Custom Shopify development — theme builds, Plus, and headless — without being stuck with Dawn or locked into an agency retainer. Fast, high-converting Liquid built to your exact vision: a working preview on a duplicate theme before you pay, fixed prices from $69, and clean code any Shopify developer can maintain. Prefer WordPress? Our custom WordPress development team builds to the same standards.
Every figure is verifiable — project archive and batch PageSpeed screenshots available on request.
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First staging preview in 5 business days
You see real, clickable work within a week — not a month of silence.
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Staging-first, always
Nothing touches your live store until you review and approve.
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Built exactly to spec
We match your design and requirements exactly — or we fix it free.
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100% code & access ownership
Full theme and app code, every credential included — hand it to any Shopify dev later, never locked in to an agency.
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Your own tutorial video + docs
A recorded walkthrough and written guide for your exact site — your team edits without calling a developer.
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60-day free warranty
If anything we built breaks in the first 60 days, we fix it free — no quibbling.
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Reply within 1 business hour
Message the developer on your project and get a real answer within one business hour.
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Money-back on the first milestone
Not happy with the first milestone? A full refund — no hard feelings.
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Affordable long-term care
We do not vanish after launch. Ongoing maintenance from just $200/mo — no hostage retainer.
🔒You pay nothing until you have seen your first working demo.Every service, no exceptions — approve the progress, then we invoice.
Pricing
Transparent, fixed pricing
A price per deliverable, agreed before we start. No retainers, no scope creep, no surprises.
01
Theme Customization / Tweaks
from$69
Targeted Liquid theme edits and layout changes.
02
Custom Liquid Theme
from$329
A custom theme hand-coded from your design.
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Custom Section / Block
from$99
Reusable, editor-friendly sections for your theme.
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Shopify App (custom)
from$599
Private or custom app built to your business logic.
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Storefront API / Integration
from$229
Headless data, webhooks and third-party integrations.
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Headless Storefront (Next.js)
from$999
Sub-second storefront on the Storefront API.
Typical full custom Shopify store projects start from $500 — a fixed, all-in quote after a free scoping call. The prices above are per individual deliverable.
Why is a senior custom build this affordable? Because you are not paying for a middle layer.
🏢No agency overheadYou work with the developer who writes your code — not an account manager, a sales team and three markups stacked on top.
🌐Senior team, direct ratesA senior team billing at real engineering rates — not $150/hr Western agency time. Same code quality, a fraction of the price.
📋Fixed scope, no wasteA price per deliverable agreed up front — no padded timesheets, no scope-creep invoices. You pay for the build, nothing else.
Team vs Freelancer
Why a senior team beats a cheap freelancer
Same budget range — very different risk. Here is what changes when a full team owns your project instead of one person juggling ten clients.
A solo freelancer
×They go quiet. The #1 complaint — overcommitted freelancers fall behind, then disappear mid-build or months after launch.
×Single point of failure. One person gets sick, busy or takes another gig — and your project just stops. No backup.
×No process. No staging, no backups before changes, no QA or code review — bugs ship straight to your live site.
×No handover. Rarely any documentation, so the next developer has to reverse-engineer everything.
×Cheap upfront, costly later. Messy code means the next dev charges double — a $3k site can cost $8k to rescue.
×Access left open. They keep admin keys to your hosting, domain and CMS long after — and after they vanish.
Kimyang senior team
✓We answer — within 1 business hour. A team stands behind your project, so you are never left hanging.
✓No single point of failure. Design, development, SEO/GEO and QA under one roof; if one of us is out, the work continues.
✓A real process. Backups before every deploy, daily staging, a QA checklist and verification screenshots.
✓Full handover. A tutorial video and written docs for your exact site, plus a 60-day warranty.
✓Clean, standard code you own. Peer-reviewed, documented, no page builders — any developer can maintain it. No costly rescue later.
✓Your access stays yours. You hold every credential. Money-back on the first milestone, and no payment until your first demo.
🛠️ Custom Shopify Development Services — Full Capability In-House
From a brand-new Shopify storefront to a complex Shopify Plus B2B portal — every service delivered by the same team, with daily staging visibility and a fixed-price quote.
🎨 Custom Shopify Theme Development
Custom Liquid theme development from your Figma, PSD, or Adobe XD designs. Custom sections, blocks, and metafield-driven content architecture. Dawn-based or fully custom — we build to your spec, not to a starter theme's constraints.
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🏢 Shopify Plus Development
Custom Shopify Plus builds for enterprise merchants: custom checkout extensions, B2B account management, multi-storefront configuration, wholesale pricing logic, and Shopify Scripts / Functions. We've handled Plus stores doing $10M+ annually.
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⚡ Headless Shopify Commerce
Decoupled storefronts using Next.js + Shopify Storefront API or GraphQL. Sub-second LCP, SSG with ISR for catalog pages, full design freedom without Liquid constraints. Best for brands needing 95+ PageSpeed, complex animations, or multi-channel selling.
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🔄 Magento to Shopify Migration
End-to-end migration covering products, variants, customer records, order history, blog content, and URL redirect maps. We preserve your SEO equity, match your existing design, and deliver zero-downtime cutover. Available for Magento 1, Magento 2, and Magento to Shopify Plus.
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🚀 Shopify Speed Optimization
Core Web Vitals audit and remediation for existing Shopify stores. We identify and fix LCP bottlenecks (unoptimized hero images, render-blocking themes), CLS issues (unstable layouts, font shifts), and INP problems (heavy app scripts). Target: 90+ on real hardware.
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🔌 Custom Shopify App Development
Custom Shopify apps for functionality that no public app handles: custom loyalty programs, advanced B2B ordering workflows, product configurators, custom fulfillment logic, and admin UI extensions. Built with Shopify CLI, Polaris, and App Bridge.
📊 Numbers Behind Our Custom Shopify Development Work
80+
Shopify Stores Delivered
From DTC startups to Shopify Plus enterprise merchants
+38%
Avg. Conversion Lift
After switching from a premium theme to a custom build
92
Avg. PageSpeed Score
Mobile PageSpeed on delivered custom Shopify themes
0
Migration Downtime
Zero revenue-impacting downtime across all platform migrations
📦 How We Migrate Your Store to Shopify — Zero Downtime, Zero Data Loss
Whether you're moving from Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or a custom platform, our migration process is built around one rule: nothing breaks in production.
Full Data Audit
We inventory every product, variant, customer record, order, blog post, and URL. Nothing moves until we understand what's there.
New Shopify theme developed to match your existing design (or a new one). Content team can preview on staging while migration is in progress.
Products, customers, orders migrated to staging Shopify store. We run reconciliation checks — every SKU, every customer record verified.
Every old URL gets a 301 redirect to its new Shopify equivalent. We build redirect maps in bulk using Shopify's URL redirect API — SEO equity preserved.
Old store stays live while Shopify staging is tested. Client team reviews all pages, flows, and integrations before any DNS change.
DNS propagation monitored in real time. Old store stays accessible via CDN cache during propagation. Go-live typically completes in under 60 minutes.
Platforms We Migrate From
Magento 2 → Shopify Plus
Magento 1 → Shopify
WooCommerce → Shopify
BigCommerce → Shopify
Wix / Squarespace → Shopify
Custom Platform → Shopify
🧱 Custom Shopify Theme Development — From Figma to Live Store
🔍 1. Discovery & Scoping
Design audit, technical requirements brief, and fixed-price quote delivered within 48 hours of your first message.
🧩 2. Figma Component Audit
We map every Figma component to a Shopify section, block, or snippet. Edge cases flagged before any code is written.
💧 3. Liquid Development
Clean, semantic Liquid templates, custom sections with schema settings, and metafield-driven dynamic content. Daily staging pushes.
✅ 4. Performance & QA
Core Web Vitals audit, cross-browser testing (Chrome, Safari, Firefox), mobile QA at multiple breakpoints, accessibility review.
📝 5. Content Population
We configure the Shopify admin for your team: metafields, product templates, and collection structures documented and ready to use.
🚀 6. Launch & Handoff
Production deployment, DNS configuration, 301 redirect setup, Google Search Console validation, and 60-day post-launch support.
The Technical Standard
What “hand-coded” actually means
Every custom Shopify build ships to the same engineering standard — and each line decides how your store performs and how easily your team can run it.
Standard
What we deliver
Why it matters
StandardMarkup
What we deliverSemantic, accessible Liquid + HTML5 — no div-soup, no leftover theme cruft.
Why it mattersCrawlers, AI engines and screen readers read real structure.
StandardStyling
What we deliverHand-written CSS/SCSS, no bloated framework dragged in.
Why it mattersLean and fast — any developer can find a rule in seconds.
StandardSections & blocks
What we deliverNative theme sections with schema settings + metafield-driven content.
Why it mattersYour team edits layout and content in the theme editor without code.
StandardResponsive
What we deliverReal breakpoints at 360 / 768 / 1024 / 1440px, tested on real devices.
Why it mattersThe store holds on every screen, not just the design width.
StandardPerformance
What we deliverOptimized WebP, lazy-loading, minimal JS, no app-script bloat.
Why it mattersCore Web Vitals stay green — the factor Google ranks and shoppers feel.
StandardCompatibility
What we deliverTested on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge + iOS and Android.
Why it mattersIt works on your shoppers’ devices, not just ours.
StandardOwnership
What we deliverClean, commented Liquid in a standard theme structure — 100% yours.
Why it mattersNo lock-in, no license fees, no rescue job for the next developer.
Before We Start
How to prepare for your Shopify build
A little prep makes the build faster and more accurate. Here is what helps — and if you are missing some of it, the scoping call sorts it out, no extra charge.
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Brand assets & guidelines
Logo files, fonts, colours and any brand rules — so the store looks like you, not a template.
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Design or reference stores
A Figma / XD / PSD design, or 2–3 stores whose look and flow you like.
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Product data / catalogue
A CSV or your current store export — products, variants, images, collections.
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Content ready
Copy, imagery and policies (shipping, returns) — or tell us and we structure placeholders.
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Integrations list
Payment, shipping, tax, email, reviews, ERP/POS — so each is wired in, not bolted on later.
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Access
Shopify admin or Partner collaborator access and your domain — ready for launch day.
Missing a few? Start the scoping call anyway. Mapping the catalogue, content and integrations is part of discovery — you do not need everything ready to get a clean build.
Quality, Not Just Speed
Common custom Shopify problems we prevent
A bought theme plus a stack of apps looks fine on day one and slows to a crawl by month three. These are the failure modes we engineer out.
The problem
Why cheap builds cause it
How we prevent it
The problemA slow, heavy store
Why cheap builds cause itA purchased theme plus a dozen apps, each injecting its own CSS/JS.
How we prevent itWe hand-code lean sections and keep apps to the few you truly need.
The problemApp-subscription creep
Why cheap builds cause itEvery small feature solved by another paid app you rent forever.
How we prevent itWe build native sections and Shopify Functions instead of renting features.
The problemNo code ownership
Why cheap builds cause itAgencies keep the theme on their account and lock you in.
How we prevent itClean Liquid on your store, 100% yours — any developer can maintain it.
The problemPoor Core Web Vitals
Why cheap builds cause itUnoptimized images and render-blocking app scripts.
How we prevent itWebP, lazy-loading and a lean build keep LCP, CLS and INP green.
The problemA generic-looking store
Why cheap builds cause itThousands of stores share the same starter theme.
How we prevent itBuilt to your brand and flow from your design, not a template’s constraints.
The problemUnmaintainable code
Why cheap builds cause itMessy theme edits mean the next dev charges double to untangle it.
How we prevent itDocumented, standard sections a new developer can pick up cleanly.
In Writing
What every build includes
These commitments apply to every custom Shopify project — agreed before we start, not discovered later.
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Starting price
From $69 per deliverable, fixed and agreed up front — no retainers, no scope-creep surprises.
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Staging-first
Nothing touches your live store until you review and approve it on staging.
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Built to spec
We match your design and requirements exactly — or we fix it free.
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Performance
A 90+ PageSpeed target on real hardware, built in from the first line of code.
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Code ownership
Full theme and app code in a standard structure — 100% yours, no lock-in.
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Handover
A tutorial video and written docs for your exact store, so your team runs it without a developer.
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After launch
A 60-day free warranty on everything we built, plus optional maintenance from $200/mo.
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Payment
You pay nothing until you have approved your first working demo, and money-back on the first milestone.
💬 What Clients Say After Custom Shopify Development
“Most outsourcers just drop your content into a template. They broke down our audience’s pain points first and built the page’s guarantee section around them. Clear pricing, no hidden monthly lock-ins, add-to-cart rose noticeably after the Shopify theme rework, and the ad-creative-to-landing-page match was spot-on.”
“Our self-built Shopify store had stubbornly low conversion. They designed the pain-point guarantee module specifically against competitors’ weak spots, fixed the landing-page expectation gap completely, and on the same ad budget CVR rose by nearly a third. Transparent pricing with no forced long-term retainer — a lot of freedom to work together.”
— Founder, outdoor-category DTC seller
“Unlike outsourcers who reuse a generic template, they re-organized our value messaging around our target customers. The pricing module is simple and clear with no hidden renewal traps, and after the site optimization our ROAS kept climbing — with no noticeable rise in traffic cost during scaling.”
Custom Shopify development means building a Shopify storefront built around your brand and business logic — not adapting a purchased theme. It covers custom Liquid theme development from Figma or PSD designs, custom Shopify apps and functions, Shopify Plus B2B customization, headless Shopify with a React/Next.js frontend, and platform migrations to Shopify.
Simple Shopify edits and small store customizations start at $50, while more involved custom work typically runs $200–$1,000. The main cost drivers are number of unique templates, custom sections and blocks, third-party app integrations, and migration complexity. We provide a fixed-price quote after a free scoping call.
Headless Shopify decouples the storefront from the Shopify backend, letting you build a React or Next.js frontend powered by Shopify's APIs. It delivers sub-second LCP and total design freedom. You need it if you require 95+ PageSpeed, complex interactive UX (3D product configurators, AR try-on), or multi-regional storefronts from one backend. For most brands, a well-built custom Liquid theme achieves 90+ PageSpeed without the additional complexity and ongoing infrastructure cost of going headless.
A standard Magento-to-Shopify migration takes 6–10 weeks: 1–2 weeks for data audit and mapping, 3–5 weeks for custom theme build and data migration, 1–2 weeks for parallel testing and QA. Migrations with 50,000+ SKUs, complex product variants, or custom ERP integrations take longer. We've never gone live with broken data or SEO-damaging redirect issues.
Use the Shopify CLI command:shopify app generate extension --template customer-account-ui. This scaffolds a Customer Account UI extension using React and Shopify's customer-account-ui-extensions library. You can add custom pages, loyalty dashboards, or order management features to the native Shopify customer account area. We build these as part of our Shopify Plus customer portal engagements.
A prebuilt theme is fast and cheap to launch but limited to its built-in options and shared by thousands of stores. Custom Shopify development builds exactly the features, layout, and integrations your business needs - unique design, custom sections, tailored checkout logic, and only the code you actually use, which usually means better performance and a store that scales with you.
No. AI accelerates Shopify development by generating Liquid snippets, debugging, and drafting code, but it does not replace the judgment needed for store architecture, custom app logic, integrations, and performance. In practice AI makes experienced developers faster - complex custom builds still need a developer to design and ship them correctly.
You never have to read a line of Liquid to judge it. You approve a working preview on a duplicate theme before you pay anything, so you are buying a result you can see — not a promise. There is money-back on the first milestone, and you receive clean, documented theme code any other Shopify developer can open and verify.
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