Guides, tips and advice for merchants working with Shopify agencies. New posts every week.
Headless Shopify costs $80,000–$200,000+ to build and $3,000–$10,000/month to maintain. It is the right architecture for roughly 5% of Shopify merchants. For the other 95%, a well-customized theme does the same job for a fraction of the cost. Here is how to decide.
By Helena Hernandez · May 5, 2026
Without proper redirect mapping, metadata preservation, and post-launch monitoring, a Shopify migration can cost you 20–40% of organic traffic for 3–6 months. This step-by-step checklist prevents that.
Freelancers are best for projects under $10,000 with clear scope. Agencies are best for projects over $15,000 or anything with ambiguity and integrations. The grey zone is $10,000–$15,000 — here is how to decide.
Magento-to-Shopify-Plus migrations are the most complex and expensive platform migrations in ecommerce. Budget $10,000–$100,000+, 8–24 weeks, and expect the hardest parts to be custom module replacement, ERP re-integration, and multi-store architecture decisions.
Shopify's checkout already outperforms most competitors, but there is still a 60–75% cart abandonment rate across ecommerce. These 12 changes are the ones that consistently lift checkout completion — ranked by impact and effort.
Email drives 25–40% of revenue for well-run Shopify stores. Klaviyo is the default, Omnisend is the value pick, and Mailchimp is the generalist. Here is an honest comparison with pricing at multiple list sizes.
The average $1M/year Shopify store has 12–15 apps installed. Most are paying for apps they do not need, and the app bloat is slowing their site. Here is the lean app stack that actually powers a $1M store — and the popular apps you can probably delete.
Agencies propose three pricing structures. Fixed price protects you on scope. Retainers protect ongoing capacity. Time and materials protects flexibility. Here is how to choose the right one for your project.
Shopify creates duplicate content by default. Every product in multiple collections gets multiple URLs. Tag pages generate thin content. Pagination creates crawl bloat. These are not bugs — they are how Shopify works. Here is how to fix each one.
BigCommerce-to-Shopify is one of the smoother platform migrations because the two platforms are architecturally similar. Budget $3,000–$20,000, expect 4–10 weeks, and know that the hardest part is replacing BigCommerce-native features that need apps on Shopify.
A no-nonsense comparison of all four Shopify plans in 2026. We break down plan fees, card rates, transaction fees, staff limits, and the specific features that make each plan worth the upgrade — with revenue-band recommendations so you can pick the right plan in under five minutes.
By Elena King · April 14, 2026
The real monthly cost of Shopify is not the plan fee on the pricing page. It is plan fee + card processing + Shopify's transaction fee on third-party gateways — plus apps and the optional extras nobody tells you about. Worked examples for $10k, $50k, $100k and $500k/month stores.
Page 3 of 7(79 articles)