We build private dashboards, product logic and integrations around a real merchant workflow. We check existing apps first.
Bundles, personalisation, subscriptions and common fulfilment tasks often have established apps. If one fits the business and costs less to own, we will recommend it.
Custom work makes sense when the selling rule, operational workflow or system connection is specific enough that an existing app cannot represent it safely.
Discovery produces the workflow, data model, acceptance criteria and maintenance plan before the application is priced. Signed webhooks, Shopify permissions and admin access are limited to what the app needs. Representative failures are tested as well as the happy path.
The Cheshire Cheesecakes build, drawn as one system rather than described as one.
Shopify
Shopify storeLocations, products, variants, inventory and ordersShopify to Private operations app
Read through Admin GraphQL, with signed webhooks for new, changed and cancelled orders and a scheduled full sync as the fallback.
Private operations app back to Shopify
Finished stock entered by staff is written back as availability for mapped single products and box variants.
Private operations app
Private operations app to Kitchen operations
Delivery and dispatch dates resolved into what the kitchen has to make and pack.
Kitchen operations
Custom Shopify development shaped by the practical work of running stores.
Scoped after the selling model is written down
One bounded piece
£1,500$2,000
One bounded improvement: landing pages, a template rebuild, an analytics implementation, or a build-readiness review credited against a larger project.
Fixed price
Plus, B2B, multi-market
From £8,000From $10,500
Shopify Plus, B2B, multi-market, multi-language, custom integrations or headless work. These configurations are sized after discovery, not instant-priced.
Starting price · scoped after discovery
Maintenance against platform changes
Per month
From £1,250From $1,650
A live improvement programme on one site. You set the priorities each month, we work the queue in order, and the month closes with what changed and what it did.
Starting price
Per month
From £3,000From $4,000
Continuous delivery across an agreed portfolio, with planning ahead of the work rather than a queue you have to keep feeding.
Starting price
App work is scoped after the selling model, the surfaces and the fulfilment requirement are agreed. A published figure before that would be a guess, and app guesses are wrong in one direction only.
A custom or private app is installed on your store only, so it skips App Store review and can be shaped entirely around how you trade. A public app is a product sold to many merchants, which is a different business with listing requirements, support obligations and a review process attached.
It can, which is why the surfaces are kept minimal. Theme app extensions load as part of the theme, and Shopify Functions run inside the platform rather than as an external call at checkout. Anything that would put a network round trip in the buying path gets challenged before it is built.
Usually, starting with a review of the code, the data model and the deployment path. Inheriting an app without that review is how a small change turns into an unplanned rebuild, so the review is a short bounded piece of work on its own.
Because that gets checked first. Bundles, mix-and-match and product personalisation all have established App Store options, and for most catalogues one of them fits. Bespoke work earns its place when the configuration rules and the fulfilment requirement are specific enough that no existing mapping holds.
Tell us what the customer does, what the team does next and which rule the standard tools cannot handle.
