Ecommerce development in Bengaluru
Bengaluru's D2C brands tend to outgrow their first store in the same order. The Shopify theme cannot express the bundles the business wants to sell. Cash-on-delivery orders, marketplace listings and the warehouse system disagree about stock by the end of each day. The Razorpay webhook arrives twice during a sale and an order ships twice, or it does not arrive at all and a paid order sits unpaid.
We fix the parts that move money and stock. Custom Shopify apps when the theme has run out of road, a headless storefront when the brand needs one, inventory sync built as a queue with retries and reconciliation, and payment handling that is idempotent, so a duplicated webhook is ignored rather than fulfilled. Before the next big sale we load test the checkout path, not the homepage, because that is where the revenue goes missing.
Bengaluru is where we live and work, so this page is less a pitch than a description of the market we see every week. The defining fact about it is that startups and global capability centres, the in-house engineering offices of foreign companies, are competing for the same engineers. A GCC can offer a larger salary, a guaranteed bonus and a stable employer. A Series A startup offers equity and a harder job. The engineer you want usually has more than one offer, a notice period to serve, and a counter-offer waiting. So the roadmap slips while the hiring plan catches up.
The companies that call us here come in a few recognisable shapes. Startups whose first backend was written by an engineer who has since left, often for one of those GCCs. SaaS companies built in Bengaluru and sold to customers in the US and Europe from the first year, now closing their first enterprise account and the feature list that comes with it. Deep tech teams in space, robotics, semiconductors and applied AI, where the core work is research or hardware and the software around it, the dashboards, device APIs and data pipelines, is nobody's job. And GCC leaders who need a working proof of concept before headquarters will approve the headcount to build the real thing.
What they need built is usually a defined piece rather than a whole product. A backend mapped, documented and made safe to change. Single sign-on, custom roles and tenant isolation for the enterprise deal. A device API and a dashboard for a robotics team whose engineers would rather be working on the robot. A proof of concept a GCC can demo to its parent company. We build those in your repository, in increments that ship, and write the architecture notes and runbooks as we go, so whoever you hire next can read them in their first week.
We share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides and a question asked in the morning is answered in the morning. Because we are in the same city, a kickoff or an architecture session can happen at your office rather than on a call. Most of the work still happens in writing, in your repository and your chat, because a decision written down survives the people who made it.
We are the right fit when you have a defined piece of work and want a senior engineer on it this month rather than after a hiring round. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. We also cover the months before your next hire joins, and work white-label for Bengaluru agencies under your name.
Four ways this arrives.
The ERP updates overnight, the store sells all day, and by morning the two do not match. We build the sync as a queue with retries and reconciliation, decide which system wins for each field, and alert on drift before a customer buys stock you do not have.
Or checkout slows until people give up. We cache what can be cached at the edge, keep live stock checks off the browsing path, load-test the shape of a real launch rather than a steady trickle, and queue anything that cannot scale.
Bundles, B2B price lists, subscriptions, delivery rules by postcode. We build it as a custom Shopify app or with Shopify Functions and checkout extensions so it survives platform updates, or tell you when you have outgrown the theme altogether.
Payment webhooks can arrive twice, late or out of order, and the handler trusts every one. We make order state follow the provider's record, process Stripe and Razorpay events idempotently, and reconcile daily so a mismatch is a report, not a complaint.
An hourly sync with a third-party system reachable only through its API, with values normalised at the boundary so unchanged records stop looking changed.
Read the write-up →Asked by Bengaluru teams.
Can we meet in person?+
Yes. We are in Bengaluru, so a kickoff, a design review or a whiteboard session at your office is easy to arrange. We share your time zone, so calls happen inside your normal working day. Day to day we work in your tools, Slack, GitHub and Linear or whatever you already use, and you talk directly to the engineer writing the code. In-person time is best spent on the first architecture discussion and the handover.
Do you build for Bengaluru SaaS companies selling abroad?+
Yes, and it is one of the most common pieces of work we see here. We build what the first overseas enterprise customer asks for: single sign-on, custom roles, tenant isolation that holds under a missing filter, a log of who changed what, and billing through Stripe that copes with several currencies. The work happens inside your product, in increments that ship, so the deal keeps moving while the list gets shorter.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Bengaluru?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Bengaluru at about ₹18 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. For that you get a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
We keep losing engineers to GCCs. How can you help?+
We add senior capacity while you rebuild the team. An engagement starts within days, so the roadmap keeps moving through the notice periods and counter-offers. We take a defined piece of work, ship it in your repository, and write the architecture notes and runbooks your next hire reads in their first week. The code belongs to you from the first commit, so picking it up later is a conversation, not a project.
Have you built a store like ours?+
We build stores from the parts of commerce that usually go wrong, and those are what we work on every day: syncing with a third-party system that only speaks through its API, handling webhooks that arrive twice, and background jobs that must not lose or repeat work. On a call we will walk you through how that applies to your store.
Shopify, headless, or fully custom?+
Start with Shopify if a theme and a few apps cover you; that is cheaper than anything we would build. Go headless when the storefront must do things a theme cannot, or share a front end with other products. Build on Medusa or commercetools when the catalogue, pricing or order flow is genuinely unusual. Most stores never need the third option, and we will say so.
Can you connect our ERP or warehouse system?+
Usually, if it has an API or can export files on a schedule. We start by agreeing which system owns each field, such as stock, price and order status, because most sync bugs come from two systems both believing they are the source of truth. Then we build the sync with retries, a log of every change, and a daily reconciliation report.
Which payment providers do you work with?+
Stripe, Razorpay, and Shopify Payments when the store runs on Shopify. Choose the one that suits your markets and fees; we earn nothing from any of them. The work that matters is the same for all three: treat the provider as the record of what was paid, handle every webhook idempotently, and test refunds and partial captures, not only the happy path.
How do you prepare for a sale or a launch?+
We load-test the whole journey, from landing page to paid order, at the traffic you expect and beyond it. We find what breaks first, which is usually a third-party script, an uncached page or the stock check, and fix it before the day. During the sale itself, the engineer who did that work is watching the dashboards with you.