Shopify is a fine place to start. It's a worse place to stay once your volume is high enough that the per-transaction fees, the app subscriptions, and the catalog constraints add up to more than a custom build would have cost in the first place. We migrate stores to custom-built platforms you own.
We're not anti-Shopify. We're against paying for it when you've outgrown it. Here's the cleanest way to tell which side of the line you're on.
Subscription + app fees + per-transaction fees, over the next three years. If that number is bigger than a custom build with hosting, migration is the cheaper move. If not, stay.
If your team has more than two "we do this in a spreadsheet because Shopify can't" workflows, custom buys back the time. If you have zero, Shopify is fine.
Could you leave today if you wanted to? If your customer list, order history, and email automations are trapped inside Shopify and its apps, you don't really own the business — you rent it.
Every product, variant, image, collection, and SEO URL — moved to the new store with redirects in place so you don't lose ranking.
Every customer account, every historical order, with the same email addresses so re-purchase flows and identity all keep working.
We help you set up a direct merchant account — lower per-transaction rates, no platform surcharge on top of card processing.
The half-dozen apps you're currently paying monthly for — review them, build the ones you need into the core store, drop the ones you don't.
Specialty veterinary supplier that outgrew their original e-commerce platform. We migrated the catalog and customer data, set up a direct merchant account, and built integrated admin and email campaigns into the new store.
We'll look at your current Shopify setup, your app stack, and your monthly numbers, and tell you straight whether migration would actually pay off — or whether you should stay and just trim the app fat.
Not sure if migration is right? Start with the audit.
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