Shopify developer for businesses in Edinburgh

An existing theme is a practical starting point when its layouts suit your products. Customising it keeps the initial setup lighter and makes later theme updates simpler. A custom theme gives you a design shaped around your brand and unusual products, but subsequent layout changes need development work. Weigh up how much control you need over the design and who will make changes after launch.

A headless storefront using Hydrogen or Next.js suits content-led brands or buying flows that a conventional theme cannot accommodate. That choice comes with a trade-off: you give up the theme editor, and apps that add features through a theme may not work. Your team’s preferred way of editing the storefront should be part of that decision.

Checkout has its own limits. Shopify runs it, with standard customisation available from the Basic plan up. Apps that change the information, shipping and payment steps are limited to Shopify Plus. We help you choose a route by discussing those limits alongside the theme and editing trade-offs.

For online orders, UK customers must be told they can cancel up to 14 days after delivery without giving a reason. We set up a returns policy page where you can present that information alongside your business’s returns process.

If your business is a UK limited company, its website must show its registered number, registered office address, place of registration and limited-company status. We set up a place on the site for those details; you supply the information for your company.

Gather what you already have; these details help us define the store and its scope.

• A Shopify account and plan in your business’s name and billing.
• A product sheet with titles, descriptions, prices, SKUs, barcodes, weights, options and stock by location.
• Consistent product photos for each colour or style, plus size charts, care instructions and specifications.
• Business and bank details for your payment gateway, and your shipping, returns, privacy and terms policies. Review generated templates before using them.
• For a migration, exports of products, customers and orders, plus the URLs bringing the most traffic and sales.

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  Editing the live theme

  A mistake appears to visitors immediately. Duplicate the theme, make changes on the copy, preview them and then publish.

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  Skipping redirects

  Shopify uses fixed product and collection paths. Map old URLs to new ones and import the map at launch; redirects only work from URLs that no longer load a page.

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  Loose product data

  Inconsistent tags, product types and vendors can put products in the wrong collections or hide them from filters. Keep those fields consistent.

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  Leaving demo content in place

  Check for placeholder policies and default notification wording before launch.