Ecommerce Website Design Melbourne
Custom online stores and Shopify builds for Australian retailers, designed around your catalogue and quoted against a written scope.
GetQuickSites is a Melbourne software and web development studio offering ecommerce website design and development for Australian retailers. We build custom online stores, Shopify stores, headless storefronts and product configurators, connect them to the systems you already use, and migrate existing stores with products, customers and order history carried across.
Ecommerce website design in Melbourne: what we build
Online stores built around your catalogue, your payments and the systems you already use.
Custom Shopify theme development
Custom Shopify themes engineered from scratch: performance-tuned, with merchandising controls and custom sections your team can use.
Headless Shopify storefronts
Shopify's admin, checkout and payments, paired with a fully custom frontend engineered for speed and complete brand control.
Store migrations
Migrate to Shopify or a custom build: products, customers, orders, redirects and SEO preserved end-to-end.
Product configurators
Made-to-order, bundle, and highly-optioned catalogs handled with live pricing, rule validation, and structured line items through to fulfilment.
Payments & checkout
Multiple payment options and multi-currency checkout, configured for Australian retailers.
Inventory, analytics & integrations
Inventory, order sync, e-commerce analytics, and accounting and shipping integrations.
What an online store build includes
- Store design for phones first: home, collection, product, cart and checkout pages, designed around your catalogue.
- Product data: products, variants, prices, stock and images, imported from a spreadsheet or from your current platform.
- Payments and shipping: the payment provider and shipping rules you choose, set up and tested before launch.
- Integrations: accounting, inventory, fulfilment and marketing systems, so orders and stock are not entered twice.
- Search: product pages with titles, descriptions and product structured data that search engines and AI assistants can read.
- Handover: admin access, a walkthrough for your team, and the code we wrote for your store.
Shopify, custom or headless: how to choose
Shopify fits most stores whose products, checkout and shipping follow the patterns the platform supports, and whose team wants a hosted platform it can run day to day. Our Shopify development work covers custom themes, apps and integrations on top of it.
A custom store fits when the product or the buying process does not suit a standard checkout: products configured from many options, quotes before purchase, trade prices that differ by customer, or ordering rules that a platform's settings cannot express.
A headless storefront keeps an existing commerce backend, such as a Shopify store, and replaces only the storefront your customers see. It suits stores that need more control over the design or the speed of the front end than a theme allows.
The written scope names the option we recommend for your store and why, with the running costs of each.
Migrating an existing store
Moving a store to a new platform carries over products, variants, customers and order history, and maps every product and collection URL to its new address with a permanent redirect, so existing links and search results point to the new pages. The current store stays live until the new one has been checked.
The steps are the same as our website migration service, and our migration checklist lists them in order.
What to prepare
- An export or spreadsheet of your products, with variants, prices, stock levels and image files.
- Your shipping zones and rates, returns policy and the payment provider you want to use.
- Logo, brand colours and any photography you already have.
- Access to your current store and domain, if you have them.
- A list of the systems the store needs to connect to, such as accounting or inventory.
Frequently asked
How much does e-commerce development cost in Australia?
An online store build is custom-quoted after a free consultation. Scope, integrations and timeline determine the figure. Catalogue size, custom functionality, integrations with your fulfilment and accounting systems, and whether you are migrating an existing store all change the work involved, so GetQuickSites quotes against a defined scope after a consultation rather than publishing a price list.
Do you build custom online stores?
Yes. Our ecommerce website design for Melbourne and Australian retailers starts from your catalogue: category and product layouts, fast pages, and controls your team can use without a developer.
Can you build a headless storefront?
Yes. A headless build keeps your commerce platform handling products, checkout and payments while the customer-facing storefront is fully custom. That gives you complete control over design and page performance without rebuilding the operational side of the store your team already knows.
Can you move my products, customers and orders?
Yes. Store migrations cover products, variants, customers, order history and URL structure, with permanent redirects so existing search visibility and links are preserved. The current store stays live until the new one is verified, and anything intentionally left behind is approved by you before cutover.
Can you integrate my store with the systems I already use?
Usually yes. Stores are commonly connected to accounting, shipping, inventory and customer management systems so orders and stock move automatically rather than being re-keyed. We assess what each system exposes during scoping and confirm what is achievable before the work is quoted.
How long does an online store build take?
The timeline is set in writing for each store before the build starts. It depends on the size of the catalogue, how much product data needs cleaning, the integrations, whether the store is on Shopify or custom-built, and how quickly content and access are provided. A migration also includes time to check redirects and order data before the new store goes live.
Do I own the store?
The code, design and content we make for your store are yours at handover. A hosted platform such as Shopify, and services such as your payment provider and domain, stay under their providers' own terms in your business's name. Our ownership and handover page sets out what we hand over and what we keep.
Ready to launch your online store?
Book a call and we will scope your store in writing.