Pricing
Honest budgets. No surprises.
Three ways to engage. Real budget bands for real project types. Fixed-fee for projects, reserved-block for retainers — never hourly. What you read here is what you'll see in the quote.
Hire us the way that fits.
One project, a monthly retainer, or a multi-quarter Plus partnership. No long-tail contracts. No agency lock-in.
Project
Fixed-scope build
- One defined outcome (theme refactor, integration, app)
- Sprint-based delivery in 2–6 weeks
- Loom updates + weekly checkpoint
- Performance + QA pass at handoff
- 30-day warranty
Retainer
Dedicated hours every month
- Reserved senior dev hours each month
- Weekly sync + Notion roadmap
- Same team, no re-briefing
- CRO + performance work compounds
- Cancel with 30 days notice
Plus Partner
Embedded studio relationship
- Multi-quarter roadmap ownership
- Strategy + design + dev in one team
- Direct Slack + on-call coverage
- Quarterly business reviews
- NDA + DPA standard
Budget bands
What things actually cost.
Bands, not single numbers — because every project is shaped a little differently. Discovery calls turn ranges into quotes.
Theme refactor
$15k – $35k
Cleanup + section library + perf pass on existing theme
Custom Plus theme rebuild
$45k – $120k
Full design + build, 8–14 weeks
Hydrogen / headless storefront
$80k – $220k
Storefront on Hydrogen + Oxygen, 12–20 weeks
Plus migration
$35k – $90k
From Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or legacy Shopify
Custom Shopify app
$20k – $80k
Private or public, includes infra + first 30 days on-call
Performance audit + fix
$12k – $30k
Audit week + 2–4 sprints of remediation
Integration project
$15k – $60k
ERP / 3PL / OMS / ESP — depends on system + complexity
Retainer (monthly)
$4k – $20k+
Reserved senior dev hours each month, scales with hours
In and out
What's in the quote.
In every quote
- Discovery call + roadmap workshop
- Sprint-scoped delivery plan with named milestones
- Live preview environment
- Loom + Slack updates 2× per week
- End-of-sprint demo + retro
- Performance + accessibility audit at launch
- 30-day post-launch on-call window
- All source code, fully transferred
- Onboarding session for your in-house team
Not in every quote
- Stock photography or licensed assets (passed through at cost)
- Third-party Shopify app subscriptions (you own the licenses)
- Hosting for custom apps (we recommend & set up; you own the bill)
- Translation for new languages (we work with translators we trust)
- Ongoing maintenance after the warranty window (move to retainer)
- Hardware or POS integrations (case-by-case scope)
Pricing FAQ
Questions about money.
For everything else — engagement, process, technical, legal — see the full FAQ.
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Not a range.
Strategy call this week, scoped quote next week. No high-pressure sales — if we're not the right fit, we'll say so.