We design, build and run Shopify stores for Irish businesses. That includes the parts specific to selling here: Irish payment providers, An Post shipping, VAT on EU sales and click and collect.
A bold Shopify site for a Marino gym, built around what members actually come for: classes for every age and stage, packages, gift cards and a timetable that's easy to read on a phone.
Booking runs through the Vantage app, so the site's job is to get people from "I should get fit" to their first free class as quickly as possible.
Visit vantagemarino.ieMost stores reach us in one of four states: new, half-built, dated, or sitting on the wrong platform. Not sure which you are? That's what the first call is for.
Theme, structure, products, payments, shipping and tax. Set up so the store is ready to sell on the day it opens, not ready to be configured.
Custom sections built in Liquid instead of another paid app. Faster pages, fewer monthly subscriptions, and a back end your team can run.
From WooCommerce, Magento, Squarespace or an older Shopify theme. Products, customers, orders and URLs moved across with redirects in place.
Accounts packages, stock systems, couriers and email platforms connected properly, and stripped back where a store pays for apps it no longer uses.
A Shopify theme will sell anywhere. The difference is in the setup underneath it, and that's where most of the DIY stores we inherit have come unstuck.
Shopify Payments, Stripe, Global Payments, Realex, Revolut Business and PayPal, configured and tested with live transactions before the store opens.
Rate tables for An Post, Fastway, DPD and GLS, with weight and zone rules that don't quietly cost you money on heavier orders.
Irish rates, zero-rated goods where they apply, and the EU OSS threshold set up before it turns into a conversation with your accountant.
Local pickup, collection windows and customer notifications, for shops trading online and on the street at the same time.
Most migrations aren't really a technical problem. They're a rankings problem. A store that moves badly loses the search traffic it spent years earning, and nobody notices until the second month.
We map every product, collection and blog URL before anything moves, keep the redirects in place permanently, and launch on a Tuesday morning, not a Friday evening.
Most clients come to us for the build and stay for what comes after. A Shopify store isn't finished at launch. It's only open.
Ongoing work is usually a mix of SEO, product content, page speed and the small changes a trading store needs every month. Maintenance plans sit alongside it if you'd rather not think about updates and backups at all.
A small store on a well-chosen theme is a different job to a two-thousand-product migration with a stock system behind it, so there's no single number worth printing.
The number of products and how clean the data is, whether you're migrating from another platform, the payment and delivery scenarios you sell into, and anything that needs to talk to software you already run.
A written scope, a fixed quote against it, and an honest answer if your budget and the work don't line up. We'll say so before we take a deposit.
See our ecommerce price guideA short chat is the fastest way to a real number.
Talk to us about your storeSomething else on your mind? Ring us on 021 212 6076.
Yes. Shopify Payments is available in Ireland, Stripe and PayPal are the common alternatives, and Global Payments and Realex both work. We set up and test whichever suits your bank and your margins.
It depends on the catalogue, any migration, and what the store needs to connect to. As a guide, a straightforward shop starts from €900 and bigger builds are quoted against a written scope. You get a fixed price before any work starts.
A straightforward store is four to six weeks. A migration with a large catalogue or a custom theme runs longer. You get a date in the scope rather than a range.
That's the main thing we plan around. Products, collections and blog posts are mapped to their new URLs and redirected permanently. Traffic usually dips for a fortnight and then recovers.
Shopify suits you if you sell a defined range of products, want to be live quickly and would rather pay a monthly fee than manage anything technical. WooCommerce suits unusual products, trade pricing or a shop inside a larger content site. We'll tell you which fits on the first call.
Usually not. We build custom sections in Liquid instead of adding another paid app, which keeps pages faster and monthly subscriptions down. On stores we inherit, we often strip back apps that are no longer used.
Yes. Half-built and DIY stores are one of the most common things we're asked to take on. We'll look at what's there, keep what works, and finish the setup properly.
You do. The Shopify account is in your name and your billing from day one. We work inside it as a staff account, and you can remove that access whenever you like.
On a migration they come across in bulk, so yes. On a new store we set up the structure and then either import your spreadsheet or show your team how to run it themselves.
Yes. Ongoing work usually covers SEO, product content, speed and campaigns. Maintenance plans for ecommerce sites cover updates, backups and security if you would rather not think about them.
Most of our clients are outside Cork: Dublin, Galway, Limerick and a fair few further afield. None of them have needed to come to the office.
Tell us what you sell and where the store is now: live, half-built, or still an idea. We'll come back with an honest read on whether we're the right fit, and what it's likely to cost.
Most enquiries get a reply the same day.
