Cooper Agency Original Thinking Since 1999

Bespoke UK ecommerce Shopify website design, built to sell

When your store lags the business, it costs you sales every day: buyers lost on a slow phone page, carts left at a confusing checkout, and trust lost to a store that looks less serious than the company behind it. We design and build Shopify stores around how your customers actually buy. If your store already lives on EKM, Wix, WooCommerce or Magento, we move it across without losing what already ranks.

The XCell Rubber Shopify store, designed and built by us
Shopify Partner

Where your store loses sales

Four places a store quietly loses buyers it has already paid to attract

What goes wrong

  • Slow pages lose the buyer before the product has loaded
  • Mobile shoppers meet a layout designed for a desk
  • Checkout steps and surprises abandon the cart at the last moment
  • Trust is lost when the store looks less serious than the business

What changes

  • Fast pages, with lazy-loaded images served from Shopify's CDN
  • Mobile layouts designed for the thumb first, then the desk
  • Checkout with the delivery cost and the steps clear before the buyer commits
  • Trust built by a store that looks as established as the business is
Partner
Registered Shopify Partner
21 days
From your content to launch
Yours
Your account, domain and code
Every URL
Mapped when a store moves

Shopify website design services: what every build includes

The foundations every store we design is built on

Mobile-first design

Most shoppers arrive on a phone, so the store is designed for the phone first and works on every screen size.

Fast pages

Stores built for speed, which keeps buyers on the page and supports your Google rankings.

Built to convert

Every page type designed around the decision the buyer is making on it.

SEO foundations

Titles, structure, schema and internal links set up so the store can be found.

Easy to shop

Navigation, search and filters that help a buyer find the right product quickly.

Secure and reliable

PCI compliant, with SSL and security updates handled by Shopify.

Why choose Shopify for ecommerce website design in the UK?

The platform behind millions of businesses worldwide, and the one we chose for our own stores

Shopify against the other ecommerce platforms

Less to maintain than WooCommerce

Shopify runs the hosting, caching and updates that a WooCommerce store has to manage itself, so speed doesn't decay as plugins pile up

Easier to run than Magento

Your own team can make everyday changes in Shopify, where Magento needs a developer for the basics

More dependable than a custom build

Hosting, security updates and PCI compliance are Shopify's job, not a server you have to keep upright

Set up for UK trading

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    Multi-currency selling

    Sell in GBP, EUR, USD and the other currencies Shopify Markets supports

  • UK shipping integration

    Royal Mail, DPD and Evri connected through Shopify's shipping apps

  • UK payment methods

    Shopify Payments, PayPal, Klarna and the other gateways Shopify supports

  • GDPR tools

    Shopify's built-in privacy and consent tools, set up for UK GDPR

Bespoke Shopify website design, not a template

As a Shopify Partner, we know what makes an online store sell. Our Shopify web design puts a look made for your brand on top of the functionality that sells.

A generic Shopify theme is built for everyone. Ours is designed for your brand, your products and your buyers, and every element, from the custom theme to the checkout flow, is built to turn visitors into customers.

What Shopify website development actually involves

The work behind a store that sells, not just a theme that looks nice

The typical Shopify website design quote describes three steps: pick a theme, change the colours, load the products. That is installation, not design. The work that separates a store that converts from a store that just exists happens in the decisions underneath, and most of those decisions are invisible in a theme demo.

Theme architecture, not theme installation

Every store we design starts from your buying journey, and the theme is bent around it, never the other way. A trade supplier selling by the pallet needs a different product page from a gift shop selling one-offs, and a Shopify web designer who hasn't asked how your customers actually buy is decorating, not designing. If you are weighing the platform itself first, our side-by-side comparisons of Wix, WooCommerce and Magento against Shopify cover where each one earns its keep.

Conversion architecture on every template

Shopify web design lives or dies on the product page: the image order, where the delivery promise sits, what the button says, which trust signals appear before the fold. We build these patterns into the theme's sections so every product you add inherits them: you shouldn't need a designer on retainer just to keep your own store consistent.

UK delivery set up properly

Delivery is where UK stores quietly lose money: flat rates that undercharge the Highlands, free-shipping thresholds set by guesswork, surcharges that surprise the customer at checkout. We set up UK shipping zones with postcode-precise rates as part of the design, because a beautiful store with wrong delivery pricing is still a store that loses on every order it ships north.

Migration without losing what already ranks

If you're moving an existing store, the design work includes the unglamorous part: mapping every old URL to its new home so the Google rankings you've earned survive the move. We have migrated stores from EKM, Magento, Wix and WordPress, and the real cost of a Shopify migration is mostly in doing this properly. The flatline that follows skipping it costs far more.

A store you own from day one

We build in your own Shopify account, under your own domain, with your own payment provider. When the build is done you hold every key: no agency lock-in, no hostage hosting, nothing you have to negotiate back if you ever want to leave. It is your store from the first day.

A store we moved onto Shopify

Xcell Rubber: B2B trade supply

A trade catalogue moved without breaking trade pricing

Xcell Rubber, part of Lee Hinton’s Atlantic Rubber, sells industrial sealing strips, gaskets and sponge profiles. We moved the catalogue off EKM onto Shopify, carrying quantity-break pricing and sample ordering for repeat trade buyers.

How an EKM to Shopify move runs →
“He seemed to understand what I needed even when I didn’t.”
Lee Hinton, Atlantic Rubber

Shopify website design UK pricing

Three build packages, with the cost published before you call

Shopify Store Packages

One-time setup cost • All packages include 21-day delivery* and 30-day support

£2,490

Essential

Perfect for startups and small businesses

  • Professional Shopify theme setup
  • Up to 100 products (or bulk import)
  • Mobile responsive design
  • Basic SEO setup
  • Payment gateway integration
  • 21-day delivery*
  • 30 days support
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Recommended

£3,495

Professional

For growing businesses ready to scale

  • Custom Shopify theme design
  • Up to 500 products (or bulk import)
  • Advanced customisation
  • Full SEO optimisation
  • Email marketing setup
  • Analytics integration
  • 21-day delivery*
  • 60 days support
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£5,995+

Enterprise

Fully custom solution for established brands

  • Bespoke Shopify Plus design
  • Unlimited products & bulk import
  • Custom functionality
  • Advanced integrations
  • Multi-currency support
  • Priority delivery
  • 90 days support
  • Training included
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All packages include: Milestone payments • Professional project management • Post-launch support

Ongoing Shopify platform costs

After your store is built, you'll pay Shopify directly for hosting and platform access:

  • • Basic: £19/month - Perfect for new businesses
  • • Grow: £49/month - For growing businesses
  • • Advanced: £259/month - For scaling businesses
  • • Plus transaction fees: 2.0-2.9% + 20p per transaction

Note: Shopify's subscription is paid to Shopify, not to us. In return you get a full ecommerce platform, with payment processing, inventory management and more.

From brief to launch in 21 days*

How a Shopify build runs, in four stages

*The timeline starts once we receive all your content

1

Discovery call

We learn the business, its goals, its buyers and the design direction

2

Design and build

We design and build your custom Shopify store, with every feature agreed

3

Review and refine

You review the store, and we make the adjustments

4

Launch and support

Go live with full training and 30 days of support

The first conversation is free

What should the store be doing for the business?

Tell us where the store stands and what it has to deliver. We'll tell you what the build involves, what it costs and how long it takes.

Before we speak, Tony reads your site against what you want to be found for, so the first call starts with what we found. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours on working days.

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Tell us what the website has to do for the business

Call us, or set out what you need below. Every enquiry is read by Tony Cooper, our principal.

Before we speak, Tony reads your site against what you want to be found for, so the first call starts with what we found. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours on working days.

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What you can check before you call

  • 5 on Google, from 14 reviews

  • Based in the UK, working for UK businesses

  • Your domain, hosting and code stay yours

Shopify website design: your questions

The questions buyers put to us before the first call.