Checkout drop-off
Slow mobile flows and surprise shipping costs kill conversion.
Industries · Ecommerce · South Africa
Ecommerce and marketplaces
Shopify works until you need multi-vendor payouts, complex logistics, or a brand experience templates cannot carry.
South African ecommerce means Paystack, courier APIs, VAT-aware receipts, and customers on mobile data. We build when your model outgrows plugins or when you are the marketplace operator, not a single merchant.
Operational reality
Challenges we see in ecommerce
Marketplace payouts
Splitting funds between platform and sellers manually is slow and risky.
Ops without visibility
Support cannot see order, payment, and shipment state in one timeline.
Where software helps
Automation leverage
Performance-first storefronts
Next.js or headless frontends tuned for mobile networks and SEO.
Payment and refund rules
Paystack webhooks drive order state so support works from facts.
Seller and admin tooling
Vendors manage catalog and fulfilment without touching your core database blindly.
Workflow examples
Illustrative flows we map during discovery. Your build will follow your rules, payments, and integrations.
Single-brand checkout
Reduce cart abandonment on mobile.
- Guest or account checkout with saved addresses
- Live shipping quotes from courier API
- Paystack payment with webhook confirmation
- Order status emails and WhatsApp optional
Marketplace seller payout
Platform fee and seller share calculated automatically.
- Order completes and delivery confirmed
- Platform fee deducted per rules
- Seller balance updated
- Weekly payout batch exported or automated
How we can help
Related work
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Scope your store or marketplace MVP
Share catalog size, payments, and fulfilment model. We separate theme work from real platform engineering in the quote.