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How to choose an e-commerce development agency in Bulgaria
An online store is not a website with a cart — it is a system of payments, deliveries, inventory and marketing that has to work flawlessly every day. Your choice of developer decides whether in six months you are counting orders or counting excuses. Here is what to look at.
Local integrations are not optional
A Bulgarian store without working Econt, Speedy or BoxNow integrations means writing shipping labels by hand — an hour lost every day. Same for payments: cash on delivery, ePay, Borica, myPOS and cards must be connected and tested, not "planned for phase two".
Ask specifically: are shipping labels generated automatically, do parcel statuses sync back into the store, and what happens to inventory on a return. The answers reveal instantly whether the agency has built real stores.
Speed is revenue
Every second of delay on mobile measurably cuts conversion. Ask the agency for real PageSpeed scores of stores they have built — links, not promises. Under 90 on mobile for a product page is a poor result today.
SEO is tied to this: the store must rank for "[your product] + price / buy / online". That requires clean URLs, product structured data, fast category pages and correct filter handling — things designed into the architecture, not bolted on later.
The questions that filter agencies
Ten minutes with this list saves months of headaches:
- Who owns the code and design after the final payment?
- What does monthly support cost and what does it include?
- How do we migrate products from our current system?
- What happens if a campaign brings 10x the traffic?
- Who is responsible for security updates?
- Is there a contract with a fixed deadline and penalties for delays?
The red flags
A quote without an itemized breakdown. "Unlimited revisions" (nobody works for free forever — something else is inflated). A portfolio of screenshots without working links. And the biggest one: a store locked into a system you cannot export your own products and customers from.
We build online stores with the full set of Bulgarian integrations — couriers, payments, invoicing — and a checkout tuned to sell. Write to us for a free consultation on your project.
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