E-commerce & Online Stores
Custom online stores with cart, checkout, and payment gateways that work in South Africa and beyond — built to sell, owned by you.
Selling online shouldn't mean renting a generic storefront and paying fees forever. We build custom e-commerce websites for South African brands and international sellers — stores built around your products instead of squeezed into a template, with no cut of your sales going to a platform.
What we build
A complete online store, ready to take orders:
- Product catalog and listing pages designed for your brand — fashion, lifestyle, food, digital products
- Cart and checkout flow tuned to reduce abandoned purchases
- Payment gateway integration: PayFast for South Africa, Paystack for the rest of Africa, Stripe for international customers
- Order management so you can see, process, and fulfil sales from one place
- A mobile-responsive storefront, because most of your customers will shop from their phones
Need more? We add inventory management, discount and coupon systems, and subscription billing as your store grows.
How it works
First we understand what you sell and who buys it. A twenty-product boutique and a five-hundred-item catalog need different builds, and scoping that honestly upfront saves you money.
Then we design and build the store — typically live within 3–6 weeks. You review working versions along the way, not a big reveal at the end. Before launch we run real test transactions through your payment gateway so the first sale isn't the first test.
Pricing follows our standard model: a build fee, then a monthly covering hosting, security, updates, and care — most clients stay on it. Your store, design, and customer data are yours, and we never take a cut of your sales. No platform rental, no transaction fee to us.
Why x Create
E-commerce is where design meets engineering, and we do both. A beautiful store that falls over at checkout loses you money; a technically solid store that looks generic never earns trust. We've built fashion storefronts with full cart and checkout flows, and booking businesses taking online payments through PayFast — see our work.
And because we build systems beyond stores — admin portals, automation, payment infrastructure — your shop can grow into a proper operation: automated order emails, stock alerts, customer accounts, whatever the business needs next.
We build. You grow.
Fair questions.
PayFast for South African stores, Paystack for the rest of Africa, and Stripe for international sales. We handle gateway setup, integration, and testing — you just receive the money.
Most stores launch in 3–6 weeks, depending on catalog size and features. A focused store with a tight product range can be live sooner.
A build fee to make it, then a monthly for hosting, updates, and care — most clients stay on it. Unlike platform-rental models, we never take a percentage of your sales, and the store, design, and customer data are yours.
Yes. Every store includes an admin side where you add products, update prices, and track orders without touching code. We train you on it at handover.
Next service
Admin Portals & Internal Tools