- Agency-Only
- White Label Delivery
- Time Zone Aligned
- NDA - Ready
Stellites is the white-label e-commerce development team behind digital agencies that need Shopify and WooCommerce stores built to convert, without the cost or risk of hiring specialist developers in-house. Your clients' revenue runs through the store you built for them. Every slow page, broken checkout, and failed integration costs them sales the same day it happens. Stellites matches your time zone, works inside your SOPs, and builds, migrates, optimizes, and maintains stores across both Shopify and WooCommerce under your agency brand. You stay in front. We handle the build, the integrations, the performance, and the post-launch support behind the scenes.
Agency Owner, UK
E-commerce development is not just a build problem. It is a revenue problem. Your clients' income runs through the store you delivered, and every issue has a same-day cost. Whether you build in-house, use freelancers, or rely on a generic white-label team, the same structural gaps keep surfacing. And on an e-commerce site, the failures show up in the revenue report before anyone files a support ticket.
You should be closing new clients and building the business. Instead you are checking why a checkout failed overnight, chasing a plugin conflict that broke a product page, and explaining a Core Web Vitals drop to a client who just saw their conversion rate fall. The agency is not scaling. It is on call.
A broken form on a brochure site costs a lead. A broken checkout on an e-commerce store costs every sale that would have happened while it was down. Slow product pages, failed payment gateways, and inventory sync errors all convert directly into lost revenue your client can calculate to the dollar. That is a conversation no agency wants to have twice.
Freelance developers are available until peak season, when every e-commerce client needs attention simultaneously. Documentation is thin, custom code is undocumented, and when a live store breaks three months after launch, the person who built it has moved on. Your agency absorbs the emergency support for work it did not fully control.
Task-based providers deliver a store that looks right and close the ticket. No conversion thinking, no checkout optimization, no attention to whether the product data, tax logic, shipping rules, and integrations actually hold under real order volume. Your client gets a website that sells. Not a store that performs.
Every e-commerce build needs senior review before it processes a single live transaction. But keeping a senior developer reviewing architecture, checkout logic, payment configuration, and performance on every store at every tier is not financially viable. Some builds get expert scrutiny. Others go live and get tested by customers.
Moving a live store between platforms means migrating SKUs, variants, customers, order history, reviews, URL structures, and SEO equity without losing a day of trading. Get it wrong and the client sees traffic collapse, orders vanish, and rankings disappear at the same time. Most agencies quote migrations confidently and discover the complexity halfway through.
Developers recommend the platform they know, not the platform the client needs. A Shopify specialist pushes Shopify. A WordPress developer pushes WooCommerce. The client inherits that bias for years, and the cost of discovering it was the wrong call is a full replatform. Finding one developer who builds natively on both and recommends honestly is genuinely rare.
ChatGPT Instant Checkout has been live since September 2025. Microsoft Copilot Checkout launched in January 2026 with native Shopify and Stripe integration. Shopify opened Agentic Storefronts to millions of merchants in March 2026. Product data now has to be structured for AI agents that query catalogs and transact autonomously, not just for shoppers who browse. Stores built without that readiness are invisible in a channel McKinsey projects at trillions in global volume, and your agency carries that gap.
We provide the e-commerce delivery system that protects your client relationships, your build standards, and your peace of mind. Because you should not be the one awake when a checkout breaks.
When the development layer is built right, your clients receive stores that convert, load fast, and hold up under real order volume. Your emergency support calls stop. And your agency takes on more e-commerce work without adding headcount. This is what white-label e-commerce website development looks like when Stellites runs behind you.
Checkout flow, product page structure, mobile experience, and trust signals are all built against conversion best practice rather than a theme default. Algolia powers search that surfaces the right product instead of returning nothing. Klaviyo is integrated at build stage so abandoned cart and post-purchase flows are live from day one, not added six months later. Your clients launch with a store engineered to sell.
Core Web Vitals are a confirmed ranking factor and a direct conversion factor. Stellites runs Screaming Frog connected via MCP to Claude for performance auditing before every launch, then optimizes image delivery, render-blocking resources, caching, and app or plugin load order. Cloudflare Pro handles edge delivery. Stores are load-tested against realistic peak traffic before Black Friday, not during it.
A 15+ year Delivery Manager reviews every build against checkout logic, payment and tax configuration, integration integrity, accessibility, and performance before it goes live. Issues are caught inside the delivery process, not discovered by a customer trying to complete an order. Your agency stops running incident calls and starts presenting finished work.
Two store clients or twenty, the delivery system scales with you. No emergency hiring, no platform knowledge gaps, no founder pulled into a migration at midnight. Stellites runs the five-stage vetting process to match a developer fluent in both Shopify and WooCommerce, so you quote confidently on either platform knowing the build will hold.
Average increase in store conversion rate across active e-commerce engagements within the first 6 months.
Of stores launched pass all three Core Web Vitals thresholds at go-live.
Average reduction in post-launch support tickets compared to agencies using freelancers or generic white-label teams.
End clients served across e-commerce engagements behind 30+ agency partners.
We partner with agencies of every size and specialization, as long as store performance, client revenue, and clean delivery operations matter to you.
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Most white-label providers assign whoever is available. Stellites builds a five-stage vetting process around your agency before a single candidate is considered. Every stage answers one question: will this developer protect your clients' revenue the way you would?
E-commerce development changed more between 2025 and 2026 than in the decade before it. AI now writes production code alongside developers, enriches product catalogs at a scale no human team can match, and, most significantly, buys directly from stores through autonomous shopping agents. Stellites has built AI into every stage of e-commerce delivery so your dedicated developer builds faster, launches cleaner, and prepares your clients' stores for revenue channels most agencies have not addressed yet.
This is the single largest shift in e-commerce since mobile, and most agencies have not touched it. ChatGPT Instant Checkout has been live since September 2025, serving 900 million weekly users. Microsoft Copilot Checkout went live in January 2026 with native Shopify, Stripe, PayPal, and Etsy integration, and early data showed Copilot users were 53 percent more likely to complete a purchase within 30 minutes. Shopify opened Agentic Storefronts to millions of merchants in March 2026. Google's AI Mode checkout is rolling out to select retailers. Two open standards govern this. OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol for checkout in ChatGPT. Shopify co-developed the Universal Commerce Protocol with Google, backed by Amazon, American Express, Etsy, Mastercard, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Stripe, Target, Walmart, and Visa. UCP means a merchant's checkout rules, discounts, and terms behave consistently regardless of which AI agent starts the transaction. Stellites configures this properly on both platforms. On Shopify, that means confirming Agentic Storefronts eligibility, auditing and structuring Shopify Catalog product data against the ranking factors AI agents actually weigh (data quality, relevance, availability, pricing, and engagement signals), and enabling direct checkout per channel under Settings and Sales Channels. On WooCommerce, that means MCP integration, WordPress Abilities configuration, and Stripe ACP setup so the store is discoverable and transactable by agents. Orders flow into the store admin with full channel attribution, and your client retains complete ownership of the customer relationship.
Your agency can tell a client their products are discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT and Copilot, with attribution flowing into their admin. That is a conversation almost no competing agency can have yet, and it positions you as the partner who saw the channel first rather than the one catching up in 2027.
Cursor's codebase-aware AI understands an entire Shopify theme or WooCommerce child theme in context, which means suggestions match the existing architecture instead of introducing patterns that create technical debt. GitHub Copilot handles the mechanical layer: Liquid loops and filters, WooCommerce hooks and filters, template scaffolding, and the repetitive functions every store build requires. Claude Code connects directly to the codebase and answers diagnostic questions in plain language: which plugins are conflicting with a checkout script, where a custom function is slowing a collection page, which registered post types or metafields are unused, and what a previous developer's undocumented code is actually doing. On inherited stores and migrations, this turns what used to be days of reverse-engineering into a focused session. For design handovers, Locofy and Anima convert approved Figma designs into responsive theme code, removing the manual translation work that consumes the majority of front-end build time.
Your clients receive builds that are internally consistent and faster to deliver, and your agency gets a developer whose time goes into architecture, checkout logic, and integration integrity rather than typing boilerplate. Faster delivery comes from removing work that never required human judgment.
Product data is the single most neglected asset in e-commerce, and it now determines discoverability in both traditional search and AI agent channels. A catalog with thin descriptions, missing alt text, absent structured data, and inconsistent attributes underperforms regardless of how well the storefront is designed. Stellites uses Claude to enrich catalogs at scale: generating unique product descriptions from specification data in the client's brand voice, writing image alt text across thousands of SKUs, standardizing attribute and variant naming, and producing Product, Offer, and Review schema markup validated against schema.org before deployment. Shopify Magic is used alongside this within the Shopify admin where it fits the workflow. Every AI-generated output is reviewed by the developer for accuracy and by the Delivery Manager for brand and quality compliance before it goes live, because a factually wrong product description is worse than a thin one.
Your clients' catalogs become genuinely discoverable rather than technically present. Product pages rank, appear in Google Shopping correctly, and carry the structured data AI shopping agents need to surface and recommend them. Work that would take a human weeks per catalog completes in days.
Migrations are where agencies most often damage a client relationship, because everything happens at once: products, variants, customers, order history, reviews, subscriptions, URL structures, and accumulated SEO equity all have to move without a trading interruption. Stellites uses Claude to build the migration map before any data moves: analyzing the source schema, mapping every field to its destination equivalent on Shopify or WooCommerce, flagging fields with no clean match, identifying data quality problems in the existing catalog, and generating the full URL redirect map so ranking equity transfers rather than evaporates. Screaming Frog crawls the pre-migration site and the staging build, then Claude runs a delta comparison via MCP to catch every missing page, broken redirect, and orphaned URL before launch rather than after. Post-launch, the same comparison runs against the live store to confirm nothing was lost in the cutover.
Your agency can quote migrations with confidence instead of hoping. The client keeps their order history, their customer accounts, their reviews, and their organic traffic. And the go-live happens without the trading gap that turns a migration into an incident.
On an e-commerce store, performance is revenue. Core Web Vitals are a confirmed Google ranking factor, and load time affects conversion rate directly and measurably. Before every launch, Stellites runs Screaming Frog connected via MCP to Claude for a full performance audit. Crawl and Lighthouse data flow into Claude without manual exports, and Claude returns a prioritized, developer-ready fix list mapped to Core Web Vitals thresholds: oversized and unoptimized images, render-blocking scripts, unused CSS and JavaScript, server response times, and caching gaps. On Shopify, app load order and script injection are audited because installed apps are the most common cause of a slow store. On WooCommerce, plugin conflicts and database query performance are profiled, with WP Rocket configured for caching and Cloudflare Pro handling edge delivery. Stores are then load-tested against realistic peak traffic so Black Friday is not the first time the infrastructure is stressed.
Your clients launch with stores that meet Core Web Vitals thresholds, load fast on mobile where most commerce traffic sits, and hold up when traffic spikes. Performance is built in before go-live rather than retrofitted after a client reports falling conversion.
On a brochure site, an unnoticed error costs a form submission. On a store, it costs every order that would have completed. AI-assisted monitoring runs continuously across active client stores: uptime, checkout completion rates against baseline, payment gateway error rates, product page load times, inventory sync integrity, and broken link detection. When an anomaly appears, whether a checkout conversion drop after an app update, a payment method silently failing for one card type, a plugin update breaking a template, or an inventory feed desynchronizing, the alert reaches your dedicated developer before it reaches your client. For WooCommerce specifically, plugin and core updates run through an AI-assisted compatibility check on staging before they touch the live store, which prevents the single most common cause of post-launch breakage. For Shopify, app updates and theme changes are validated on a duplicate theme before publishing.
Your agency stops being the last to know. Revenue-affecting issues are identified, escalated, and resolved before your client opens their analytics. Post-launch support becomes a managed process instead of a reactive scramble, and client confidence in your agency's technical capability holds long after launch.
Not a generic package. Not whoever is available. A dedicated e-commerce development setup matched to your timezone, your platforms, and your build standards.
Key Differentiator
Trusted by agencies worldwide who want an embedded development team that allocates time, senior oversight, and setup effort in the first months to build delivery consistency and client confidence, even if profitability comes later.
"We had quoted a WooCommerce to Shopify migration for a client with eleven thousand SKUs and honestly did not know if we could deliver it. Stellites built the full data map and redirect plan before touching anything, and the cutover happened over a weekend with no trading gap. The client kept their order history, their reviews, and their rankings. That single project won us two referrals."
Agency Owner, Full-Service Digital Agency, USA
11,000
SKUs migrated with full variant and order history preserved
0
Trading hours lost during platform cutover
94%
Of pre-migration organic rankings retained within 30 days
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Client referrals generated directly from the migration outcome
"Our client's checkout conversion had been dropping for two months and nobody could work out why. The Stellites developer traced it to a review app injecting a blocking script on mobile within the first week. Conversion recovered immediately. Our previous developer had looked at the same store and found nothing."
Agency Owner, E-Commerce Agency, UK
1 week
From engagement start to root cause identified and resolved
43%
Recovery in mobile checkout conversion rate after the fix
6
Client stores managed across Shopify and WooCommerce
0
Recurring performance issues across active stores in 6 months
"We build for DTC brands where Black Friday is most of the year's revenue. Stellites load-tested every store in October, found two that would have failed under peak traffic, and fixed both before the season. All four clients traded through the weekend without a single incident. That was the first BFCM I actually slept through."
Agency Owner, DTC Marketing Agency, Canada
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Client stores traded through peak season with zero downtime
2
Infrastructure failures identified and resolved before Black Friday
189%
Peak traffic handled above normal baseline without degradation
100%
Client retainers renewed following peak season delivery
"We had a developer leave mid-build on a Shopify Plus project with a hard launch date tied to a product drop. Stellites had a replacement briefed and committing code within nine days. Every custom section, every metafield, every integration was documented. The launch date held. The client never knew there had been a change."
Agency Owner, Digital Agency, Australia
9 days
Replacement developer fully operational and committing code
0
Launch date changes required despite mid-build transition
100%
Custom build documentation transferred without gaps
3 to 10
E-commerce projects delivered over 11 months
"We build for retail brands across the Gulf, which means Arabic right-to-left layouts, multi-currency, regional payment gateways, and Arabic product catalogs. Most developers need weeks of guidance on this. The Stellites developer had configured RTL correctly and integrated a regional gateway before we finished the onboarding call."
Agency Owner, Retail E-Commerce Agency, UAE
7
Bilingual Arabic and English stores delivered across both platforms
100%
Of builds launched with correct RTL layout and regional payment configuration
5
Regional payment gateways integrated across active client stores
96%
Client retention rate across the engagement year
"Our clients have complex integration requirements: ERP sync, subscription billing, multi-warehouse inventory, and third-party fulfillment. Getting all of it stable and documented is where every previous developer fell short. The Stellites handover document listed every API connection, every custom function, and every failure mode. My team could actually maintain it."
Agency Owner, E-Commerce Systems Agency, Singapore
100%
Of integrations documented and functioning correctly at launch
5
Complex multi-integration builds delivered across Shopify and WooCommerce
71%
Reduction in integration-related support requests post-launch
14 hrs
Saved per week through AI-assisted development and code diagnostics
"We were the first agency in our market to tell clients their products could be bought inside ChatGPT. Stellites configured Shopify Catalog and Agentic Storefronts for three of our stores and explained the protocol side clearly enough that we could sell it confidently. Two competitors are still telling clients agentic commerce is years away."
Agency Owner, B2C E-Commerce Agency, Germany
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Client stores configured for agentic commerce across ChatGPT and Copilot
First
Agency in their market offering agentic commerce readiness as a service
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Product data quality issues flagged during catalog structuring review
Same day
Response time to every post-launch support request raised
No hidden costs. No capacity-based assignments. Choose the commitment and management level that fits how your agency operates today, and scale your e-commerce offering when you are ready.
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Perfect for agencies that need a store audit, a performance fix, a checkout diagnosis, or agentic commerce configuration before committing to a dedicated resource.
We agree on platform, scope, SKU count, integrations, and deliverables upfront. You get a fixed price after we understand your build or migration requirements and finalize the scope of work together.
Need a specialist matched to a specific platform, integration stack, or store type? We find and vet the exact developer profile your agency needs, from Shopify Plus theme specialists to WooCommerce subscription and multi-warehouse experts.
Running a complete e-commerce development stack independently costs agencies thousands of dollars every year across AI coding subscriptions, design-to-code platforms, search and performance infrastructure, testing tools, and retention software. Stellites licenses and manages every tool across your client stores. Your agency pays nothing extra. Every dollar stays in your project margin.
See what changes when e-commerce development is built to protect your clients' revenue and your agency's standards. We take responsibility for build quality, checkout integrity, performance, and post-launch stability the same way a dedicated internal team would, without the overhead of building one.
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Freelancers | In-House Hire | Competitor Agency |
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| Strategic Oversight and Leadership | Yes | No | Overheads | Inconsistent |
| Quality Assurance Before Client Handoff | Yes | Self-Managed | Self-Managed | Inconsistent |
| Deep Vetting and Custom Matching | Yes | Self-Managed | Self-Managed | No |
| Works Within Your SOPs | Yes | Rarely | Yes | No |
| Agency-Only Focus (No Direct Clients) | Yes | Poaching Risk | Poaching Risk | Poaching Risk |
| NDA and Data Security Protection | Yes | No | Yes | Varies |
| Zero Downtime Replacements and Handovers | Yes | No | No | No |
| HR Fully Managed (Motivation, Appraisals, Retention) | Yes | No | Overheads | No |
| Continuous Learning and Skill Development | Yes | No | Added Cost | Inconsistent |
| AI-Ready Team and Workflows | Yes | Inconsistent | Added Cost | Inconsistent |
| Premium Tools Included | Yes | No | Added Cost | Varies |
| Customizable and Scalable Plans | Yes | Unstable | No | Limited |
| Time Zone-Aligned Collaboration | Yes | Varies | Yes | Varies |
| 10-Day Free Trial | Yes | No | No | No |
A simple 4-step path from first call to a dedicated developer building your clients' stores behind your agency on both Shopify and WooCommerce.
Honest answers to the questions agencies ask before, during, and after partnering with Stellites for e-commerce development.
White-label e-commerce development is a delivery model where a specialist developer builds and maintains your clients' online stores entirely under your agency brand. Stellites assigns a dedicated developer to your projects, handles the build, integrations, migrations, and post-launch support, and your clients only ever see your agency's name. The requirements deep dive maps your platforms, integration stack, and build standards before a single candidate is presented.
Yes, natively on both. Every candidate is tested on Shopify theme and Liquid development and on WooCommerce and WordPress customization during the same technical test, because a developer fluent in only one platform will steer every client toward it. That dual-platform requirement is built into the vetting process specifically so the recommendation you give clients is based on their needs rather than your developer's comfort zone.
It depends on the client, and Stellites will tell you honestly rather than defaulting to one. Shopify suits brands that want managed infrastructure, faster launch, native agentic commerce through Agentic Storefronts, and lower maintenance overhead. WooCommerce suits brands that need deep customization, full data ownership, complex or unusual business logic, or tight integration with an existing WordPress ecosystem. In a Fully Managed engagement, the E-Commerce Delivery Manager owns this recommendation, which keeps the decision at 15+ years of experience rather than with the developer who will build it.
No. Stellites operates fully behind your agency brand. All builds, documentation, handover materials, and communications are produced under your name. Stellites never contacts your clients directly and never reveals its involvement at any point in the engagement.
Fully Managed includes a Dedicated Developer, a 15+ year E-Commerce Delivery Manager who owns platform recommendations, build architecture, and sign-off before any store processes a live transaction, and Complete Operational Support. Self Managed includes the same developer and Operational Support but no Stellites Delivery Manager, because your internal technical lead already owns those decisions. The build quality is identical. The difference is who owns the architectural call.
Never. Stellites works exclusively with digital agencies. Every engagement is white-label by design, and that model exists because Stellites believes it can help more brands by strengthening agencies than by competing with them for direct work.
Most white-label e-commerce providers assign whoever is available, ship builds with no senior code review, and hand over undocumented stores that create permanent support dependency. Stellites matches one dedicated developer to your agency through a five-stage vetting process that tests both platforms. A 15+ year Delivery Manager reviews checkout logic, payment configuration, and performance before any store goes live. And agentic commerce readiness through Shopify Catalog structuring and WooCommerce MCP integration is standard rather than a service most providers have not heard of yet.
The developer handles Shopify theme and Liquid development, WooCommerce and WordPress customization, product data architecture, checkout and cart work, payment gateway and tax configuration, third-party integrations, Klaviyo and Algolia implementation, Figma to code conversion using Locofy and Anima, AI-assisted development with Cursor and GitHub Copilot, migrations, performance optimization, agentic commerce configuration, documentation, and post-launch support. They are the execution layer, not the architecture layer.
No. The developer executes and provides technical input. Final platform recommendation, build architecture, and technical approach belong to the E-Commerce Delivery Manager in a Fully Managed engagement or to your internal lead in a Self Managed engagement. That split exists because an architecture decision made early is expensive to reverse, and on a store carrying live revenue it is not a call Stellites will leave with a single execution-level resource.
Yes. Your developer is assigned to your agency, not rotated across a shared pool. That means familiarity with your build standards, your clients' stores, and your integration stack compounds rather than resetting with each project.
Yes. Time zone matching is mapped during the requirements deep dive before any candidate is considered. EST, PST, BST, AEST, CST, and more are supported, which matters most on e-commerce where a checkout issue during trading hours cannot wait for a business day to restart somewhere else.
Yes. Store documentation is a standard deliverable, not an optional extra. Every build hands over with custom code documented, integration and API connections listed, payment and tax configuration recorded, theme or child theme structure explained, and CMS guidance so your client can manage their own products and content. Undocumented builds create permanent developer dependency, which is exactly the trap most agencies are trying to escape.
Every developer has a minimum of five years of experience building inside digital agencies. That is verified through a custom technical test built from your actual project types, a live technical interview, and a Head of Delivery interview, not a portfolio review. AI tool proficiency across Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Locofy, and Anima is assessed in the same stage.
The Delivery Manager is a 15+ year e-commerce professional who owns platform recommendations, build architecture, and delivery accountability across every project in a Fully Managed engagement. Every build is reviewed and signed off before it processes a live transaction. On e-commerce specifically, that review covers checkout logic, payment and tax configuration, and performance, because those three areas are where mistakes convert directly into lost revenue.
The Delivery Manager owns the honest Shopify or WooCommerce recommendation, approves build architecture and technical approach, reviews code quality and signs off before go-live, treats checkout and payment configuration review as a mandatory gate, approves migration plans and assesses cutover risk before any data moves, enforces Core Web Vitals standards, reviews peak season readiness and load testing, approves agentic commerce configuration, handles advanced escalations, and continuously trains the developer.
Yes, when it matters. The developer handles day-to-day build and revision communication. The Delivery Manager steps in for platform decisions, architecture questions, migration risk, and any escalation affecting a live store, because those calls should not sit with the person closest to the code.
No. Self Managed assumes your agency already has a technical lead owning platform and architecture decisions. The developer executes against that direction. If you are not certain which model fits, raise it on the discovery call and we will work it out before you commit to either.
Five stages, beginning with mapping your agency's platforms, project types, integration stack, and build standards before a single candidate is looked at. Candidates then face a custom technical test built from your actual project types, a psychometric evaluation on accountability and behavior when a live store is affected, a live technical interview, and a personal interview with Stellites' Head of Delivery. Only the top two or three who clear every stage reach you.
Shopify theme and Liquid development, WooCommerce and WordPress customization, checkout and cart logic, payment gateway and tax configuration, product data and variant architecture, third-party integrations, migration approach, performance optimization, accessibility, and AI development tool fluency. A candidate for a high-SKU WooCommerce build with complex tax logic is tested very differently from one building a Shopify DTC storefront, because the test is constructed from your brief rather than a template.
Yes, at step five. You speak directly with the two or three finalists, ask whatever you want, and decide. No developer touches your clients' stores without your explicit approval.
Most agencies see a shortlist within one to two weeks of completing the requirements deep dive. Stellites will not compress that to fill a slot faster, because a mismatched developer on a revenue-generating store costs your agency more in emergency support and client trust than the extra week ever would.
Yes, in the same technical stage as build quality. Candidates are tested on Cursor and GitHub Copilot for development, Claude Code for codebase diagnostics, and Locofy and Anima for design-to-code conversion. A developer who is not working inside that stack in 2026 builds more slowly and less consistently than the market now requires.
In a Fully Managed engagement, every build passes a structured QA review by the Delivery Manager before it processes a live transaction. Functionality, checkout flow, payment and tax configuration, integration integrity, accessibility, Core Web Vitals performance, and cross-device behavior are all checked at the management level. Issues are caught inside the delivery process rather than by a customer failing to complete an order.
Tell us and it is reworked before your client sees it. If a pattern emerges, the Delivery Manager addresses it structurally rather than piece by piece. If the developer is the actual problem, Stellites runs the five-stage vetting process again for a replacement rather than asking you to manage around it.
Yes, on everything within the build itself. Image optimization, render-blocking resource resolution, caching configuration, app and plugin load order, and platform-specific performance practice are all applied as standard before launch, with Screaming Frog and Claude generating a prioritized fix list pre-go-live. What no provider controls is the performance impact of third-party scripts a client insists on, external embeds, or a hosting environment outside Stellites' control. Everything in the build is delivered to the highest performance standard.
Yes, on ongoing engagements. Stores are load-tested against realistic peak traffic ahead of the season rather than during it, and the Delivery Manager reviews and approves peak readiness. Black Friday should not be the first time a store's infrastructure is stressed.
Never. Stellites operates fully behind your agency brand with no commercial interest in your clients, and that is not only a contract clause. Stellites pivoted to the agency-only model because we realized we could not achieve our vision of delivering the best digital outcomes to the maximum number of brands by working directly. By partnering with digital agencies, we can help far more brands than working directly ever allowed. We do not chase recognition. We are completely fine being behind the scenes, because what fulfills us is seeing brands expand, teams thrive, and livelihoods improve. This is not just business for us. It is a responsibility we choose, and we will keep doing it with consistency, without expectation.
Every build, document, and handover is produced under your agency's name in your format. Stellites does not brand anything, does not communicate with your clients, and does not disclose its involvement at any stage.
Yes, before any agency information, client names, store access, or project details are shared, not after. Nothing about your accounts moves until the NDA is in place.
Developers access stores, hosting, admin panels, and payment configurations through secure RDP and VPN connections managed as part of the Operational Support layer. This matters more on e-commerce than on any other service because store admin access touches customer records, order history, and payment settings. Credentials and store data do not leave the controlled environment.
All access to client stores, hosting accounts, admin panels, and connected platforms is fully revoked as part of offboarding. Everything handled during the engagement remains covered by the NDA terms, which survive the engagement ending.
Typically two to three weeks from the discovery call to a fully briefed, operational developer, covering the requirements deep dive, the five-stage vetting process, your candidate selection, and the 10-day trial. That timeline exists because the requirements deep dive genuinely shapes the technical test.
Availability for the discovery call and requirements deep dive, then access to the platforms and tools the developer will use, your build standards and documentation requirements, brand guidelines and design assets, and context on the projects they will begin with. Stellites handles the rest, including tool setup and developer briefing.
The migration map is built before any data moves. Claude analyzes the source schema and maps every field to its destination equivalent on Shopify or WooCommerce, flags fields with no clean match, identifies existing data quality problems, and generates the full URL redirect map so ranking equity transfers. Screaming Frog crawls the source site and the staging build, and Claude runs a delta comparison via MCP to catch missing pages, broken redirects, and orphaned URLs before launch. The Delivery Manager approves the migration plan and assesses cutover risk before go-live.
The process is designed so it does not. Cutovers are scheduled around the client's lowest trading window, data is validated on staging before it goes live, and the post-launch delta comparison confirms nothing was lost. Order history, customer accounts, reviews, and SEO equity all transfer as part of the plan rather than being treated as acceptable losses.
A live trial on a real project, not a sample task. You judge build quality, platform fluency, documentation standards, and workflow fit against actual work. If Stellites' performance does not meet the standard during the trial or after it, you can exit without penalty. That protection is written into the contract.
Minimal. The developer is briefed into your existing platforms, tools, and SOPs. Projects already in progress hand over with context and documentation intact rather than restarting, so delivery continuity holds through the transition.
By commitment type (full-time or part-time), management level (Fully Managed or Self Managed), and length (3, 6, 12, or 24 months), with longer commitments priced better. Every plan includes the 10-Day Free Trial. Complete the form in the pricing section with your preferences to see your specific numbers.
Full-time is a standard working week dedicated entirely to your agency's projects. Part-time is a reduced weekly allocation, suited to lower project volume or to testing the model before committing further. The vetting, senior oversight, and tool stack are identical either way.
Yes, no setup fee, no hidden cost, and no obligation to continue past it. It exists specifically so you validate build quality on real work before committing to anything longer.
Say so before you assume Stellites will not work with you. Stellites would rather adjust the arrangement and protect your project book than lose a long-term partner over a short-term cash flow problem, and that is how it has actually played out with existing agency partners.
You can exit at any time without penalty if the reason is Stellites' performance. That is written into the contract directly, not left as a verbal assurance, because Stellites does not expect an agency to stay locked into work that is not meeting the standard.
You pay the difference between the discounted commitment-rate fee and the standard rate for the months you actually used, and nothing beyond that. Example: a 48-month commitment sets your monthly fee at $2,000. You use 12 months. The standard 12-month rate is $2,500. You pay the $500 difference across those 12 months, $6,000 total, and that closes it out. No separate penalty on top.
Yes. Move from part-time to full-time as your project volume grows, or add a second developer for a different platform or store type, without disrupting projects already in motion.
Stellites runs the full five-stage vetting process again and presents vetted replacements for your approval, without you posting a job or interviewing anyone. Build documentation, custom code, theme structure, integration and payment configuration, and active project status all transfer before the replacement starts, so you never inherit an undocumented store.
Typically one to two weeks, with the Delivery Manager holding continuity oversight through the transition so active builds do not stall and live stores stay supported.
It is documented before the outgoing developer leaves: architecture, custom code, integration and API connections, payment and tax configuration, theme or child theme structure, active project status, and client-specific decisions. The incoming developer is briefed against that document rather than reverse-engineering the store.
Yes, no justification required. If the fit is not there, Stellites treats that as reason enough and moves to a replacement.
Adjusts rather than enforces. A lost retainer, a client pausing a build, or a tight month gets a conversation about protecting your projects, not a contract reminder. Stellites has been through this with partners before and stayed through it.
Yes. The developer is assigned to your agency, not to one client, so they continue on your remaining projects if a client cancels or pauses.
Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate development on both Shopify and WooCommerce. Claude Code diagnoses codebases and inherited stores in plain language. Locofy and Anima convert approved Figma designs to responsive theme code. Claude enriches product catalogs at scale and builds migration data maps before any data moves. Screaming Frog connected via MCP to Claude runs performance audits before every launch. And agentic commerce configuration prepares stores for AI shopping agents. A human developer and the Delivery Manager review and approve at every step.
Yes, already. AI shopping agents now find products and complete purchases inside conversations rather than sending shoppers to browse. ChatGPT Instant Checkout has been live since September 2025 across 900 million weekly users. Microsoft Copilot Checkout launched in January 2026 with native Shopify and Stripe integration, and early data showed Copilot users were 53 percent more likely to complete a purchase within 30 minutes. Shopify opened Agentic Storefronts to millions of merchants in March 2026, and Google's AI Mode checkout is rolling out to select retailers. If your clients' product data is not structured for agents, they are absent from a channel that is already transacting.
Two open standards govern it. OpenAI and Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol for ChatGPT checkout, and Shopify co-developed the Universal Commerce Protocol with Google, backed by Amazon, Mastercard, Meta, Microsoft, Target, Walmart, and Visa. On Shopify, Stellites confirms Agentic Storefronts eligibility, audits and structures Shopify Catalog product data against the ranking factors agents weigh including data quality, relevance, availability, and pricing, and enables direct checkout per channel. On WooCommerce, that means MCP integration, WordPress Abilities configuration, and Stripe ACP setup. Orders flow into the store admin with full channel attribution and your client keeps ownership of the customer relationship.
AI-assisted, not AI-written. Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate boilerplate, Liquid patterns, WooCommerce hooks, and template scaffolding. The developer owns architecture, checkout logic, integration integrity, platform-specific judgment, and client customization, and the Delivery Manager reviews every build before it processes a live transaction. That division does not move regardless of how capable the tools become.
Claude enriches catalogs at a scale manual work cannot reach: unique product descriptions generated from specification data in the client's brand voice, image alt text across thousands of SKUs, standardized attribute and variant naming, and Product, Offer, and Review schema validated against schema.org before deployment. Every output is reviewed by the developer for factual accuracy and by the Delivery Manager for brand compliance, because a wrong product description is worse than a thin one.
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Locofy, Anima, Figma Pro, Klaviyo, Algolia, Screaming Frog, Cloudflare Pro, WP Rocket, BrowserStack, and Judge.me, all included at no extra cost to your agency.
A minimum of one expert coaching session per month covers agentic commerce protocol changes, Shopify and WooCommerce releases, AI development tooling, and performance standards. When Shopify expands Agentic Storefronts or WooCommerce ships new MCP capabilities, your developer learns it in a structured session with an expert rather than on your client's live store.
Start with a Discovery Call. No pressure. No commitment. Just an honest conversation about your agency, your accounts, and whether Stellites is the right fit. If it is, we start with a 10-Day Free Trial so you can validate quality in real conditions before signing anything.
