Saru Soda

Craft Soda WooCommerce

A custom WooCommerce theme with B2B functionality for an Amsterdam-based craft soda producer. The site spans 17 natural flavours, a B2B wholesale login portal with tiered pricing, post-mix ordering for hospitality, private label pages, and a sustainability-first brand story — all built on a custom WooCommerce theme with ACF Flexible Content. The site serves both B2C consumers exploring flavours and B2B partners ordering in bulk for bars, restaurants, and events.

Discipline
WooCommerce Development
Role
Developer
Year
2024
Client
sarusoda.nl
Industry
Food & Beverage · Craft Soda · B2B Wholesale
Platform
WordPress · WooCommerce · Custom Theme · B2B Portal
Saru Soda

01By the numbers

A craft beverage e-commerce site measured by B2B order volume and B2C brand engagement — every page designed to serve two distinct audiences seamlessly.

96

PageSpeed mobile

Optimised for 17 product flavours, B2B portal, post-mix ordering, and age-gated content.

17Flavours — from Bitter Lemon to Strawberry Forever
B2BWholesale portal with login, tiered pricing, bulk ordering
100%Natural ingredients + solar-powered production

Brand & Design

2025

Serious flavour, seriously designed.

The design reflects Saru Soda's ethos: craft, sustainability, and a touch of rebellious spirit. A bold, artistic identity — rich colours drawn from the 17 flavour profiles, playful yet sophisticated typography, and immersive product photography — creates a brand experience as distinctive as the sodas themselves. The flavour catalogue is the heart of the site: 17 individual flavour pages with tasting notes, ingredients, and pairing suggestions. The age gate (18+) adds responsible credibility. Every layout — from the sustainability story to the partner showcase — reinforces that Saru Soda is serious about ingredients, serious about impact, and serious about taste.

Serious flavour, seriously designed.

Platform & B2B Commerce

2025

WooCommerce + B2B, engineered for dual audiences.

The site runs on a custom WooCommerce theme — no off-the-shelf template, no page builder. A dual-audience architecture serves B2C consumers exploring flavours and B2B partners ordering wholesale. A secure B2B login portal gates wholesale pricing, bulk ordering, and post-mix supply management. The product catalogue spans 17 individual flavour pages with variant options. Post-mix and hardware partner pages serve the hospitality industry. A private label section showcases custom manufacturing capabilities for other brands. Behind the scenes, ACF Flexible Content gives the Saru Soda team full editorial control over flavours, partners, and content — all manageable without a developer.

WooCommerce + B2B, engineered for dual audiences.

Sustainability & Growth

2025

A brand built on values, not just products.

Sustainability isn't a marketing angle — it's woven into the site's fabric. The 'Lekker Duurzaam' section details solar-powered production, electric transport, Triodos banking, and small-rest-stream ingredient sourcing with Wilder-land. The 'Just Add Water' post-mix philosophy — using local tap water to eliminate heavy water transport — is a core brand story. Hardware partner pages showcase tap and carbonisation solutions for bars and at home (Sodastream, Aarke, Quooker). SEO-optimised for Dutch craft beverage queries. Age-gated, GDPR-compliant, with cookie consent. Built mobile-first — Dutch consumers and hospitality buyers browse flavours on their phones.

A brand built on values, not just products.

02Across surfaces

One brand. Every screen.

Whether a consumer browses flavours on a phone, a bar manager orders post-mix on a tablet, or a private-label partner reviews the catalogue on a desktop — the experience stays craft, Dutch, and built for two distinct audiences.

Notes Dutch-localised, age-gated (18+), GDPR-compliant, with cookie consent — built for the Dutch craft beverage and B2B hospitality market.

03In their words

Eerlijke ingrediënten, een mooi brouwsel en spannende smaken. Dat is waar het bij Saru Soda om draait.

Saru Soda · Amsterdam, Netherlands — 2024

04The toolkit

Tools & technologies

A focused stack balancing B2B wholesale commerce with the craft brand storytelling that makes Saru Soda unique.

  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
  • Custom Theme (from scratch)
  • ACF Pro

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Freelance WooCommerce Developer Craft Soda Store — Case Study

freelance WooCommerce developer craft soda store — Mosharaf Hossain case study

This freelance WooCommerce developer craft soda store case study covers how Mosharaf Hossain built a DTC e-commerce store for Saru Soda, a craft beverage brand. Building a freelance WooCommerce developer craft soda store for a lifestyle brand requires strong visual presentation, subscription-friendly product architecture, and a checkout optimised for repeat purchasers.

Craft beverage DTC stores live or die by brand experience. The challenge was building a WooCommerce store that matched the brand’s visual identity without sacrificing performance. A page-builder approach would deliver the visual result but at the cost of mobile load time — unacceptable for a DTC store where most traffic arrives from social media on mobile.

Mosharaf built a custom PHP WooCommerce theme with ACF Pro for flexible product story sections — flavour profiles, ingredient callouts, and origin content. The freelance WooCommerce developer craft soda store build uses deferred scripts, critical CSS, and WebP image delivery to achieve fast mobile loads despite rich visual content.

Stack: WordPress, WooCommerce, ACF Pro, custom PHP theme, performance-first image strategy.

Need a freelance WooCommerce developer for a craft beverage or DTC food and drink brand? Contact Mosharaf Hossain to discuss your store.