Central Macedonia · Greece
Ecommerce website development in Thessaloniki
Ecommerce development in Thessaloniki frequently has to accept payment as a photograph. Customers pay by bank transfer and send proof, which means somebody has to verify it, match it and release the order before anything ships. We build Shopify and WooCommerce stores for Thessaloniki businesses remotely, with no local office.
What is ecommerce in Thessaloniki actually like?
Where bank transfer is a mainstream payment method rather than a fallback, the store has to manage an order that is placed, unpaid and waiting. The customer transfers, sends a screenshot as proof, and somebody compares it against the account before releasing the goods. Done badly it is a person refreshing a bank statement and matching references by eye. Done well the order carries a unique reference, the state is explicit, stock is held for a defined window and the customer can see exactly what is being waited on rather than telephoning to ask.
What the city trades in5
Where the businesses are4
What that changes about the build
Orders placed, unpaid and waiting as an explicit state rather than an ambiguous one
A unique reference on every transfer, because matching by eye is what makes this expensive
What we build for Thessaloniki businesses
We build four things, and all four are delivered the same way wherever the client is: Shopify stores, WooCommerce stores, the interface design that decides whether either converts, and the automation that removes manual work from running them.
Shopify Development
Shopify development is the work of building a store on Shopify that does what your business needs rather than what a theme allows.
What we buildWooCommerce Development
WooCommerce development is the work of building a store on WordPress and WooCommerce, where you host the software and own the database outright.
What we buildUI/UX Design
Ecommerce UI/UX design is the work of deciding how a store looks and how customers move through it, from landing page to completed order.
What we buildAI Automation
AI automation for ecommerce means using language models and workflow tools to remove repetitive work from running a store.
What we build
What does each service run into in Thessaloniki?
Four pages, one per service, each about a different problem that Thessaloniki businesses actually bring us rather than a restatement of this one.
AI Automation in Thessaloniki
Retailers accepting bank transfer payments
Shopify Development in Thessaloniki
Wholesalers with manual payment verification
UI/UX Design in Thessaloniki
A unique reference on every transfer, because matching by eye is what makes this expensive
WooCommerce Development in Thessaloniki
Orders placed, unpaid and waiting as an explicit state rather than an ambiguous one
How does remote delivery work for a Thessaloniki business?
We have no office in Thessaloniki and no plans to open one. Work is delivered from our studio in Rajkot, through a shared board you can open at any time rather than a weekly status call. Everything agreed is written down the same day, because a decision nobody can find later is the same as one nobody made.
VAT here
Greek VAT is due on the supply regardless of how the customer paid, so an order settled by manual bank transfer creates the same obligation as a card payment even though the money arrives days later.
Where your obligations actually begin is a question for a tax adviser. We build the store to collect correctly against whatever answer you get.
- Delivery
- Remote, from Rajkot, India
- Decisions
- Written to the shared board the same day they are made
- Meetings
- Video, with the people doing the work rather than an account manager
- Reply time
- Within one business day
Which Thessaloniki sectors do we build for?
The Thessaloniki economy produces most of the businesses below, and their requirements we have met before. A sector missing from this list is a scoping conversation, not a refusal.
Retailers accepting bank transfer payments
Wholesalers with manual payment verification
Businesses holding stock against unpaid orders
Thessaloniki questions we are asked
Five questions specific to working with us from Thessaloniki, including the one every remote agency should answer first and most do not: whether we are actually there.
Do you have an office in Thessaloniki?
No. We work from Rajkot, India, and Thessaloniki clients are served remotely rather than from a Greek address we do not hold. Saying so here is the same standard applied to every location page on this site rather than a caveat written specially for this one.
Should stock be held while payment is awaited?
For a defined window rather than indefinitely, and the window should be stated to the customer. Holding forever means stock sitting idle for orders that will never be paid; not holding at all means selling the same unit twice. A published expiry is the workable middle.
How do we match the payment?
With a unique reference generated per order and shown prominently at every step, including the confirmation email. Customers type it approximately if they type it at all, so making it short and repeating it often does more for reconciliation than any process on your side.
Is a screenshot proof of payment?
It is a claim rather than proof, and treating it as the latter is how these arrangements get abused. Releasing goods on a screenshot is a credit decision you are making without meaning to. Most merchants verify against the account and use the screenshot only to locate the transfer.
Can this be automated?
Partly, where your bank offers a feed that can be matched against references. That removes the manual comparison and leaves the exceptions, which is where the value is. Without a feed it stays a person job, and the reference discipline matters even more.
Get in touch
Building or replatforming a store in Thessaloniki?
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