Commerce

Custom ecommerce when Shopify isn’t enough

If your catalog, pricing rules, or ERP integration fight the platform every week, you don’t need another Shopify app — you need a fit-for-purpose storefront.

Who it’s for: For B2B and complex retail operators outgrowing template commerce platforms.

We won’t take this if: a well-built Shopify store would do — we’ll tell you that and point you to our Shopify page.

Custom catalogs, contract pricing, ERP-facing sync

Outcomes

What changes when this lands

Honest platform choice

Shopify vs headless vs custom — decided with ops constraints, not Twitter takes.

Pricing that matches how you sell

Contract, volume, account-based — modeled explicitly.

Integration spine

ERP/OMS/inventory jobs with failure visibility.

Ops admin

Tools your warehouse and CS teams can use without engineering for every tweak.

How it works

Roles named. Steps clear.

01Commerce lead

Ops deep-dive

Order lifecycle, exceptions, SLAs.

02Tech lead

Architecture

Cart, tax, payments, sync diagram.

03Designer

Storefront UX

Catalog findability + checkout.

04Backend

Build integrations first

Wrong sync kills launches.

05Full squad

Checkout harden

Payment + tax + edge cases.

06Tech lead

Cutover

Rehearsed migration weekend.

Proof

One constrained engagement

B2B catalog commerce (NDA)

Context

Account-specific price lists and ERP stock truth.

Constraint

Sales team couldn’t wait for a 12-month rewrite.

Decisions

Phased: account pricing + catalog search first; payments second.

  • Sales used self-serve for reorders
  • Fewer manual quote emails
Deliverables

What you actually get

  • Architecture + risk register
  • Storefront + checkout
  • Admin for priced catalogs
  • Integration runbooks
Pricing posture

Custom commerce builds often start ~$40k and scale with integration count. We prefer phased go-lives over year-long big bangs.

India–US dual team available for overlap hours. Exact quotes follow discovery — no fake “instant calculators.”

FAQ

Objection killers

Headless Shopify instead?

Sometimes. If Shopify can be the system of record, headless may be smarter than full custom.

Which payments?

Stripe, Adyen, regional PSPs — based on where you settle.

Multi-currency / multi-warehouse?

Supported when the ops model is clear. Ambiguous ops can’t be coded cleanly.

Ready to talk scope?

Bring constraints. We’ll bring a timeline and a cut list. Free discovery call — response within 24 hours.

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