Your store should sell like a product.
Storefronts built like products — not template shops. Editorial catalog design, real checkout with multi-method payments, subscriptions, inventory logic, and the operational glue behind the scenes that keeps orders moving.
Template shops cap what you can sell.
A store you can rank, brand and iterate needs all four.
- Product pages that read like editorial
- Checkout that doesn't shed carts on mobile
- Real inventory, not a pretend counter
- Subscriptions, discount stacking, gift cards
- One-of-one luxury pieces or 5,000 SKUs
Two live examples.
Both do things a Shopify theme can't.
Luxury vintage storefront — one-of-one inventory, editorial catalog, concierge made-to-order flow, phone-first motion. 858vintage.com ↗
Telehealth commerce — compliant intake before checkout, prescriber review behind it, HSA/FSA, Stripe, PayPal and Venmo. shopcandyrx.com ↗
What's in a build.
The customer-facing half of every store we ship.
- Custom product templates built around your catalog
- Stripe checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay
- PayPal and Venmo, plus crypto or ACH where needed
- Real search and filtering, not tag lookups
- Discount stacking rules you control
- Editorial and content pages beside product
The half behind the storefront.
Order tooling your team runs without calling us.
- Branded order confirmations, shipping notices, receipts
- Refunds and subscription pause, skip, cancel
- Inventory synced with your source of truth
- Analytics and funnel tracking
- Abandoned-cart lifecycle email and deliverability
- Admin tooling plus hand-off documentation
Custom-scoped from $25,000.
Flat number per phase, quoted after a paid discovery week.
- $25,000 floor — catalog, real checkout, order tooling
- Larger catalogs and subscriptions push the number up
- Marketplaces, headless and multi-country priced separately
- Storefront rebuilds for existing catalogs, same model
First releases land in six to ten weeks.
Discovery week sets the scope, timeline and price.
- Week 1Paid discovery — scope, timeline, flat price
- Weeks 2+Working build in your hands every two weeks
- DailyYou sit in the standup
- LaunchSix to ten weeks for most first releases
- AfterMaintenance and iteration retainer
What we don't do.
Other studios do these well and cheap.
- Shopify themes with a color change
- Running your ad accounts
- Lead-form sites without checkout — see Web Design
- Print collateral alone — see Brand Kits
- App-shaped products — see App Development
- · Luxury / one-of-one inventory
- · Compliant telehealth commerce
- · Subscription and membership
- · Wellness, beauty, DTC brands
- · Marketplaces and multi-vendor
- · Headless / composable stacks
- · Stripe + Apple/Google Pay
- · PayPal, Venmo
- · ACH and bank transfer
- · Crypto where it fits
- · Subscriptions, pause/skip
- · Refund / dispute tooling
Have a store to build (or rebuild)? Let's scope it.
Tell us your catalog, your checkout requirements, and where the current store is falling short. We'll come back with a discovery-week quote within 24 hours.