Ecommerce and retail software that holds up on the busiest day

It depends on catalogue size, how many channels you sell through and how much you need to customise. Shopify Plus suits most direct-to-consumer brands; Magento or a headless build makes sense when pricing, B2B accounts or integrations get complicated. We will tell you which one we would pick and why — including when the answer is the cheaper option.

Months before, not the week before. We load-test the checkout at several times the expected peak, cache what can be cached, move slow work like emails and ERP updates off the order path, and agree who is on call during the sale.

With a paid first week. Two of us read what you already have, talk to whoever runs it day to day, and write down what the build has to do, the trade-offs and a price range. You keep that document either way. After that we work in two-week blocks with a preview link from day three.

Yes, from the first line. The work sits in your repository, under your accounts, on your servers. There is no Clownmind framework you have to keep paying for.