Web development company for UK businesses
Shopify and WooCommerce stores for retail, food and beauty brands, with UK cookie consent, a privacy page and a checkout your customers already trust. Built by a team whose afternoon is your morning. Our team works from Alwar, India, and we work with you remotely on video calls, email and WhatsApp. We have no office in the UK.
WHAT WE BUILD FOR YOU HERE
Online stores and websites for UK shops and brands
- Shopify storesA Shopify store designed around your products, with the apps you need and none you pay for without using.
- WooCommerce storesA WordPress and WooCommerce store on hosting you choose, for brands that want full control of their site.
- Food and grocery storesDelivery areas by postcode, minimum order values, click and collect slots and room for allergen details on every product page.
- Beauty, herbal and wellness brandsProduct pages with ingredients and how to use, and product imagery that looks right on Instagram and in the store.
- Business websites and redesignsA clear, fast website for a UK service business, or a fresh start for the one you have.
- Store care and hostingUpdates, backups, app and plugin checks and small changes every month, so the store keeps selling.
Working with clients worldwide: see how it works in every country
WHY CHOOSE WGT
Why businesses in the UK choose us
Found on Google, looking the part and selling online, with one team whose afternoon is your morning.
Built to be found on Google
Fast pages, clean structure and product schema from day one, with local search set up so shoppers near your shop can find you.
Design that turns browsers into buyers
Clean product pages, polished product imagery and a checkout UK shoppers already trust, so more visits end in a basket, a call or an order.
Your social feeds, kept busy and fresh
Product posts, reels and stories for Instagram and Facebook, and LinkedIn for trade buyers, the same social creative we have made for UK retail brands.
Online stores ready for UK checkout
Shopify or WooCommerce with Stripe, PayPal or Shopify Payments, Apple Pay where offered, and Royal Mail Click and Drop for postage.
Software when you outgrow plugins
Custom stock, order and booking tools, or an app for repeat customers, built around how your shop works instead of another monthly subscription.
Our afternoon is your morning
Calls at the start of your UK day on Meet, Zoom or Teams, and changes waiting on your preview link before lunch.
Fixed GBP quotes, all in your name
A fixed price in pounds per milestone with running costs listed line by line, while your Shopify account, hosting, code and theme files stay yours.
One team for the long run
Store, website, SEO, social media and monthly care with updates and backups, from one team that has been building since 2013.
HOW IT WORKS
Watch a website come together
- 01
You tell us
Send your idea on WhatsApp or on a call, in your own hours. A few lines and a couple of sites you like are enough to start.
- 02
We plan it
We sketch the pages and the order of things, and agree the plan and a fixed price with you before any design starts.
- 03
We design it
You see the real design with your photos, words and colours on a preview link, and ask for changes until it feels right.
- 04
It goes live
We connect your domain, payments and local details, test it on phones, and launch. Your accounts and code are yours.
Example project: a laptop and phone show a sample website for Example Foods being built in four steps.
SHOPIFY OR WOOCOMMERCE
The right platform for how you sell
Both run a great many UK shops. Which one suits you depends on how much you want to look after yourself, so we recommend one on the first call and explain why.
No platform to push
We build on both, so we have no reason to steer you to one. We set out the monthly running costs of each for your shop before you decide.
Your store, your accounts
The Shopify account or the WordPress hosting is in your name from day one, and you hold every login.
Moving from another platform
We move products, customers and order history where the platform allows, and set up redirects so old links still work.
Shopify
Suits you when
- You want hosting, security and updates handled by the platform
- You sell mainly through the store, Instagram and Google
- You prefer a fixed monthly plan to looking after a server
WooCommerce
Suits you when
- You want the store and a content-rich website in one place
- You want to choose your own hosting and own every file
- You need custom features without a monthly app for each one
UK GDPR AND COOKIES
Privacy and cookies, built in from day one
UK visitors expect a cookie banner that gives them a real choice and a clear privacy page. We build both into the site from the start rather than bolting them on later.
What we build in
A consent banner with a real choice
Analytics and marketing cookies stay off until the visitor agrees, Accept and Reject carry equal weight, and visitors can change their mind later.
Privacy and cookie pages
Pages laid out for your privacy notice and cookie list, linked from every page footer and from each form.
Forms that ask before they collect
Contact and newsletter forms that say what happens to the details, with a separate opt-in for marketing emails.
Secure by default
HTTPS on every page, a hosted checkout so card numbers never touch your site, and admin logins only for the people who need them.
We build the technical side. The wording of your privacy notice is your responsibility and we do not give legal advice: for that, use the ICO's guidance for small businesses or a solicitor.
Checkout and delivery we integrate
Set up with your own accounts, so payouts go straight to your UK bank and postage is billed to you.
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Shopify Payments
- Royal Mail Click and Drop
- Your courier, through its app or plugin
Apple Pay and Google Pay appear where your payment provider offers them. Shipping can be priced by weight, basket value or postcode. We integrate these services; we are not a partner or reseller of any of them.
UK HOURS
Your morning, our afternoon
India is five and a half hours ahead of the UK in winter (GMT) and four and a half hours ahead in summer (BST). Our afternoon is your morning, so we meet at the start of your day and the work moves on while you trade. Our studio stays open until 3:30 pm UK time in winter (4:30 pm in summer), so you can still reach us after lunch.
Your time in London
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Our time in Alwar, India
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India is 5 h 30 min ahead of London
Studio hours: Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 21:00 India time. After hours, we are still on WhatsApp. Message us on WhatsApp
A TYPICAL DAY
How your day and ours fit together
03:30 UK winter (GMT)
09:00 in India
We start on the changes you asked for yesterday, so answers are usually waiting when you wake
09:00 UK winter (GMT)
14:30 in India
A good time for calls: planning, design reviews and training
11:00 UK winter (GMT)
16:30 in India
Changes go up on your preview link
15:30 UK winter (GMT)
21:00 in India
End-of-day update by email or WhatsApp
Studio hours: Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 21:00 India time. After hours and on Sundays you can still message us on WhatsApp. UK clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October; India does not change its clocks.
Calls at the start of your day
We book calls in your morning, on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams, whichever you already use.
A later call when you need one
If an afternoon slot suits you better, book it ahead and we arrange it.
Email or WhatsApp, your choice
Some owners want everything in writing by email, others prefer WhatsApp. We use whichever suits you, with one person running your project.
WHY UK OWNERS WORK WITH US
A real team, with UK retail work behind it
Building since 2013
More than 12 years of websites and software for businesses in India and overseas.
A team you can visit
Our studio is in Alwar, Rajasthan. When you are in India, come and meet the people building your store.
You own everything
Your domain, Shopify account or hosting, and payment accounts are in your name. The code, theme and design files are yours.
A registered Indian business
Every invoice comes from our registered company in India, with a written quote and milestones agreed before work starts.
- Businesses trust us
- 10,000+
- Clients Served
- 1,200+
- Global Deployments
- 1,200+
- Websites Delivered
- 900+
12+ years in business, since 2013. Our team works from Alwar, Rajasthan, India, and we work with you remotely.
Our work for UK retail brands
United Kingdom
Tara Herbal
Online retailer of Ayurvedic and herbal products
Online and in store
The British Food Market
British grocery retailer
CLEAR QUOTES IN GBP
A fixed price in pounds
After a short call we quote a fixed price for each milestone in GBP. Platform plans, apps and hosting are listed separately, so nothing surprises you later.
GBPPound sterling
- 01
A short call in your morning
Tell us about your shop, your products and how you sell today. We recommend a platform and explain why.
- 02
A fixed GBP price per milestone
A written quote in GBP with dates for each milestone, and the running costs of apps and hosting set out line by line.
- 03
Pay by bank transfer
Pay each milestone by international bank transfer from your UK account. Every payment gets an invoice from our registered Indian company.
START A CONVERSATION
Tell us about your UK shop
Share a few details and we reply by email or WhatsApp within our working day, with a time for a call in your morning.
- WhatsApp+91 94149 09092
- Emailcontact@wgtechsoft.com
- StudioAlwar, Rajasthan, India
Questions From UK Business Owners
Shopify, UK GDPR and cookies, delivery, meeting hours and paying us from the UK.
Yes. White Gold Technologies builds Shopify and WooCommerce stores for UK retail, food and beauty businesses from our team in Alwar, India. The Shopify account is opened in your name; we design and set up the store, add products, payments and delivery rates, and show you how to run it. We plan on video calls in your morning and share a preview link at every stage.
We build in what UK sites are expected to have: a cookie banner that keeps analytics and marketing cookies off until the visitor agrees, with equal Accept and Reject buttons; privacy and cookie pages linked from every page; and forms with a separate opt-in for marketing. The wording of your privacy notice is your responsibility. We do not give legal advice, so check it against the ICO's guidance or with a solicitor.
Our team works 9:00 to 21:00 India time, Monday to Saturday. That is 03:30 to 15:30 UK time in winter (GMT) and 04:30 to 16:30 in summer (BST), so we usually meet in your morning or early afternoon, between 9:00 and 15:00. Email and WhatsApp are answered through our working day, and after hours you can still message us on WhatsApp.
We quote a fixed price for each milestone in GBP. You pay each milestone by international bank transfer from your UK bank account, and every payment comes with an invoice from our registered company in India. Shopify plans, apps and hosting are paid by you directly to those providers, in your name.
No. Our team works from Alwar, Rajasthan, India, and we work with UK clients remotely, on video calls, email and WhatsApp. We work with businesses in London, Leicester, Birmingham and across the UK. You are welcome to visit our studio when you are in India.
Shopify suits shops that want hosting, security and updates handled by the platform for a monthly fee. WooCommerce suits businesses that want the store and a content-rich website in one place, on hosting they choose. We build on both, so we recommend one on the first call based on your products, budget and how much you want to manage yourself.
Yes. We integrate Stripe, PayPal and Shopify Payments at checkout, and set up shipping rates and label printing through Royal Mail Click and Drop or your courier, using the apps and plugins your platform supports. The payment and shipping accounts are in your name; we set them up, test an order from basket to label and hand over.
YOUR UK STORE IS ONE MESSAGE AWAY
Tell us about your shop and what you sell. We book a short call in your morning and send a clear quote in GBP.