Shopify Development
Custom Shopify themes, apps, and Plus builds — hosted commerce with the best checkout in the market.
- PCI
- Compliance handled by platform
- Audited
- App performance impact
- 4-10 wk
- Typical build
About shopify development
Shopify handles hosting, security, PCI compliance, and checkout — the parts that are expensive to get right and catastrophic to get wrong. That is why it suits most merchants.
Custom themes over heavy page builders
Page builder apps make the first page fast to produce and every subsequent page slower to load. We build custom themes in Liquid with the sections your merchandisers need, giving flexibility without the weight.
App discipline
Every app adds scripts. Stores accumulate apps over time and rarely remove them, and we routinely find measurable speed gains from consolidating overlapping apps or replacing simple ones with theme code.
Checkout is Shopify’s strongest asset
Shopify’s checkout converts well and is heavily optimised. Outside Plus, customisation is deliberately limited — which is usually a benefit. We focus effort on the parts you control: product pages, cart, and discovery.
What the engagement includes
Custom theme development
Liquid themes with flexible sections for merchandising.
Private app development
Bespoke functionality where no suitable app exists.
Shopify Plus builds
Scripts, custom checkout, and B2B where Plus is justified.
App audit & performance
Overlapping apps consolidated and page weight reduced.
What you get
The measurable results this service is accountable for.
- Hosting, security, and PCI compliance handled by the platform
- Custom themes without page builder weight
- App audit that recovers measurable page speed
- Merchandiser-friendly sections without developer help
- Proven checkout conversion out of the box
A process without surprises
Clear checkpoints at every stage, so you always know what is shipping and when.
- 1
Discovery & scoping
We map requirements, users, integrations, and constraints, then agree scope and a fixed quote before work starts.
- 2
Architecture & design
Technical architecture and user flows are agreed and prototyped before implementation begins.
- 3
Build & review
Development in reviewable increments, with a staging environment you can see and comment on throughout.
- 4
Launch & support
Performance and security checks, documented handover, deployment, and an agreed support window after go-live.
What is included at each tier
Engagements scale with your stage. Every tier includes everything below it.
| What's included | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom theme build | Included | Included | Included |
| Product & collection setup | Included | Included | Included |
| App audit & optimisation | Not included | Included | Included |
| Private app development | Not included | Included | Included |
| Shopify Plus features | Not included | Not included | Included |
Sectors we work in
We build custom themes rather than stacking page builder apps, which is where most Shopify performance problems originate.
Common questions
Is Shopify expensive at scale?
Can we customise the checkout?
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Ready to talk about shopify development?
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