Retail e-commerce
Fast, maintainable storefronts that reflect your catalogue, pricing, promotions, checkout rules, and operational reality.
Bespoke commerce systems
E-commerce software for businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf.
Syngis designs, builds, integrates, and supports business-critical commerce platforms — connecting retail websites, trade portals, warehouse fulfilment, mobile tools, and back-office systems.
What we connect
One commerce platform, many operational touchpoints.
Established businesses need systems that respect existing processes while improving the customer, trade, and fulfilment experience.
Trade and B2B portals
Account-specific pricing, repeat ordering, approvals, credit controls, and self-service tools for established trade customers.
Warehouse fulfilment
Picking, packing, stock visibility, courier workflows, barcode support, and integration with the systems your team already uses.
Mobile apps and handheld tools
Practical mobile interfaces for warehouses, sales teams, field staff, and customers where desktop systems slow people down.
Proof in practice
Real systems, doing real work.
A few anonymised examples drawn from genuine projects — the kind of software we build and keep running for established businesses.
A whole-company ERP, modernised across decades
£50m+ in sales handled over 10 years
- The problem
- A growing business had outgrown an ageing DOS-based system that could no longer keep pace with how it needed to trade across both retail and trade customers.
- What we built
- Instead of a risky big-bang rewrite, we modernised it in controlled stages — through every generation of Windows and on to today's cloud and web architecture — as a single system running the entire company. It's now continuously maintained, with AI-assisted tooling helping our engineers understand decades of legacy code faster, and every change still reviewed and owned by people.
- Why it mattered
- One dependable platform has handled more than £50 million in retail and trade sales over ten years — evolving with the business rather than being thrown away and rebuilt.
From a legacy Access database to bespoke e-commerce
- The problem
- An established online operation was running on a legacy Microsoft Access database that had reached its ceiling for performance, reliability and growth.
- What we built
- We replaced it with a modern, bespoke e-commerce solution designed around how the business actually trades — rather than forcing it into a generic off-the-shelf template.
- Why it mattered
- The business gained a faster, more reliable platform it could keep growing on, free of the limits of ageing technology.
Touch-screen pack-and-scan stations
- The problem
- Packing orders without item-level verification leads to mispicks — wrong items shipped, costly returns and unhappy customers.
- What we built
- We built large touch-screen packing stations where staff scan each item as it's packed, confirming the order is right before it leaves the building.
- Why it mattered
- Mispicks fall, and orders are packed quickly, correctly and consistently.
Insight
When ecommerce needs more than Shopify
AI-assisted custom ecommerce software for businesses where the shopfront is only one part of the system — built around your operation, not a hosted platform.
Read the articleThe short version
“We don't build Shopify stores. We build around your business.”
Delivery approach
AI-assisted. Human-accountable.
AI accelerates repetitive development work, supports testing and documentation, and helps experienced developers understand legacy code faster. Production systems remain designed, reviewed, tested and owned by people.
Modernisation and hosting
Modernise the systems your business depends on.
We help replace fragile legacy workflows with maintainable applications, reliable integrations, and Azure and cloud hosting designed for operational resilience.
Azure and cloud hosting
Secure, monitored Azure infrastructure sized to your real workload — with backups, deployment pipelines and ongoing support.
Application modernisation
Improve, rebuild or replace ageing systems in controlled stages — faster and safer, without a risky big-bang rewrite.
Reliability by design
Availability, monitoring and tested recovery built in from the start — not bolted on after something breaks.
Maintainable foundations
Readable code, real documentation and test coverage your team can understand, run and build on for years.
Next step
Have a commerce system that needs careful thinking?
Talk to Syngis about the operational problems, integrations, and reliability requirements behind your website, portal, app, or fulfilment workflow.