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Field notes from real UK stores

Things I run into running ecommerce stacks for UK merchants — patterns, gotchas, and the occasional half-formed thought worth writing down.

• Shopify vs WooCommerce UK: The Real 3-Year Cost (2026)

  14 May 2026

  Five UK merchant scenarios costed end-to-end in GBP — platform fees, payments, the app or plugin stack, and the dev time both sides like to hide. With calculator.