Shopify Development

Yes. We are a Shopify Plus Partner and build Plus features including Shopify Functions, checkout extensibility and B2B.

Often. We audit what exists first and tell you whether continuing or restarting costs less. Sometimes the code is sound and you need a smaller fix than you were expecting.

When the requirement earns the complexity. Headless buys flexibility and costs simplicity, so we recommend Liquid when Liquid does the job and headless when it genuinely does not.

You do. Everything ships into your Shopify account and your repository, and you can hand it to another developer whenever you want.

Yes. We share the repository, agree the branching model up front and review each other’s pull requests. A good share of our work sits alongside an in-house team, filling the gap they do not have capacity for.

You get a named senior developer on your build, not a queue. The difference from hiring a contractor directly is what sits behind them: code review, a second pair of eyes on anything that touches checkout, and cover when someone is ill. We are London-based and work with brands across the UK and the US.

Yes, either as retained work or a fixed scope when something specific needs doing. Nothing obliges you to keep us on for the code to keep running.

No. We build on Shopify and we migrate stores onto it, which is a narrower answer than most agencies give and it is the true one. If you are committed to staying on WooCommerce or Magento you want a specialist in that platform, not us. If you are undecided, that is a conversation worth having before anybody writes code.

It moves with how much of the store is bespoke rather than with your revenue. A build that leans on Shopify doing what it already does well costs a fraction of one where the merchandising rules, subscription logic or ERP sync all need writing. We would rather scope against what your catalogue actually needs than quote a band and work backwards into it.

Weeks rather than months for a straightforward catalogue on a clean brief. What stretches it is almost never the products: it is the integrations, the payment or tax edge cases nobody mentioned at kick-off, and decisions waiting on someone who is on holiday. We front-load those because they are what actually sets the date.

A theme is the right answer more often than an agency will tell you. If you are still proving the product sells, buy a good theme, spend the difference on finding customers, and come back when the store is the constraint. Custom earns its cost once a theme is stopping you doing something the business needs.

Specifically Shopify and Shopify Plus, which is worth being upfront about. General ecommerce site development covers platforms we do not build on, and ecommerce development solutions elsewhere might mean Magento, BigCommerce or a custom stack. If Shopify is not the right platform for you we will say so, but building on it is what we actually do.

Whether they have shipped stores that actually make money, not just stores that load. A lot of shopify website development work in this market is theme installation with a new logo, and it shows the moment real traffic and real orders arrive. Ask to see a build under load, not a demo store.

Mostly just which word they picked. An ecommerce development company, an ecommerce web development company and an ecommerce web development agency are describing the same kind of supplier in practice, and ecommerce web development services is simply the plural framing of the same thing. What actually differs between suppliers is the platform they specialise in, which is the question worth asking rather than the label on the door.

Yes, and directly is the operative word: you talk to the people writing the code rather than through an account layer. Whether you searched developer shopify or the other way round, the thing worth checking of any supplier is whether the person scoping the work is the person who will do it, because that is where estimates and reality separate.

Cover, mostly. A freelancer is one person’s calendar; if they are on holiday or hit a problem outside their experience, the build stops. An agency puts a second developer’s eyes on anything that touches checkout or payments, and someone senior reviews the code before it ships. For a small brief with a simple catalogue, a good freelancer is often the cheaper and equally capable choice, and we will say so rather than talk you out of it.