Platform selection
We work out whether Shopify Plus or a custom Laravel build suits your catalogue and margins before anything gets built.
Adult ecommerce development
Sex-positive ecommerce with compliant payment routing (Visa/Mastercard high-risk MCC handling) and adult-safe hosting.
MCC 5967 aware
Shopify Plus + custom
B2B ready
What you get
Everything below is in the quote. No add-ons, no surprise line items later.
High-risk payment routing
Payments route through the adult merchant category, so your account is not closed the first time volume spikes.
Age verification
The age check sits at checkout rather than the front door, so product and category pages stay open to search engines.
GDPR data handling
Customer data is handled with the retention, consent and deletion rules the ICO expects in this category.
B2B wholesale layer
If you sell to trade, wholesale pricing, net terms and tax exemption sit alongside the retail store, not in a second system.
Ads compliance review
If your current host is hostile to the category, we move you without downtime and without losing rankings.
Meta / Google ads compliance review
We tell you plainly what will and will not survive ad review, so budget is not spent on campaigns that get pulled.
Every engagement
A written report every Friday
A short note each Friday covering what shipped that week, what is queued next, and anything waiting on a decision from you. You are never guessing where the project is.
Every engagement
30-day warranty after launch
Anything defective at delivery is fixed on us for the first thirty days after go-live, at no extra cost and without an argument about whose fault it was.
Every engagement
Your IP on final payment
Code, designs and the accounts we opened in your name are assigned to you on the final invoice, with repo access, deployment credentials and a written handover pack. No licence, no lock-in.
Pricing
Every engagement is scoped and quoted on its own.
No packages, no padded tiers
Price on application
After a 30-minute discovery call under NDA we send a written proposal: a fixed price for the agreed scope, milestone billing rather than a lump sum up front, and code and IP assigned to you on final payment.
What shapes the quote
- How much of the platform is custom versus configured
- Content volume, transcoding and storage
- Which processor and age-verification vendors you need
- Whether you are migrating from an existing platform
How the build runs
Staging and written reporting from the start, so you are never waiting to find out where things are.
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Week 0
Discovery and written scope
A 30-minute call under NDA, then a written scope: what we are building, what it costs, and what it explicitly does not include. Nothing starts until you have signed that.
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Weeks 1–3
Foundations and applications
Architecture, data model and the admin skeleton. Processor and age-verification applications go in during this window, because they take the longest and block launch if they are left late.
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The middle weeks
Build on live staging
Features land on a private staging URL you can use, ordered so the risky parts are proven first. A written report reaches you every Friday until launch.
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Launch week
Go live and hand over
Cutover, then close monitoring for the first few days. Repo, deployment credentials and a runbook are handed over, and the 30-day warranty starts.
The challenge
The context most agencies won't say out loud.
Adult ecommerce sits in an odd middle ground: Shopify allows it but with restrictions, WooCommerce runs on hosts that ban you, and custom builds cost more than they need to. The right stack depends on your revenue, catalogue size, and B2B ambitions.
Why us
What a mainstream agency cannot credibly claim on this service.
Platform-agnostic
We build on Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, or custom Laravel. Recommendation based on your revenue and roadmap, not on what we prefer.
MCC 5967 aware
Payment routing set up correctly from launch. VAMP threshold monitoring built into the admin.
Meta ad ban recovery
If your ads keep getting banned we work through the compliance review. Often the fix is landing pages plus microsite structure, not just creative.
B2B wholesale layer
Filament-driven B2B side that shares the catalogue but hides price and adds net-terms invoicing.
Outcomes
Anonymised. Every client under NDA; specifics verifiable on request.
UK adult retailer
10-week build
£8k-£15k band
Shopify Plus adult store with high-risk gateway and B2B wholesale
Migrated from WooCommerce (hostile host) to Shopify Plus. Card decline rate dropped from 12% to 3%.
Common questions
What we get asked most, answered honestly.
Should we use Shopify Plus or custom Laravel?
Shopify Plus suits most retailers. Heavy B2B, unusual product types or a large catalogue usually push you to custom Laravel. The discovery call decides it in most cases.
What payment gateway works for adult ecommerce?
For Shopify Plus adult: CCBill Shopify integration or SegPay via API. For custom builds: full CCBill / SegPay / Epoch integration. Stripe adult limited to specific product types.
What about Meta / Google Ads for adult?
Both restrict adult ads heavily. We do a compliance review, help structure landing pages that qualify for the allowed segments, and work with paid-search specialists who know the vertical.
How long does an adult ecommerce build take?
Shopify Plus: 6-10 weeks. Custom Laravel: 14-20 weeks. Enterprise / replatform: 24-36 weeks.
Do you handle age verification for adult ecommerce?
Yes. Under HEAA guidance, adult retailers displaying explicit imagery need effective age assurance. We integrate Yoti or AgeChecked and preserve product-page SEO.
Can you migrate us off WooCommerce or Magento?
Yes. Bulk product migration, order history preservation, customer migration with password-reset flow, and SEO-preserving redirect map are standard parts of a replatform engagement.
Related services
These pair naturally with ecommerce. Bundle two or three under one engagement.
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