus features such as B2B, Scripts and Functions where you are on Plus.

02

WooCommerce stores

Content-rich stores on WordPress with custom themes, product configurators, subscriptions, memberships and B2B pricing; WooPayments or Stripe, VAT handling, Royal Mail and DPD shipping; hardened hosting in a UK region with caching and a CDN.

03

Headless storefronts

Next.js front ends on Shopify Hydrogen or the Storefront API, or on a commerce API such as commercetools, for Core Web Vitals-led performance and design freedom, with checkout kept on the platform for PCI scope.

04

Custom and B2B commerce

Account-based and trade pricing, quotes and approvals, credit terms with GoCardless Direct Debit or Stripe invoicing, punch-out catalogues, multi-warehouse stock and API or EDI links to wholesalers.

05

Shipping and fulfilment

Royal Mail Click and Drop, DPD, Evri and Parcelforce for rates, labels and tracking; click-and-collect and local delivery; 3PL handoff; returns portals; Loqate or Ideal Postcodes address lookup at checkout.

06

Marketplaces and channels

Amazon UK, eBay, TikTok Shop and Meta catalogue feeds synchronised from one product source, with stock and order reconciliation back into the store and into Xero or Sage.

UK client context

Selling online in the United Kingdom from India.

UK ecommerce is mature, mobile-first and delivery-sensitive: shoppers compare against Amazon's next-day baseline, expect VAT-inclusive prices, use Klarna and Clearpay heavily in fashion and lifestyle, and abandon checkouts that do not offer their preferred carrier or a collection point. A store built for the UK has to reconcile cleanly with the accountant's software as well.

Payments and buy-now-pay-later

Stripe or Shopify Payments with Apple Pay and Google Pay; PayPal for the shoppers who still prefer it; Klarna and Clearpay for buy-now-pay-later; GoCardless Direct Debit for trade customers on account. Open Banking payments through TrueLayer where a bank transfer beats card fees on high-value orders.

VAT and accounting

VAT-inclusive display pricing, VAT invoices with your registration number, reduced and zero-rated products handled per line, EU and rest-of-world tax rules for cross-border orders, and order, payment and refund sync into Xero, Sage or QuickBooks Online so Making Tax Digital returns come from one set of numbers. Your accountant defines the rules; we implement and test them.

Delivery

Royal Mail Click and Drop, DPD, Evri and Parcelforce integrations for rates, labels and tracking; click-and-collect and local delivery zones; 3PL handoff; returns portals with prepaid labels; postcode address lookup at checkout to cut failed deliveries.

Privacy, consent and accessibility

We design for UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (lawful basis, data-subject rights, records of processing, breach handling), ICO registration where your processing requires it, PECR for cookies and marketing consent, WCAG 2.1 AA for public-sector or accessibility-regulated sites, PCI DSS scope kept inside Stripe or GoCardless, and FCA rules where the product touches regulated payments or lending, at the time of writing (September 2026). Your counsel or DPO signs off; we implement.

Hosting and performance

Shopify hosts Shopify stores; WooCommerce and custom stores run on AWS London or Vercel in your accounts with a CDN in front; Core Web Vitals are a launch gate, not an afterthought.

Commercials

Quoted and invoiced in GBP through Stripe or Wise, or in INR if you prefer; the fixed price is set in the invoicing currency. We are an Indian entity and charge no UK VAT; your accountant advises on reverse-charge treatment. Platform subscriptions, apps and gateway fees are paid by you at cost.

UK integrations

Set up in your accounts, tested in the vendor sandbox first.

  • Payments. Stripe (Checkout, Billing and Connect), GoCardless for Direct Debit under the Bacs scheme, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Open Banking payments through TrueLayer or Stripe where a bank transfer beats card fees. Set up in accounts you own, with webhooks, refunds, chargebacks and reconciliation tested in the sandbox before go-live.
  • Accounting and CRM. Xero, Sage Business Cloud and QuickBooks Online for invoices, VAT and customer sync, with Making Tax Digital handled by the accounting platform; HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive through their APIs for CRM; Companies House and VIES lookups for customer onboarding where you need them.
  • Local channels and APIs. Royal Mail Click and Drop, DPD and Evri APIs for ecommerce labels and tracking; Twilio or Vonage for SMS; Postmark or SendGrid for email; Loqate or Ideal Postcodes for address lookup; Google Maps for geo; all in your accounts.
  • What already runs in production. Per-minute wallets, Razorpay checkout and RazorpayX payouts, Agora audio and video, Flutter and Next.js clients and a NestJS API on AWS in Local Friends; Razorpay checkout, WhatsApp Business API follow-ups and role-based dashboards in the six published case studies. Swapping Razorpay for Stripe or GoCardless is a gateway adapter and a sandbox test run, not a new architecture. No UK client is named on this site and we hold no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification.
Pricing and timeline approach

How we price and schedule ecommerce development for the UK.

01

Shopify or WooCommerce store — from ₹1.5 lakh

Theme customisation or a custom theme, catalogue setup, payments, VAT and shipping rules, essential apps and training. 4–8 weeks. From roughly GBP 1,500 as an indicative conversion.

02

Headless or custom storefront — ₹6–15 lakh

Next.js front end, custom checkout flows within the platform's PCI scope, multi-warehouse stock, ERP and 3PL integrations. 8–12 weeks. roughly GBP 5,000–13,000.

03

B2B commerce platform — ₹8–15 lakh and above

Trade pricing, quotes and approvals, credit terms with Direct Debit, punch-out and EDI, multi-warehouse. 10–16 weeks. roughly GBP 7,000–13,000 and above.

04

What moves the price

Catalogue complexity and variants, number of sales channels, VAT and shipping rules, migrations from Magento, BigCommerce or an old WooCommerce site, B2B features, and custom design versus a theme.

05

Currency and invoicing

Quoted and invoiced in GBP through Stripe or Wise, or in INR if you prefer; the fixed price is set in the invoicing currency. We are an Indian entity and charge no UK VAT; your accountant advises on reverse-charge treatment.

06

Timeline and release

A soft launch to a small list first, then the public launch with monitoring; every proposal carries a dated plan and a pre-launch checklist you sign off.

Technology

What we build ecommerce development with.

  • Shopify
  • Shopify Plus
  • Hydrogen
  • WooCommerce
  • Next.js
  • commercetools
  • Stripe
  • Shopify Payments
  • Klarna
  • Clearpay
  • GoCardless
  • PayPal
  • Royal Mail
  • DPD
  • Klaviyo
  • Xero
  • Sage
  • AWS eu-west-2
  • Cloudflare

Read how we choose between stacks on the technologies page.

How a project runs

The UK project process, step by step.

Scheduled around the agreed UK overlap window; every step is written into the proposal.

01

Discovery — week 1

Two or three video sessions in the agreed UK overlap window under a mutual NDA, mapping users, integrations and constraints; a fixed-scope written proposal follows, usually within 48 hours of the last session.

02

Design — weeks 2–3

Wireframes, a design system and a clickable prototype reviewed with your stakeholders before any code is written.

03

Build — week 3 onwards

Weekly demos on a staging URL, GitHub access from day one, a written Friday status note and a shared channel for questions.

04

Test — final weeks

Functional, performance, accessibility and security testing against a pre-launch checklist you sign off in writing.

05

Launch

Deployment to AWS London (eu-west-2), Google Cloud London, or Vercel, in accounts you own, monitoring and backups configured, and a launch-week watch with you.

06

Support

30-day warranty, then optional maintenance with monthly reports, or a documented handover to your team.

Security, IP and compliance

What is standard on every UK build.

01

Mutual NDA first

Signed before any brief is shared, on your template or ours; no sub-contractors without written consent.

02

Source code and IP are yours

Repositories, cloud accounts, app store listings, domains and design files are created in your name; we hold no licence over the delivered work.

03

Security baseline

HTTPS with HSTS, security headers, OWASP Top 10 review, role-based access, encrypted secrets, audit logs, dependency scanning and a penetration test before launch on client-facing systems.

04

Privacy and compliance we design for

We design for UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (lawful basis, data-subject rights, records of processing, breach handling), ICO registration where your processing requires it, PECR for cookies and marketing consent, WCAG 2.1 AA for public-sector or accessibility-regulated sites, PCI DSS scope kept inside Stripe or GoCardless, and FCA rules where the product touches regulated payments or lending, at the time of writing (September 2026). Your counsel or DPO signs off; we implement.

05

Performance and accessibility

Core Web Vitals targets, WCAG 2.1 AA checks, and SEO and AEO fundamentals (clean URLs, structured data, llms.txt) built into every web deliverable.

06

Continuity

Documentation, infrastructure as code, tested backups and a recorded handover, so a UK team or another vendor can take over without us.

UK delivery model

How a UK project runs with a team in Coimbatore.

SpikeSecure has one office, at CHIL SEZ IT Park, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, India. UK clients are served remotely by that engineering team; there is no UK office, entity or local staff, and we do not claim one.

  • Working hours. Our 09:30–18:30 IST day is 05:00–14:00 BST (04:00–13:00 GMT), so every UK working morning overlaps live for stand-ups, demos and same-day fixes; afternoon requests are picked up first thing the next IST morning.
  • Commercials. A written, fixed-scope proposal before work starts. Quoted and invoiced in GBP through Stripe or Wise, or in INR if you prefer; the fixed price is set in the invoicing currency. We are an Indian entity and charge no UK VAT; your accountant advises on reverse-charge treatment.
  • NDA and ownership. A mutual NDA is signed before discovery. Source code lives in a GitHub organisation you own; cloud, app store and domain accounts are in your name from day one; the intellectual property in the delivered work is yours.
  • Communication. A named project lead, a shared channel on Slack or WhatsApp, weekly demos on a staging URL (recorded for absent stakeholders), a written status note every Friday and GitHub access throughout.
  • Hosting. AWS eu-west-2 (London), Google Cloud europe-west2 (London), or Vercel with a UK or EU region, in your accounts with your billing; encrypted Postgres, S3 and a CDN in front. Data stays in the UK or EU unless you choose otherwise.
  • After launch. A 30-day warranty on every build, then optional maintenance with monthly health reports, or a documented handover to your in-house team or a local vendor.
FAQ

Ecommerce development for the UK: your questions answered.

Shopify, WooCommerce, headless or custom for a UK store?

Shopify for a fast launch with a standard catalogue and low operations overhead; WooCommerce when content and commerce live together and you want full ownership; headless when performance and custom design are the differentiators; custom when trade pricing, configurators or unusual fulfilment rules do not fit a platform. We recommend in writing after discovery.

How do you handle UK VAT and Xero or Sage in the store?

VAT-inclusive pricing and VAT invoices are configured per product line, including reduced and zero-rated goods and cross-border rules; orders, payments and refunds sync into Xero, Sage or QuickBooks Online so your Making Tax Digital returns come from the accounting platform. We configure and test; your accountant defines the rules and files.

Which UK carriers and payment options do you integrate?

Royal Mail Click and Drop, DPD, Evri and Parcelforce for rates, labels and tracking, plus click-and-collect and local delivery; Stripe or Shopify Payments, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, Clearpay and GoCardless Direct Debit for trade accounts; Loqate or Ideal Postcodes for address lookup. All in accounts you own.

How much does ecommerce development cost for a UK brand?

From ₹1.5 lakh for a Shopify or WooCommerce store and ₹6–15 lakh for headless, custom or B2B builds on our published Indian pricing, roughly GBP 1,500–13,000 as an indicative conversion (roughly ₹115 per pound); the written GBP proposal fixes the price. Platform subscriptions, apps and gateway fees are paid by you at cost.

Can you migrate our store from Magento, BigCommerce or an old WooCommerce site?

Yes. Products, variants, customers, orders and content are migrated with redirects preserved for SEO, the new store is soft-launched alongside the old one, and the cut-over is scheduled overnight UK time with a rollback plan.

How do you handle cookie consent and UK GDPR on the store?

A consent banner that blocks non-essential cookies until accepted (PECR), a privacy notice and data-subject request route, marketing consent captured at checkout and in Klaviyo or Mailchimp, retention rules for customer data, and hosting in a UK or EU region. We implement to your DPO's or solicitor's specification; we do not give legal advice.

Where is the team that would build this?

In Coimbatore, India. SpikeSecure has no UK office or entity; your project is delivered remotely under a mutual NDA, with a five-hour live overlap every UK morning (05:00–14:00 BST), weekly demos on a staging URL and written status notes for everything else.

Who owns the code and the accounts?

You do. Source code goes into a GitHub organisation in your name; AWS, Stripe, GoCardless, app store and domain accounts are yours from day one; the intellectual property in the delivered work is assigned to you in the proposal.

Let's build

Ready to launch a storethat sells in the UK?

A 30-minute discovery call and a fixed-scope quote — usually within 48 hours. No deck, no sales theatre.

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