Build a Shopify store your team can manage

Most builds take six to ten weeks after a one-week discovery phase. Catalog data quality and integrations affect the timeline more than design. One ERP integration adds two to three weeks. Product data cleanup can run alongside other work, but may still affect the schedule.

Not if the redirect map is done properly. Every existing URL gets mapped to its new destination before launch, we keep the mapping in a spreadsheet you can audit, and we monitor Search Console for 404s and crawl errors for 30 days after cutover. Expect a short dip in the first two weeks while Google recrawls, then recovery. The risk is real but it is a process problem, not an unavoidable cost.

You own all of it. Theme code lives in your GitHub organization, the store is in your Shopify account, and any middleware runs on infrastructure billed to you. We do not hold licenses, we do not use proprietary page builders, and we do not charge to hand things over. If you want to move to another agency or bring it in-house, everything they need is already in your accounts with documentation.

Often, yes. Extending a well-maintained commercial theme is usually cheaper. We recommend rebuilding when old app code has accumulated, the theme predates Online Store 2.0 and limits editing, or the theme itself causes performance problems. We explain which option fits before quoting.

Customers, addresses, and historical orders migrate. Passwords cannot transfer between platforms for security reasons, so customers set a new password on first login, and we handle that with a communication sequence rather than letting people discover it at checkout. Subscription contracts are the one genuinely difficult case: those usually need coordination with the subscription app vendor and sometimes re-authorization from the customer.

The same people you spoke with. You get a named senior developer and project lead, without a handoff to a junior team. A weekly call, shared task list and weekly Loom recap keep you informed.