Lazio · Italy
Ecommerce website development in Rome
Ecommerce development in Rome frequently means selling to the state. Public bodies buy through electronic invoicing with routing codes, split payment and tender references, and a supplier whose invoice lacks any of them does not get paid. We build Shopify and WooCommerce stores for Rome businesses remotely, and we hold no Rome office.
What is ecommerce in Rome actually like?
Selling to public bodies in Italy is an administrative discipline before it is a commercial one. The invoice needs a routing code identifying the specific office, a tender or commitment reference the buyer supplied, and frequently a split payment treatment where the tax is accounted for by them rather than collected by you. Any of those missing means the document is rejected by the exchange system and the payment simply does not happen. The store has to capture those fields at the order rather than chase them at invoicing.
What the city trades in5
Where the businesses are4
What that changes about the build
Routing codes and tender references captured at the order rather than chased at invoicing
Split payment treatment recorded per customer, because the tax is accounted for by the buyer
What we build for Rome businesses
We build four things, and all four are delivered the same way wherever the client is: Shopify stores, WooCommerce stores, the interface design that decides whether either converts, and the automation that removes manual work from running them.
Shopify Development
Shopify development is the work of building a store on Shopify that does what your business needs rather than what a theme allows.
What we buildWooCommerce Development
WooCommerce development is the work of building a store on WordPress and WooCommerce, where you host the software and own the database outright.
What we buildUI/UX Design
Ecommerce UI/UX design is the work of deciding how a store looks and how customers move through it, from landing page to completed order.
What we buildAI Automation
AI automation for ecommerce means using language models and workflow tools to remove repetitive work from running a store.
What we build
What does each service run into in Rome?
Four pages, one per service, each about a different problem that Rome businesses actually bring us rather than a restatement of this one.
AI Automation in Rome
Businesses tendering for public contracts
Shopify Development in Rome
Routing codes and tender references captured at the order rather than chased at invoicing
UI/UX Design in Rome
Suppliers selling to ministries and public agencies
WooCommerce Development in Rome
Split payment treatment recorded per customer, because the tax is accounted for by the buyer
How does remote delivery work for a Rome business?
We have no office in Rome and no plans to open one. Work is delivered from our studio in Rajkot, through a shared board you can open at any time rather than a weekly status call. Everything agreed is written down the same day, because a decision nobody can find later is the same as one nobody made.
VAT here
Selling to Italian public bodies changes who pays the tax to the authorities: under split payment arrangements the buyer accounts for it rather than the supplier, so the invoice shows the amount without collecting it. That is an accounting question to settle before the first tender.
Where your obligations actually begin is a question for a tax adviser. We build the store to collect correctly against whatever answer you get.
- Delivery
- Remote, from Rajkot, India
- Decisions
- Written to the shared board the same day they are made
- Meetings
- Video, with the people doing the work rather than an account manager
- Reply time
- Within one business day
Which Rome sectors do we build for?
The Rome economy produces most of the businesses below, and their requirements we have met before. A sector missing from this list is a scoping conversation, not a refusal.
Suppliers selling to ministries and public agencies
Businesses tendering for public contracts
Distributors serving universities and hospitals
Rome questions we are asked
Five questions specific to working with us from Rome, including the one every remote agency should answer first and most do not: whether we are actually there.
Do you have an office in Rome?
No. Our studio is in Rajkot, India, and Rome clients work with us remotely. There is no Italian address behind this page. We put it in the opening paragraph rather than the footer because that is where a reader forms the assumption, and correcting it there costs nothing.
Why capture the routing code at the order?
Because chasing it afterwards delays the invoice and therefore the payment. The buyer knows it at the point of ordering and will supply it if asked. A store that omits the field creates a manual step for your finance team on every single public sector order.
What is split payment in practice?
An arrangement where the public buyer accounts for the tax directly rather than paying it to you, so your invoice shows it without collecting it. Whether it applies to a given customer is a question for your accountant, and the store needs to record the answer per account rather than guess.
Can a rejected invoice be corrected?
Yes, and each correction is its own reportable event rather than a quiet edit. That is why getting the fields right at the order matters more here than in ordinary trade: a rejection is not an email you can answer, it is a document that has to be reissued through the exchange.
Do you handle the invoicing integration?
We build the store so it produces complete and correctly structured order data and connects to accredited invoicing software. We do not become that software, and we do not advise on the tax treatment. Both of those belong with specialists, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Get in touch
Building or replatforming a store in Rome?
Tell us what you are building and we will come back within one business day.
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- Office in Rome
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- Within one business day