Website design & platforms
Every project has different needs. Browse by industry, or by what you’re building — the same case studies show up in both, seen from a different angle.
Member platforms, coaching funnels and studio sites built to retain.
Listings, lead capture and brand sites for agencies and developers.
Artist, label and lesson platforms designed to convert fans.
Course delivery, cohorts and teaching brands.
Product-clear marketing sites, docs and trial funnels — from a team that builds its own SaaS.
Authority sites and booking funnels for experts.
Fast, conversion-led Astro websites on Cloudflare's edge.
Platforms that retain and engage members.
Structured content delivery with progress tracking.
Custom agents and automation — built on motivation.dev.
Break free from legacy site builders — cleanly, without losing SEO.
Stripe-powered stores and high-converting checkout.
Gated dashboards, reporting and professional tools.
Selected work
Real client platforms across membership, coaching, music and finance — every one designed, built and supported by us.
Communities and coaching that retain members.
Programmes, cohorts and client delivery.
Courses, curricula and student progress.
Artist, career and collaboration platforms.
Clinical, dietitian and studio platforms.
Gated dashboards for finance and pro services.
Growth marketing
Run SEO, paid and AI visibility as one pipeline programme — or pick a single channel to start.
Technical SEO, content and authority building.
Google & Meta ads, managed to pipeline.
Get cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews.
Content engines and lifecycle email.
Landing pages and funnel optimisation.
Tracking, dashboards and pipeline reporting.
Your audience decides whether to buy long before they see your price. A member checking if the checkout feels secure. A subscriber weighing whether billing is transparent. A partner evaluating whether your platform can scale. Your payment experience has to answer each of them on the same visit, and move the right ones to complete the purchase.
Stripe-powered brands building with Motivation
What we design for
Your visitor decides whether to complete the purchase in the first three seconds of checkout. Branded, mobile-native, one-click where possible: the payment experience is part of your product, not an afterthought hosted by someone else.
Trial, upgrade, downgrade, pause, cancel: every lifecycle event has to be handled in your platform and in Stripe, staying in sync, keeping the customer informed, and surfacing the data your team needs. Set it up wrong and you spend months fixing discrepancies.
Tax, invoicing, proration and usage calculations: your customers have to trust the bill before they pay it. We wire Stripe Billing, Tax and the Customer Portal so the whole experience feels like your brand, not a third-party handoff.
Why a Stripe specialist matters
In payments, every dropped checkout costs revenue — and the leak is usually invisible. A checkout that feels wrong, a billing page that confuses, a subscription flow that exposes your platform instead of your brand: these are the gaps a general developer copies a tutorial to fill, but never tests against real behaviour.
Stripe is powerful, but its power is in the details. The right checkout mode for your funnel. The correct webhook handling so every payment completes cleanly. Subscription lifecycle events that keep your database in sync. Connect onboarding that feels like your product, not Stripe's. Tax and invoicing that complies without slowing the buyer down. Each one is a decision that affects conversion, churn and support load for years.
We've built the payment backbone behind DreamBodyClub's fitness platform, the subscription engine inside Studio.video's meeting rooms, and the billing layer that powers Launchpad. That's the difference between copying Stripe's quick-start guide and an agency that architects payment flows every day.
What's included
We don't sell development without strategy. Every payment integration runs through the same six phases, each with a defined output and your sign-off before we complete.
Discover
You know your business. We work with you to define who you're really talking to, what makes you different, and what your site needs to achieve. Audience, positioning, messaging and conversion goals. Agreed before any build begins.
Define
Your visitors shouldn't have to think. We map every page to a specific audience and intent: who lands here, what they need, and where they go next. The blueprint your platform is built from.
Develop
You see your site working before the creative phase begins. Live, clickable, testable. Walk through the journeys, give feedback, and refine the experience while changes are still fast. Every journey tested and refined before design begins.
Design
This is where your brand comes to life. Your visual identity, your content, your tone, applied to a proven UX structure, designed fluid on all devices. Reviewed against test conversion criteria.
Deliver
Nothing goes live until it works everywhere. Every journey tested, every device checked, migration handled, SEO audited. Your team gets the playbook and training to run the site from day one. Helpdesk support from the moment you launch.
Grow
Your site starts learning from real visitors on day one. We use that data to find what's converting, fix what isn't, and scale what works, with SEO, paid campaigns and AI agents. Optimal performance comes through refinement, not a one-off build.
Investment
We publish our pricing so you know whether we're the right fit before committing to a conversation. Every project is scoped bespoke to your revenue model, built on strategic blueprints that have already delivered results.
from£15,000
For brands replacing a dated site or launching a new brand.
Most popular
from£24,000
For established brands with active marketing that need a commercial engine.
from£49,000
For complex builds, membership ecosystems and custom integrations.
Post-launch support, new pricing tiers and products, subscription optimisation, webhook monitoring, failed-payment recovery, dunning flows and reporting dashboards. For teams that need their Stripe layer to keep evolving as the product grows.
Prices in GBP, excluding VAT.
Fit check
Where you fit, where you don't, and the honest next step either way.
Right idea, wrong stage
You've got a real product or a strong offer, you just haven't proved it converts or hit the numbers that prove it yet. We build the validation funnel — including Stripe Checkout, one product and email automation — to de-risk it within your budget.
Straight talk
Not sure yet? Start with the strategy and roadmap before committing to a build.
Build the planProof
Payment and subscription platforms we've designed, built and grown — including two of our own products. Game-changing work for game-changing companies.
DreamBodyClub
Over 4,560 leads generated through the Health Index. The quiz scores four areas of their wellbeing, and our fitness agent delivers a personalised program live in seconds.
Free Health Index · personalised programs · 589 workouts · 316 recipes
Read all about itStudio.video
White-label meeting rooms, webinars and client sessions on your own domain — browser-based, EU-hosted, with AI recaps built in.
Side Hustle Accelerator
A seven-figure business-coaching funnel migrated from Wix to Kajabi — 1,000+ students in structured, on-demand programmes.
The team
One team. The people who scope your integration are the people who build it.
Platform
We integrate with multiple payment providers and recommend whichever fits your revenue model, geography and feature needs. Here is how Stripe compares to the options most brands consider.
Our recommendation for most brands
The most complete payment platform: Checkout, Billing, Subscriptions, Connect, Tax, Invoicing, the Customer Portal and a developer API that lets you build any flow. Used by Amazon, Google, Shopify and millions of others. We build on it for our own products and our clients'.
Right for: Brands that need subscription billing, multi-party payouts, tax automation, invoicing or a branded checkout experience. If you are scaling revenue, Stripe is the platform that grows with you.
Buyer trust and simple checkout
Instant recognition and trust for buyers who already have an account. Simple to set up for one-off payments, but subscription management, webhook reliability and developer flexibility lag behind Stripe. Higher fees for many transaction types.
Right for: Brands targeting markets where PayPal is the dominant wallet, or who need a secondary payment method to complement Stripe and increase conversion.
WordPress e-commerce
Native to WordPress and simple for small stores. Tightly coupled to WooCommerce, so migrating away means rebuilding the payment layer. Limited subscription and tax features compared to Stripe.
Right for: Small WordPress stores with simple product catalogues and no plans to scale beyond WooCommerce.
Integrations
The people we've built for - in their own words.
OH MY GOODNESS!!! It's a million times better!!! The new site looks amazing so far! Things have been going really well and we're still absolutely loving the site. Not having to worry about tech has freed us up so much to actually figure out our funnel.
Collaborative, strategic, and reliable. Chris and his team combine long-term thinking with strong execution, and their expertise shows in the results.
One of the best decisions I've made for my brand. Working with Motivation expanded my vision. Sharp, thoughtful, organised - nothing slips through the cracks. They exceeded every expectation.
Working with Motivation has been a great experience. The team was responsive and helpful, and strategy with Chris gave us a lot of ideas to implement. They made my website clean and functional, and adjustments were made very fast.
Motivation are very talented and the helpdesk are also super helpful.
*****
You guys absolutely freaking nailed it for us. You guys are the best, and I want to keep working with you forever. Thank you!
*****
The results I got from Motivation proved that nothing is impossible when you are partnered with the right company.
*****
They are undoubtedly the "Go To Guys" for complex platform builds. They can make platforms do things most builders can't even imagine.
Questions
These are the questions we hear most from brands evaluating Stripe experts. Answered directly, including when the answer is that we are not the right fit.
We design, build and optimise payment flows using Stripe: one-off checkout, subscription billing, invoicing, multi-party payouts via Connect, tax collection and the customer portal. Strategy, UX, design and development, end to end. The difference from a general developer: we understand how to architect Stripe so it stays in sync with your platform, scales with your revenue, and converts the right visitors into paying customers.
Launch starts from £15,000: 5 bespoke pages, 3 blueprint templates, Stripe Checkout and basic webhooks. Growth from £24,000: 8 bespoke pages, 5 blueprint templates, subscription billing, customer portal and advanced webhook handling. Scale from £49,000: 12 bespoke pages, 8 blueprint templates, Stripe Connect, Tax, invoicing and custom integrations. Below £15,000 there is a fixed-scope validation build: a discovery workshop, one landing page, Stripe Checkout, one product and email automation.
Stripe Checkout is the fastest, most conversion-optimised route for most brands: hosted by Stripe, constantly A/B tested, and handles tax, local payment methods and compliance automatically. A custom form makes sense when you need full control over every pixel of the UX, or when the checkout is embedded inside a product flow. We build both and recommend the right one for your funnel.
8 to 16 weeks from kickoff to launch. Complex subscription platforms with Connect, Tax and custom invoicing extend that. We don't compress strategy or UX to hit a deadline, those are the phases where the revenue decisions are made.
Yes. We migrate payment layers from PayPal, WooCommerce, ThriveCart, custom builds and other providers to Stripe. We preserve active subscriptions, migrate historical data, and redirect old checkout URLs so nothing breaks for existing customers.
Yes. We build Connect integrations for marketplaces, platforms and multi-vendor products: onboarding, identity verification, payout scheduling, fee division and dashboard reporting. The onboarding flow is white-labelled so it feels like your product, not Stripe's.
A general developer can add a checkout button. A Stripe expert architects the whole revenue flow: the right checkout mode, webhook reliability, subscription lifecycle handling, tax compliance, dunning, failed-payment recovery, and reporting that your finance team can trust. The difference shows up in uptime, conversion rate, support tickets and reconciliation time.
We track checkout completion rate, subscription activation, churn by cohort, failed-payment recovery, support tickets per transaction and reconciliation time. A well-architected Stripe integration typically improves checkout completion by 10–30% and cuts payment-related support tickets by 50% within 90 days of launch.
Further reading
Practical guides on Stripe strategy, checkout design and subscription architecture. These are in production and publish here as they go live.
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Not what it needs to look like. Not which API. What it needs to achieve commercially: checkout that converts, subscriptions that scale, and a payment experience your customers trust.