How Much Does Shopify Development Cost?
What actually drives Shopify development pricing, and how to get a number that isn't a guess.
The honest answer is a range, and anyone quoting one number without seeing your store is guessing. Here's what actually moves the price.
What drives the cost
- Theme scope - customizing a premium theme costs a fraction of a from-scratch build.
- Apps and integrations - every ERP, shipping, or inventory connection is real engineering, not configuration.
- Catalog complexity - 200 simple products and 20,000 variants with metafields are different projects.
- Migration - moving data and SEO from another platform adds a workstream of its own.
- What happens after launch - support and maintenance is a running cost worth pricing up front.
Typical ranges
[SET typical ranges - fill with real numbers before publishing: premium theme customization, from-scratch theme build, custom app or integration, full store build, migration. Publishing a cost post without numbers wastes the click; publishing invented ones is worse.]
How we price it
Scoped per project after a short audit of your store, so the estimate is built on your catalog and integrations, not a brochure. [CONFIRM pricing model] The full menu of what we build is on our Shopify development services page.
Shane Blandford
Founder of Orange Collar Media, a Denver ecommerce agency behind 800+ Magento and Shopify builds. In Magento since version 1.x - building, rescuing, and supporting revenue-critical stores since 2008.
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