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How Much Does Shopify Development Really Cost?

What actually drives the number on a Shopify build — and why a published price list would tell you less than a written scope.

Shopify Partner agency
Written scope, one fixed price
4.9★ on Google
You own everything on handover

Why Choose Livin Services?

We do not publish a Shopify price list, and the reason is not evasiveness: a headline figure is wrong for almost everyone who reads it, and it hides the four things that genuinely move the number. Those four are the state of your product data, whether a migration is involved, how much of the design needs bespoke Liquid rather than theme configuration, and how many integrations have to keep working afterwards. Two stores that look identical can differ several-fold on those alone. So we scope your actual job line by line and attach one fixed price to it — and if it turns out bigger than the scope we agreed, absorbing the difference is our cost.

What You Get

We deliver measurable results, not just pretty websites. Here is what you can expect when you partner with us.

One fixed price

A written scope with a single number attached. No hourly billing, no change-order drip.

Third-party costs stated

Your Shopify plan and any paid apps are yours and named upfront, so nothing arrives as a surprise.

Cheapest option named

Where configuration will do the job, we say so instead of quoting custom work you do not need.

Quotes are free

No discovery fee and no sales call. You get a written scope and a price, or an honest no.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.

Because a starting price is a marketing number, not an estimate. It is set low enough to get a call and almost never survives contact with a real project — which is why so many builds end in change orders. We would rather write your scope down and attach one fixed price to it. That takes us longer and it is the only version that holds.

Four things, in roughly this order. First, product data: clean CSVs with consistent variants are quick, whereas inconsistent options and missing images are slow. Second, migration: moving orders and customers with their history is a different job from starting fresh. Third, how much of the design needs bespoke Liquid rather than theme configuration. Fourth, integrations — every ERP, 3PL or accounting system that must keep working adds testing, not just wiring.

Yes, and they are yours rather than ours: Shopify's own monthly subscription, and any paid third-party apps we agree you need. We name both in the scope before you commit, and we default to the smallest app stack that does the job — every app is a recurring bill and a piece of weight on your storefront.

Sometimes for good reasons — extensive research, large teams, genuine enterprise compliance work. Often for overhead you get nothing from: account managers between you and the developer, and offices. Judge it by what appears in the scope. If a quote is much higher and the scope is not correspondingly more specific, you are paying for the layer, not the work.

Yes. Anything beyond a small job is split into milestones, with a deposit to commit capacity and the balance against agreed stages. Ownership of the code, the design files and every account transfers to you on final payment.

It depends almost entirely on data volume and data quality rather than store size. Products with consistent variants migrate quickly; historical orders, customer accounts with passwords, and URL redirects for existing SEO are the parts that take real time. We look at an export of your actual data before quoting, because guessing at this one is how migrations overrun.

Ready when you are

Tell us what you need and you will get a written scope with one fixed price attached — or an honest no if it is not work we should take. No discovery fee, no sales call.