Ecommerce stores and growth platforms
Specialist work falls apart when it never leaves the demo stage. Anything in production still needs auth, data handling, monitoring, and an interface people can use.
We prototype the risky integration first, then sort out auth, data contracts, evaluation, and monitoring before spending time on polish.
Most people who reach this page are 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. On ecommerce development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. The work for remote and worldwide teams stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
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.
An in-house hire
A permanent engineer is the right call once the ecommerce development is continuous rather than a project. Before that point you are paying a salary, recruiting for months, and carrying the risk that the first hire is the wrong shape for the problem.
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
Lengju Deildin
Realtime frontend · GraphQL
Live football league experience with sockets, GraphQL, and YouTube stream widgets.
Automated league app built at Stellar Stack with live scores, widgets, and stream integrations for higher fan engagement.
- · Realtime score updates
- · YouTube live widgets
- · GraphQL data layer
- · Automated league data views
React · GraphQL · Apollo · WebSockets · Firebase
Medusa Ecommerce Store
Frontend · Medusa.js
Grocery ecommerce storefront on Medusa.js with Next.js, TypeScript, and API-driven catalog flows.
Stellar Stack ecommerce build focused on shopping UX and integrations across Medusa services and a Next.js storefront.
- · Medusa-powered catalog and checkout
- · TypeScript Next.js storefront
- · API and service integrations
- · Performance-minded product UX
Medusa.js · Next.js · TypeScript · React · Tailwind
Better Health Solutions
Frontend · CMS
Clinic website for Dr. Khayami with patient resources, scheduling UX, and educational video.
Responsive chiropractic practice site built at Code Band with Next.js, Redux Toolkit, Video.js, and Strapi content management.
- · Responsive clinic experience
- · Appointment-oriented UX
- · Patient education video
- · CMS-managed content
Next.js · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi · Video.js
Where we work
Fully remote engagements across time zones. We work remote-first, so the time zone matters less than keeping updates clear and regular. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Remote worldwide teams
Remote-first engagements run on written updates, a shared backlog, and a weekly demo call. We keep at least four hours of overlap with whichever time zone you work in, and everything else happens asynchronously so nobody waits on a meeting to unblock work.
What Remote worldwide clients usually need
Most remote briefs arrive as a rough product idea with a deadline attached. The first job is separating the slice that has to ship from the rest of the roadmap.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Contracts are milestone-based, invoiced against agreed deliverables. Code lives in your repository from the first commit, so there is no handover cliff if you take the work in-house later.
