Perth Shopify Development Agency
Perth Shopify development for retailers serving a market separated from the east coast by up to three hours and long freight routes. Delivery expectations make or break the sale here, so we build shipping and stock logic that tells customers the truth.
Real Mojo Dojo clients, on the record.
Shopify for a market that sells across a very big state.
Greater Perth grew by 58,100 people in 2024-25, a 2.4% rise and the fastest rate of any Australian capital. Household consumption in Western Australia grew 2.4% as well, the strongest of the states. For retailers, that is a rare combination: more customers, spending more, in a market that eastern-states brands do not always target closely.
The catch is distance. The metro area stretches along the coast from Alkimos to Mandurah, and many businesses here also ship to mine sites, farms and regional towns across a state that takes days to cross by road. Freight costs and delivery times vary enormously, and a store that shows an east coast delivery promise to a customer in Kalgoorlie or Broome loses trust the moment the parcel runs late.
There is also a big B2B story. Western Australia recorded $220 billion in resources sales in 2024-25, and machinery and equipment wholesaling helped lift wholesale trade 5.9%. Industrial suppliers, engineering firms and agribusiness distributors increasingly want their trade customers to order online, not by phone and email.
We build Shopify and Shopify Plus stores that handle both sides: honest delivery estimates and freight rules for consumers, account-based ordering for trade buyers, and eCommerce SEO foundations so both audiences can find you.
For the wider picture across the country, see Shopify Development Australia. Operating in other cities? See Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
In Perth we also offer Shopify SEO, Ecommerce SEO and Web Design. Browse all Perth services.
Shopify development in Perth: an isolated but fast-growing market.
What the official figures say about the people and industries you will be selling to.
Industries we help in Perth.
Where Western Australian businesses get the most out of a well-built Shopify store.
Mining and industrial supply
Shopify Plus B2B stores for consumables, safety gear and spare parts, with company accounts, site delivery addresses, purchase order numbers at checkout and approval rules for large orders.
Agribusiness and wholesale
Catalogues for machinery parts, farm supplies and produce, with freight quoted by weight and region so customers in the Wheatbelt see a real cost before they commit.
Home, building and outdoor
Construction was the biggest driver of state growth in 2024-25. We build stores for furniture, fittings and outdoor gear with bulky-item shipping and click and collect from warehouses in the suburbs.
Tourism and events retail
Visitors spent a record $19.2 billion in WA in 2025. We build merchandise, gift voucher and experience stores that cope with festival and holiday demand.
Health and allied health products
Stores for equipment, consumables and wellness brands, with plain product information, subscriptions and account pricing for clinics.
Selling across WA from a Perth store?
Talk to our Shopify developers about freight and delivery rules, a Shopify Plus trade portal or a migration from Magento or WooCommerce.
What conversion-focused eCommerce work delivers.
Outcomes from Mojo Dojo eCommerce clients across our portfolio, not Western Australian figures. See the case studies below.
Why Western Australian businesses choose Mojo Dojo for Shopify and Shopify Plus.
Stores selling from the west coast have problems most templates ignore: long delivery times, expensive freight and trade customers spread over thousands of kilometres. Over 15 years of Shopify and Shopify Plus builds and replatforms, we have learned to design the shipping, stock and account logic first and the storefront second.
We are a web design and development agency with marketing expertise in the same team, which makes us a single point of contact for the build, the launch and the growth that follows.
Shopify is a hosted platform that lets any business sell, ship and manage inventory online. For a supplier with trade accounts and regional freight, the setup decisions matter far more than the theme, so an experienced developer and designer make the difference.
Our project managers, designers, developers and SEO specialists explain the trade-offs in plain terms, so you can decide what is right now and later. Across our clients, this way of working has converted millions in sales.
Our Shopify services
- Shopify development
- Shopify planning & discovery
- Shopify headless
- Shopify Plus development agency
- Shopify website design
- Shopify theme development
- Shopify SEO and our Shopify SEO agency
- Magento to Shopify migration
- Shopify alternatives
Why Shopify is a better base than a custom-coded store.
Shopify takes care of hosting, uptime and security. That leaves the budget for the freight and trade logic that matters out west.
Paying developers for every update
Custom platforms need developers to patch and update the code on a regular basis.
Free updates and platform uptime
You receive free updates to the code, uptime from the Shopify platform and access to a range of functions for a set monthly subscription.
Delivery promises that do not survive distance
A generic three to five day estimate is wrong for most of the state, and late parcels turn into refunds and poor reviews.
Honest estimates by region
We set delivery estimates and shipping rates by postcode and weight, show them on product and cart pages, and connect carrier rates where they are more accurate.
Privacy and card processing risk
Handling payments and customer data yourself carries compliance and security risk.
A compliant, secure environment
Shopify provides an environment which is compliant with privacy laws and credit card processing laws, and payments are processed via the Shopify platform so your data and your customers' data is not stolen.
Trade customers still ordering by email
Site supervisors and procurement teams phone or email orders, and your staff re-key them into the system.
Self-service ordering for approved accounts
We give trade buyers their own logins, price lists, saved order lists and purchase order fields, so repeat orders take minutes instead of phone calls.
Relying on your agency for every change
Is your site custom coded and difficult for you to use?
A store you can manage yourself
We create Shopify developments that work for YOU, easily managed and modified by you and your staff at the end of the day.
All our Shopify websites are.
Whether you sell to households in Joondalup or a supply depot in the Pilbara, every build meets these standards.
SEO friendly. An SEO friendly Shopify store: our team of experts takes time to understand your business to ensure relevant keywords are built in to rank well.
On brand. Brand relevancy by creating a Shopify design aligned with your brand that meets customer needs.
Designed to convert. Developed around the ultimate user pathways, ensuring customers are converting and generating revenue.
Easily modifiable. Your Shopify store can be managed and modified by you at the end of the day, without relying on external parties.
Shopify development with a difference.
Shopify lets a small team manage stock, shipping and customers across a large state. You have the ability to:
Manage inventory
Keep track of your stock levels both in your bricks and mortar store and on your website. Make modifications to your products, offer variations in size, colour, in bundles or singular items, and find the most efficient ways to categorise them.
Modify and customise your own site
Have you always relied on your agency or developers to modify your site? Shopify developments allow you to make changes to your site without relying on external parties.
Website maintenance
We highly recommend regular website maintenance to improve the security of your website. Regular updates bring new features and functionality and reduce the risk of being hacked.
Flexible shipping options
Choose fixed shipping rates, tiered rates, free shipping over a certain spend or as a standard inclusion, weight-based shipping or location-based shipping all over the world.
Secure payment facilities
Secure payment gateways and integrations with multiple applications ensure your payments are delivered to you safely and your customers' payment details are not compromised.
Manage customer information
Store customer information through customer profiles, categorise customers, export for marketing purposes and learn more about your customer groups through their buyer behaviour.
Headless Shopify
Shopify headless uses a Jamstack approach and focuses on speed and scalability. A headless build with Hydrogen or your custom stack gives you the flexibility you need from your eCommerce platform.
Get your free Shopify store audit.
Send us your store URL and we'll return a Shopify audit within 48 hours covering freight rules, delivery messaging, checkout and speed. No calls and no obligations.
Time zones, peaks and launch timing.
Perth runs on AWST with no daylight saving, two hours behind the eastern capitals in winter and three in summer. That matters more than it sounds: a national sale that starts at 9am on the east coast opens at 6am or 7am out west, and a flash promotion scheduled from the east can end before a local customer finishes work. We schedule launches, discounts and emails in local time.
The busiest local stretch is late summer. FRINGE WORLD drew about 490,575 attendees from mid-January to mid-February 2025, and Perth Festival added more than 348,000 over February and March. The Perth Royal Show follows in late September. For gift, food and merchandise brands we set up these peaks well in advance, and for trade suppliers we plan around end of financial year ordering in May and June.
Our Shopify development services explained.
What Perth stores usually need first
For most retailers and suppliers in the west, the first priority is not the homepage design. It is getting freight, stock and delivery estimates right, then making trade ordering self-service. The detail below shows how those pieces fit into a standard Shopify build, a Shopify Plus project or a migration.
Shopify Store Development
Shopify is the world's leading ecommerce platform for good reason. It handles hosting, security, and payment infrastructure at a level that most businesses could not replicate themselves. What it does not do is tell you how to build a store that converts.
Over the last 15 years, Mojo Dojo has built hundreds of Shopify stores across retail, fashion, health, beauty, homewares, food, and industrial supply. Every store we build starts with your customers. How do they navigate? What do they need to see before they buy? Where do they drop off?
Our store builds cover everything from initial Shopify account setup and theme selection through to custom Liquid development, app configuration, and full launch support. We do not hand you a store and disappear.
Shopify Plus Development
Shopify Plus is the enterprise tier of the platform, built for high-volume merchants. It unlocks capabilities that standard Shopify does not offer, including checkout extensibility, advanced automation through Shopify Flow, dedicated support, and lower transaction fees at scale.
Our Shopify Plus work includes:
- Custom checkout UI extensions and checkout.liquid builds
- Shopify Flow automation design and implementation
- Wholesale / B2B store configuration
- Multi-store / expansion store architecture
- Launchpad campaign scheduling and flash sale configuration
- Enterprise ERP and OMS integrations (NetSuite, SAP, MYOB)
Headless Shopify / Jamstack
For merchants who need extreme frontend performance, a headless Shopify architecture decouples the storefront from the Shopify backend. Your frontend is built with a modern JavaScript framework (Next.js, Remix, Nuxt) and served via a CDN edge network, while Shopify handles the commerce logic through the Storefront API.
The result is a store that loads in under a second, scores 95+ on Google Lighthouse, and can support complex content experiences that are impossible in a standard Liquid theme.
We use Shopify Hydrogen for purpose-built headless storefronts and can integrate with Contentful, Sanity, or your existing CMS for content management. Headless is not right for every store, and we will tell you honestly if the complexity is warranted by your revenue and performance requirements.
Shopify SEO Optimisation
Shopify has well-known SEO constraints out of the box. Duplicate content from collections and products, the /collections/*/products/* URL structure, and limited control over canonical tags are common pain points that affect organic performance.
Our Shopify SEO work addresses the platform's limitations directly:
- Product and collection page schema markup (Product, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage)
- Canonical URL management and duplicate content elimination
- Faceted navigation and filter page management
- Image optimisation and alt text at scale
- Collection page content architecture for long-tail keyword targeting
- Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse score improvements
Magento to Shopify Migration
Migrating from Magento to Shopify is one of the highest-value platform decisions an ecommerce business can make. Magento carries significant technical debt, requires expensive dedicated hosting, and demands developer involvement for tasks that Shopify handles natively.
A migration done poorly destroys organic rankings built over years. Our migration process preserves your SEO equity through meticulous 301 redirect mapping, URL structure planning, and content validation before cutover. We have migrated stores ranging from 500 to 50,000 SKUs.
Our migration process covers:
- Product, customer, and order data migration
- 301 redirect mapping for all existing URLs
- SEO audit pre- and post-migration
- App stack rationalisation and configuration
- Theme development on the new platform
- Parallel testing before cutover
- Post-launch monitoring and issue resolution
How we build your Shopify store.
Six stages, all run remotely over video calls, with meetings booked in Western Australian business hours and a shared staging store for every review.
Planning and discovery
We map your customers, catalogue, integrations and goals in a Shopify planning and discovery phase, then recommend Shopify, Shopify Plus or headless based on what your store actually needs.
UX and design
We design user pathways and a Shopify design aligned with your brand, focused on purchases via a refined UI/UX and conversion best practice.
Development
From Shopify account setup and theme selection through to custom Liquid development, app configuration and integrations.
SEO and data migration
Schema markup, canonical URLs and Core Web Vitals are built in. For replatforms we migrate product, customer and order data and map 301 redirects for every existing URL.
Testing
Parallel testing before cutover, plus a pre-launch crawl to verify nothing has been missed.
Launch and ongoing support
Full launch support, post-launch monitoring and issue resolution, with an ongoing maintenance and optimisation retainer available.
Areas we serve in Perth.
We work with businesses right along the coastal strip, all remotely, through video calls, shared staging stores and regular reports. That covers the CBD, Northbridge, West Perth, Subiaco, Leederville and Osborne Park, the coast from Scarborough to Cottesloe and Fremantle, and Victoria Park and Cannington south of the river.
In the northern corridor we build for retailers and suppliers in Joondalup, Duncraig, Wanneroo, Madeley, Darch and Alkimos. To the east and south that includes Malaga, Midland, Ellenbrook, Gosnells, Armadale, Byford, Rockingham, Baldivis and Mandurah.
eCommerce results from Mojo Dojo client work.
Online store projects from across our portfolio. They show our approach rather than results for businesses in Western Australia.
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
The framework behind the stores we build.
Most stores are optimised for traffic. This one is about revenue, the ten changes to a store that move the number at the bottom of the report, in the order to make them.
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Do you work with Perth businesses?
Yes, remotely. We run discovery, reviews and training through video calls booked in AWST, share a staging store for every change and send regular reporting. There is no shopfront or meeting room involved; every build is delivered online.
How do you handle freight for regional and remote WA customers?
We set shipping rates and delivery estimates by postcode zone and weight, connect carrier-calculated rates where they are more accurate, and flag bulky or dangerous goods that need special handling. We test real addresses across the state before launch so customers see a cost and a date they can trust.
Can Shopify work for a mining or industrial supplier?
Yes. Shopify Plus B2B supports company accounts with multiple buyers and site locations, customer-specific price lists, quantity rules, purchase order numbers and payment terms. For smaller suppliers we can achieve most of this on standard Shopify with apps.
How long does a Shopify build take?
A standard Shopify store with an existing theme and up to 500 products typically takes 4 to 6 weeks from design approval to launch. Custom theme builds or Shopify Plus projects with complex integrations typically take 8 to 12 weeks. Migration projects depend on the size of your product catalogue and the state of your existing data. We provide a detailed project timeline as part of your quote.
Will my store rank on Google after you build it?
We build every Shopify store with Shopify SEO optimisation as a baseline requirement, not an optional add-on. This includes schema markup, canonical URL management, clean URL structures, image optimisation, and Core Web Vitals performance. For ongoing organic growth, our Shopify Ecommerce SEO retainer builds on that foundation with content strategy, link acquisition, and monthly reporting.
Do I need Shopify Plus or will standard Shopify work for me?
Shopify Plus becomes commercially justified when you need custom checkout extensibility, advanced automation via Shopify Flow, B2B wholesale channels, multi-store expansion store architecture, or when your transaction volume makes the lower transaction fees economically worthwhile. We will give you an honest assessment based on your current and projected revenue.
Can you migrate my store from Magento or WooCommerce without losing my SEO rankings?
Yes, and this is one of the most important parts of a platform migration. We conduct a full pre-migration SEO audit, document every indexed URL on your existing store, map 301 redirects to their new Shopify equivalents, and run a post-migration crawl before going live to verify nothing has been missed. We have successfully migrated dozens of stores from Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and custom platforms without ranking loss.
What does a Shopify development agency do?
A Shopify development agency plans, designs, builds and launches your Shopify store. That covers account setup, theme selection or a custom theme, custom Liquid development, app configuration, integrations, data migration and SEO foundations, followed by launch support and ongoing maintenance.
Why choose Shopify over a custom-coded eCommerce site?
Shopify is a hosted solution, so the infrastructure, code updates and uptime are handled for you. It provides an environment that is compliant with privacy and credit card processing laws, processes payments securely, and lets you extend the store with apps rather than paying developers for every change.
Can I manage and update my Shopify store myself after launch?
Yes. Every store we build is designed to be easily managed and modified by you and your staff. You can update products, variations, collections, shipping rules and customer information without relying on your agency or developers.
Is headless Shopify right for my store?
Headless Shopify decouples your storefront from the Shopify backend for extreme frontend performance and complex content experiences, typically built with Shopify Hydrogen. It suits stores whose revenue and performance requirements justify the added complexity, and we will tell you honestly if a standard Liquid theme is the better choice.
Can you take over a Shopify store another developer built?
Yes. If your current developer cannot handle your Shopify customisation or produces sub-par results, we audit the existing theme, apps and custom code, fix what is holding the store back and take over development and support from there.
Do you offer ongoing Shopify maintenance and support?
Yes. We do not hand you a store and disappear. We offer post-launch monitoring and issue resolution plus an ongoing retainer for maintenance, new features, conversion rate optimisation and security updates.
Which systems can you integrate with Shopify?
We integrate Shopify and Shopify Plus with enterprise ERP and OMS platforms such as NetSuite, SAP and MYOB, content management systems such as Contentful and Sanity, and the Shopify app ecosystem for reviews, subscriptions, shipping and marketing.
Get your free Shopify store audit.
Send us your store URL and we'll return a Shopify audit within 48 hours covering freight rules, delivery messaging, checkout and speed. No calls and no obligations.