Shopify shop development,
integrations and migration from other platforms

There are two bills, and it is worth looking at them separately, because one is paid to us and the other is not. Building the shop is paid once and depends mainly on how large the catalogue is and what the shop has to connect to – a shop with fifty products and ready-made photos cannot cost the same as migrating three thousand items with a warehouse behind them.

The Shopify subscription, on the other hand, is monthly (it can also be prepaid annually, in which case you get a discount), is paid to Shopify and keeps running for as long as the shop is live. That is why we give you a price once we have heard what you sell and what volumes the shop handles.

With WooCommerce, money goes on hosting, maintenance and someone to fix things when something breaks after an update – and sooner or later that happens. With Shopify those costs disappear, because the platform takes care of them, but in return the subscription is fixed and keeps running. You can find out which option is better for you after a free consultation with us.

Yes, and this is actually one of the things Shopify does best, because its admin panel is made for merchants, not programmers. For everyday tasks – adding a product, running a promotion, processing an order – you do not need a technical person.

Cash on delivery works without any problems, so you can rest easy on that front. With the Bulgarian couriers Econt and Speedy, things are more complicated than with WooCommerce, where there are several free plugins that work well. On Shopify, Econt and Speedy have free apps, but they do not offer the full range of features and have their drawbacks. For smoother operation and courier integration you need to buy a plugin, which costs between $150 and $500 a year depending on your needs.

You can, and it is one of the things we do most often. Products, customers and past orders are transferred, and the old page URLs are redirected to the new ones before launch, so you do not lose your Google rankings.

No, as long as the redirects are in place before the shop goes live – not after you notice traffic dropping. This is exactly where most migrations go wrong: someone launches the new shop, forgets half of the old URLs, Google finds them as pages that no longer exist, and rankings start to fall over the following weeks. Changing platform does not hurt you in itself; the missed URLs do. Contact us for a free consultation on migrating to Shopify.

Yes, and it is much easier now than it was a year or two ago. Shopify Payments – Shopify’s own payment solution – has for some time also been available to Bulgarian companies, so you activate it straight from the shop’s admin panel and start accepting Visa and Mastercard payments without going round banks for a virtual POS terminal and without negotiating fees. The money from orders is paid into your account automatically at set intervals.

It stays with you and keeps running. The account is in your name; the theme and everything we have written for you stays inside it, and any other developer can open it and carry on from there. We do not keep anything on our side – everything is in your account, with your own access details.