For Shopify store owners

Build, improve, or look after your Shopify store.

Whether you are opening your first store, fixing something that is getting in the way of sales, or want someone keeping an eye on the one you have — that is the work we do.

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Free store review

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Carrtel sets up, redesigns and builds Shopify stores for small and growing businesses. A starter store is $900–$1,800 CAD, a refresh or redesign $1,500–$3,500, and a tailored build $2,500–$5,000. Every project gets a written scope and firm price first, and the store is in your name from day one.

Three ways in

Which one sounds like you?

Almost every enquiry is one of these three. Knowing which one you are makes the first conversation much shorter.

Launch a store

$900–$1,800 to start

You are opening a store, or moving to Shopify from somewhere else.

A store set up around your products, not a template left as it came
Payments, shipping, taxes and the pages a shopper expects
Built for phones first, because that is where most people will see it
Everything in your name, and a walk-through before you go live

Talk about your store

Fix a problem

$250–$750

The store works, but something on it does not.

One clear problem, written down and priced before we start
Layout and theme fixes, app conflicts, broken buttons, slow pages
You see the change before it goes live on your store
A short note afterwards saying what was wrong and what changed

Start with a free review

Get ongoing support

$149–$499 a month

The store is live and you want someone keeping an eye on it.

Regular checks that the store still works the way it should
Updates and small improvements each month
Someone to contact when something needs attention
Theme and app updates applied on purpose, not automatically

See what support costs

A bigger redesign of an existing store runs $1,500–$3,500, a tailored build $2,500–$5,000, and a move to Shopify $3,500–$6,500. Every project gets a written scope and a firm quote before work begins. See Shopify pricing

Interactive example

Shape the scope before the call.

Say where you are starting and what is involved. The draft shows which offer that maps to, its published range, and what is in and out of scope.

Where are you starting?

What is involved?

How big is the catalogue?

Written scope — draft

A first storeunder 50 products

Maps to

Starter Shopify Store

$900–$1,800

In scope

Theme set up around your products, not left as it came
Products set up with sizes, colours and photos, then checked one by one
Payments, shipping and tax configured, then tested with a real order
Home, collection, product and checkout pages checked on a phone
Domain connected, order emails set up, and a walkthrough before handover

Not in this scope

Content writing (add it to the scope if you want it done here)
Connecting accounting, shipping or a 3PL (add it if you need one)
Shopify subscription, paid theme and app fees, billed by their providers

What moves the price

Under 50 products keeps the product work at the low end of the range
A paid theme with the sections you need costs less to build on than a free one stretched past its limits
Anything discovery turns up is written into the scope before work starts, so the quote holds

A starting point for the call. Your written scope and firm quote follow once we have looked at the store.

Talk about this scope

A draft to start the conversation. The written scope and firm quote come after we look at the store.

Design portfolio

What our design work looks like.

Original store concepts designed and built here, each exploring a different kind of shop. Open one and try it: the cart, the options and the filters all work.

Desktop storefront design for Fieldnote Apothecary: a pale bone page with wide margins, soft green accents and a quiet serif headline.

Interactive demoConcept storefront · Skincare & wellnessFieldnote ApothecaryA calm, ingredient-led storefront that makes a skincare routine feel considered rather than complicated.Open the concept store

Desktop storefront design for Meridian Roasters: warm paper-toned layout with editorial type, a burnt-orange accent.

Interactive demoConcept storefront · Coffee & subscriptionsMeridian RoastersA warm, editorial storefront where the roast, the origin and the grind are the first things a shopper understands.Open the concept store

Desktop storefront design for Null Reference Audio: near-black instrument-panel layout with monospace labels and a mint-green data accent.

Interactive demoConcept storefront · Hi-fi audio & electronicsNull Reference AudioA dark, instrument-panel storefront for buyers who want the specification before the sales copy.Open the concept store

Desktop storefront design for Atelier Vasse: an off-white page with an oversized serif headline reading “Furniture drawn before it is sold”, a thin rule of specification data, and a brass-toned button.

Interactive demoConcept storefront · Furniture & homeAtelier VasseAn architectural storefront where measurements, materials and lead times are part of the product story.Open the concept store

There are 10 concepts in the set, across 10 kinds of shop. See the full portfolio

In more detail

The parts that decide whether it lasts.

Open whichever applies to you. All of it stays on the page, so nothing here is hidden from search.

Most stores are quick on launch day and slow eight months later, because every app, tracking tag and banner is small on its own. We agree a speed target as part of the build, and monthly support re-checks it, so a store getting heavier shows up as something we tell you about rather than something a customer feels.

A store only its builder can change is a bill waiting to happen. Pages are put together so someone on your team can move a section, swap a photo and publish a promotion without calling us. The parts that genuinely need code are the parts that should.

Sometimes a Shopify setting does the job, sometimes an app does, and sometimes your business does something specific enough to need building — unusual pricing, a delivery rule, a link to a system nobody else uses. We will tell you which one you are looking at, including when the answer is the cheap app.

Products and customers are the easy part of a move. The part that decides whether it hurts is redirects: a map from every old web address to its new one, checked before launch and watched afterwards, so the visitors you already earned land on the right page instead of an error.

The store is half the job. Stock counts, shipping updates and the message a customer gets after checkout are the other half, and they are where an order quietly turns into a support email. Connecting those up is its own piece of work.

Move to Shopify

Bring your products, customers and Google rankings across.

A Shopify developer for hire

Theme and Liquid changes, app problems and custom features, by the job or by the month.

Speed and conversion sprint

The parts of a store that affect sales: speed, mobile, product pages, cart flow and tracking.

Store refresh or redesign

A stronger homepage, product pages, collections and mobile experience for the store you have.

Monthly Shopify support

Updates, fixes, store checks, small improvements and a technical point of contact.

Shopify integrations

Make Shopify, stock, shipping and customer tools work together.

Orders, inventory & shipping

Keep stock and delivery information accurate.

Sales, payouts & refund checks

Make sure your sales, refunds, fees and payouts add up.

Questions

Shopify store setup: common questions

Yes, from the first day. The store and the code are in your name and we work inside them as a helper. If we stop working together, nothing has to be handed over, because nothing was ever held.

Usually. A fix or a monthly plan assumes we are working in what you already have. A rebuild is worth discussing when the theme has been patched too many times or is fighting what you are trying to do — and we would rather say that than quietly bill around it.

Then it found nothing much, and that is a useful answer. The review is free and the report is yours either way; it exists to tell you whether there is work worth paying for, which sometimes means there is not.

Both. The portfolio is the design evidence — ten original store concepts, designed here. If you arrive with a designer or a finished design, we build to it.

We look at them as part of the work. Apps that do the same job twice, load on pages they are not used on, or were paid for since an experiment two years ago are worth removing, and the saving is often bigger than the invoice.

No. SEO, Google Ads and social media are run by our sister brand, ClickSync Marketing.

Shopify's plan includes hosting. The Shopify subscription, paid themes and apps are billed by their providers, not by Carrtel.

Start with a look at the store you have.

The review is free and the report is yours, whether or not it turns into work.

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