Home & Garden eCommerce Development

Built for big baskets, complex products, and customers who take their time.

Selling furniture, homeware, or garden gear means dealing with high-AOV orders, heavy product detail pages, and long decision-making cycles. You need an eCommerce site that loads fast, scales easily, and makes buying as smooth as possible.

We build eCommerce stores that simplify the path to purchase, support detailed product exploration, and help you scale operations without tech getting in the way. We help you move from pain points to your next nice problems, like what to do with the high volume of new orders.

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Development That Fits Your Catalogue You’ve got large inventories, rich media, and a seasonal business model. We match you with the platform that’ll support those needs now and five years from now.

Magento Open Source gives your team full control over product data, custom shipping rules, and onsite merchandising. It’s perfect if you need a cost-effective platform with flexibility built in, and you’ve got internal dev resources to support it.

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Adobe Commerce takes things further with advanced B2B tools, customer segmentation, rule-based promotions, and international pricing. If you’re juggling multiple storefronts or have layered requirements, Adobe’s depth makes things easier.

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Shopify and Shopify Plus work well for home and garden brands that want to move fast without incurring heavy development overhead. This makes it faster to launch a sub-brand, react to trends, or spin up campaigns. It’s quick to manage and even quicker to scale.

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Aero Commerce is built for performance and cost efficiency. If you want a lightweight, scalable platform that won’t drain your infrastructure budget, Aero is a strong contender, especially when page speed is critical.

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Hyvä Themes supercharge Magento stores with clean, fast, flexible frontends. If your current site is dragging and slowing sales, a Hyvä rebuild gives you modern UX, faster load times, and better conversion rates.

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UX & UI That Helps Customers Choose

Guide high-consideration purchases without overwhelming.

Home and garden products aren’t impulse buys. Your customers want to compare, visualise, and feel confident before they checkout. We design journeys that make that easy, helping customers find what they need quickly, understand product options clearly, and move through checkout without distractions.

Our UX and UI work helps your team make better use of bundling and upselling, while your customers get a more useful, more pleasant shopping experience. Browsing is easier, product pages feel considered, and information is always where it’s needed.

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Ongoing Support That Keeps Your Products Moving

Seasonal updates, site tweaks, and CRO support, all covered.

Your product catalogue changes often, and so do customer expectations. That’s why we stay involved long after launch, whether your next step is preparing a spring sale or adding a whole new category.

We’ll keep your site secure, make sure it loads fast, and work closely with your team to implement any new features or improvements. Think of us as your ongoing eCommerce partner, one that knows the platform, understands your business, and doesn’t need handholding.

What support includes

Willow & Hall

Willow & Hall is a luxury furniture brand with a wide product range, high average order values, and customers who like to browse, compare, and take their time before buying. Their old site wasn’t keeping up. It was slow, hard to manage, and didn’t reflect the quality of the brand.

We migrated them to Magento 2, rebuilt the backend for better product and order management, and launched a new Hyvä-powered frontend that made the entire experience faster, clearer, and easier to use.

The results spoke for themselves. Conversion rate jumped from 2.5% to 3.6%. Online sales rose by 15%. Page speeds improved by over 80%. It gave their team more control and their customers a smoother journey.

For home and garden brands like Willow & Hall, it’s proof that the right platform and the right partner fix the problems you’ve got and unlock the next nice ones. If that’s where you want to be, we’ll help you get there.

+ 3.6% Conversion Rate

+ 15% Sales Increase

+80% Speed Boost

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I like working with Actuate because they care about what they do, they clarify the detail to get the job done right.

Catherine Lund-Barker Elcometer

Our Work

"What impressed us most was how quickly Actuate identified the root cause. Within the first call they'd spotted the metadata issue that had been tanking our traffic. Everything that followed has been just as sharp."

Mitch Tamcken AutoID

I like working with Actuate because they care about what they do, they clarify the detail to get the job done right. They have worked incredibly hard with our complex needs and have been on hand for help and advice every step along the way...

Catherine Lund-Barker Elcometer

Without Actuate's help and support, our original website wouldn’t have succeeded. Time was of the essence, and Actuate stepped in to deliver a swift turnaround. The new site has performed exceptionally well ever since. We continue to grow thanks to Actuate. ❤️ Thanks guys!”

Chantelle Telford Robinsons of Bawtry

Their team leverages their expertise to provide sound opinions and advice to guide the project in the right direction.

Daniel Wright Reliant

I worked with Actuate on the redevelopment of the Pickett London website. Their team is an excellent asset for any company or team, it was a pleasure to work with them - easy to communicate with, easy to reach and always willing to help.

Oliver Moser Pickett

Working with Actuate is a pleasure — they are really trying to help, they listen and offer solutions to solve the problems. Thanks for all your help so far.

Rafael Bielinski Buller Ltd

We've worked with Actuate for several years and the results have been consistent. Conversion rate up 113%, AOV up, bounce rate down. They know our business inside out, and it shows.

Rob Dyer Be My Bear

Frequently Asked Questions.

Big ranges, variants and heavy or bulky items are our norm. We structure catalogues and filtering so customers find the right product fast. The Skirting Board Shop saw conversion rise 51% after we rebuilt their store.

Yes. We build stores that serve DIY consumers and trade buyers from one place, with the right pricing, bulk ordering and account setup for each.

We set up shipping rules around weight, dimensions and delivery zones, so quotes are accurate and customers are not surprised at checkout.

Usually Magento or Adobe Commerce for large catalogues and trade complexity, or Shopify for simpler ranges. We recommend around your range and how you sell, not the other way round.