The Paving Vault
A WooCommerce refresh with pallet and per-square-metre pricing built as a plugin.
The Paving Vault supplies porcelain and natural stone paving across the UK from Warrington. The WooCommerce site was redesigned, and a custom plugin added the way paving is really sold: full pallets or part pallets by the square metre, pallet delivery charges and 5 pound samples.
About the project
The Paving Vault sells porcelain paving, Indian sandstone, limestone, cobbles and setts to landscapers, developers and homeowners, with free next-day delivery on full pallets. The existing WooCommerce site had the catalogue but looked dated, was slow on phones and sold paving like ordinary retail products.
The work kept the catalogue and customer accounts, redesigned the site around project photography, and replaced the buying experience with one that matches how paving is actually ordered.
What had to be solved
- Paving is priced per square metre but shipped by the pallet, so a customer may buy a full pallet, part of one, or just a sample, and delivery costs differ for each.
- Every product also had to be available as a 5 pound sample without someone maintaining a second product list by hand.
- The site needed proper filtering across 70-plus porcelain lines by category, colour, size and purchase option.
- The site had also picked up malware and needed cleaning and hardening before the relaunch.
How it was built
- Wrote a custom plugin, Pallet Pricing, that adds full-pallet and partial square-metre purchasing to WooCommerce, with part-pallet delivery charges and mainland UK delivery rules in the cart.
- Made samples dynamic: any paving product in the catalogue appears on the Samples page automatically at the sample price.
- Redesigned the shop on Elementor with a filter sidebar, per m2 prices shown inc and ex VAT, a projects gallery, a live Instagram feed and a trade account application.
- Removed the malware, added filtering and protection, and wrote a short guide for the team on adding paving products.
What it delivered
- Customers choose a full pallet, a part pallet or a sample from the same product page, with the right delivery charge applied.
- The Samples page maintains itself as products are added.
- The site is live on the client's domain with the original catalogue and accounts intact.
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