Japanese Ceramics & Pottery Ecommerce

We build the frontend around your existing photography. If you need new shots, we provide art direction specs for your photographer — lighting angles, background standards, and the exact resolutions our responsive image pipeline requires. We also implement 360° viewers using image sequences rather than 3D models, which simply look better on glazed surfaces.

Yes. We implement real-time inventory sync that marks unique pieces as sold the moment checkout completes. If you sell across multiple channels — your website, a physical gallery, wholesale — we connect them through Shopify's inventory API. A piece sold in your Kyoto showroom disappears from the website within seconds.

We integrate directly with EMS, DHL, and FedEx APIs using your negotiated rates, then add configurable surcharges for fragile packaging, oversize boxes, and insurance. Customers see the real landed cost at checkout — no surprises. You can also set flat rates per region if predictable pricing works better for your business.

Absolutely. We configure Stripe Japan or Komoju to support convenience store payment (konbini), bank transfer (furikomi), and credit cards for domestic orders. International orders run through Stripe's standard card processing with multi-currency support for USD, EUR, GBP, and AUD alongside JPY.

A typical ceramics ecommerce build runs 10–12 weeks from kickoff to launch — covering design, development, bilingual content setup, shipping configuration, and testing. Simpler stores with fewer products and a single language can launch in 8 weeks. We give you a detailed timeline during your free assessment.

Yes. Sanity CMS gives your team a visual editing interface for adding products, updating artisan stories, creating seasonal collections, and managing blog content. We build custom content models that match how you think about your catalog — by kiln, by glaze, by collection — not generic ecommerce categories.