Headless Shopify E-commerce & App Development

Our Toronto-based team has been developing Shopify sites and apps since 2017. We are experts in headless Shopify migrations. Put your e-commerce development project in trusted and experienced hands.

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Reimagine Your Online Store

E-commerce is fiercely competitive, and that environment demands swift, flexible action from storefronts. At 9thCO, we specialize in conventional and headless Shopify development. This allows us to decouple your store’s backend from the frontend. The headless conversion enables you to deliver much faster changes to your shopping experience that look and feel great on every platform. Meanwhile, you can do this without disrupting other aspects of your storefront.

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Shopify Migration & Custom Shopify App Builders

Looking to migrate to Shopify? Need to build a custom app? We've got you covered:

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Expertise
We’re a highly experienced team of web developers, hand-coding websites for over a decade.
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Certification
Our team is fully Shopify certified via the Shopify Partner Academy.
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Support
Our end-to-end project lifecycle maps out UI, UX, and architectural requirements. We thoroughly plan to avoid any disruption for your customers.
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Optimization
We balance business requirements with customer needs for an optimal online store experience. With a complete digital marketing team, SEO, PPC and conversion data are all carefully considered.

Certified Shopify Partner

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Our Shopify Development Process

We meet (in-person or virtually) with clients to discuss their business, brand, and goals.

We perform rigorous requirements gathering to plan architecture, integrations, and future extensibility options.

A complete project plan is provided for client sign-off, mapping out milestones, deliverables, and deadlines.

A dedicated project manager is assigned to keep you apprised as the project is underway.

We perform a complete post-launch analysis to ensure all business requirements have been met.

Common Questions

: Shopify is a comprehensive platform that allows you to create a customized storefront for your business. With it, customers from around the world can visit your store and interact with it through the web, mobile, social media, or through Shopify integrated applications. Shopify also has built-in payments and product management tools, and set shipping policies.
Managing a store is easy using the Shopify platform.
: Shopify is very limited for those who want to create their own store, especially for their first time. Trusting an experienced agency like 9thCO with your store will ensure everything from the design phase to your store's launch goes as smoothly as possible. Our programmers can also add features, either by custom code or using features we know will work.
As a Shopify Certified Partner, Shopify provides our team with all of the latest tools and features available in the platform.
: Absolutely! Shopify is a world-class e-commerce platform specifically designed to manage businesses of all sizes and inventory levels. The scalability of any business on the platform is limited only by the imagination and creativity of the team running the business. From large sales to high customer traffic, it will be able to handle anything.
: We believe in maintaining a long-term relationship with our clients. Everything from project contracts and pricing structure for projects will be ironed out based on your needs.
: It really comes down to the needs of the business; the complexity of the project, the features to be implemented, and the amount of support needed. Our experts will be able to analyze your request and provide an estimate.
: Yes, this is generally referred to as replatforming. For sites built using WordPress and WooCommerce, the migration process is usually stress free. In some cases, migration may be a little more complicated, at which point a custom tool may need to be built, but don't worry, we can help out with that too.
: Migration costs depend largely on the complexity and quantity of the data that needs to be migrated. Your existing infrastructure and data will be assessed and an estimate will be provided by one of our experts.
: That's up to you! We'll happily provide support for as long as you need it once your store is built, and depending on the initial set up, we can add additional features to your store that will help facilitate your business' growth! We can also provide monthly maintenance support for your site, to keep it running smoothly.
: The initial set up may take from 4 weeks to over 6 months, depending on the scale of the store and complexity. We will make all reasonable efforts to get your store online as soon as possible, and you will have a dedicated project manager assisting you along the way.
: To ensure everything runs as smoothly as possible, having full access to your products in a digital format, any necessary back-end system(s), banking, shipping rates and analytics are all needed so we can take all possible aspects of your site into consideration and customize your store.
: For sure! We will work with you to develop your ideas and make them a reality for your store. Provided it is technically feasible.
: The Shop app by Shopify used to just be a package tracking app for Shopify store owners and customers, but it has been upgraded to allow consumers to browse a feed of recommended products, learn about brands they might like, and make purchases using one-click Shop Pay.
According to Shopify, your customers will have an 11% higher repurchase rate over the next 30 days. Shop one-click checkouts also have 1.91x checkout conversion rate. Shop has features like adding a post purchase promotion, setting product recommendations, and highlighting inventory like deals, trending products, and new arrivals. The Shop app will also promote your store based on your store settings, like location for local shoppers, or brand advocates for people who share your values.
Basically, being on Shopify and using the Shop app will bring you more customers, without much of an effort on your end.
: Shopify is a world leader in e-commerce. It’s a platform that allows a business to sell things online and in person — even across social channels.
If you’re wondering what is Shopify used for, this one platform handles everything from your digital footprint to payments, inventory, order tracking, and more. It’s one of the most competitive and powerful ways to digitize commerce.
: When you make Shopify headless, you benefit from the separation of your frontend and backend functions. You can make changes to one without affecting the other in any way. Because they are decoupled, the two halves of your store rely on APIs to communicate.
This change makes it easier to implement alterations to either the front or back of your store — as you no longer have to account for how any small change will impact the other half of the store.
The headless architecture can help your site run faster. It allows for substantially more customization for the user experience and provides virtually unlimited creative freedom for your design teams.
It also makes upgrades much easier as changes to one side cannot break the other.
: Keeping in mind that Shopify is not an inherently headless CMS, 9thCO streamlines the process of converting your store to take advantage of headless design.
We combine strategy, engineering, and design to help you form a custom headless Shopify storefront that is ready to operate at scale.
We do this with customized architecture, an API-first strategy, growth optimization, and combined content and commerce integrations.
: Businesses gain the most ROI from a headless Shopify store when they fit any of these categories:
They feel limited by Shopify’s default themes or content management
They need faster performance and better mobile UX
They require consistency across devices
They want to empower content marketing teams
They feel competitors are pulling ahead
: Headless Shopify examples come in all shapes and sizes, and you might recognize a few popular names:
Boll & Branch
Peloton
Staples
Victoria Beckham Beauty
Allbirds
This is just the beginning of brands that use headless commerce with Shopify.
: No. Shopify Plus is not required for any headless CMS, but it does provide features that might assist companies looking for headless advantages. For instance, Shopify Plus increases the API limit, allowing for more integrations and features, like advanced checkout options. All of this empowers headless Shopify development.
: Many ask is Shopify free? While Shopify does offer a free trial, continued use does require a paid subscription. Generally speaking, Shopify charges a transaction fee for each purchase. Various fee structures exist with differing percentage and flat, per-transaction rates.