Ecommerce website design Malaysia
Sell online with a WooCommerce store you fully own. FPX, cards and e-wallets, unlimited products — RM4,888 fixed.
What the RM4,888 store actually includes
Not a theme with a cart bolted on. Four things every store passes before it goes live.
Payments Malaysians actually use
FPX, cards and e-wallets through local gateways with flat fees (toyyibPay, Billplz, iPay88 or Stripe — we pick by your margin), tested with a real transaction: money in, order recorded, confirmation sent.
Checkout built for trust
Recognisable payment marks at the decision moment, a WhatsApp button inside checkout for the 10pm size question, delivery expectations stated before payment, returns policy one click from every product.
The Day-14 launch checklist
Every product with photo, price, variants and stock; shipping verified against courier rate cards for light, heavy and East Malaysia orders; mobile checkout completed on a real phone; order notifications firing to your WhatsApp.
Products that show up on Google
Search Console and product schema live, so your products can appear in Google with prices — plus a blog and landing pages on the same system, the content ceiling Shopify stores usually hit.
One store package, fully yours
E-commerce
- Unlimited product pages + 8 content pages
- FPX / cards / e-wallets (2 channels)
- Shipping & SST setup
- 5 pages copywriting + 20 product descriptions
- Bilingual (EN + 中文)
- 2-hour training · 90-day free maintenance
This is really about you — not websites
You already sell. That's the point.
You've proven the product on Shopee, Lazada, Instagram or a WhatsApp catalog. Orders come in; the model works. You're not a dreamer with an idea — you're an operator with revenue asking a sharper question: why does so much of it leak away?
→The marketplace math has started to hurt.
Commission here, transaction fee there, paid ads to rank inside their own search, price wars against sellers with no overhead — and the customer list at the end of it all belongs to the platform. You've built a business on rented land, and the rent rises every year.
→Keep the marketplaces. Add the store you own.
A WooCommerce store with FPX, cards and e-wallets — gateway fees around 3% instead of platform-stack economics, every customer's contact yours for repeat marketing, live in 25–30 working days, RM4,888 fixed. Marketplaces for discovery; your store for margin.
Get my store quoteSix guarantees, checkable before you pay a deposit
- Fixed quote, valid 30 days — the number is the invoice
- 50% to start, 50% after you inspect it live
- Homepage approved before the full build
- Handover pack: domain, hosting, admin, every account in your name
- Speed proof at launch — mobile PageSpeed in your pack
- Leaving is free and documented, any time
What Shopee and Lazada take — and what a store you own keeps
Marketplaces bring traffic. Most successful Malaysian sellers run both channels — and make sure the owned one grows every month. Here is why.
| What matters | Marketplace-only | Your own WooCommerce store |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of every sale | Commission on each order, plus campaign and ad fees to stay visible | Gateway fees only — flat FPX via local gateways |
| Your customer data | Theirs — you cannot email, message or retarget your own buyers | Yours — order history, emails and WhatsApp opt-ins in your database |
| Control of the channel | A listing can be suspended overnight | Your files, your database, portable — the store exists as long as you want it to |
| Competition | Your product sits beside forty identical listings sorted by price | Your brand, your story, your price — no one else on the page |
| Where growth comes from | Traffic they lend you, on their terms | Products in Google with prices, content that ranks, reviews accumulating from order one |
The RM10,000/month worked example in the FAQ below shows exactly where the margin lands.
Ecommerce questions from Malaysian sellers, answered straight
Short answers first. The longer ones are what we would tell you on the first call anyway.
Which payment methods can my store accept?
FPX online banking (the one Malaysian customers trust most), credit/debit cards, and e-wallets like Touch 'n Go and GrabPay — via gateways such as toyyibPay, Billplz or iPay88. We set up and test the full payment flow before launch.
WooCommerce or Shopify?
We build on WooCommerce because you own it outright — no monthly platform fee, no transaction cut on top of gateway fees, and full control of your data. Shopify is a fine product, but it's a rental. If you specifically want Shopify, tell us and we'll advise honestly.
Can you migrate my products from Shopee or Lazada?
Yes. We export your product data, clean it up, and import it with proper categories and SEO-friendly descriptions. Marketplaces are great sales channels — but your own store is the only channel where the customer relationship belongs to you.
What do I need to prepare?
Product photos, prices, and your SSM registration for the payment gateway application. We handle the gateway paperwork guidance, store build, shipping zones and tax settings.
Who runs the store after launch?
You do — and we make sure you can. Every ecommerce package includes a training session covering orders, products and promotions. If you'd rather not touch it, our care plans can handle updates for you.
What do I need to provide for the store?
Product photos, prices, variants and stock levels (a spreadsheet is fine), your shipping rules or courier accounts, and your refund and returns policy in plain language — we write the policy page with you if you do not have one. We load every product, configure payments and shipping, and test with real transactions.
Who manages orders and stock after launch?
You do, from the WooCommerce dashboard — the training session on camera has you processing a test order, editing a product and creating a discount code yourself, and you keep the recording. Care Plus (RM1,199/year) is the right plan for stores because updates touch payments and checkout.
Can I add products and run promotions myself?
Yes — unlimited products, and discount codes, bundles and sale prices are yours to create. Nothing in the store requires us; that is the point of owning it.
Should I sell on my own store or stay marketplace-only?
Run both. Shopee and Lazada bring traffic but take commission, hold your customer data and can suspend your listing overnight. The RM10,000/month worked example below shows where the margin lands; successful Malaysian sellers run both channels and grow the owned one every month.
What's included in every store we build
- WooCommerce on WordPress: the world's most-used ecommerce platform, no monthly platform fee. See why we build on WordPress.
- Malaysian payment flow: FPX online banking, cards and e-wallets, tested end-to-end before launch.
- Shipping & tax setup: West/East Malaysia zones, courier rates, SST where applicable.
- Product setup: unlimited product pages; first 20 SEO-friendly descriptions written by us.
- Order notifications to WhatsApp/email: you never miss a sale.
- Training session: manage orders, stock and promos from day one.
Marketplace vs your own store: the RM10,000/month worked example
A seller doing RM10,000/month GMV in a typical category:
| Marketplace channel | Your own store | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission / platform fees | ~6–12% → RM600–1,200 | None |
| Payment processing | Bundled above | ~1.5–3% → RM150–300 |
| Ads to be visible | Often 5–15% of GMV to rank in their search | Optional; SEO traffic compounds |
| Customer data & repeat marketing | Platform's; you can't email your buyers | Yours: list building, repeat campaigns, launches |
| Price-war pressure | Structural; one result among thirty | Your brand, your pricing power |
| Monthly cost of channel, roughly | RM 888–2,888+ | RM150–330 + hosting ~RM30 |
The store pays for its build in months, not years, before counting repeat-purchase revenue that only exists when the customer relationship is yours. We are not anti-marketplace, only anti-only-marketplace.
toyyibPay, Billplz, iPay88 or Stripe — which payment gateway should my store use?
For most Malaysian SME stores: toyyibPay for FPX + e-wallets, with cards enabled. Your gateway decides fees, settlement speed and checkout trust:
| Gateway | FPX fee (typical) | Cards | Settlement | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| toyyibPay | ~RM1–2 flat per FPX transaction | Available | Fast (T+1 typical) | Most SME stores; flat FPX fees win above ~RM80 average order |
| Billplz | Low flat-fee FPX | Via add-ons | Fast | Invoice-style selling and services; developer-friendly |
| iPay88 | % based | Strong coverage incl. e-wallets | Standard | Higher-volume stores wanting one provider |
| Stripe | No FPX; cards ~3%+ | Best-in-class | Standard | Selling internationally alongside Malaysia |
Fees shift with volume and promotions; we confirm current rates during your build. Malaysian buyers overwhelmingly pay by FPX, so flat fees protect your margin. The gateway application needs your SSM registration; we guide the paperwork.
Fulfilment, configured to how you actually ship
Undercharge shipping and you lose margin; overcharge and you lose carts. We set West/East Malaysia zones with your real courier rates (J&T, Pos Laju, or via EasyParcel), free-shipping thresholds at the order value that protects your margin, self-pickup slots if you have a physical location, and SST where applicable.
How do my products start ranking on Google?
Through category pages, product schema and buying-guide content, structured from day one. On Shopee you rented visibility through ads; on your own store you build and keep it.
Category pages are your ranking weapons. Malaysians search "ergonomic office chair Malaysia", not your SKU name. A category page with a proper heading, useful buying guidance and clean filters is what Google ranks for that search, so we structure categories around how buyers search, not your warehouse layout.
Product schema makes your listings rich. Every product carries price, availability and ratings as structured data, so Google shows your items with prices in search results and Google Shopping's free listings. Most cheap builds skip this.
Your content compounds; ad spend evaporates. A buying guide ("How to choose a standing desk: a Malaysian buyer's guide") ranks for months and feeds category pages for a one-time writing cost; marketplace ad money is gone by Friday. The E-commerce package includes the first pieces; ongoing programs are our SEO service.
WooCommerce vs Shopify: the honest decision table
We are a WordPress house, and we build Shopify stores too when it is the right call:
| WooCommerce (on WordPress you own) | Shopify | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs monthly | Hosting ~RM30–40/mo equivalent; no platform fee | Plans from ~RM120+/mo plus app subscriptions (RM50–300/mo typical at maturity) |
| Transaction cut | Gateway fees only (flat FPX via toyyibPay) | Gateway fees + Shopify transaction fee unless you use Shopify Payments |
| FPX & local wallets | Native via local gateways, flat fees | Via providers, typically percentage-based |
| Ownership | Full: your files, your database, portable | Rented: cancel and the store is gone; you export CSVs, not a store |
| Content & SEO ceiling | High: blog, landing pages, full schema control | Adequate; content marketing is where Shopify hits walls |
| Where it wins | Fee-sensitive margins, content-driven growth, full control | Speed to launch, heavy app needs, zero infrastructure thought |
Our default for Malaysian SMEs is WooCommerce; the fee math and FPX economics usually decide it. If you lean on Shopify's app ecosystem, or already trade on it and need a rebuild, theme customisation or conversion overhaul, we do that fixed-price too. Ask us to run your numbers both ways on the first call.
Can my Malaysian store sell to Singapore customers properly?
Yes. Many Malaysian ecommerce operators sell into Singapore alongside Malaysian buyers; the setup that makes it work:
- Currency handling by buyer location: RM for MY addresses, S$ for SG, via auto-detect or toggle.
- Gateway coverage for both markets: FPX for MY buyers, PayNow via HitPay for SG buyers.
- Realistic cross-border shipping: SG rates run 3–8x Malaysian domestic, quoted honestly rather than absorbed as hidden margin.
- Per-product country rules: regulated or perishable goods that can’t cross the border get clean exclusions, not orders that fail at customs.
Last reviewed 17 Sep 2026 · Prices verified against our published price list.
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