Shopify Development
A managed platform,
without the defaults.
We build Shopify storefronts, custom apps, and integrations for teams that want someone else running the infrastructure — but not deciding how their store works.
Why a managed platform
Infrastructure that
is not your problem
Not every business should be running commerce infrastructure. Shopify absorbs hosting, uptime, PCI compliance, and checkout reliability, which frees a small team to spend its attention on selling instead.
Checkout you inherit
The highest-risk part of any store is already built, tested, and maintained — and it converts without you tuning it.
Compliance handled
PCI scope, security patching, and uptime sit with the platform rather than with your team or your host.
Fast to launch
A standard catalogue can be trading in weeks, which matters when the business needs revenue before it needs bespoke software.
Operable without developers
Merchandising, discounts, and content changes happen in the admin, so your team is not blocked on a deploy.
Why Shopify
Opinionated, but further from a dead end than it looks
Extensible checkout
Checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions cover a lot of what used to require leaving the platform. Availability varies by plan.
Headless when justified
Hydrogen or a Next.js storefront on the Storefront API, when the buying experience genuinely needs to be custom.
Custom apps
Private apps let us add real logic and connect internal systems without publishing anything to the app store.
Structured custom data
Metafields and metaobjects model the things Shopify does not have natively, without hacks in the theme.
Multi-market ready
Markets, currencies, and localized catalogues are handled by the platform rather than rebuilt per region.
Retail included
Shopify POS shares inventory and customers with the online store, which removes a whole class of sync problems.
Honest fit
Shopify is not
always the answer
Shopify trades control for reliability. That is an excellent deal for most stores and a bad one for a few — and the cost of getting it wrong shows up late, once the workarounds have piled up.
Shopify makes sense when
- You want to be trading quickly with a standard catalogue and checkout
- You would rather not run infrastructure or carry PCI scope
- Your team needs to manage products and content without developers
- The app ecosystem covers most of what you need
- Predictable monthly cost is worth more to you than full control
Something else may be better when
- Your pricing or fulfillment logic does not fit Shopify's data model
- Platform and transaction costs are material at your volume
- You need to own data and hosting for regulatory or strategic reasons
- You are stacking several apps to simulate one custom feature
- You need ERP or POS integration deeper than the APIs allow
Architecture
What a Shopify
build looks like
A typical shape. Most stores run a theme; the headless variant replaces the storefront while leaving admin, checkout, and data with Shopify.
What we build
Themes, apps,
and the glue between
FAQ
Questions
we get asked
How far can we customize checkout?
Further than most people assume, through checkout UI extensions and Functions — but not arbitrarily, and what is available depends on your plan. If your requirements genuinely do not fit, that is a signal to look at a different platform rather than to fight this one.
Should we go headless?
Only with a reason. Headless buys a fully custom storefront and costs you theme editing, some app compatibility, and a frontend you now have to maintain. If the standard theme can express your brand, keep it.
Do we need Shopify Plus?
Usually only for higher volume, B2B features, or the more advanced checkout and scripting capabilities. We would rather scope what you actually need first and let that decide the plan.
What about transaction and app fees?
They are real and they scale with revenue, which is the main argument for a self-hosted platform at higher volumes. Worth modelling against engineering cost before committing either way.
Can we move off Shopify later?
Products, customers, and orders export cleanly. What does not come with you is anything an app was doing, plus the checkout — so the migration cost is mostly re-implementation, not data.
Other platforms
If Shopify is not the fit
Work with us
Have something
you want built?
Small enough to care about the details. Experienced enough to build the difficult parts. Tell us about the problem and we'll come back with a technical direction, scope, and timeline.
You work directly with the people building your product.