Hire Shopify Developers for Shopify Plus and Custom Storefronts

Rates run $25 to $50 an hour depending on seniority, and fixed scope projects have a $10,000 minimum. US specialists typically bill $150 to $300 per hour for comparable Shopify work. Your Shopify plan, from Basic to Shopify Plus, is a separate subscription billed by Shopify, and paid apps from the Shopify App Store add their own charges, set by each app developer. Your cost also depends on how much custom Liquid theme work, checkout customization and integration the store needs, and whether products, customers and URLs have to be migrated from another platform.

Every Shopify developer we place passes a 60 to 90 minute live coding round in Shopify, focused on Liquid themes, custom apps and store integrations, followed by scenario based questions on practical Shopify applications. Candidates then walk us through a recent production project and pass background verification. New engineers then serve a probation period, and those who do not meet our bar do not continue with us. You interview shortlisted candidates yourself before anyone joins your team.

Yes, we have delivered headless Shopify work that pairs a React front end with Shopify as the commerce backend. A headless storefront gets its products and carts from the Shopify Storefront API, which works with the front end tools of your choice. Hydrogen, the React Router based framework Shopify offers for headless builds, is one option, and our delivered headless work so far uses React without Hydrogen. Headless adds a separate front end to build, host and maintain, so we recommend it only when a theme cannot give you the performance or design freedom you need.

Shopify is the right choice when you want to launch fast, need reliable payment processing and checkout, and prefer a managed platform over server maintenance. Custom builds make sense when you need highly unique checkout flows, complex product configuration, or integration with specialized backend systems that the Shopify ecosystem does not cover.

Yes, and how far we can go depends on your plan, because checkout UI extensions for the information, shipping and payment steps are available only to stores on Shopify Plus. On Shopify Plus, our developers can build checkout UI extensions, custom apps that use Shopify Functions for discount rules, and post purchase upsell offers. On other plans, public apps from the Shopify App Store that contain Shopify Functions still work, so we optimize within those limits and tell you when a Plus upgrade is worth it.