Shopify Development Retainer

Ongoing Shopify Development,
Without Hiring a Full-Time Developer.

One dedicated Shopify developer, working your store every month on a flat-rate retainer. Custom development, integrations, and technical maintenance — without the overhead of scoping a new project every time something needs to get built.

Terms and onboarding timeline confirmed during your initial store review.

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 — 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 — not a vendor relationship, not a support ticket, but an operator sitting inside your ecommerce infrastructure.

Looking for broader ongoing ownership across your whole store, apps, and vendor stack rather than reserved development capacity? See Shopify Management & Ongoing Support.

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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.

Common Questions Before You Start

Ready to remove the dev bottleneck?

We start with a store audit, not a lengthy onboarding process or a project kickoff call — just a clear path to getting work moving.