Ecommerce stores and growth platforms
Deep skills without product context tend to produce fragile integrations. The specialist work has to connect to real user flows.
Specialist features sit behind clear interfaces, so your core product stays stable while new capability gets added.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for brands searching for ecommerce development. Ecommerce development for modern storefronts, headless commerce, checkout flows, and conversion-focused product UX.
What you get
- High-converting storefronts
- Headless commerce setups
- Checkout and payments
- SEO and performance focus
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your ecommerce development, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On ecommerce development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for teams in London stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For ecommerce development work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- Shopify
- storefront, checkout, and payments handled, so the build goes into what makes the store different
- Stripe
- payments, subscriptions, and the tax and invoicing edge cases you do not want to build
- Medusa.js
- a headless commerce backend when Shopify's model is too rigid for the catalogue
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Spike the risky part
We build the thinnest possible version of high-converting storefronts against your real data. If it is going to be a problem, it is better to know in week one than week six.
- Weeks 2-3
Harden the integration
Auth, rate limits, error paths, and the data contract. This is the work that separates a demo from something you can leave running.
- Weeks 4-6
Wire it into the product
The ecommerce development stops being a standalone service and becomes a feature people use, with the interface and permissions that implies.
- Ongoing
Evaluate and tune
Behaviour gets measured against cases you care about, and we tune from that rather than from impressions.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on ecommerce development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in London
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying London market for SaaS, fintech, and AI product talent. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your ecommerce development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the ecommerce development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
StudioX Localization
Frontend · i18n
UI polish and language translation pages for the StudioX product experience.
Contract contribution implementing UI fixes and localization pages with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to improve accessibility and multi-language use.
- · Language translation pages
- · UI accessibility fixes
- · Next.js page delivery
- · Clearer multi-language UX
Next.js · React · Tailwind
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Horizan Labs
Frontend · Internship
Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.
Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.
- · Responsive marketing pages
- · Team-based frontend delivery
- · Modern React/Next stack
- · UI performance and accessibility focus
React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL
Working with teams in London
London market for SaaS, fintech, and AI product talent. We work with clients in London remotely and keep overlapping hours in GMT/BST. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with London teams
London is on GMT/BST, which gives us an overlapping working day rather than a handful of shared hours. Standups, reviews, and demos all fit in normal business hours for both sides.
What London clients usually need
London work is heavily SaaS and fintech: dashboards over real financial data, onboarding and KYC flows, and increasingly LLM features layered onto products that already have paying users.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Procurement in London tends to ask for a DPA, evidence of where data sits, and a security questionnaire before signing. We handle those upfront, and we keep personal data in UK or EU regions by default.
