Retail & e-commerce · San Diego
Orcatec provides ecommerce development for San Diego retailers and direct-to-consumer brands that have outgrown a basic store template. We build storefronts, mobile shopping apps and the integrations that keep stock, orders and payments in sync between your website, your shop floor and your back office.
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We start from how you sell today: online only, in stores, through marketplaces or wholesale. Then we build the pieces that are missing.
Fast product pages, filters and checkout built around your catalog, your brand and your conversion data, not a theme’s limits.
Custom Shopify apps and themes, or a headless front end on Next.js with Shopify or another commerce engine handling orders.
One stock count across stores, warehouse and website, with orders and returns flowing between POS, ERP and accounting.
iOS and Android apps with saved carts, push notifications, loyalty points and Apple Pay or Google Pay checkout.
Customer-specific price lists, bulk ordering, net terms and reorder history for trade buyers.
Product recommendations, search that understands plain language, auto-written product descriptions and demand forecasting.
When the website and stores keep separate counts, customers order items you do not have. Real-time sync fixes that.
Too many plugins and scripts hurt page speed and search rankings. We trim, rebuild or move to a headless setup.
Copying orders into shipping and accounting tools wastes hours. We automate fulfillment, labels and bookkeeping entries.
Online and in-store purchases often live in different systems. We bring them into one customer profile for loyalty and marketing.
Subscriptions, bundles, custom products or complex pricing often need custom code. We extend the platform instead of fighting it.
| Criteria | Shopify with custom apps | Headless commerce | Fully custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Most small and mid-size stores | Brands that need speed and full design control | Unusual business models and complex B2B rules |
| Time to launch | Shortest | Medium | Longest |
| Flexibility | Good, within platform rules | High on the front end | Highest |
| Running cost | Platform fees plus apps | Platform fees plus hosting | Hosting and ongoing development |
Share your platform, sales channels and the problem you want solved. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and a rough plan.
We review your current store, analytics, integrations and order flow, then agree on scope and priorities.
Prototypes of key pages and checkout, tested on mobile first, since that is where most shoppers buy.
Two-week sprints with a staging store you can click through, plus integration tests with POS, ERP and shipping.
Product, customer and order migration, redirects to protect search rankings and a planned cutover outside your busy hours.
San Diego retail ranges from surf and outdoor brands to craft beverage makers, boutiques and fast-growing direct-to-consumer companies. Many of them sell online, in stores and at events at the same time. We are based in San Diego County, so we can visit your shop or warehouse, see how orders really move and design software around it.
Payments and accounting sync are not new to us: our own product, the Orcatec platform, takes online payments and syncs invoices with QuickBooks every day. You own the code, the store accounts and the data. We stay on after launch for seasonal peaks, new features and platform updates.
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