A Custom Shopify Storefront Without the Agency Bill

Short answer: you can get a storefront designed for your brand on the Shopify store you already run without paying for an agency project. With WorkspaceCMS for Shopify, our designers create a semi-custom storefront, our team builds it on WorkspaceCMS with the storefront tools baked in and connects it to your Shopify store, and then we keep it fast, found and up to date every month. Plans start at $499 a month, the design and build are included, and your products, checkout and apps stay in Shopify.

Why Shopify stores overspend on design

Shopify makes it easy to start with a theme. The trouble starts when the theme no longer feels like the brand. The usual next step is an agency quote for a custom theme, and with it a deposit, a timeline, a retainer for changes and a developer to call whenever an app breaks the layout. Many stores pay all of that for a result that freezes the day it launches, because every change after it costs another invoice.

The alternative is to pay for the outcome monthly: a storefront that looks like your brand, plus the team that keeps changing it.

What you get on Shopify

• A semi-custom storefront, not a theme-store theme with your logo on it. Our designers lay it out around your products. Launch designs 5 page types, Growth 10 and Scale 15.
• The storefront tools baked in. Product, collection and page SEO, schema and a sitemap set up at launch and kept current. A lead inbox, your Google reviews on the site, and GA4, Google Ads, Meta and Bing tags connected.
• Changes made for you. Send a change request and we make it: 2 business days on Launch, 1 on Growth, priority on Scale.
• AI that keeps working. Growth and Scale add AI chat for shoppers, Blog Autopilot, Instagram posts and Reels from your products, and the AI Visibility Tracker, which checks how AI assistants answer questions about your category and writes for the ones you are missing.

What stays in Shopify

Everything you run the business with. You manage products, collections, prices and orders in Shopify as you do today. Checkout, Shopify Payments and Shop Pay stay in your Shopify admin. Shopify Plus stores can start a plan online like any Shopify store, and the Plus features you use stay where they are.

Your apps

Apps that work in your admin, such as inventory, shipping, accounting and email apps, keep working because they connect to your store. Apps that add something to your storefront, such as reviews or upsells, are connected to your new storefront as an integration (Growth and Scale include extra integrations), or we suggest an alternative.

Your SEO

We plan for it before launch: product, collection and page URLs are mapped, redirects are set for any that change, and titles, descriptions and structured data carry over. No one can promise rankings, and we do not. What we can promise is that the move is planned instead of guessed.

The cost, side by side

Plan	Monthly	First year	Page types designed
Launch	$499	$5,988	5
Growth	$799	$9,588	10
Scale	$1,299	$15,588	15

Each first-year total includes the design, the build and every storefront change you ask for. Your Shopify subscription, apps and payment fees are billed by Shopify and the app makers, as they are today.

How long it takes

Most storefronts go live in weeks, usually 3 to 4: a mockup of your homepage and key pages, your design changes, mobile checks on every screen, then launch, connected to your store. Weeks is a typical timeline; actual timing depends on your integrations and how quickly feedback and approvals come back.

See the full Shopify page at workspacecms.ai/for-shopify, compare the plans on our pricing page, or start on Growth, the most popular plan.

For Shopify stores FAQ

Can Shopify Plus stores use a WorkspaceCMS plan?

Yes. Shopify Plus stores can start a plan online like any Shopify store. Checkout, Shopify Payments, Shop Pay and the Plus features you use stay in your Shopify admin.

Will my Shopify apps keep working?

Admin apps keep working because they connect to your store. Storefront apps such as reviews or upsells are connected to your new storefront as an integration, or we suggest an alternative.

Will I lose my SEO rankings?

We map product, collection and page URLs, set redirects for any that change, and carry over titles, descriptions and structured data. No one can promise rankings, and we do not.

Can I still edit the store myself?

Yes. You manage products, collections, prices and orders in Shopify, and you can edit headlines, images and collections on the storefront. Anything bigger, send a change request and we make it.

Will my Shopify storefront get a fresh design down the road?

Yes. Every Launch, Growth and Scale plan includes Always Fresh: two years after your Shopify storefront goes live, we design it a new look for free, built around your current products and content. Just ask about 30 days ahead of the 2-year mark. Redeeming starts a new 12-month term at your current rate.