★★★★★
B2B on Shopify is not simple and most agencies we spoke to did not really understand price lists or company accounts. This team did, and they said upfront what they would not attempt.
Verified
Shopify Partner
Since 2020
Stores shipped
Chicago, IL
Brands served
Green on launch
Core Web Vitals
What we build
Six kinds of Shopify project we build in Chicago.
Most Chicago brands come to us for one of these. If your situation is a mix, we scope it as one project rather than splitting it into retainers.
New build
Store from scratch
A brand new Shopify store for a launching Chicago brand. Structure, design, build, apps and a launch checklist.
Redesign
Existing store rebuild
Keep the catalogue and history, replace the theme and page structure with a Shopify store built to convert.
Migration
Move to Shopify
Shopify migration from WooCommerce, Wix, GoDaddy, Magento or BigCommerce. Products, customers, orders and redirects.
B2B
Wholesale & B2B
Company accounts, price lists, quantity rules and gated catalogues on Shopify B2B or Shopify Plus.
Custom
Sections & features
Custom Shopify theme sections, metaobject-driven content, bundles, configurators and swatch systems.
Speed
Performance work
App cleanup, image and script work, and theme surgery to pull Core Web Vitals back into green.
Why Chicago brands work with us
Built for the way Chicago brands actually sell.
Chicago runs on food, CPG, apparel and distribution businesses, and most of them carry deeper catalogues than a typical D2C brand. Here is what that means for how we build.
Large catalogues that stay usable
A few hundred SKUs breaks most themes. We built metaobject-driven colour swatches and filtering for a yarn store with a very large colour catalogue, and a full multi-category store for a herbal supplements house trading since 1960. The team can add products without touching code.
Stock that shows correctly everywhere
We mapped region-based inventory across three warehouses and six markets for a US supplement brand whose storefront had been showing the wrong stock for months. If you ship from more than one place, this is the part that quietly costs you orders.
We work your morning
Reviews, approvals and launch-day fixes land inside Central hours rather than turning up the next day. You are not waiting overnight for an answer on a decision you raised at 10am.
Speed for paid-heavy stores
Chicago brands spend hard on Meta and Google. We ship green Core Web Vitals so you are not losing the conversion rate you are already paying for.
What is included
Everything in the scope, written down.
No line item appears halfway through the project as an extra. If it is not on this list and you need it, we quote it before we build it.
- Sitemap and page structure planning
- Product and collection page templates
- Desktop and mobile design for every template
- Custom theme sections, editable in the admin
- Responsive build down to 360px
- App selection, install and configuration
- Product data import and clean up
- Payment, shipping and tax setup
- On-page SEO, schema and meta structure
- 301 redirect map for migrations
- GA4 and conversion tracking
- Launch QA across browsers and devices
- Loom walkthrough and admin training
- 30 days of post-launch bug fixes
Process
Six stages from kickoff to launch.
You approve each stage before the next one starts, so nothing gets built on top of a decision you did not sign off.
01
Discovery
Catalogue, customers, competitors and the current store. We come back with what is worth changing.
Week 1
02
Structure
Sitemap, page-by-page wireframes and the section list for every template.
Week 1
03
Design
Desktop and mobile designs for home, collection, product, cart and content pages.
Week 2 to 3
04
Build
Development on a staging theme. You review each template as it goes live on staging.
Week 3 to 5
05
QA & launch
Cross-browser testing, speed pass, redirects, tracking, then we publish.
Week 5 to 6
06
Handover
Admin training, documentation and 30 days of fixes. The theme is yours.
Post-launch
Apps and tools we build around
- Shopify Markets
- Shopify B2B
- Klaviyo
- Judge.me
- Okendo
- Recharge
- Gorgias
- Rebuy
- Searchanise
- Google Analytics 4
- Meta Pixel
- Shopify Flow
- Metaobjects
- Hydrogen
Serving D2C and wholesale brands across Chicago
- The Loop
- West Loop
- Fulton Market
- River North
- Wicker Park
- Lincoln Park
- Evanston
- Naperville
Client reviews
What clients say after launch.
US brands on builds, wholesale catalogues and migrations like the ones we run for Chicago clients. Ask and we will connect you with any of them directly.
★★★★★
We came from GoDaddy with a messy catalog and were dreading the move. Everything came across, the redirects held, and we did not lose a single wholesale account in the switch.
★★★★★
Klaviyo flows we had ignored for a year got rebuilt in a fortnight. Repeat orders are now a line on the report we actually look at.
★★★★★
The redesign and the brand identity came out of the same team, so nothing felt bolted on. Ads started a month later and we were already set up to measure them properly.
★★★★★
As a nonprofit our budget was fixed and we said so. They scoped to it instead of quoting up, and the donation flow works on a phone, which was the whole point.
★★★★★
I was learning ecommerce from a course and had no idea what to ask for. They walked me through each decision rather than just building what I said, which saved me from a few bad calls.
Questions
Shopify development in Chicago, answered.
Do you work with Shopify brands based in Chicago?
Yes. We work with D2C and wholesale brands across Chicago and the wider Midwest, and remotely across the US. Our offices are in Los Angeles and New Delhi rather than Chicago, so there is no walk-in address here, but we hold Central hours for calls, reviews and launch days.
Can you handle a large catalogue with a lot of variants?
Yes. We build catalogue structure, filtering and variant systems with metaobjects so your team can add products, colours and options from the admin without a developer. We did exactly that for a yarn store with a very large colour catalogue and for a multi-category supplements house.
How long does a Shopify build take?
Two to three weeks for most stores, from kickoff to launch. Large catalogues, B2B setups and multi-market stores take longer, and we say so in the scope before you sign.
How much does a Shopify build cost?
Every quote is flat and fixed to the scope, so there is no hourly billing to watch. Share your store or brief and we send one number with the scope attached before anything starts.
Can you migrate my store to Shopify?
Yes. We handle Shopify migrations from WooCommerce, Wix, GoDaddy, Magento and BigCommerce, including products, customers, order history and a full 301 redirect map so your Chicago search rankings hold through the move.
Do you work with Shopify Plus?
Yes, including B2B on Plus, Markets for multi-currency selling and Shopify Flow for automation. Those projects are quoted per scope rather than from a starting price.
Do I own the theme afterwards?
Yes. The theme, the code and the store are yours. We hand over full admin access and a walkthrough so your team can edit sections without coming back to us.
Which Chicago areas do you serve?
The Loop, West Loop, Fulton Market, River North, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Evanston and Naperville, plus Oak Park, Schaumburg and remote clients across Illinois and the rest of the US.
Building a Shopify store in Chicago? Let us take a look.
Share the URL and what you want it to do. You get an honest read on the build, and a fixed quote if it makes sense to work together.