Shopify, Plus & Hydrogen

Shopify development that lifts your sales.

Theme builds in Liquid, Shopify Plus migrations and headless Hydrogen storefronts — fast to load, and easy for your team to merchandise.

124Shopify builds
7wkTypical timeline
98Avg. Lighthouse
What changes in 90 days+38%
Every figure came off a live store, not a projection.
01

Shopify development past the template.

Most Shopify stores that reach us are not broken, just heavy. A bought theme, a stack of apps layered on top, and nobody certain which of them still earns the scripts it loads.

So we build the theme, not configure someone else’s. Sections your team can rearrange without a developer, an app list that has to justify itself, and checkout logic that survives the next theme update.

124 Shopify builds sit behind that, from customised premium themes to Plus migrations and headless Hydrogen. A theme build runs six to eight weeks; Hydrogen runs fourteen to twenty.

What this buys you
A Liquid theme built for your catalogue
Every app measured for its performance cost
Around twenty sections your team can edit
301 mapping that holds your rankings
02

Shopify development services we offer.

Three build routes, depending on how far past a template you need to go.

Customised theme

A premium theme taken apart and rebuilt around your brand and the way you merchandise.

6–8 weeks

Custom theme

Custom Shopify theme development from a blank page in Liquid, with every section made for how you sell.

8–12 weeks

Headless / Hydrogen

A React storefront over Shopify’s back end, for experiences Liquid cannot deliver. Our most capable build.

14–20 weeks
Editor-first sectionsEvery block exposed in the theme editor with guardrails, so your team publishes campaigns without raising a ticket.
App performance auditApps are the top cause of slow Shopify stores. We measure what each costs in load time and strip the duplicates.
Checkout & conversion setupCheckout branding on Plus, cart drawer, upsell logic and analytics events wired and verified before you go live.
Migration without SEO lossProducts, customers, orders and URL structure carried across with full 301 mapping and a crawl comparison to prove it.
Performance budgetA Core Web Vitals target written into the contract and proved on real handsets, not on a developer laptop.
Documented handoverRepository access, theme documentation and a recorded walkthrough. The code is yours and the IP assigns on payment.
03

Our Shopify development process.

The staging URL lands in week three, so you are never waiting on a reveal.

01

Discover

02

Design

03

Build

04

Launch

05

Optimise

Week 1

The scope stops moving in week one.

Catalogue review, app audit, analytics check and a merchandising workshop with the people who will run the store every day.

App & performance audit
Catalogue structure review
Merchandising workshop
Scope fixed in writing
1wkDuration
FixedScope agreed
Week 2–3

Designed around how you sell.

Three creative directions, then full storefront UI for every template: home, collection, product, cart, account and the edge cases.

3 concept directions
All templates designed
Mobile-first layouts
Component library in Figma
2wkDuration
12+Templates
Week 3–6

Liquid, built to be edited.

Editor-first sections with sensible settings and guardrails. The staging URL is shared in week three so you can follow along.

Editor-first section build
App integrations
Custom bundle / upsell logic
Cross-device QA
3–4wkDuration
Wk 3Staging live
Week 7

A launch nobody notices.

Data migration, 301 mapping, analytics verified live and a launch window your team chooses. We stay on call afterwards.

Data & content migration
301 redirect mapping
Analytics verified live
7 days on-call support
1wkDuration
0Downtime target
Ongoing

Then the number starts moving.

An optional CRO retainer — structured testing against the metric agreed in discovery, plus performance monitoring through peak season.

A/B testing programme
Core Web Vitals monitoring
Monthly reporting
Seasonal campaign support
OngoingOptional
+38%Best lift
04

The Shopify stack we build on.

Picked for whoever maintains it after the handover call, not for how it reads in a proposal.

05

Recent client results.

Live client stores, each measured against a number that was agreed before the work started.

Attackletics homepage on desktop and mobile

Attackletics

A smart batting tee and coaching app for baseball and softball hitters, from youth players to pros. The brief was Japanese retro-cyberpunk — neon, scanlines and chromatic edges — on a store that still opens instantly on a phone.

Sales
2×
Order value
+35%
ShopifyCRO6 weeks
Applied Vision Baseball homepage on desktop and mobile

Applied Vision Baseball

Swing-mechanics and vision trainers built by players for players — strobe glasses, reaction lights, swing locks. A deliberately minimal storefront that puts the product demonstration first and gets out of its way.

Conversion
+46%
Organic traffic
+56%
ShopifyCRO6 weeks
Cocoon Care homepage on desktop and mobile

Cocoon Care

Bamboo swaddles, sleep bags and everyday babywear for Indian parents, much of it bought for infants with eczema. Hundreds of products, tens of thousands of orders and years of ranking history moved off a slow WooCommerce build without losing any of it.

Conversion, from 1.5%
3.5%
Organic traffic
+30%
ShopifyMigrationCRO6 weeks
GRH Kratom homepage on desktop and mobile

GRH Kratom

Farm-to-market kratom and kava from a family-owned Southeast Asian farm, sold to a US audience that reads labels closely. Six years of SEO equity, hundreds of products and thousands of pages moved off WooCommerce with every ranking intact.

Organic traffic
+40%
Conversion
+45%
ShopifyMigrationCRO8 weeks
MindPanda homepage on desktop and mobile

MindPanda

Stress balls, journals and planners for people managing their own mental load. An established Amazon seller that wanted a direct channel of its own — catalogue ported across, multi-market listings configured, conversion designed for.

Direct revenue
7 figures
Channel, ahead of Amazon
No.1
ShopifyMigrationCRO6 weeks
Karomi Crafts homepage on desktop and mobile

Karomi Crafts

Handwoven jamdani turned into contemporary womenswear by a Kolkata label that refuses to greenwash. The store already existed; what it lacked was a path from admiring the craft to buying it.

Sales
+30%
Page load
<1.2s
ShopifyCRO7 weeks
06

Why brands choose Syscodes.

What clients told us tipped the decision our way.

01

124 Shopify builds behind us

Depth on one platform beats a passing acquaintance with six. We know where Shopify strains at scale.

124Shopify builds
02

Publishing does not require us

Every section is exposed in the theme editor with guardrails, so a campaign can go live the same day.

0dev tickets to publish
03

Apps get audited, not accumulated

Apps are the commonest reason a Shopify store is slow. Anything duplicating a native feature comes out.

-1.6stypical load saved
04

Migrations that keep your rankings

Full 301 mapping, structured-data parity and a crawl comparison either side of go-live.

0rankings lost
05

Shopify Plus, done properly

Checkout extensibility, B2B price lists, Scripts, Launchpad and regional storefronts, built by a team that has shipped them before.

Plusenterprise builds shipped
06

The testing begins at launch

An optional retainer, run by the same people who built the store, against the metric agreed on in discovery.

+38%best post-launch lift
07

Merchants we work with.

Skincare, fashion, FMCG, subscription and wholesale.

They took the wildest brief we have given anyone and came straight back asking about our page weight budget. That told us everything.
AttackleticsFounder — Sports tech, USA
sales
Our products stopped being a page on the website and started being a shop.
Applied Vision BaseballCo-founder — Sports training, USA
+46%conversion
We used to turn away orders from countries we could not price. Now they just arrive.
KampuraFounder — Specialty food, Guatemala
+55%organic traffic
08

Ways to
work with us.

Every project is scoped individually after a free consultation, and the proposal states what is included.

Engagement

Customised theme

Scoped to fittypical timeline
  • A premium theme taken apart
  • Every core template covered
  • Sections your team controls
Most chosenRecommended

Custom theme

Scoped to fittypical timeline
  • Drawn from a blank page
  • Art direction of your own
  • A section library built for you
Engagement

Headless / Hydrogen

Scoped to fittypical timeline
  • React storefront on Hydrogen
  • Shopify handling the commerce
  • For experiences Liquid cannot deliver
09

Frequently asked questions.

Starting with what Shopify Plus actually opens up.

Still unsure?

Ask us anything before committing to a call. Most questions get a real answer within a few hours.

hello@syscodes.in+91 70034 16634Book a 30-min call
How long does a Shopify build take?

A customised premium theme takes six to eight weeks. A custom theme drawn from a blank page takes eight to twelve. A headless Hydrogen storefront takes fourteen to twenty. Every project is scoped individually after a free consultation.

What can you build on Shopify Plus?

Everything the platform opens at that tier: checkout extensibility and custom checkout logic, B2B company accounts and price lists, Shopify Scripts and Functions, Launchpad for scheduled campaigns, and multiple regional storefronts under one back office.

Can our marketing team edit the store afterwards?

That is the whole design goal. Sections come with sensible settings and guardrails in the theme editor, so banners, order, collections and copy all change without code. A typical build ships with around twenty editable sections.

How do you handle Shopify apps?

Sceptically. Apps are the commonest reason a store is slow. We measure the performance cost of each one, and anything duplicating native functionality comes out. Where an app costs seconds of script for one small feature, we write custom code instead.

Can you migrate us from WooCommerce or Magento?

Yes. Products, variants, customers, order history and URL structure all carry across with full 301 mapping, so rankings hold. We run a crawl comparison either side of launch and watch rankings for the first month afterwards.

Should we hire a Shopify developer in-house or use an agency?

If your roadmap is a steady drip of small changes, an in-house Shopify developer will serve you well. Agencies earn their place on concentrated work: a build, a migration, a headless Hydrogen project. That is the work we take.

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Start your Shopify project.

New build, theme refresh, Plus migration or headless: tell us which, and a proposal follows within a day.

Free consultation — 30 minutes, no obligation, senior lead on the call
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Within 1 business dayWe read it properly and reply with real questions — not a templated brochure.
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A 30-minute scoping callFree, no obligation. We tell you honestly if we are the wrong fit.
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A written proposalScope, timeline, deliverables and the success metric — all on one page.
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