Ecommerce & Retail

The store is the easy part

Anyone can put a catalog online. What's hard is everything behind it - inventory, payments, service history, the people in the warehouse and the people on the floor. We build ecommerce that's connected to how your business actually runs.

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When Custom Is Worth It

Shopify is fine. Until it isn't.

If you sell a straightforward catalog to a straightforward customer, use an off-the-shelf platform. We'll tell you that for free.

Custom becomes worth it when the selling is tied to something else - service and repair histories, dealer or contractor pricing, install scheduling, physical showrooms, quoting, an ERP that predates the web. That's the point where retailers start paying for plugins that almost work and staff who re-key orders between systems.

We've been building these for retailers since 1999, including a national specialty chain, a uniform sales business, and a long-running parts and equipment business. In both cases the storefront was maybe a third of the work.

Multiple sites you can't keep in syncSeparate mobile, desktop, and brand sites drifting apart and splitting your SEO.

Orders re-keyed by handThe web store doesn't know about the POS, and neither knows about the warehouse.

Platform limits you keep working aroundSix plugins, three of them abandoned, and a checkout that still doesn't fit your pricing.

What We Build

Storefront and everything behind it

Storefront, Catalog & CMS

Mobile-first storefronts with a catalog and content system your own team can actually run - product data, merchandising, and pages without a developer in the loop for every change.

Payments & Card Processing

Checkout wired into the processor you already use, with the payment paths your business needs - stored accounts, terms, deposits, partial captures for orders that ship in stages.

Back Office & Operations

The internal side: CRM, scheduling, ticketing, reporting, and staff portals - so the people fulfilling the order are looking at the same record the customer placed.

POS, ERP & Inventory Integration

Connecting the store to the systems that already hold the truth about stock, pricing, and customers - including older systems everyone assumed couldn't be integrated.

Our Work

Two retailers, two very different problems

Retail / Ecommerce

Johnson Fitness & Wellness

A unified employee portal and a consolidated mobile-first ecommerce platform replaced three fragmented sites for the largest specialty fitness retailer in the US.

The challenge

Operations ran across disconnected systems with no unified view, while three separate websites (mobile, tablet, desktop) were hard to maintain and hurting SEO.

What we delivered

An internal employee portal unifying CRM, scheduling, POS, ticketing, card processing and reporting - plus a single mobile-first ecommerce site, improving traffic, SEO, and maintainability.

Custom CRMPOS IntegrationCard ProcessingMobile-First Ecommerce

Retail / Ecommerce

CoEd Uniform

A full ecommerce and operations platform built on CCSTM's proprietary CognitiveSoul framework - custom flexibility on a proven, production-tested foundation.

The challenge

CoEd needed a platform custom enough to fit their business, but not built entirely from scratch - the flexibility of custom development with the reliability of proven code.

What we delivered

A complete ecommerce platform on the CognitiveSoul Framework - a known-solid foundation we customize entirely around the client, delivering faster with fewer surprises.

CognitiveSoul FrameworkEcommerceCustom CMSGroups & Permissions

Not From Scratch

Built on a foundation that's been in production for 20 years

CognitiveSOUL Framework

Our own suite of pre-built components - catalog, cart, accounts, permissions, content management - that we customize entirely around your business. You get custom software without paying to reinvent the parts every store needs.

Faster, with fewer surprises

The foundation is proven in production across real clients, so the work goes into what makes your operation different rather than into rebuilding checkout for the hundredth time.

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Replatforming or Starting Over

Tell us what's breaking

Whether you're outgrowing a platform, running three sites that should be one, or re-keying orders by hand, we'll look at it and tell you what we'd fix first - and whether custom is even the right call.

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Let's Talk

Ready to Move Forward?

Tell us about your store and the systems behind it - we'll tell you honestly what we'd do first.

Phone

302-365-5385

[email protected]

Address

560 Peoples Plaza #312
Newark, DE 19702