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Shopify stores: build, take over, make them sell

New builds, redesigns and migrations of Shopify stores, plus an audit day when a store is losing sales between the cart and checkout. The store and its logins stay in your name.

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160+Shopify stores built
or taken over since 2018
4.9/5average rating across more
than 40 Google and Facebook reviews
€650 excl. VATfor an audit day remotely,
€800 excl. VAT on site in Lyon
Services

Build, take over, or simply decide.

And to decide before committing to any work, an audit day establishes what to fix first.

  • Complete store buildOfficial theme customised to your brand, site structure, product pages, collection pages, checkout, payment and shipping methods. The store is delivered ready to take its first orders.
  • Taking over and redesigning an existing storeI review the theme, the purchase journey and the installed apps. We keep what works, remove what slows the pages down, and fix what makes customers drop out before they order.
  • Migration to ShopifyFrom PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Wix or an in-house platform. Products, content and search rankings come across. The redirects (each old address points to the new one) are in place before the switch, to keep the traffic that comes from Google. See website migration
  • Selling internationallyCurrencies, languages, Shopify Markets (the per-country settings), carriers and tax rules. Useful as soon as you sell outside France and the average order value varies by country.

I also teach Shopify. Two consecutive years at ESD in Lyon, then two consecutive years at the CREA school in Switzerland: an introduction to e-commerce and building Shopify stores in workshops, where each group builds its own store.

Method

A store is judged on 3 numbers.

I record them at the start, the changes are decided on that basis, and I check them again afterwards to judge the result.

Add-to-cart rate

The share of visitors who add a product to their cart. It tells you whether the product page is doing its job: photos, promise, price, availability, information that reassures buyers (delivery, returns, reviews). It is the first number I look at on a store that sells poorly.

Checkout abandonment rate

The share of customers who reach checkout and leave without ordering. The most common causes: shipping costs revealed too late, a mandatory customer account, a missing payment method, a page that loads too slowly. Each fix is checked against this number.

Average order value

The average amount of an order. It goes up with bundles, complementary products suggested at the right moment, and a free-shipping threshold calculated on your own margins.

On a store I worked on, 1 month later

Shopify dashboard of a store I worked on: sales, sessions, conversion rate, orders and average order value after the engagement, compared with the previous month
The month after the engagement (solid line) against the previous month (dotted line): sessions +2%, orders +25%, conversion rate +12%, average order value +5%. Total sales show +45%, but the previous month included refunds (its line drops below zero).
Sessions and sales by traffic source on the same store, dark bars after the engagement, light bars before
The same periods by traffic source (dark bar: after, light bar: before). Sales from social media go from €1.9k to €6.9k.

Is your store losing sales at checkout? The audit day records these 3 numbers, reviews the purchase journey through to checkout and leaves you with a written assessment, with the fixes ranked by expected gain. See its price.

Pricing

3 formats, from an audit to a complete store.

Starting prices, theme not included. Your project is priced within 48 hours of the discovery call.

To decide

Audit day

from €650 excl. VAT
per day remotely, €800 excl. VAT on site in Lyon
  • The 3 numbers recorded
  • Purchase journey reviewed through to checkout
  • Written assessment, fixes ranked by expected gain
  • No commitment to what follows

You apply the fixes yourself or hand them over to me. The same day can be used as an advisory day, working live with your team: catalogue, apps, getting to grips with the admin.

Book a 15-minute call

Redesign

from €3,000 excl. VAT
fixed price, on your existing store
  • Theme, journey and apps reviewed
  • Move to an up-to-date official theme
  • Apps sorted, pages lightened
  • Products, customers and orders kept

We keep what works and rework the rest: theme, purchase journey, product pages. For a store that already sells but whose foundations have aged.

Book a 15-minute call
To build

New store

from €5,000 excl. VAT
fixed price, content and product pages included
  • Official Shopify theme, customised to your brand
  • Product pages and content written
  • Checkout and payments configured
  • Recorded walkthrough at handover

A new store, delivered ready to sell: customised official theme, site structure, product pages, checkout, basic SEO and apps chosen sparingly.

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No VAT charged: VAT exemption scheme for small businesses, art. 293 B of the French General Tax Code.

The Shopify theme comes on top of the cost of the service: usually around €350, paid once.

Case study

Engo Eyewear, 2 years of collaboration.

Sports eyewear with a head-up display, sold direct to runners and cyclists in several countries.

Technical

Store and development

  • Regular site maintenance
  • Migration from Shopify Plus, Shopify's plan for large accounts
  • Custom development in the theme code
  • Team Engo page: one profile per athlete, published like a blog article, with two combined filters
Markets

International and tax

  • International markets set up
  • Customs duties after the new US legislation
  • VAT, including its exclusion for business customers
  • Promotional campaigns with a discount code in several languages
Marketing

Acquisition and measurement

  • Meta Ads campaigns
  • Tagged campaign links, to see where each sale comes from
  • Purchases sent to Meta directly by the store
Operations

Automation and customer service

  • Automatic order filtering with Shopify Flow, Shopify's automation tool
  • Intercom chatbot set up end to end
  • Customer help centre

Launch of Engo 2 Photochromic

A new model to add to a store that was already trading: product pages, highlights and variants, with a redesign centred on the purchase journey, from discovering the product through to checkout.

Engo Eyewear, Engo 2 Photochromic product page on desktop
The Engo 2 Photochromic product page, built for the new model and its variants.
Engo Eyewear, Engo x Strava Photochromic highlight on mobile
A home page redesigned to carry the launch.
Engo Eyewear, Engo 2 Photochromic product page on mobile
The product page, through to add to cart.

Reviews from Shopify clients

“I am in contact with Pascal to improve my Shopify store and I really appreciate his very professional and thorough feedback. I recommend him if you need this kind of service.”

Aurélie Lie, Facebook recommendation

“Pascal set up my store in record time. When I struggled to understand how to update it, he took the time to record a video and showed me in a few minutes how to get unstuck.”

Valentin Gentil, Google review

Themes

Official Shopify themes, chosen together.

Since 2021, official themes have let you place sections and blocks on any page from the theme editor, without touching the code. They are kept up to date by Shopify or by approved partner studios, and they are what I build stores on.

1 · THE CATALOGUE Theme Store more than 150 official themes 2 · THE SELECTION My selection suited to your catalogue 3 · THE CHOICE Final choice made together, then customised
I sort through the official catalogue and suggest a short selection suited to your products. The final choice is made together, before customisation.

A theme bought outside Shopify's official catalogue? That is possible too. Mention it on the first call: these themes do not go through Shopify's review, and it is better to know before pricing.

FAQ

Before we start.

Do you work on stores that are already live?

Yes, that is half of the requests. The 15-minute call is for understanding where you stand. If it is not yet clear what is holding sales back, the audit day establishes it and leaves you with a written assessment. If the need is already clear, your project is priced within 48 hours of the call.

Audit day or advisory day: what is the difference?

It is the same day, at the same price, used in two ways. As an audit, I work on your store and hand you a written assessment, with the fixes ranked by expected gain. As an advisory day, we work live with you or your team: catalogue, choice of apps, acquisition plan, getting to grips with the admin.

I am moving from PrestaShop or WooCommerce. Will I lose my search rankings?

Not if the migration is prepared. The content and the URL structure are carried over, and the redirect plan (each old address points to the new one) is written and tested before the switch. That is how the move of Blox from PrestaShop to Shopify was prepared.

Do you charge a maintenance subscription?

No. Shopify hosts the store and keeps the platform up to date. Changes to the site are billed by the day, when you need them, with a concrete deliverable each time.

Which Shopify apps do you work with?

I favour the features built into Shopify, of which there are more and more, before adding a third-party app. Every app installed can slow the pages down, and many charge a monthly fee.

Pascal Degut

A new store, or one that needs to sell more?

In fifteen minutes, we take stock of your store and of what to do first. The call is free and you come away with an opinion either way.