Headless ecommerce store
A growing homeware store that moves to a headless storefront and keeps Shopify for products, checkout and orders.
Online store
Ecommerce website development for growing stores
Ecommerce website development for growing stores. We design and build the catalog and product page templates, cart and checkout, connect payments and set up ecommerce analytics, all tuned to stay fast on mobile.
12 page templates included
Who it's for
For stores that have outgrown their theme and need speed, control over content and a checkout that works on every phone.
- Stores whose theme limits content, speed or design
- Brands selling in several countries, languages or currencies
- Teams that want editorial content and products on one fast site
- Brands moving from a marketplace to their own store
Probably not a fit if
- A first store with a handful of products (a hosted theme costs less)
- You need an ERP or warehouse integration in the first release
What's included
- Catalog structure: categories, filters and product attributes
- Category, product, search and account page templates
- Cart and checkout, tested with real test orders
- Payments, shipping and tax settings configured
- Ecommerce analytics: product views, cart and purchase events
- Import of your current product catalog
- Order and shipping emails in your brand
Not included
| Item | If you need it | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Product photography | Quoted separately | Quoted |
| Importing more than 2,000 products | Quoted after the catalog audit | Quoted |
| Product descriptions and category copy | Add copywriting | $1,800 |
| Headless CMS for guides and lookbooks | Add CMS setup | $2,000 |
| Ongoing support after launch | Add a care plan | $1,500 |
Online store development: catalog, cart and checkout
Stores lose sales in three places: finding the product, judging it and paying for it. We design and build all three.
| Part | What we build | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog | Categories, filters, search and product attributes | Customers find the right product in a few taps |
| Product page | Photos, variants, stock, delivery and returns details | The page answers questions before they stop a sale |
| Cart | A cart with clear totals and shipping costs | No surprise costs at the last step |
| Checkout and payments | Stripe, Paddle or Ukrainian acquirers (LiqPay, monobank, Fondy, WayForPay), tested with real test orders | Payment works on every phone before launch |
| Analytics | Product view, add to cart and purchase events | You see where buyers drop off |
How we build it
Your team keeps a familiar store admin. Customers get a faster store.
UX/UI design
We design category, product, cart and checkout pages around how your customers shop, on mobile first.
Your stack, your choice
We recommend a stack and you pick: a Next.js or Nuxt storefront on top of Shopify or another commerce platform, hosted on Vercel or AWS. Every option ships fast pages, while orders and stock stay in the admin you know.
Headless CMS
Products stay in the commerce platform. Add CMS setup ($2,000) for editorial content such as guides, lookbooks and campaign pages.
Multilingual
Each extra language gets its own addresses, translated product data and hreflang tags. Currencies follow your commerce platform's settings.
- Front end
- Next.js
- Nuxt
- React
- Vue 3
- Tailwind CSS
- Back end and APIs
- Next.js route handlers
- REST
- Payments
- Stripe
- Paddle
- LiqPay
- monobank acquiring
- Fondy
- WayForPay
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Auth and sign-in
- Auth.js
- Google sign-in
- Email and notifications
- Resend
- SendGrid
- Telegram bots
- TurboSMS
- Integrations
- Nova Poshta
- Ukrposhta
- Cloudflare Turnstile
- Typesense
- Data
- PostgreSQL
- Drizzle ORM
- S3
- Cloudflare R2
- Cloud and infrastructure
- Vercel
- AWS CloudFront
- Quality and observability
- Sentry
- Playwright
- Vercel Analytics
Timeline, revisions and price
Extra page templates and each extra language add time. Catalog data ready early keeps the schedule on track.
Discovery and catalog audit · 1 week
› Your sign-off: Catalog structure and scope
Design · 2 weeks
› Your sign-off: Category, product, cart and checkout designs
Storefront build · 3 weeks
› Your sign-off: Templates on staging
Checkout, payments and integrations · 2 weeks
› Your sign-off: Test orders
Catalog import and content · 1 week
› Your sign-off: Products loaded and checked
QA and launch · 1 week
› Your sign-off: Launch checklist
Revisions and sign-off
- Three revision rounds per stage.
- Cart and checkout are tested with real test orders before you sign off.
- Changes after sign-off go through a priced change note.
Screens
Questions about online stores
Do you build on Shopify or a custom platform?
Usually a headless storefront on the Shopify Storefront API, so you keep Shopify's checkout and admin. For special cases we build a custom checkout on Stripe, Paddle or Ukrainian acquirers (LiqPay, monobank, Fondy, WayForPay).
Will we keep our products, customers and orders?
Yes. With a headless Shopify build they never move. For other platforms we plan the move of products, customers and order history in the catalog audit.
What counts as a page template in an online store?
One layout, such as home, category, product, search, cart, a checkout step or account. A thousand products on one product template count as one. The base price includes twelve.
How fast will the new store be?
We aim for Core Web Vitals in the good range on mobile for every template, and the QA report shows the results before you sign off.
Further reading
Ecommerce website cost: Shopify vs custom
Ecommerce website cost broken down: Shopify themes vs a custom storefront, the line items that move the price, and the monthly fees to plan for.
European Accessibility Act: what websites must do
The European Accessibility Act website rules apply from 28 June 2025. Who is covered, what WCAG level to aim for, and a practical plan for the next 11 days.