Shopify Development Partner for UK Shopify Plus Brands

Senior engineers who write the code, not only account managers. A written scope and fixed quote before work starts. Depth beyond themes: custom apps, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, B2B and the ERP or 3PL integrations your store depends on. And ownership: the code, the apps and the accounts should be yours, with an architecture brief and rollback plan you can hand to another team. We work this way on every engagement.

Shopify bills its own plan separately from any build. On shopify.com/uk/pricing (checked October 2026) Basic is £19 a month paid yearly or £25 monthly, Grow £49 or £65, Advanced £259 or £344, and Plus starts at £1,800 a month. Online card rates with Shopify Payments start at 2%, 1.7%, 1.5% and 1.3% plus 25p by plan. If you use a third-party payment gateway instead, Shopify adds a transaction fee of 2%, 1%, 0.6% or 0.2%. Apps and themes are billed on top. Our Shopify vs Shopify Plus comparison sets the fees side by side.

Custom apps start from £4K; the price depends on scope and complexity. Plus builds start from £15K depending on B2B and integration scope; a Shopify theme starts from £5K to adapt an existing theme to your branding and from £15K for a custom design and build. Headless Hydrogen builds start from £20K. We share firm pricing in writing once the discovery scan is complete. Quoting before we've seen the brief is unfair to both sides.

Freelancers are great for a single, well-defined task. We're built for engagements where multiple disciplines collide: custom apps that talk to ERP, headless storefronts that need to keep Plus features, B2B catalogues bridging Shopify and SFCC. We bring the senior engineer + architect + integration specialist as one team rather than asking the merchant to coordinate three separate freelancers.

Yes. We are a Shopify Partner: we build and maintain Shopify apps through the Shopify Partner Program, including our own Anchor Loyalty app. Partner status is a baseline though. What we hire for is engineering depth across Plus internals (Functions, Flow, Markets, B2B), which partner status does not test.

Both. We work across the full surface: Online Store 2.0 themes, Liquid customisation, custom apps (single-store and App Store), Checkout Extensibility, Functions, Hydrogen storefronts, and Flow automation. Most engagements mix two or three of these; we pick what the brief actually needs.

Yes. About a third of our work is rescue or hand-over. We start with a one-week stack audit (separately scoped) so we can give you an honest read on the existing codebase, the realistic cost to bring it to launch, and whether a partial rebuild is more honest than continuing.

London-based (Covent Garden). Remote-first across UK + EU + US Eastern overlap. Most of our merchants are UK + EU, with a meaningful slice on US Eastern. We schedule across these zones; deeper APAC coverage is engagement-specific.