Kent · United Kingdom
Ecommerce website development in Canterbury
Ecommerce development in Canterbury often has to meet an accessibility standard written into a contract. Universities and public bodies ask suppliers for evidence rather than assurances, and a store that cannot produce it loses the tender. We build Shopify and WooCommerce stores for Canterbury businesses remotely, and we hold no Canterbury office.
What is ecommerce in Canterbury actually like?
Selling to an institution turns accessibility from a good intention into a document. The buyer asks which standard you meet, at what level, when it was last tested and what is outstanding, and an answer of we take accessibility seriously ends the conversation. Producing a real statement means having tested with keyboard and screen reader rather than only with an automated tool, and being honest about known gaps. In our experience the honesty is respected; the vague reassurance never is.
What the city trades in5
Where the businesses are3
What that changes about the build
An accessibility statement with named standards, test dates and outstanding issues
Testing with keyboard and screen reader, because automated tools miss most real barriers
What we build for Canterbury 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 Canterbury?
Four pages, one per service, each about a different problem that Canterbury businesses actually bring us rather than a restatement of this one.
AI Automation in Canterbury
An accessibility statement with named standards, test dates and outstanding issues
Shopify Development in Canterbury
Testing with keyboard and screen reader, because automated tools miss most real barriers
UI/UX Design in Canterbury
Heritage and cultural organisations selling online
WooCommerce Development in Canterbury
Suppliers selling to universities and public bodies
How does remote delivery work for a Canterbury business?
We have no office in Canterbury 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.
- 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 Canterbury sectors do we build for?
The Canterbury 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 universities and public bodies
Heritage and cultural organisations selling online
Businesses tendering where accessibility is scored
Canterbury questions we are asked
Five questions specific to working with us from Canterbury, including the one every remote agency should answer first and most do not: whether we are actually there.
Do you have an office in Canterbury?
No. Our studio is in Rajkot, India, and Canterbury clients work with us remotely. We keep no Kent address and would rather say so plainly here than let a reader infer otherwise from a page carrying the city name in its heading and its title.
Is an automated accessibility scan enough?
No, and relying on one is how stores pass a tool and fail a user. Automated testing finds a minority of real barriers — it cannot tell you whether a label makes sense or whether a flow is usable without a mouse. Manual testing is where the remaining problems live.
What goes in an accessibility statement?
The standard and level you are working to, what you have tested and how, what is known to fall short, and how somebody reports a problem. A statement listing no shortcomings reads as untested rather than as perfect, particularly to an assessor who does this often.
Does accessibility slow the build down?
Built in from the start, barely at all — most of it is doing the ordinary things properly. Retrofitted onto a finished site it is expensive, because the problems are usually structural rather than cosmetic. The cost is entirely a function of when you start.
Will it hurt the design?
In our experience it improves it. Sufficient contrast, visible focus, sensible target sizes and clear labelling make a site easier for everybody, not only for people using assistive technology. The designs that suffer are the ones that were relying on the reader having perfect conditions.
Nearby cities we work with
Businesses within reach of Canterbury. Each has its own page describing what commerce looks like there rather than repeating this one.
Get in touch
Building or replatforming a store in Canterbury?
Tell us what you are building and we will come back within one business day.
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