Most providers do one or the other — a hosting company that only manages the server, or an agency that builds the site but won’t touch hosting. Shopcreator does both: we host and support WordPress/WooCommerce stores end to end, including suppliesforcandles.co.uk and thesoapkitchen.co.uk, and we’ll tell you honestly when a store has outgrown WooCommerce and would be better served by a dedicated platform like PrestaShop.
We host and support real WooCommerce stores day to day — and we’re equally honest about when it’s time to move up to a more powerful platform.
WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so there’s no platform licence fee and a huge pool of themes and plugins to launch quickly.
If you can manage a WordPress site, you can manage a WooCommerce store — one dashboard for content and commerce.
Thousands of WooCommerce extensions cover payments, shipping, subscriptions and marketing without custom development.
WordPress’s content tools make it straightforward to pair a store with blogs, guides and landing pages that support SEO.
Shopcreator, based in Leeds since 1998, provides both WordPress/WooCommerce hosting and ongoing support as one service — so there’s one team to call, not a hosting company and an agency pointing at each other. Retainers start from £150/month.
We offer 1 hour response times for urgent issues, depending on your support contract, covering everything from server-level problems to plugin conflicts.
Yes – slow WooCommerce stores are usually caused by plugin bloat, unoptimised images, or shared hosting that can’t keep up with checkout and catalogue demand. We audit the plugin stack, optimise images and database queries, and set up proper server-level caching – page speed troubleshooting is one of the most common things clients ask us to fix.
We handle cleanup, security hardening and ongoing monitoring for compromised WordPress/WooCommerce sites, and can set up proactive security to reduce the risk of it happening again.
Retainers start from £150/month, depending on store size and scope.
WooCommerce works well for smaller and growing stores, but as order volume, catalogue complexity or B2B pricing needs increase, a dedicated platform can handle it more natively. We support WooCommerce stores at every stage, and we’ll tell you honestly when that point is worth considering — we’ve guided several clients through exactly that move.
We take over hosting, support and development for existing WordPress/WooCommerce sites, picking up where a previous developer left off.
Yes — including suppliesforcandles.co.uk and thesoapkitchen.co.uk.
With Shopcreator there’s no handoff to argue about — the same team hosts and maintains your WordPress/WooCommerce site, so there’s nowhere for a problem to hide between two suppliers blaming each other.
A WooCommerce store has different demands to a brochure site — checkout reliability, payment security and plugin compatibility all matter more. Managed WooCommerce hosting accounts for that; generic WordPress hosting often doesn’t.
Hosting, monitoring, plugin and core updates, security hardening, and 1 hour response times for urgent issues — all from £150/month, scaled to your store’s size.
Shopcreator has been building and supporting ecommerce stores from Leeds since 1998.
