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E-commerce & Marketplaces
Custom e-commerce and marketplace platforms that convert.
Launch a custom-built online store or multi-vendor marketplace with the performance, flexibility, and conversion-focused design that off-the-shelf platforms cannot deliver.
Choose Your Tier
All tiers ship a fully production-ready product. Choose based on your current stage, compliance needs, and growth ambitions.
Custom storefront with full checkout and order management.
4 – 6 weeks
Full e-commerce or marketplace platform with advanced operations.
8 – 12 weeks
Scalable commerce infrastructure for high-volume operations.
Custom timeline
Overview
Shopify and WooCommerce work until they do not. Custom e-commerce builds are the right call when your business model requires multi-vendor selling, unique product configuration, specialized fulfillment workflows, or margins that cannot sustain platform fees at scale.
ZIRA has built custom e-commerce platforms, B2B procurement portals, multi-vendor marketplaces, and niche retail experiences for brands across fashion, food, industrial supply, and digital goods. We build with conversion in mind — fast page loads, frictionless checkout, and personalization that drives repeat purchase.
Our e-commerce MVPs are not just storefronts. They include inventory management, order operations, vendor management (for marketplaces), and the analytics your team needs to optimize performance from day one.
Tech Stack
Use Cases
Every Package Includes
How We Work
We map your product catalog, customer journey, and operational requirements. Single-vendor, multi-vendor, B2B, or B2C — the architecture is designed for your specific model before any code is written.
Conversion-focused UI design for product pages, search, cart, and checkout. We study your category's benchmarks and apply proven patterns that reduce abandonment and increase average order value.
Product model, variant system, pricing, inventory, and SEO metadata built first. A working product catalog is your foundation — everything else builds on it.
Cart logic, discount engine, shipping calculations, tax rules, and payment gateway integration built and tested with real transactions on a staging environment.
Order management, fulfillment workflows, email automation, shipping integrations, and any ERP or warehouse connections wired in and tested.
Core Web Vitals optimization, load testing, SEO audit, and production launch. We monitor the first 48 hours of live traffic and address any issues immediately.
Why ZIRA
Full control over UX, branding, and checkout — no platform constraints
No ongoing platform fees eating into your margins at scale
SEO-optimized out of the box for organic product discovery
Conversion-focused design based on e-commerce best practices
Scales to millions of products and high-volume traffic
Custom business logic that off-the-shelf platforms cannot support
Full code ownership — migrate or extend without restrictions
Integrated analytics from day one so you can optimize immediately
Questions
Shopify is a great starting point, but becomes limiting when you need multi-vendor functionality, complex pricing rules, non-standard fulfillment, B2B pricing tiers, or when transaction fees at your sales volume make a custom build economically superior.
Yes. We handle product data, customer accounts, order history, and SEO redirect mapping to ensure no organic rankings are lost during migration. Full migration plans are produced during discovery.
We use Stripe Connect for marketplace payouts, which handles split payments, commission deductions, tax reporting, and direct-to-bank payouts for vendors. This is included in the Growth tier.
Our e-commerce MVPs are mobile-first web applications (PWA) that work on iOS and Android browsers. A native mobile app is a separate engagement — we can scope both if needed.
We target a Lighthouse performance score above 90 and Core Web Vitals in the "Good" category on launch. Product pages are statically generated or edge-cached for sub-100ms TTFB.
Ready to Build?
Book a free discovery call. We will scope your product, confirm the right tier, and send a written proposal within 48 hours.