E-commerce development —
storefronts that survive the spike.
Headless storefronts, custom OMS and PIM, checkout and payment rails, subscription billing, and platform migrations. Built so day one of peak season feels like any other Tuesday.
E-commerce as engineering, not a plugin.
Modern commerce is a small retail frontend on top of a lot of backend. Inventory, pricing, promotions, fulfilment, returns, tax, fraud, subscription logic. The interesting engineering lives in that backend, in how well it survives a Black Friday peak, and in how fast a merchandiser can launch a new market.
We build headless storefronts, custom order and product systems, checkout and payment flows, and the operational tooling behind them. We work across Shopify, commercetools, BigCommerce, Magento, and fully bespoke stacks, whichever matches the roadmap.
Shipped under this discipline.
A sample of projects where this capability was load-bearing. We omit client names by default and share them under NDA when you want to dig into a specific engagement.
Anonymised case studyCommerceFrontir: emerging-markets research.
Research clients access representative panels in markets that were previously unreachable.
React · Redux · PHP · Slim
Anonymised case studyCommerceOrdermint: E-commerce platform.
A web app for online retail, built with Django, AWS, Python, jQuery and Bootstrap. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Django · AWS · Python · jQuery
Anonymised case studyCommerceServora: Custom application.
A web app for a focused workflow, built with Vue, Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL. The core workflow is modelled properly once, so data stays consistent and the product is straightforward to extend.
Vue · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL
Anonymised case studyCommerceBulkbridge: E-commerce platform.
A web and mobile app for online retail, built with React, React Native, Node.js, Express, MongoDB and AWS. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
React · React Native · Node.js · Express
Anonymised case studyCommerceFreshdash: E-commerce platform.
A web and mobile app for online retail, built with Angular, Ionic and Django. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Angular · Ionic · Django
Anonymised case studyCommerceDomotix: E-commerce platform.
A web app for online retail, built with Django and Python. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Django · Python
Storefront, checkout and the stock system behind them.
Most engagements combine two or three of these. We scope the exact shape during discovery and ship incrementally so trading doesn't stop while we build.
Headless storefronts.
A storefront that loads fast, ranks well, and sells in every market. Next.js or Remix frontends against Shopify, commercetools, BigCommerce, or your own API, internationalised and controlled by your marketing and merchandising teams.
Custom OMS and PIM.
Get orders and product data right when no packaged system fits. Order management, product information, stock reservation, fulfilment routing, and returns, integrated with your 3PLs, carriers, and tax engines.
Checkout and payment rails.
A checkout that converts and doesn't drop payments under load. Custom checkouts with Stripe, Adyen, Klarna, and regional rails, idempotent and SCA-compliant, PCI-scoped, with recovery logic for the failure modes that matter in production.
Subscription and recurring billing.
Recurring revenue that reconciles cleanly instead of leaking. Plan modelling, proration, dunning, coupon logic, and the admin tooling merchandising teams need, with billable events that reconcile against your finance system.
Marketplace builds.
Run a multi-seller marketplace without drowning in operations. Seller onboarding, listing moderation, KYC, split payments, payouts, and operator dashboards, from niche verticals to cross-border platforms.
Platform migrations.
Re-platform without losing SEO, orders, or subscribers. Magento to headless Shopify, Shopify to commercetools, monolith to composable, with incremental cut-overs so SEO, order history, and subscription data survive intact.
Scoping E-commerce development? Get an engineer's read on your build in 30 minutes — no sales pitch, no decks.
Start a projectThe commerce stack, end-to-end.
We'll slot into the platform and vendors you're already on, or help you pick better ones. The tools we use most often:
Pick the engagement model
that fits the commitment.
The same E-commerce development work ships under any of these three commercial shapes. The difference is in how you hold us accountable and how you scale up or down.
A cross-functional pod of engineers, QA, DevOps, and design, working only on your product.
A managed engineering arm under an agreed operating model. Your roadmap and IP, our ops and infra.
Vetted senior engineers who plug into your team and backlog.
AI for your storefront.
Search that understands what shoppers mean, product copy generated to your brand rules, and support assistants that check the order before they answer.
Explore AI developmentQuestions from commerce teams.
Can't find what you're looking for? Email hello@cloudini.co and we can discuss your requirements.
We work across Shopify, Shopify Plus, commercetools, BigCommerce, Magento, Salesforce B2C, and fully custom stacks. Platform choice follows the roadmap, not a vendor relationship. If you're migrating from one to another, we've run the cut-over for clients on almost every path.
Headless wins when frontend velocity, SEO, or international rollout is the bottleneck. Monolithic is fine when the storefront is simple and stable. Hybrid (headless frontend, packaged commerce backend) suits most mid-market retailers. We help you decide during discovery by looking at the actual roadmap, not the architecture fashion.
Peak readiness is designed in from week one. Load testing against realistic traffic shapes. Cache and CDN strategy. Idempotent payment flows. Graceful degradation when a dependency goes down. A runbook your on-call team has rehearsed. We do a dedicated peak-prep phase four to eight weeks before a known peak.
Yes. This is the core of a migration engagement. URL maps, 301 redirects, metadata preservation, structured-data continuity, order and subscription history portability, and staged traffic cut-overs. We run the SEO delta monitoring for eight weeks post-launch.
Yes. Commerce systems rarely live alone. Most engagements include wiring into an ERP (NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics), a CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), a 3PL or warehouse management system, and tax engines like Avalara or Vertex. We map the integration surface during discovery.
International commerce is a first-class concern. Multi-currency pricing, regional payment methods, localised checkouts, tax and duty calculation, address validation, and region-specific fulfilment rules. We design it into the data model from day one. Retrofitting it into a single-region build is painful.
“Cloudini did some great work for Sainsbury's, bridging complex interactions between some older less flexible systems, some rigid vendor solutions and the new systems we were building. The software Cloudini developers wrote stood up well, long beyond the interim scope of it needing to work for 12-18m and was still in active use 5 years after its creation to good effect, since it was part of mission critical systems.”
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