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Shopify Select Partner, serving Brighton and beyond

Shopify Developers in Sussex

Brighton has one of the highest concentrations of digital agencies outside London, and plenty of them list Shopify. If you want a good-looking store, you're spoilt for choice. If you need Shopify to do something hard, that's a shorter list.

You'll be talking to one of us, not a salesperson.

Why it takes more than a Google search

Every agency says it's expert, cares about results and builds stores that convert, and the capability behind those words varies enormously.

What really differs is whether they write custom code or configure themes, whether they've worked at your scale, whether they can connect Shopify to your back office, and whether the person pitching is the person building.

Where we earn our place

We write bespoke Shopify code: custom pricing logic, ERP connections, multi-warehouse inventory, wholesale portals and fulfilment automation.

  • ERP and back-office integration

    Shopify talking properly to NetSuite, Peoplevox, Sage, Xero or your warehouse system, so stock and orders stay right without anyone reconciling them.

  • Custom functionality

    What themes and apps can't do: product configurators, trade portals, account-based pricing and checkout behaviour specific to you.

  • Platform migrations

    Off Magento, Visualsoft, WooCommerce or something home-grown, with products, customers, orders and every old URL handled properly.

  • Alongside your design agency

    Got a designer you trust? Keep them. They own the look, we own the technical layer underneath.

Everything we do on Shopify.

Before you buy another app.

Slow, fragile stores are often the result of app after app bolted on to do a job a little custom code would do better.

We'll look at what you've got, tell you what's worth keeping, and only build what's needed. If an app does the job, we'll tell you to use the app.

We've worked with Jason and his team on our Shopify store, and the experience was outstanding from start to finish. They clearly understood our vision.
AX Paris

Based in Kent, working in Sussex

We're a Shopify Select Partner in Gravesend, Kent, with an in-house UK team. We won't pretend to be in Brighton. Day to day it's calls, screen shares and a development copy of your store, and we'll come down when it's worth the trip.

Over the years we've worked with AX Paris, Motel Rocks and Chi Chi London.

Questions worth asking any Shopify developer

  • Can I see a working integration?

    A portfolio of pretty stores tells you little about the back end.

  • What breaks when Shopify changes?

    They should have a real answer, because Shopify changes often.

  • Who looks after it?

    Integrations need someone watching them after launch.

  • Who owns the code?

    It should be you.

More in our guide to choosing a Shopify partner.

Questions from Sussex brands

  • Can you build our new store?

    Yes, we build stores too, though it's not the main thing we do. If you've got a designer you like, we'll work alongside them.

  • Can you connect Shopify to our systems?

    Yes. NetSuite, Peoplevox, Sage, Xero and custom platforms.

  • Can you move us off Visualsoft or Magento?

    Yes. Here's how we handle Visualsoft.

  • What happens after launch?

    We look after it.

Signs it's time for a developer

You're paying for a stack of apps that don't quite agree with each other. Stock goes wrong when you sell on more than one channel. Your warehouse or accounts system needs orders that Shopify won't give it in the right shape. Trade customers need their own prices and you're doing it by hand.

Those are the jobs we're good at, and they're rarely glamorous. A good integration is one you forget about, because nobody has to fix anything any more.

We'd start with a conversation about how orders really flow through your business, and work out the smallest change that fixes the problem. Everything's built on a development copy of your store and tested before it goes near your customers.

Working with your designer

If you've got a Brighton agency you like, keep them. We'd rather work alongside them on the technical layer than compete. They own how it looks, and we make sure everything underneath does what it should.

Photos of Rob and Jason, who run Dev Partners

Hello, you get us

Rob on the left, Jase on the right. No sales team and no account managers. One of us is on every job, from the first chat to long after it goes live, and the people writing your code sit in the same small team.

Meet everyone

Tell us what you've got

It goes straight to Rob and Jase. You'll hear back from one of us, usually the same day, and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people.

Just want it checked? Code audit, £250 + VAT