madeforshopify

Engagements and pricing

Starting prices in public. Exact scope before implementation.

Complex commerce cannot be priced responsibly from a service label alone. These are useful starting points; the written proposal explains what changes the number and what is deliberately excluded.

Technical starting points

Clear enough to qualify the fit. Honest enough not to pretend every project is identical.

Find the risk first

Migration readiness audit

From $750

A bounded discovery engagement covering source data, URLs, integrations, target model, launch risk, and the next responsible scope.

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Focused improvement

Theme or conversion sprint

From $2,000

A defined group of storefront, mobile, performance, cart, or checkout-adjacent improvements with implementation and validation.

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Move platforms

Shopify migration

Typically $8,000-$25,000

Replatforming scope shaped by catalogue, customer and order history, content, redirects, integrations, markets, and launch constraints.

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Build the storefront

Custom Shopify build

From $12,000

A new or substantially rebuilt storefront with technical discovery, reusable templates, integrations, QA, launch support, and handover.

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Build the workflow

Custom Shopify app

From $8,000

Purpose-built admin, portal, integration, or operational software when an existing supported app does not fit the requirement.

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Beyond the theme model

Headless commerce

From $15,000

Hydrogen, React Router, or Next.js architecture and delivery when the customer experience or product genuinely requires it.

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Ongoing roadmap

Embedded engineering

From $1,500/mo

Reserved senior capacity for a prioritised technical roadmap, with explicit monthly outcomes instead of an undefined support bucket.

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Unsure whether custom work is justified?

The first useful answer may be a smaller theme change, a supported app, or a discovery phase, not a larger proposal.

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What shapes the quote

Price follows complexity, responsibility, and launch risk.

Data & catalogue

Volume, source quality, transformations, bundles, subscriptions, markets, and reconciliation requirements.

Systems

ERP, PIM, WMS, fulfilment, marketplace, finance, customer account, and third-party API responsibilities.

Customer journeys

B2B rules, account flows, configurators, subscriptions, promotions, search, localisation, and checkout constraints.

Launch risk

Organic traffic, revenue concentration, cutover window, freeze periods, stakeholders, rollback options, and peak-season timing.

Content & design readiness

Whether approved design, content models, assets, copy, and decision owners exist before implementation begins.

Operating responsibility

Hosting, monitoring, support, documentation, training, data ownership, and the team maintaining the system after launch.

What the proposal contains

The fixed price is only useful when the boundary is visible.

  • Commercial and technical objective
  • Named deliverables and acceptance criteria
  • Explicit exclusions and assumptions
  • Client inputs and decision owners
  • Dependencies and third-party responsibilities
  • Milestones and review checkpoints
  • Launch and stabilisation responsibilities
  • Change process for genuinely new scope

Payment structure

Milestones instead of one large leap of faith.

The exact checkpoints follow the project, but larger fixed-scope engagements normally use the existing three-part structure.

30%

Start

Deposit after scope and agreement

40%

Delivery

At agreed implementation checkpoints

30%

Launch

At final delivery or production launch

Get a scope, not a mystery hourly estimate.

Bring the current system, desired outcome, timeline pressure, and known constraints. The first call establishes whether enough is known to quote or whether discovery should come first.

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