Our expertise

Engineering that scales with your business

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Foundation First

Technology

  • Structured review of theme, apps, data model, integrations, and checkout. Plain-language findings your team can share internally, plus a prioritised roadmap: foundation before features.

  • Bespoke Online Store 2.0 themes with modular sections, lean asset loading, and admin controls your merchandising team can actually use. Performance and conversion structure are decisions you make at build time, not patches you chase later.

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    Merchant Experience

    Storefront UX, checkout flows, and admin workflows built for how your merchandising and ops teams actually work. Structural improvements in theme, checkout extensions, and apps, not overlay CRO patches.

  • Custom apps and private integrations when off-the-shelf tools create overlap, fragility, or margin erosion. Built on Shopify's APIs with maintainability and merchant workflow in mind.

  • Checkout and customer account extensions, plus Shopify Functions for pricing, delivery, and payment logic. For Shopify Plus brands that need checkout customisation without painting themselves into a corner.

  • End-to-end migrations from WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, and custom platforms. Data mapping, URL redirects, theme rebuilds, and launch planning with minimal downtime and SEO continuity.

  • ERP, PIM, CRM, and fulfilment integrations wired into a coherent Shopify stack. We tidy data flow and cut app sprawl, which is the hidden tax on most stores trying to scale.

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Built Properly

Creative

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    Branding and Identity

    Brand identities that work on the storefront, in campaigns, and across lifecycle touchpoints. Visual systems meant to convert, not just look good in a guidelines PDF.

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    Data Architecture

    Metafield, metaobject, and content models that keep merchandising flexible as your catalogue and campaigns grow. Having data is one thing. Your theme and admin being able to use it without a developer on speed dial is another.

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    Content Strategy

    Editorial and product content frameworks tied to search intent, conversion paths, and brand voice. Consistent across PDPs, collections, email, and social instead of siloed by channel.

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    Design System

    Component libraries and design tokens that keep storefront updates fast, cohesive, and on-brand. Cuts the cost of iteration as your team scales content and campaign output.

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Informed Decisions

Strategy

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    Conversion Rate Optimisation

    We run audits and test programmes focused on contribution margin and checkout completion. The friction that hurts most is usually buried in product discovery, merchandising, or the purchase flow, and it gets worse as traffic grows.

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    Brand discovery

    We help you nail positioning, value proposition, and audience fit before you pour money into creative and tech. You walk away with a framework your team can actually use, not a deck that gathers dust.

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    Market, Customer & Competitor Analysis

    Category, customer, and competitive research that feeds into merchandising, acquisition, and retention. Based on how your market actually works, not recycled playbooks from a generic ecommerce blog.

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    Personalisation

    Segmented journeys and lifecycle personalisation that lift repeat purchase and LTV without bolting on apps you do not need. Built around your data architecture from the start.

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Stack-Connected Growth

Marketing

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    Loyalty and Subscription Strategy

    Retention models (subscriptions, replenishment, loyalty programmes) designed around payback period and LTV, not signup volume alone. Sustainable growth needs customers who come back profitably.

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    Email and SMS Marketing

    Lifecycle flows and campaign architecture hooked into your Shopify data layer. Post-purchase, win-back, and replenishment sequences based on behaviour, not a batch-and-blast calendar.

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    Social Media Marketing

    Channel strategy and creative direction aligned to product margins and acquisition efficiency. Social should feed the storefront and retention stack, not sit off on its own as a content exercise.

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    Personalised UX and A/B Testing

    Structured experimentation on merchandising, navigation, and offer presentation. We tie tests to revenue and margin impact. A variant that lifts orders but erodes profit is not a win.

Building a better commerce together

Our Trusted Partners

  • Recharge
  • Shoplift
  • Gadget
  • Shopify
  • Logbase
  • LoyaltyLion
  • Loox
  • Klaviyo
  • Loop Subscriptions
  • Skio

Shopify Services FAQs

Shopify Stack Recovery is oContis Studio's methodology for established DTC brands whose Shopify setup no longer scales with the business. We diagnose your theme, apps, data model, integrations, and checkout, prioritize a foundation-first roadmap, rebuild what off-the-shelf tools cannot fix, then partner long term so your stack stays maintainable. It starts with a Shopify stack audit. See the four phases on this page or book a discovery call.

Yes. We are a Shopify Partner agency working with Shopify and Shopify Plus merchants across the UK, US, Europe, and UAE. Our technology work includes checkout UI extensions, Shopify Functions, custom apps, data architecture, and performance-focused theme builds. See our portfolio, including work with brands such as Scrumbles and Lanoguard.

Yes. Replatforming is part of our rebuild phase when a strategic initiative requires it: data migration, URL redirects, theme rebuilds, integration mapping, and launch planning. We migrate stores from WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Shopware, PrestaShop, and other systems. Start with our free Shopify Migration Readiness Assessment. Platform guides: Magento, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce.

A structured review of your theme architecture, app footprint, metafield and metaobject models, third-party integrations, and checkout setup. You receive plain-language findings the decision maker can share internally, plus a prioritised roadmap: foundation before features, including honest scoping on what should not be rebuilt yet. When growth has stalled, see what to do if your Shopify revenue is plateauing. For related technical context, see our articles on theme architecture, metaobjects, and app sprawl.

Premium themes get you live fast, but they often pick up app dependency, performance debt, and rigid merchandising patterns as traffic and campaigns get more complex. A custom theme is built around your catalogue, integrations, and team workflows from day one. That means lower modification cost over time and fewer structural walls as you grow. The trade-off is higher upfront investment for less friction over the next 12 to 24 months.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call via our contact page or the schedule link on this page. We will talk through your stack, what is blocking growth, and whether Stack Recovery or a specific rebuild is the right entry point. If you are evaluating a replatform, try our free Migration Readiness Assessment.

Has Shopify become a constraint?

Start with a discovery call. We will assess whether Stack Recovery is the right entry point and outline what a scalable foundation looks like for your store.