eCommerce Software Development Services

Custom, Headless, and Composable Commerce
We design, build, and replatform commerce systems for enterprise retailers and marketplaces - custom storefronts, headless architecture, and the OMS, PIM, and payment integrations behind them.
Silicon Valley roots, Miami HQ
Silicon Valley roots, Miami HQ
Senior-heavy engineering
Senior-heavy engineering
US & Europe delivery
US & Europe delivery
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Industry Leaders We Work With

Enterprise Commerce Delivery

Your Enterprise eCommerce Software Development Partner

We support complex commerce ecosystems with a dedicated engineering team, platform depth, and enterprise delivery governance. Below is what that covers.
Industry expertise

Industry expertise

We build commerce platforms that hold up under high transaction volume, multi-region operations, and mixed B2B/B2C models — the environments where checkout, tax, and fulfillment logic get hard.
Platform modernization

Platform modernization

Replatforming without downtime. We move legacy commerce onto modern architecture while orders keep flowing and the storefront stays live.
Cloud scalability

Cloud scalability

Seasonal peaks shouldn't page your team at 2 a.m. We run commerce on cloud-native infrastructure with DevOps and autoscaling sized for Black Friday, not an average Tuesday.
AI-driven commerce

AI-driven commerce

Personalization, intelligent search, demand forecasting, and automation - added where they move a metric, not as a demo.
Enterprise integrations

Enterprise integrations

ERP, CRM, payments, inventory, and Adobe Commerce connected through integration frameworks that survive schema changes on either side.
Secure commerce operations

Secure commerce operations

PCI DSS alignment, secure payments, identity, and access governance across every environment that touches cardholder data.
Omnichannel experiences

Omnichannel experiences

One cart, many touchpoints. We connect web, mobile, and in-store so pricing, inventory, and customer state stay consistent.
Scalable delivery teams

Scalable delivery teams

Add senior eCommerce engineers, architects, and QA to your roadmap - inside your process, not as a black box.
Testimonials

What Our Customers Say

“In the case of Zoolatech, it's a very tight partnership.
The team at Zoolatech is incredibly collaborative, and we work as a team despite being thousands of miles away from each other.”
Spencer Rascoff
CEO Match Group
5/5
“Zoolatech has been a key technology partner for Pandora,
enhancing our software development and deployment capabilities. They're ambitious, supportive, fast-moving, and well-skilled, with sound ethical values.”
Erika Romsics
Contract and Vendor Manager, Pandora
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5/5
“The apps they’ve developed give us the opportunity to get more customers.
We’re providing more services to target big customers. We can install jobs faster and identify reduce bottlenecks, so we’re providing a better customer experience.”
Aida Youssef
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Complete Solaria
5/5
“Zoolatech has access to a deep talent pool and knows how to identify client's needs.
With the help of Zoolatech, went from a very early and incomplete prototype to the MVP release, the first production release, and the first paying customer!”
Greg Wagenhoffer
CEO, GreenVisr
5/5
“Zoolatech enabled us to build a world-class engineering team quickly and efficiently.
Zoolatech's pre-screening process and engineer training are customized for providing effective engineers that can contribute immediately to accelerating product roadmaps.”
Shariq Minhas
CTO, SVSG
5/5
“We can recommend Zoolatech
for their talent pool, attention, ability to understand our requirements, candidate screening process and constant communication.”
Chaitanya Pallapothula
SVP, Tailored Brands, Inc.
5/5
“Zoolatech’s developers quickly became an integral part of our team effort
with whom we shared daily stand up calls. Overall, Zoolatech fit well with our needs for agile development and continued to adapt as our needs evolved.”
Forrest Glick
UX Designer, Stanford University
5/5
“Working with Zoolatech has been a driving force in our business offerings.
The team utilizes it's experience and expertise meshing with our internal team creating a positive work environment. Zoolatech is by far one of the best teams to work with in the industry.”
Kris Naidu
CEO, Zeacon
Kris Naidu CEO, Zeacon
5/5
What we build

B2B, B2C, marketplaces, and omnichannel

Custom-built or on the platform your team already runs
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B2C storefronts

Conversion-focused online stores with personalization and fast, mobile-first checkout.
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B2B portals

Custom pricing, bulk ordering, approvals, and self-service procurement for large accounts.
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Marketplace platforms

Multi-vendor onboarding, commissions, payouts, and fulfillment orchestration.
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Headless eCommerce

Decoupled front and back ends on Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commerce tools, or a custom stack - storefronts built in React and Next.js over GraphQL/REST APIs for full front-end control.
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Mobile commerce applications

Native and cross-platform apps built for loyalty, engagement, and repeat purchase.
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Progressive web applications

App-like speed and offline resilience without the app-store overhead.
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Omnichannel commerce

Order routing, inventory sync, and returns across every channel.
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eCommerce integrations

ERP, CRM, PIM, payments, logistics, and analytics wired together and kept in sync.

“71% of consumers expect companies to deliver personalized interactions.” — McKinsey & Company

That expectation is why we engineer personalization into the commerce workflow - recommendations, search, and content driven by first-party data - rather than treating it as an add-on.
eCommerce Costs

Development Cost Ranges

What eCommerce software development costs depends on platform, integrations, scale, and how much is custom. Rough ranges:

Entry-level

$30K–$80K. MVPs and lighter builds - template or light-custom, standard payments, a few integrations, quick launch.

Mid-size

$80K–$250K. Growth builds - custom workflows, deeper integrations, omnichannel, reporting, and performance work.

Enterprise

$250K+. Headless or MACH with ERP/CRM/logistics integrations, multi-region, and enterprise governance.
Our Tech Stack

Technologies Behind Your Platform

Your retail engineering team gets full visibility into every technology running your system.
React
React
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Redis
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
AWS
AWS
Google Cloud
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
TensorFlow
TensorFlow
Stripe API
Stripe API
Shopify API
Shopify API
and other
AI & Innovation

AI-Driven E-Commerce Software Solutions

Where AI earns its place in commerce: discovery, forecasting, pricing, and support.
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Recommendation engines

Product recommendations from real behavior, not last-week's bestsellers.
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Demand forecasting

ML forecasts that cut overstock and stockouts across SKUs and regions.
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Dynamic pricing

Pricing that reacts to demand, competition, and inventory in near real time.
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Intelligent search

Search that understands intent and typos, so shoppers find the product, not a dead end.
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Commerce chatbots

Assistants that handle order status and returns before they reach a human.
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Visual commerce

Image and visual search for discovery when words fall short.
Development Process

eCommerce Software Development Process

Five stages, from mapping what you already run to optimizing after launch - each ending in working software you can see.
Step 1

Discovery and planning

We start by mapping what you already run - platform, integrations, data, and the workflows your operations team depends on. Then we agree on scope, priorities, and what "done" means, so there are no surprises three sprints in. For replatforming work, this is also where we reverse-engineer the existing system: you can't safely replace what you haven't fully understood.
Step 2

Architecture design

Architecture decisions are the expensive ones to reverse, so we make them deliberately. We design for omnichannel, high transaction volume, and the integrations your commerce runs on — ERP, payments, PIM, and OMS - with Core Web Vitals and resilience treated as requirements, not afterthoughts. Where a headless or MACH approach fits, we say so; where it doesn't, we say that too.
Step 3

Agile development

Senior engineers build in short increments, with working software at the end of each sprint and your team in the loop the whole way. We set up CI/CD early so deployments are fast and repeatable - on one B2B marketplace build, that doubled deployment speed. Clean APIs and cloud-native infrastructure keep the platform ready to scale before peak season, not during it.
Step 4

QA and testing

We validate the things that cost money when they break: payments, checkout, integrations, and security. Testing runs continuously rather than as a phase bolted on at the end, and it includes performance under peak-season load - the traffic that finds every weak point. Nothing reaches production until it passes the customer journeys that actually convert.
Step 5

Launch and optimization

We roll out in phases, with a rollback plan and data migrated in controlled batches so orders and customer records stay intact. After launch, the work shifts to optimization: page speed, conversion, and reliability, measured against real numbers. We usually stay on as the client's engineering partner - most commerce platforms keep evolving well past the first release.
Let’s discuss your eCommerce platform goals and delivery strategy.
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Why Zoolatech

A senior commerce engineering partner

We build for the operational side of commerce: platforms that stay up under peak load, AI that moves a metric, and architecture you can keep evolving after launch.

Enterprise commerce expertise

We build for the hard end of commerce: high transaction volume, multi-region operations, and mixed B2B/B2C models. Our engineers are senior by default - people who've shipped enterprise commerce before, not learned it on your project. Zoolatech has delivered commerce and retail platforms across North America and Europe, backed by a 98% client retention rate.

AI-first commerce delivery

We put AI where it moves a number, not where it demos well - recommendations, intelligent search, demand forecasting, and support automation. Each one lives inside a commerce workflow and is measured against conversion, margin, or retention. The same team builds the data engineering underneath, so the models run on infrastructure that can actually feed them.

Scalable cloud infrastructure

Peak season is where commerce platforms fail, so we engineer for it from day one. Cloud-native architecture, autoscaling, and DevOps keep the storefront up when traffic spikes - on one multi-region POS and payments platform, that resilience safeguarded $110M in revenue and cut recovery from hours to minutes. Between peaks, infrastructure costs stay predictable, not just survivable.

Platform modernization

Legacy commerce slows every release and quietly leaks revenue. We move it onto modern, custom, or headless stacks through staged migration - old and new running in parallel, data moved in controlled batches, no downtime. On one B2B marketplace, replatforming onto Salesforce Commerce Cloud shipped features 5× faster than the previous vendor and saved $2,000+ a month in manual accounting.
Why Choose Us

Why Businesses Trust Us

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At Zoolatech, we create engineering teams for industry leaders across the US and Europe — teams that move fast, think big, and deliver strong impact.
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Client Satisfaction
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Retention Rate
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At Zoolatech, we create engineering teams for industry leaders across the US and Europe — teams that move fast, think big, and deliver strong impact.
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At Zoolatech, we create engineering teams for industry leaders across the US and Europe — teams that move fast, think big, and deliver strong impact.
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Modernize eCommerce Operations

Let's talk about your commerce stack. Bring your platform, your integrations, and your peak-season targets - we'll bring the engineering plan.
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Questions You May Have

What is eCommerce software development?

Ecommerce software development is building the systems behind online selling – storefronts, checkout, marketplaces, and the integrations that connect them to inventory, payments, and ERP/CRM. It ranges from configuring a platform like Shopify Plus or Adobe Commerce to building custom, headless systems for enterprise scale.

How much does eCommerce software development cost?

It depends on platform, integrations, scale, and how much is custom. As a rough guide: lighter builds run $30K–$80K, growth builds $80K–$250K, and enterprise programs $250K and up. Custom and headless architectures with ERP, CRM, and logistics integrations sit at the higher end.

How long does eCommerce software development take?

A platform-based storefront can launch in weeks; enterprise, custom, or headless builds usually run for several months and ship in increments. Integrations, data migration, and the number of channels drive the timeline more than storefront design does.

How do enterprises choose the right eCommerce platform?

Match the platform to operating scale, customization needs, and integrations. SaaS platforms (Shopify Plus, BigCommerce) launch faster; custom and composable stacks (Adobe Commerce, commercetools, Salesforce Commerce Cloud) give more control for complex B2B and omnichannel operations. The trade-off is speed versus flexibility.

Which platforms do enterprises use?

Common enterprise choices include Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, BigCommerce, and custom headless stacks. Teams increasingly move toward headless and MACH architectures for front-end flexibility and independent scaling of services.

What is headless eCommerce?

Headless commerce separates the storefront (front end) from the commerce logic (back end), with the two connected by APIs. It gives teams full control over the customer experience, faster front-end changes, and easier omnichannel delivery – at the cost of more engineering than an all-in-one platform.

Should we build custom or use a platform?

Use a platform when speed and lower maintenance matter and your model fits its defaults. Go custom or composable when pricing, workflows, or integrations don’t fit off-the-shelf – common in B2B, marketplaces, and high-volume operations. Many enterprise builds mix both: a platform core with custom services around it.

What does it take to replatform without downtime?

Staged migration: run old and new in parallel, migrate data in controlled batches, and cut over by segment with a rollback plan. The risky parts are order and customer data, SEO/URL continuity, and integration parity – not the storefront itself. On one B2B marketplace move to Salesforce Commerce Cloud, we ran an automated data-migration engine for customers, orders, and products with no downtime and shipped the first upgrade within two weeks.

How do you keep eCommerce secure and compliant?

Payments and customer data are handled in accordance with PCI DSS, with secure authentication, access governance, and monitoring across environments. Compliance scope depends on region and data (e.g., GDPR/CCPA) and is designed into the architecture, not bolted on after launch.

What engagement models do you offer?

Full-project delivery, a dedicated eCommerce engineering team embedded in your process, or individual senior engineers to close specific skill gaps – chosen to fit your roadmap and in-house capacity.

Which front-end stack do you build storefronts on?

Modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) over commerce APIs (GraphQL/REST), connected to platform or composable back ends such as Shopify Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, or commercetools – with the storefront fully owned by your team.