Your New Plymouth brand sells beautifully until a customer at RD 3 Ōpunake picks standard shipping and you lose money on the parcel

NZ$25,000 to NZ$110,000 depending on how much logic sits behind the storefront. A custom theme with solid conversion work runs NZ$25,000 to NZ$45,000 over six to nine weeks. Add a trade pricing portal, carrier-rated rural freight and POS integration and you are at eight to sixteen weeks and the upper half of the range.

Rate shipping against real carrier rules rather than a flat national fee. That means detecting rural delivery addresses at checkout, applying the surcharge or building it into a rural rate, and handling oversize and rural-only exclusions before the order is taken. Brands that fix this typically recover more margin than any conversion tweak delivers.

Yes, through a trade area with customer-specific price lists, minimum order quantities and payment terms. Trade customers log in, see their pricing, reorder from history and generate an invoice that flows into Xero. This removes the email-and-rekey loop that causes most of the stock discrepancies in small New Zealand food and beverage businesses.

Yes. Domestic orders carry 15% GST with tax-inclusive display, which is what New Zealand buyers expect, and export orders are treated as zero-rated. Where you sell into Australia the low value goods rules need a deliberate decision rather than a default, so raise it during discovery rather than after your first quarter of trans-Tasman orders.

Make one system the source of truth and integrate rather than reconciling. In practice that is either Shopify itself, if the till can read from it, or a dedicated inventory system feeding both. The point is that a market stall at a festival and a website order cannot both claim the last six bottles, which is exactly what happens over Garden Festival weekends without integration.

Card via Shopify Payments or Windcave, plus Afterpay and Laybuy for retail, and bank transfer or account terms for trade. New Zealand buyers use buy-now-pay-later heavily on consumer products, and trade customers expect an invoice rather than a card. Offering both without doubling your reconciliation work is an integration decision, not a plugin decision.

Your company, with your billing details and an owner account you control. Agencies that hold these accounts create a dependency that is painful to unwind and occasionally expensive. Ask for ownership before work starts, and add a second internal person as an admin so a single staff departure does not lock you out.

Shopify subscription and transaction fees, any remaining app subscriptions, and roughly NZ$1,000 to NZ$3,000 a month for development support if you want continuous improvement. Stores that go dark after launch typically lose ground within a year as the platform changes and competitors iterate. Budget the support line before you decide the build budget.

Shopify handles the traffic; what breaks is everything behind it. The realistic risks are stock going negative, a manual fulfilment step becoming a bottleneck, and freight rules failing on unusual addresses. Load the process rather than the platform: automate order routing, set safety stock, and run a dry test at three times your normal daily volume before the season starts.

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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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