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Fewer checkout obstacles
Turn product interest into revenue
High-performance online stores designed for South African buying behaviour, mobile checkout and the operational reality of payments, shipping, inventory and product content.
Discuss your projectThe outcome
Fewer checkout obstacles
Better product discovery
A trustworthy mobile store
A scalable catalogue structure
What’s included
Scope and decisions
We scope the store around representative products and the work of your operations team: variants, prices, stock, delivery, payments, notifications and returns. A standard catalogue is a different job from a store that must reconcile inventory with an ERP or supplier feed.
A product catalogue does not always need checkout. For suppliers whose customers need specifications, advice or a dealer before buying, we can scope category pages, product details, approved technical downloads and product-specific enquiries. Bring a simple product, a complex variant and a discontinued item so we can agree identifiers, units, editing responsibilities and replacement links. Dealer handoffs, live inventory and ERP connections are separate requirements; the enquiry should carry the product reference to the receiving team.
Layerforge concept and Emberwell concept provide product-discovery and catalogue interface examples. These are independent designs for fictional brands, not commissioned client websites. The linked studies let you examine the presentation. They do not establish live merchant performance or independently verified sales results.
During discovery we identify who owns the merchant account and where product data comes from. We confirm the provider’s current capabilities and eligibility rather than assuming every payment method is available. One standard hosted payment integration is included in the ecommerce base allowance; custom reconciliation and other integrations are scoped separately.
The launch checklist covers failed and delayed payments as well as a successful order. We define stock handling, delivery regions, customer notifications and the staff handover. Your business supplies and approves its commercial policies, prices and legally appropriate terms.
Relevant work
Emberwell is a self-initiated, independent UX design study for a fictional fireplaces & interiors brand. Pixaloom designed and built this study to explore responsive visual design, useful navigation and clear product or service discovery. It was not commissioned by a client and does not represent a live trading business. Content, product details and prices are illustrative; demo forms send nothing.
Explore the project →Ecommerce · Project studyLayerforge is a self-initiated, independent UX design study for a fictional 3d printing & scanning brand. Pixaloom designed and built this study to explore responsive visual design, useful navigation and clear product or service discovery. It was not commissioned by a client and does not represent a live trading business. Content, product details and prices are illustrative; demo forms send nothing.
Explore the project →Before sign-off
The focused store planning allowance is R15,000–R25,000, including one standard hosted payment integration. It excludes VAT where applicable, merchant transaction fees, hosting and recurring subscriptions. Catalogue import complexity and bespoke integrations affect the written quote.
Explore planning allowancesThe process
We map products, variants, margins, fulfilment and the buying journey.
We build the category, filter and product structure around how customers shop.
Payments, delivery, notifications and operational workflows are connected and tested.
We validate mobile checkout, analytics, search visibility and launch readiness.
Questions, answered
The right platform depends on catalogue size, internal workflows and growth plans. We commonly use WooCommerce or a custom/headless stack when the requirements justify it.
Yes. We can integrate common South African and international gateways, subject to provider approval and your merchant account.
Yes. We plan crawlable categories, product metadata, structured data, canonical rules and performance from the start.