Shopify Development Retainer

Stop Waiting on Dev.
Get Unlimited Shopify Execution.

One dedicated Shopify developer. Unlimited tasks. Flat monthly rate. No scoping, no quotes, no ticket queues โ€” just work getting done.

No contracts. Cancel anytime. Onboard in 48 hours.

You're not stuck because you don't know what to do. You're stuck because dev is the bottleneck.

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Agencies quote, then disappear

Three days for a quote, two weeks for a kickoff call, another week to assign someone junior to your project. Meanwhile your campaign launched without the landing page.

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Hourly billing punishes clarity

The moment you start asking questions or adding context, the meter ticks. You stop communicating freely. Small changes stack up into invoices you didn't budget for.

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Freelancers vanish mid-project

They're great until they're not. A new client, a life event, a dry spell โ€” and suddenly your half-built checkout extension is sitting in a private repo you can't access.

Between freelancer chaos and agency bureaucracy, there's a better model.

NewMotion IT sits between freelancer volatility and agency overhead. You get the technical depth of an agency with the speed and accountability of someone who's actually inside your business.

One developer. Your store. Every month. No ramp-up, no re-briefing, no new faces. Just technical continuity that compounds over time.

We call it an embedded technical growth engine โ€” not a vendor relationship, not a support ticket, but an operator sitting inside your ecommerce infrastructure.

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What We Execute on Retainer

If it touches Shopify, it's in scope. Here's what retainer clients consistently pull from us month over month:

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Theme Development

Custom sections, Liquid templates, Dawn/Debut modifications, headless storefronts, and pixel-perfect builds from Figma.

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App & API Integrations

Connect Shopify to your ERP, 3PL, CRM, subscription platform, review tool, or any third-party system via REST or webhooks.

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Shopify Flow Automation

Build automations that tag customers, trigger fulfillment logic, send internal alerts, and run loyalty workflows without manual effort.

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Checkout Customization (Plus)

Checkout extensions, custom upsells, gift messages, B2B gating, and post-purchase flows built inside Shopify Plus checkout.

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Metafields & Data Modeling

Structured product data, custom content models, metaobject architecture, and admin UI extensions that give your team control.

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Performance & Core Web Vitals

LCP improvements, lazy loading, image optimization, script sequencing, and Lighthouse score fixes that directly affect conversion.

What Retainer Clients Actually Get Done

Subscription Brand ยท $80K/mo

The Problem

Their ReCharge integration was creating duplicate customers and charging failed payment emails to the wrong accounts. Support tickets were piling up. Dev quotes from agencies came back at $4,500 for a fix they couldn't scope properly.

What We Did

Audited the webhook flow between Shopify and ReCharge. Found a race condition in the customer creation logic. Patched it, built a reconciliation script to fix existing duplicates, and added a monitoring hook to catch future drift.

Outcome

Support ticket volume dropped 71% in 30 days. Fixed within the first month of retainer โ€” no extra charge.

Apparel Brand ยท $200K/mo

The Problem

Every product launch required manual edits across 40+ variant metafields, three Klaviyo segments, and a pinned collection. The founder was spending 6+ hours on each drop preparing the store.

What We Did

Built a launch automation using Shopify Flow + custom metafield schema. One button triggers metafield population, collection pinning, tag application, and a Klaviyo webhook for the segment trigger.

Outcome

Launch prep time dropped from 6 hours to 20 minutes. Now running two launches per month instead of one.

Home Goods Brand ยท $55K/mo

The Problem

Checkout was converting at 1.8% on mobile. Heatmaps showed users abandoning at the shipping options step โ€” but the team didn't know why and couldn't get their agency to investigate without a new project quote.

What We Did

Ran a technical checkout audit. Found a carrier-calculated shipping app was timing out on mobile, showing a blank shipping panel for 4โ€“7 seconds. Replaced the app with a native rate table and rebuilt the section to render immediately.

Outcome

Mobile checkout conversion went from 1.8% to 3.1% in six weeks. Done as a regular retainer task.

Common Questions Before You Start

Ready to remove the dev bottleneck?

Most clients start seeing output in their first week. No lengthy onboarding, no project kickoff calls โ€” just work moving.