Shopify Website Design
Process

Shopify bundles commerce activities into a single, easy-to-use platform. This means store owners can seamlessly monitor the entire sales process, from receiving an order to post-sale analytics.

With Shopify, business owners can sell in multiple places, including on their website, on marketplaces and social media, and in person through brick-and-mortar locations. Inventory and customer information can be synced across channels for simple management inside Shopify.

Shopify is a secure, cloud-based and hosted platform, which means you can safely access your data from any compatible device with an internet connection. This gives you the flexibility to run your business from anywhere, with peace of mind that your website is protected and secured by a world-class commerce system.

Commerce businesses require an array of tools to manage tasks like inventory management and shipping. Connecting these systems can cost business owners time and money. That’s why Shopify bundles technologies to create a complete picture of your business activity: your Shopify admin.

Shopify is a buildable commerce solution that includes a core offering across several plans. Store owners can stack additional products on that base layer, customising components and integrating apps to create a personalized experience for their business’s needs.

Base layer: Shopify’s core product
Every Shopify plan* comes with everything you need to turn your idea into a business and start selling: an online store with customisable templates, tools to sell across channels, Shopify’s fast and secure checkout, and built-in marketing features. This is the foundation upon which Shopify’s other products and applications are built.

Here are some of the features included with your Shopify subscription:

Customizable themes. Shopify’s free online store themes have built-in support for animations, including dynamic scrolling and hover effects.

AI features to help you get more done. Generate on-brand content, set up auto-reply, and write product descriptions with Shopify Magic.

Access to millions of mobile shoppers on the Shop app. Personalize your mobile store and extend your brand in a matter of clicks. Shop Stores includes customizable collections, categories, and navigation—just like your online store.

The world’s best checkout. Shopify plans come with the world’s highest-converting one-click checkout that’s trusted by the biggest brands.

A custom domain on Shopify. Select and host your domain securely with Shopify, with full control and configuration to customize easily.

*The Shopify Starter plan is designed for social selling and may not include some of the base features described above.

Pricing Range – Our packages range in price starting from R25,000 (for South African businesses) / USD $1,700 (for US, EU, UK, New Zealand and Australia based businesses) up to about R85,000 / USD $5200.

View the pricing guide here.

We are not simply Shopify web designers…

Our Shopify design and coaching service includes helping you plan your online shop – including planning a conversion-focused homepage design and deciding on what payment gateways to use. Think of us as your experienced Shopify guide – gently and expertly guiding you through the ins and outs of creating a conversion-focused online store.

There are so many moving parts when it comes to creating an online shop for your business – our supportive service gently navigates you through all of these.

All our packages include Shopify video training to empower you to manage your own online shop after it goes live. We also design essential email marketing automations such as a welcome email series (sent to new subscribers) and an abandoned cart sequence to recover abandoned checkouts.

Working with a professional and experienced Shopify web design studio such as Nutmeg ensures your website will be user-friendly, beautiful, on-brand and conversion-focused. 

Great question!

We’ve built many WordPress/WooCommerce powered online shops. This has given us insight into how Shopify and WordPress differ and the truth is Shopify is far superior to WordPress when it comes to managing, integrating and scaling an eCommerce business.

Shopify is a purpose-built eCommerce business management system. It includes:

• Performance-focused cloud-based web hosting.
• Ecommerce website maintenance and online security.
• A point-of-sale system.
• An eCommerce website that’s easy to edit (and never breaks after plugin updates).
• Inventory management.
• Global market selling functionality.
• Multi-channel selling with Amazon, eBay, Pinterest and Meta integrations (to name a few).
• Advanced analytics built into the dashboard.
• Plus so much more.

Sellers switching from WordPress to Shopify will be amazed at how intuitive, easy and integrated Shopify’s ecosystem really is. Shopify is hands down the best solution for sellers who want to focus on the actions that move their business forward.

No you don’t need to sign up to a monthly Shopify plan while we build your website.

As official Shopify partners, we are able to create a special development website for your project. This is where we build your entire online shop and you can view it live as it progresses.

Once you’ve approved the website, we transfer store ownership to you. This is when you choose a Shopify plan and your website becomes live.

No it definitely won’t go offline!

We will redesign your website on an unpublished theme. This means we rebuild in the background while your existing website stays live and active. We only publish the new design once you’ve approved it. At this point we’ll do lots of testing to ensure everything is working as it should.

Yes – the beauty of Shopify is that it’s easy for store owners and managers to edit their own websites, including editing the design of all their main content pages including the homepage.

All our packages include video training guides showing you how to edit your website.

Yes – the studio’s owner, Megan Hodson, comes from a communications / content SEO background and has worked with eCommerce websites since 2010.

Our base Shopify packages includes foundational SEO to ensure the site is built according to best practices.

However – foundational SEO is rarely enough, especially in eCommerce, to get a website onto the first page of search engine results for targeted keywords. Therefore, we do offer an Advanced SEO add-on that we will explain during the discovery call.

It often happens that while we’re building your website you realise that there is an extra customization or addition you really want (that wasn’t in the initial scope of work).

We will try to accommodate your request as best as possible. This might sometimes mean your project takes longer to complete or it costs extra for the additional development time required to customise, add or tweak functionality. All of this will be disclosed to you before proceeding with your customization request.

No – we do not offer custom theme development as a service.

Please note that custom theme design and development comes with a long timeline and a starting price of at least $10 000 USD. Read this article to learn more about the pro’s and con’s of a custom Shopify theme.