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South African Ecommerce Is Growing — Your Online Store Needs to Be Ready
South African ecommerce is growing rapidly, with millions of consumers now comfortable buying online. But a poorly built online store — slow to load, difficult to navigate on mobile, or missing trusted SA payment options — will lose sales before a customer even reaches checkout. Your online store needs to be built for South African consumers, on South African networks, with South African payment preferences.
Unified Marketing builds high-converting WooCommerce online stores for South African businesses — from product catalogue setup and PayFast integration to full custom ecommerce development with advanced functionality.
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WooCommerce Store Development
Complete control over your store with no ongoing platform fees, full SEO capability, and unlimited functionality.
SA Payment Gateway Integration
PayFast, Peach Payments, Yoco, Ozow and SnapScan integrated for a smooth, trusted checkout experience.
Mobile-First Store Design
Fast load times, large tap targets, simplified mobile checkout for the 70%+ of SA shoppers on mobile.
Product Catalogue & Category Setup
SEO-optimised product titles, descriptions, images, variants, attributes, pricing and stock management.
Ecommerce SEO Setup
Product schema, breadcrumb navigation, canonical URLs, optimised category pages and XML product sitemap.
Courier & Shipping Integration
The Courier Guy, Fastway/Aramex, Paxi and more — automated shipping calculations and order tracking.
South African Payment Gateways We Integrate
A Checkout Flow SA Shoppers Trust
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Integrated With SA's Trusted Couriers
Ecommerce Development Pricing
Up to 50 products, PayFast integration, mobile-responsive, SEO setup.
Up to 500 products, multiple payment gateways, courier integration, full SEO.
Unlimited products, custom functionality, advanced filters, B2B pricing, full CRO.
Ecommerce Development Questions Answered
For most South African businesses, WooCommerce on WordPress is our recommended platform. It has no monthly platform fees (unlike Shopify's R400–R1,500+/month), full SEO control, complete ownership of your store and data, and the widest support for South African payment gateways. Shopify is a good option for businesses who want a simpler, more managed experience and are comfortable with monthly fees. We assess your specific requirements during a free consultation and recommend the most appropriate platform for your SA business.
We integrate all major South African payment gateways including PayFast (most popular SA gateway), Peach Payments, Yoco, Ozow (instant EFT), SnapScan, and Zapper. We also configure credit and debit card processing, and can set up manual EFT payment options for B2B customers. Having multiple trusted payment options reduces cart abandonment and increases completed purchases on your SA online store.
A Starter Store with up to 50 products typically takes 4–6 weeks from design approval to launch. A Growth Store with up to 500 products takes 6–10 weeks. Custom Authority Stores with complex functionality are scoped individually. We provide a detailed project timeline with milestones at the start of every ecommerce development project.
Yes. Every WooCommerce store we build includes foundational ecommerce SEO setup: product schema markup for rich results, SEO-optimised product titles and descriptions, breadcrumb navigation, canonical URLs on product variants, XML product sitemap, and Google Search Console and Analytics 4 installation. For clients who want to actively rank for product and category keywords on Google, we recommend pairing the store build with our Ecommerce SEO service for ongoing optimisation.
Yes. We offer a full suite of ecommerce marketing services after your store launch: Ecommerce SEO for organic Google rankings, Google Shopping Ads for immediate product visibility, Meta (Facebook & Instagram) Dynamic Ads for retargeting and product discovery, and Email Marketing automation for cart abandonment recovery and customer retention. We can manage your full ecommerce marketing strategy under one roof.
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