How I Used Claude Code to Ship a Pixel-Matched WooCommerce Store With ERP Sync

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A women's clothing brand in Russia needed an online store synced to their inventory system, built to match an existing React prototype pixel for pixel, on a budget that ruled out any of the usual enterprise platforms. I built it as a solo developer, on WordPress and WooCommerce, with Claude Code writing most of the code while I did the architecture, task design, and review. This is a piece about what that combination is actually good for, not the marketing version.

Skip the country-specific detail and the shape of the problem will look familiar to a lot of US freelancers and small agencies: a client with a real inventory system, a design that has to be reproduced exactly instead of approximated, and a budget that doesn't clear the bar for the platform everyone defaults to.

The default answer was too expensive, and it didn't fit the design

The client's inventory...

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