Shopify vs custom ecommerce
The business decision
Choose a managed storefront when standard catalog, checkout and extension capabilities meet the requirements. Custom commerce is justified by workflows the platform cannot reasonably support.
A practical first scope
Compare ownership of checkout, integration limits, operational maintenance and upgrade responsibility—not just launch cost.
How to validate it
Write the three non-negotiable workflows, validate them in the platform and estimate extension work before choosing custom.
When to choose another approach
A custom build transfers responsibility for hosting, reliability and ongoing engineering to the product owner.
A proposal should make the boundaries clear.
We scope deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, acceptance checks, responsibilities and support separately. No fixed price or launch date is promised before the requirements are reviewed.
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