Ecommerce Website Design
Built Custom, Fully Managed
We do not build Shopify themes, Wix stores, or WooCommerce sites. Every Launch Labs UK ecommerce store is a fully custom build: custom Stripe checkout, custom-built inventory management, built-in analytics, and managed hosting. You own your content (your words, images, products and customer data). Your site runs on our managed platform, see Ownership and Exit for details. No platform fees, no transaction cuts, no template other stores share. From £648 to launch (£499 build + £149 Payment & Invoice Integration), plus £79/mo Monthly Management or £129/mo Growth Plan.
What a fully custom
Ecommerce build includes
Launch a custom ecommerce store
From £648
One-Off Build
£499 one-off
Custom-designed storefront, product pages, analytics foundations, SEO baked in, hosted and managed on the Launch Labs UK platform.
Payment & Invoice Add-On
£149 one-off
Custom Stripe-powered checkout: deposits, full payments, subscriptions, Apple/Google Pay. See add-ons →
£499 build + £149 Payment & Invoice Integration =
From £648 to launch
One transparent price. Stripe processing only on top, no platform fees or transaction cuts.
Monthly Management
£79/month
Managed hosting, SSL, security, daily backups and minor edits.
Growth Plan
£129/month
Everything in Monthly Management plus continuous SEO, structural changes, search & competitor intelligence, conversion optimisation and authority building.
Advanced custom requirements (large catalogues, bespoke inventory management, custom analytics dashboards, ERP or courier integrations) can be scoped on a discovery call and added on top.
Why Templated Platforms
Cost You More Over Time
Monthly Platform Fees
Templated ecommerce platforms charge a monthly subscription that scales with your sales tier. Plus a percentage of every transaction on top of card processing. Over five years that compounds into tens of thousands of pounds you never see again.
Same Storefront As Competitors
Premium themes are sold thousands of times. Your customers have seen your layout on three other stores this week. Hard to build a defensible brand on infrastructure designed to look interchangeable.
Locked-In Roadmap
When the platform changes its checkout, app API or pricing, you have no recourse. A custom build means the roadmap is yours. New features ship when you need them, not when the platform decides.
How we build
Your custom ecommerce store
Discovery
Quick call to confirm catalogue size, integrations and fulfilment flow. Standard launch is £499 build + £149 Payment & Invoice; advanced custom needs are scoped on the call.
Design
Custom storefront, product page, basket and checkout designs tuned for your category. Mobile-first, conversion-led, never a templated layout.
Build
Custom Stripe checkout, custom inventory dashboard, analytics, SEO foundations, and any agreed integrations. Hosted and managed on the Launch Labs UK platform.
Launch & Grow
QA on real devices, payment-flow testing, soft launch, then full launch with managed hosting and ongoing conversion work month-on-month.
What sets a custom store apart
From a templated one
The ecommerce platform market is dominated by templated products: Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, WooCommerce. They are reasonable starting points and there is no shame in beginning there. Once your store is doing meaningful revenue, the maths flips. A 2% transaction fee plus a £200/month platform subscription on £500k of annual revenue is £12,400 a year, every year, forever, for infrastructure you do not own and cannot meaningfully customise.
A Launch Labs UK custom ecommerce website design replaces that with a one-off bespoke build. Custom Stripe checkout tuned for your category. A custom inventory dashboard built for how your products actually work (variants, bundles, low-stock thresholds, supplier SKUs). Built-in analytics so you stop stitching together Shopify, Google Analytics and a third-party AOV tracker. And a storefront that does not look like anything else in your space.
You own your content (your words, images, products and customer data). Your site runs on our managed platform, see Ownership and Exit for details.
Two related pages cover this in more depth: ecommerce website development goes deeper on the technical stack and Stripe checkout architecture, and custom ecommerce website design covers the bespoke design and brand differentiation angle.
Ready for an ecommerce store you actually own?
Standard launch is £499 build + £149 Payment & Invoice Integration (from £648), then £79 or £129/month. Tell us about your products and we will confirm scope on a quick call.
Related ecommerce pages
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Based in Maidenhead, working with businesses across London and Berkshire.
Mathew Wills
Founder, Launch Labs UK, Maidenhead, Berkshire
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