CheapLeaflets
We didn’t tweak WooCommerce. We ripped it apart and rebuilt it into the only printing shop that actually works.
One product. Hundreds of thousands of price combinations. Default platforms choke on that. We didn’t.
The Real Story Printing isn’t simple. Material, size, colours, pages, quantity, turnaround — every order is a custom snowflake with its own price. Most agencies just slap on a “contact us for quote” form and call it a day. We said screw that.
This client wanted a real e-commerce site: pick everything, see live prices, compare suppliers, upload art, download templates, pay online. No emails. No phone calls. No bullshit.
So we built it.
What We Delivered
- Custom pricing engine that handles insane option trees without crashing
- Real-time API pulls from major European printers — we compare them on the fly and show clean tables so customers pick the best price/speed combo
- Full WooCommerce front-end that looks and feels premium but behaves like a custom app
- Artwork upload with instant validation
- Downloadable design templates
- Secure checkout that actually works on the first try
- Everything coded from zero: design, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, custom PHP, deep WooCommerce hooks, API integrations. No plugins pretending to solve the problem.
The Punk Part
While everyone else is still selling “easy online printing” that forces you to email for prices, this site lets customers configure a 500-page full-colour leaflet in 60 seconds and know the exact cost from three different houses. We didn’t follow the rules. We broke the ones that sucked.
Tech (no fluff)
- WordPress + WooCommerce (heavily modified)
- Custom PHP pricing core
- Multiple live printing-house APIs
- Vanilla JS + CSS for the front-end madness
- Built from scratch — design to deployment
Result
A printing shop that actually feels like the future instead of 1998. Customers order without friction. The client stopped losing sales to slow quotes. And we proved once again: if the platform can’t handle it, you make the platform handle it.