02 — Service

E-commerce Website Development

The right e-commerce platform depends on your catalogue, your margins and your operations — not on what is fashionable. We help you choose deliberately, then build a store that converts and can be run by your team.

Overview

Online stores built on the right platform for the business.

Platform choice is the most consequential decision in an e-commerce project, and the one most often made for the wrong reasons. A hundred-SKU brand with simple fulfilment has very different needs from a marketplace with multiple sellers or a business with complex B2B pricing. We make that call with you explicitly, against your actual catalogue and operations, and we tell you where each option will hurt later.

What this service includes

  • Conversion optimization
  • Payment integration
  • Inventory management
  • Shipping and logistics
  • Customer accounts
  • Analytics and reporting
  • Marketplace functionality

Platforms

The right platform is a decision, not a default.

We make the trade-off explicit against your catalogue, margins and operations.

Shopify

Fast to launch, dependable, and strong for direct-to-consumer brands that want to focus on merchandising and marketing rather than infrastructure.

CMS-based e-commerce

The right fit when content and commerce carry equal weight — editorial, education and brand-led catalogues where storytelling drives the sale.

Custom e-commerce

For marketplaces, multi-vendor models, complex B2B pricing or operational logic that off-the-shelf platforms cannot express without fighting them.

How We Approach It

What makes the difference on this kind of work.

Conversion is the build

Product pages, cart and checkout are where revenue is won and lost. We treat them as the primary design surface, not the last three templates on the list.

Operations that hold up

Inventory, shipping rules, tax and fulfilment are designed with the people who run them daily, so the store does not create work it cannot absorb.

Payments that fit the market

Gateway and method selection matched to where your customers actually are, including local payment preferences that materially affect completion.

Measured from launch

E-commerce tracking, product and funnel events configured before launch, so you can see where customers drop rather than guess.

Deliverables

What you actually receive.

Scope varies by engagement — this is the standard shape of the work.

Strategy

  • Platform selection
  • Catalogue and taxonomy architecture
  • Pricing and promotion model
  • Competitor benchmarking

Design

  • Merchandising and category design
  • Product page templates
  • Cart and checkout UX
  • Mobile-first layouts

Build

  • Store development
  • Payment and shipping integration
  • Inventory and ERP connections
  • Customer accounts

Growth

  • Analytics and e-commerce tracking
  • Conversion rate optimization
  • Product feed and channel setup
  • Ongoing optimization

Related Work

Where we have done this before.

The Lukasz Trade website homepage, built by OceanStrive.

E-commerce 2024

Lukasz Trade

A multi-category B2B marketplace with seller onboarding, deep taxonomy and full shopping infrastructure.

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The Kamvin website homepage, built by OceanStrive.

Fashion & Apparel 2025

Kamvin

A men's fashion brand store built on a modern JavaScript stack, with promotion mechanics designed into the funnel.

Read case study

Questions

Things clients ask before starting.

Further reading

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