Store design that sells
Clean product pages, honest photography guidance, and a layout that moves people from looking to buying.
E-commerce
A shop that never closes
Ecommerce website design for South African businesses. Take orders, payments and repeat customers around the clock, without hiring night staff.
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The shop that never closes
www.iheartmedia.co.za/portfolio
02:14
+1 Added to cart
Order paid02:14
Emporio Armani chronograph. Paid in full, while the owner slept.
07:00 report
While you slept
02:14Emporio Armani chronographR4,899PAID
03:41Michael Kors strapR1,250PAID
05:56Fossil chronographR2,100PAID
3 orders overnightR8,249
0 staff awake. 0 calls answered. The store did it all.
Illustration // your store never closes
The order that arrives at 02:14
South Africans spent over R130 billion online in 2025, and online retail is growing at over 35% a year while physical retail crawls along under 2.5%. Nearly 1 rand in every 10 spent at retail now goes through an online checkout.
The animation beside this is a real store we built, The Watch Vault, and the scene it shows is the entire point of ecommerce: a paid order landing at 02:14 while the owner sleeps, and the morning report that adds it all up.
The problem
7 out of 10 carts get abandoned. Most stores make it worse.
Around 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout. That is the global number on well built stores. Badly built stores do worse: surprise shipping costs at the last step, payment options nobody trusts, checkouts that fall apart on a phone, and no way to bring the shopper back.
In South Africa that last part matters double, because 77% of online shoppers here buy on their phones. If your checkout is clumsy on a small screen, you are turning away 3 out of every 4 customers. We start with what you sell and who buys it. Then we build a store that makes buying the easiest thing your customer does all day.
What we build
The whole machine, not just a website
Payments South Africans trust
Card, instant EFT, Payfast, Yoco, SnapScan, whatever your customers already use. More trusted options, more completed sales.
Shipping wired in
Courier rates, delivery options and tracking connected from day 1, so orders flow out without you copying addresses into spreadsheets.
Checkout built for phones
77% of SA shoppers buy on mobile. Your checkout is built for 1 thumb, minimal typing and no surprises.
Cart recovery
Automatic reminders that bring abandoned carts back, which is often the cheapest revenue a store can earn.
You run it yourself
Add products, change prices, see orders. We train you at handover, and we stay available when you need us.
Why we're different
A store is a system, not a website
An online shop is not a website with a Buy button. It is products, payments, shipping, stock, VAT invoices, order emails and marketing, all working as 1 machine, and if any part of that chain squeaks, sales leak out of it.
We build the whole chain and we test it the way a customer uses it, on a phone, at night, in a hurry. Then we wire in tracking so you can see exactly where sales come from and where they fall out. And a store nobody visits sells nothing, which is why every store we launch is SEO ready and built to plug straight into Google Ads and social campaigns. The same team that builds your store runs traffic to it.
How it works
From products to orders in 4 steps
Understand
What you sell, your margins, your couriers, your customers. The store gets designed around the business, not the other way round.
Design
You see the store, the product pages and the checkout flow before anything is built.
Build and load
We build the store, connect payments and shipping, and load your first products with you.
Launch and handover
We launch, train you to run it, and stay on hand. You own the store, the domain and every sale.
Questions
Asked every week
Straight answers to the questions businesses ask before opening an online store.
It depends on how many products you have, which payment and courier integrations you need, and how much of the setup we do for you. What you get from us is a fixed quote before we start and no surprise costs. Tell us what you sell and you will have a number quickly.
Card payments, instant EFT, Payfast, Yoco, SnapScan and more. We recommend the mix your specific customers already trust, because unfamiliar payment options are one of the biggest reasons South Africans abandon a purchase.
Orders land in your store dashboard and your inbox. Courier rates and waybills are connected so you pack, print and hand over. No retyping addresses, no spreadsheets.
Yes. Adding a product takes minutes, and we train you at handover. Stores that update often also do better on Google.
No. Some of the best stores start with a tight range done properly. You can grow the catalogue any time.
Not automatically, and anyone who promises otherwise is lying to you. Every store we build is SEO ready from day 1, and because we also run Google Ads and social campaigns, the same team that built your store can put customers in it.
Built in. Your store issues proper invoices automatically and your pricing handles VAT correctly from the first sale.
Free consultation
Show us what you sell
Tell us what you sell and who buys it, and we will map out your store for free: what it needs, what it does not, and what it will take to get your first online order. If you already have a store that is quiet, send it over and we will tell you where the sales are leaking.