Hire Shopify Developers you actually get to meet first.

Send the store URL, what you need built and roughly what you want to spend. You get a written response with an honest read on scope, a fixed-price range and a timeline, usually within a couple of business days. If it is a fit we run a scoping call, then a written proposal. There is no discovery fee and no obligation to proceed.

Both. Project-based is a defined scope at a fixed price, which is what most merchants want and where the risk sits with us rather than you. A dedicated developer is a reserved allocation of a developer's time each month, which suits businesses with a continuous roadmap rather than a single project. We will tell you which one actually fits what you have described.

We quote projects at a fixed price rather than by the hour, because an hourly rate transfers estimation risk to you and rewards the slower supplier. For reference, a starter build runs $1,500 to $4,000, a fully custom theme $5,000 to $15,000, and enterprise or Shopify Plus work starts at $20,000. Dedicated developer allocations and retainers are quoted monthly, starting at $500 a month.

Yes. A part-time allocation, typically a set number of days a month, works well when you have a steady stream of changes but not enough to justify a full-time hire. You get the same named developer each month rather than whoever is free, because continuity is most of the value in that arrangement.

Usually within one to three weeks, depending on the size of the engagement and what is already booked. Urgent remediation on a broken or underperforming store we will generally look at sooner. We would rather give you a real start date than promise tomorrow and stack you behind existing commitments.

Yes, and we encourage it. You should meet the person who will do the work before you pay for it. What you will not get is a polished senior in the sales call and a different, quieter person on the project afterwards.

You do, completely, on payment. The store sits on your Shopify account, the theme code is yours, custom apps are transferred to you, and there is no license fee to keep using what we built. We retain no claim over the work and we do not resell a client's custom build to the next client.

Yes to both. An NDA before commercially sensitive detail is shared, and a written agreement covering scope, price, milestones, IP ownership and confidentiality before work starts. If your legal team has a preferred agreement we will work from yours.

Tell us early and we replace them or end the engagement, depending on which you want. For a dedicated allocation there is a notice period, but we will not hold you to months of a relationship that is not working. A bad fit caught in week two is a scheduling problem; the same fit tolerated for a quarter is an expensive one.

Work is in a shared repository with written documentation rather than in one person's head, so a second developer can pick up a project without a two-week rediscovery phase. For longer planned absence you get notice and a named cover. This is one of the concrete differences between an agency and a single freelancer.

We schedule against your working hours, not ours. Written updates land daily so progress is visible without a meeting, and there is a fixed weekly slot in your time zone for anything that needs discussion. Urgent issues have a direct channel rather than a ticket queue.

Yes. Jira, Linear, Asana, Trello, Slack, Teams, GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. We adopt your workflow rather than asking you to adopt ours, and we join your stand-ups where that is how your team runs. The exception is code review standards, which we hold to regardless of whose repository it is.

Yes. We can take a defined workstream, review your team's pull requests, or be the senior escalation point for a junior in-house team. The one thing we insist on is a clear boundary on who owns which part of the codebase, because shared ownership without that boundary is how two competent teams produce one broken store.

Senior. Every project is owned by a developer who has shipped Shopify stores end to end, with specialists brought in for design, app or integration work. We do not staff a project with a junior and supervise them at your expense, which is a common agency model and the reason a lot of agency work is slower than it should be.

Not for project work. A focused piece of work is a legitimate project and we quote it honestly rather than inflating it to meet a minimum. Dedicated developer allocations have a one-month minimum simply because anything shorter does not repay the ramp-up for either side.

Project work is invoiced against milestones you can see delivered on the staging link. Retainers and dedicated allocations are invoiced monthly with a written summary of what the time went on. You will not receive an invoice for work you have not been able to look at first.

Marketplaces are cheaper per hour and genuinely fine for a contained task with a clear definition of done. The differences that matter are continuity when someone is unavailable, accountability for the seams between design, code and data, and a written scope you can hold someone to. If your job really is one contained task, a marketplace may be the better call and we will say so.

Store access, your product data in whatever state it is actually in, brand assets, and one named decision maker. Content is the dependency that delays projects most often, so if copy and photography are not ready, say so at the start and we will plan the schedule around it rather than discovering it in week six.