Shopify store builds, theme customisation, app integrations and fixes for Australian retailers. Scoped and fixed-quoted by a Melbourne-based Shopify developer, with payments, shipping and GST set up properly from day one.
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CloudyWP is a Shopify developer in Melbourne that builds new stores, customises themes, connects apps and back-office systems, migrates stores onto Shopify and fixes stores that have stopped working properly. We work with retailers across Australia. Shopify development starts from $300 AUD for a focused change and runs up to $20,000 for a large custom store. Your Shopify plan and any paid apps are billed by Shopify and the app makers, separately from our quote.
A Shopify developer changes what the Shopify admin cannot: the theme code, the way products and collections display, the checkout experience within Shopify's rules, and the connections between your store and the rest of your business. This is the Shopify development work we take on.
From an empty account to a trading store: theme set-up or custom design, collections and navigation, product templates, payments, shipping zones, taxes, policies, email notifications and analytics. We load your products or show your team how to, and run test orders before launch.
Most stores need a few things their theme cannot do: a size guide per product type, bundles, a custom announcement bar, a better mobile menu, or sections the marketing team can rearrange. We add them as Online Store 2.0 sections and blocks, so they stay editable in the theme editor.
Every app adds a monthly fee and usually some script weight. We review the apps you have, remove ones a few lines of theme code can replace, and connect Shopify to inventory, accounting, CRM and fulfilment systems. Where the job is ongoing data flow rather than code, see Shopify automation.
Moving to Shopify from WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace or another platform means products, variants, customers, order history and every old URL. We map redirects so search engines and bookmarks land on the right page. Leaving Shopify for WooCommerce is covered on our Shopify to WooCommerce migration page.
When a store slows down or something stops working, the cause is usually an app script, a theme edit that conflicts with an update, or oversized images on collection pages. We trace it, fix it and tell you what caused it so it does not come back.
Shopify does not let merchants put their own firewall in front of the storefront, so bot attacks have to be handled inside Shopify. For one store under sustained attack we identified more than 50,000 bot requests and blocked them without interrupting real buyers.
Read the bot attack case studyMost new stores are better off with a well-chosen theme customised by a Shopify developer; a fully custom theme makes sense when your brand, catalogue or buying process genuinely does not fit any existing theme.
A customised theme starts from Shopify's free Dawn theme or a paid theme from the Shopify Theme Store. You get a tested base that Shopify keeps compatible with new features, and we spend the budget on the parts that make your store different. This is the faster and cheaper route, and it suits most retailers launching their first serious store.
A custom theme is written for your store from the ground up. It is the right call for complex catalogues with many variants or product types, for brands where the store design is the product, for stores that rely on custom bundles or configurators, and for teams whose current theme has been edited so heavily that updates now break it. It costs more and takes longer, so we only recommend it when we can explain what the customised route would cost you instead.
Whichever you choose, we build on an unpublished copy of the theme and keep version history, so nothing changes on your live store until you approve it.
Shopify works well in Australia, but its defaults assume nothing about where you are. These are the settings a Shopify expert checks on every Australian store.
We build Shopify stores for Melbourne retailers and for stores selling Australia-wide. Our pages for Dandenong and St Kilda cover the shops and venues in those areas. See where we work.
Australian shoppers expect prices to include GST. We set tax-inclusive pricing, check how GST shows on invoices and order emails, and confirm how international orders are taxed if you ship overseas.
Shopify Payments in Australian dollars, plus the options your customers already use, such as PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and buy now, pay later providers like Afterpay. Each is tested with a real order before launch.
Rates that match what you actually pay, whether that is flat rates by zone, Australia Post or another carrier's calculated rates, free shipping thresholds, or local pickup and delivery for Melbourne customers.
Your .com.au domain connected, sender email authenticated so order emails reach inboxes, and refund, privacy and shipping policies published where Australian Consumer Law and Shopify expect them.
A local Melbourne team with deep expertise, transparent process, and results you can see.
We start from a solid theme or build custom sections, whichever suits your products and budget, and shape it around how your customers actually buy.
We are local. You can meet us. No offshore outsourcing, no time zone frustration: Melbourne hours, Melbourne market knowledge.
Slow stores lose buyers before the first product loads. We target 90+ PageSpeed on mobile and treat a slow page as a bug, by design, not luck.
We do not just build pretty stores. Every decision (layout, CTA placement, checkout flow) is made to increase the percentage of visitors who buy.
From Shopify theme to email automation to payment gateways: we handle the entire ecommerce stack so you have one point of contact, not five.
We stay involved. Monthly analytics reviews, ongoing CRO testing, and development retainers mean your store keeps improving after the launch party.
A Shopify store build follows five steps, and you can see the store at every one of them.
We look at your products, variants, suppliers and how you fulfil orders, then agree what the store must do on launch day and what can follow later. You get a written scope and a fixed quote.
We recommend a theme or a custom build, then design the key templates: home, collection, product, cart and any landing pages.
Development happens on a theme your customers cannot see, or in a development store for new accounts. You get a preview link to review progress whenever you like.
Products and customers are imported or migrated, apps are connected, and we place test orders through each payment and shipping option to check emails, stock and taxes.
We publish the theme, connect the domain, add redirects from any old URLs, and hand over a short guide for your team. Support after launch is available by the hour or as part of a retainer.
Pick Shopify if you want a hosted store with little technical upkeep; pick WooCommerce if you need unusual product logic, full control of your data and hosting, or a store that sits inside a content-heavy WordPress site. Shopify's costs are mainly the monthly plan, transaction fees on third-party gateways and app subscriptions. WooCommerce's costs are hosting, premium plugins and the maintenance a self-hosted store needs.
We build on both, so the recommendation is about your store, not our preference. Our WooCommerce services page covers the other side of that choice, and our web development agency in Melbourne page sets out everything else we build.
A retailer running two Shopify stores wanted a single multi-vendor marketplace. We migrated more than 10,000 products and consolidated both stores in one week, without taking either offline.
Read the store merge case studyShopify development starts from $300 for a single fix or theme change and runs up to $20,000 for a large custom store. Smaller changes are $100 an hour. If your store has stopped taking orders, a same-day callout is $449 including the first 2 hours.
Slow load times, poor mobile experience, and friction at checkout cost a Shopify store sales it never sees. Let us fix it.
Tell us what you need and we will come back with a fixed quote and a clear next step. No obligation either way.
With us, Shopify development starts from $300 for a focused piece of work and runs up to $20,000 for a large custom store. Small changes are billed at $100 an hour. Your Shopify plan and paid apps are billed separately by Shopify and the app makers.
A store built on a customised theme usually takes around five weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on how many products need loading and how quickly feedback comes back. Fully custom themes, large catalogues and custom app work take longer, and the timeline is set out in your quote.
Most stores do well on a good existing theme, customised with the sections and features they need. A fully custom theme is worth it for complex catalogues, configurators, or brands where the store design itself is a selling point. We explain the trade-off in your quote rather than defaulting to the expensive option.
Yes. We move products, variants, customers and order history, recreate the store design, and set up 301 redirects from every old URL so search engines and bookmarks land on the right page. The switch-over is planned for a quiet trading period.
Yes. We review the theme code and installed apps, explain what is causing any problems, and fix them on an unpublished copy of the theme before anything changes on the live store.
Often. Many apps do one small job, such as a badge, a size chart or a simple upsell, that a few lines of theme code can do without a monthly fee or extra script weight. We audit your apps and recommend which to keep, replace or remove.
Contact us straight away. A same-day callout for a store that is not trading costs $449 and includes the first 2 hours of work. Our hours are 9 to 5 AET, open all week.
Yes. We are a Melbourne-based Shopify developer working with retailers across Australia. Video calls and preview links let you review the store as it is built.
Melbourne Shopify developer for store builds, theme customisation, app integrations and migrations, set up for Australian GST, payments and shipping.
Get in touchEvery CloudyWP project runs the same way, whether it is a one-page site or a store with a thousand SKUs. Here is exactly what happens.
A single scoping call, then a written plan: what gets built, what it costs, and when it ships. No discovery-phase invoices, no moving targets.
48 hrs to your quote
Custom WordPress or Shopify on clean code you own outright. Every build ships fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and is handed over documented.
95/100 average PageSpeed
Your site talks to the tools you already run: CRM, invoicing, email, stock. The repetitive admin stops being someone's job and starts running itself.
15 hrs saved every week
