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Shopify developers, UK and Europe

Hire a Shopify developer without hiring one.

Most stores don't need a full-time developer. They need someone senior who knows the store, ships something useful every month and answers the phone in peak week.

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Three ways to get Shopify work done

All three are the right answer for somebody. Here is how we would describe them if you asked us over a call.

A freelancer

Works when

One defined job with a clear finish. A new section, a theme fix, a migration of one data set.

The trade

Harder when the work is ongoing. You hold the context, you brief every time, and you carry the handover when they take a bigger contract.

An in-house developer

Works when

Enough Shopify work to fill a week, every week, with someone senior enough to decide what to build.

The trade

Recruitment takes months. You carry salary, tooling and cover for holiday and illness, and a single developer has nobody to check their work.

A monthly retainer

Works when

A live store that needs watching and improving, where the work is real but not a full week of it.

The trade

You get a team rather than a person, at a fixed monthly fee with 30 days notice. Bigger projects are quoted separately rather than squeezed in.

What we actually work on

A month of work usually looks like one of these, agreed with you before anything starts.

Speed

Images, apps and theme code that have piled up since launch. We measure first, then remove what is costing you load time.

Checkout and conversion

The steps between the product page and the payment. Shipping clarity, payment methods, and the small frictions that lose orders.

Tracking that matches reality

GA4, consent mode and ad platform tracking that agree with what Shopify reports. Most stores we review disagree with themselves somewhere.

Theme changes

New sections, layout changes and merchandising controls your team can use without asking a developer every time.

Apps that argue

App conflicts, duplicate scripts and subscriptions nobody can account for. Fewer apps usually means a faster, cheaper store.

Trade pricing and B2B

Company accounts, price lists and payment terms on Shopify B2B, including the setups that no longer need Plus.

Systems that have to agree

Business Central, NetSuite, Odoo, Linnworks and the rest. Stock, prices and orders in step with the store.

Cover through peak

Someone watching the store through Black Friday and the January sale, with changes frozen when freezing them is the right call.

What it costs

A fixed fee each month, billed on the same day, with 30 days notice. You can move up, move down or pause.

Maintain

£400 a month

Stable stores that need someone watching, not a growth programme.

  • Uptime and security monitoring
  • A 30 minute check-in each quarter
  • Two hours of fixes each month
  • Email support, with a reply inside two working days

Optimise

£1,000 a month

Growing stores that want two improvements shipped every month.

  • Two monthly improvements
  • A monthly performance report
  • A monthly strategy review
  • Unlimited async questions
  • Email support, with a reply inside one working day

Accelerate

£2,000 a month

Scaling stores that want four improvements a month and a closer rhythm.

  • Four monthly improvements
  • A 60 minute sync every two weeks
  • Weekly async updates
  • Releases tested on staging first
  • Proactive monitoring
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Stores that kept us on

Forty Clothing

Conversion moved from 0.8% to 4.6%, and online grew to half of retail sales within 12 months.

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Fáilte Foods

Wholesale moved to Shopify Plus with Business Central in step. Onboarding rose by more than 500%.

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Surrey Cricket Club

Club retail on Shopify, kept on after launch rather than handed back.

Read the story

Questions we get asked

Is a retainer cheaper than hiring a Shopify developer?
For most stores, yes, because the work rarely fills a full week. A retainer starts at £400 a month and includes monitoring and small fixes. Our Optimise package at £1,000 a month adds two improvements every month and a performance report. A full-time developer costs a salary plus recruitment, tooling and cover, and still leaves one person with nobody to check their work.
Do you work with our existing theme?
Yes. Most of what we do is on a store someone else built. We work on a copy of your theme, test on staging and ship when you are happy. A rebuild is a separate conversation and we will tell you plainly if we think you need one.
Do we get the same developer every month?
You get a named developer who knows the store, and the person who scopes the work is the person who builds it. There are no account managers in between.
What happens when a job is bigger than the package?
We quote it as a project and give you a price before anything starts. We can also group a few months of improvement time when that is the cleaner plan. Nothing gets quietly added to your bill.
Are you a UK agency?
We work with UK and European businesses, and we are based in Belgium rather than in a UK office. Everything runs on calls and shared tools, with the same people from the first conversation to the latest release.
How quickly can you start?
Send the store and you get a free review by email within two working days. If you want to go ahead after that, a package can start the same week. There is no lock-in and 30 days notice ends it.

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