Your Christchurch store sells nationwide until the checkout meets a rural delivery address and a ferry crossing

NZD 25,000 to NZD 55,000 for a custom theme with New Zealand freight logic, delivered in six to ten weeks. Adding a wholesale portal and inventory integration takes it to NZD 70,000 to NZD 120,000. These are our delivery bands from comparable New Zealand ecommerce projects.

With a custom shipping calculator rather than native weight bands. It needs to detect rural delivery addresses, apply island based transit and pricing, use cubic weight for bulky items and flag products carriers will not take. Built properly this is roughly two to three weeks of work and usually the highest return item in the whole project.

Yes. A wholesale layer gives trade customers their own login, tiered pricing, minimum order quantities and purchase order fields, all on the same catalogue. For Christchurch brands selling into independent grocers, gift shops and tourism outlets, this removes the emailed order form entirely and cuts entry errors.

It handles GST inclusive pricing and tax invoices well for domestic orders once configured properly. Where custom work helps is export orders that should be zero rated and B2B invoices that need specific formatting for your customers accounts systems. We normally push orders into Xero rather than relying on Shopify reports alone at tax time.

Shopify for most merchants, because hosting, security and payments are handled and the platform is stable through a Black Friday spike. WooCommerce makes sense when you need deep content integration or highly unusual product logic and you already have WordPress expertise. Migration from WooCommerce to Shopify runs NZD 10,000 to NZD 28,000 in our experience.

Make one system the source of truth for stock and sync everything else to it, usually your inventory or point of sale system rather than Shopify. Sync needs to run in near real time on fast moving lines, and you should hold a small safety buffer on items where a stockout would cost you a wholesale relationship.

The checkout itself is restricted unless you are on Shopify Plus, so radical changes to the checkout flow, custom validation and certain scripts are off limits on standard plans. Everything before checkout is open. Any developer promising full checkout control on a standard plan is either mistaken or planning something that will break.

Six to ten weeks including catalogue migration, URL redirects, theme build and testing. The part people underestimate is redirect mapping, because losing search rankings for a store with years of history costs more than the build. We treat the redirect plan as a deliverable in its own right.

Yes, and you should insist on it in writing. The theme code lives in your Shopify account and you should also hold it in your own repository with version history. If an agency keeps the code in their account or licenses it back to you, you are renting your storefront rather than owning it.

Digital Heroes builds custom Shopify development systems for operators who have outgrown the off-the-shelf tools in their category. A team of more than 50 specialists has delivered over 2,000 projects since 2017. Teams work from New York, London, Sydney, Delhi and Lucknow and deliver remotely, so an operator in Christchurch gets an assigned senior team rather than a local account manager.

Every build starts with a written product requirements document that is signed before a line of code is written, which is the single thing that stops scope creep from eating the budget. Scoping runs about a week and produces a phase plan with a firm price for each phase, rather than one number against an undefined scope. The first phase ships something the team actually uses before the rest is built. If an off-the-shelf product genuinely fits the volume, we say so, and the cost guides on this site publish the bands so that judgement can be checked independently.

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Two more that show up in the work. Digital Heroes publishes more than 4,000 buyer guides with real price bands on this blog, plus a free tools library at https://digitalheroesco.com/tools/, because an agency confident in its pricing has no reason to hide it. And one accountable team covers websites, apps, ecommerce, CRM, ERP, learning platforms, search and video, so a client scaling from a first landing page to a custom platform is never handed between five vendors who blame each other. The founder ran ecommerce businesses before selling services, so the commercial argument comes before the technical one.

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