Our process

How we ship custom
Shopify in thirty days.

Not by cutting corners. A decade of builds, a foundation we engineered ourselves, and every hour spent on your front end.

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Experience

A decade of
custom Shopify.

We've been designing and developing custom Shopify sites for about ten years. Every storefront pattern that matters, we've built, shipped, and refined dozens of times. See the work.

10+ years
Framework

Proven engine,
zero templates.

Nothing we ship starts from a theme. Over a decade of client builds we engineered our own private Shopify foundation for the unforgiving parts: cart drawers, upsell logic, performance. Only our clients get it, and every storefront is custom-coded on top of it. That's why your budget goes to design and conversion instead of re-solving solved problems.

Zero templates
Design

Built around
your brand.

Because the foundation is already engineered, your budget goes where it matters: the front end. Every page, section, and interaction your customers touch starts from a blank canvas, built in custom code around your brand guide and references, then elevated with our own creative direction.

100% design focus
Questions

How it actually works.

The questions we get about the Sprint, answered straight. Anything else, email us and we will answer the same day.

Because we are not starting from zero. Over a decade of client builds we engineered our own Shopify foundation for the parts that eat time on every project: the cart drawer, upsell logic, checkout hand-off, performance. That is already built and tested. Your thirty days go into design and the front end your customers actually see.

The first stretch is design: we work from your brand guide and references and design every page from a blank canvas, and you approve it before anything is coded. Then the build, custom coded on our foundation. Then QA across devices, content and product setup, and launch. You get a dated timeline at kickoff so you know what is happening each week.

A codebase we built and maintain ourselves, not a theme. It handles the unforgiving pieces of a Shopify store so they never have to be re-solved: cart, upsells, subscriptions hooks, speed. Only our clients get it, and every storefront is custom coded on top of it, which is why no two of our builds look alike.

No. Nothing we ship starts from a theme, and there is no page builder in the stack. Every section is custom code. That is also why the stores are fast: there is no unused theme weight or builder script slowing them down.

Access to your Shopify store, your brand assets (logo, fonts, colors, photography), and a short kickoff call about your products and customers. If you have a brand guide, send it. If you do not, we work from your references and bring our own creative direction.

Two rounds, and we rarely need both. The design is presented before anything is built, so what you see is what ships. More often than not we get it right the first time, and revisions end up being small adjustments, a spacing tweak or a copy change, rather than rethinking the page. Anything beyond the storefront we agreed on at kickoff is quoted separately, so the price never moves on you.

Yes. Content, products, collections, and the sections we build are editable in the Shopify customizer like any store. You own the code, it lives in your theme, and any developer can work on it later.

Product photography, copywriting for product descriptions, and paid apps or subscriptions you choose to run are yours. Email programs are scoped separately. See the email page. Everything that is the storefront itself is in.

Ready when you are

Let’s build yours.

Thirty days from now your store could be live. One call to start. Bring your brand, we bring everything else.

Liquid Lemon · Shopify Development Studio · Tampa & NYC / Worldwide