Hiring a WordPress or Shopify developer for a UK business
If you are in the UK and comparing local agencies with a remote developer, the questions that matter are the same: can you see live work, will you own everything, and how will day-to-day communication work. This page answers those for my setup.
The UK project you can check
Southern Flavours is an Indian restaurant on Stratford Road in Shirley, Solihull. The site I built on WordPress and WooCommerce has a table reservation form with party size and date selection and an instant confirmation, a weekend South Indian breakfast buffet section, menus, a gallery, and a shop for online ordering. Opening hours, address and phone appear on every page, which is what diners look for first.
UK store setup checklist
- VAT: standard, reduced and zero rates, prices shown including VAT, and your VAT number on invoices.
- Payments: Stripe or Shopify Payments for cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay; PayPal or Klarna if you want them.
- Shipping: Royal Mail and courier rates by weight or zone, Click & Drop or a shipping app for labels.
- GDPR and PECR: a cookie banner that blocks analytics until consent, a privacy policy, and opt-in boxes for marketing emails.
Working across the time difference
India is 4.5 hours ahead in summer and 5.5 in winter. In practice your morning overlaps my afternoon and evening, so a call at 9 or 10am UK time is easy, and anything you send after lunch is usually done when you start the next day. Day-to-day contact runs on email, WhatsApp and short screen recordings.
Elsewhere? See the pages for the EU, USA and UAE, or read about WooCommerce development.
