We build custom Shopify apps for work that doesn’t fit anything in the App Store, such as Verandah’s B2B trade application app. Most stores don’t need one, so we start by checking whether an existing app or a native Shopify feature already does the job.
Custom apps from $10,000
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Simon Alert KristensenHead of Marketing at EpivityA custom app is software you then own. It needs hosting, monitoring and updates as Shopify retires API versions, so the first question is whether you need one at all.
If an app in the Shopify App Store does most of what you need, use it and adjust the last part of your process. A monthly fee usually costs less than owning software, and the app’s developer handles Shopify’s changes.
Check the native features first. Shopify B2B is available from the Basic plan up, with features that depend on your plan, and Shopify Flow automates store tasks from Basic up too.
If nobody needs a screen and the job is keeping two systems in step, you need an integration rather than an app people log into. See Shopify ERP integration.
Custom apps containing Shopify Functions run only on Plus, and checkout UI extensions on the information, shipping and payment steps are Plus only too. On other plans, a public app from the App Store is often the way to get that logic.
Verandah reviews trade customers before they get a trade account, and the logic behind that is the job. The app handles someone who already has an account, colleagues applying for the same business and a rejected application coming back, and refuses to approve a customer who belongs to a different company.
When a job happens all day on orders, customers or products, it belongs on those pages. Admin UI extensions add actions and blocks where staff already work, and an embedded app gets its own pages in admin, so nobody has to switch tools.
| Part of Shopify | What an app does there |
|---|---|
| Pages in Shopify admin | Staff tools embedded in admin, such as a queue of applications to review. |
| Order, customer and product pages | Admin UI extensions add actions and blocks where staff already work. |
| Storefront | Theme app extensions add blocks you place in the theme editor, without editing theme code. |
| Checkout | Checkout UI extensions. The information, shipping and payment steps are Plus only. Thank you and Order status pages are on most plans. |
| Discount, delivery and payment logic | Shopify Functions. A custom app containing them needs Plus. A public app containing them works on other plans. |
| Automation | Flow triggers and actions connect the app to the workflows your team already runs. |
| Other systems | Webhooks and the Admin API let the app react to orders and customers and write the results back. |
The first step can end the project, and we’d rather it did than build something you don’t need.
We go through the App Store, Shopify’s native features and whether a small process change would do. If something existing fits, we’ll tell you.
Custom distribution for your store, or for several stores in one Plus organization. Public distribution if you want other merchants to install it, which means Shopify’s review. You can’t change this later, so we decide it first.
We write down who does what, which records the app creates or changes, and what happens when the data doesn’t fit. The scope and price come from this.
We build with Shopify’s own admin components so the app feels part of admin, and test it on a development store before it touches your live data.
You install it from a link we send. Your staff use it on real work while we watch closely and fix what they run into.
Shopify releases a new API version every quarter and supports each for at least 12 months. We keep the app on a supported version if you want us to, or hand it to your developers. You own the code.
Custom apps from $10,000
We check on a discovery call whether you need an app at all, then agree the scope and price with you before any work starts.
Book a callPrices are in US dollars. Hosting, your Shopify subscription and ongoing development are separate. If what you need is data moving between systems, see Shopify ERP integration. For everything else we build, see Shopify development services.
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