Chicago's Shopify Development Partner
Chicago Shopify development for retail and wholesale brands running consumer and trade channels side by side. B2B and B2C buyers need different pricing and checkout logic, so we build one store that handles both instead of two that drift apart.
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One Shopify store for retail and trade customers.
Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest employment sector in the Chicago area, with about 933,400 jobs, and manufacturing adds roughly 410,000 more. That makes the metro one of the country's great wholesale and distribution economies. A lot of the brands we speak to here sell to consumers and to trade buyers at the same time: retailers, restaurants, contractors and distributors across the Midwest.
Running those channels on separate systems is where things drift. Prices get updated in one place and not the other, stock counts disagree, and trade customers end up emailing orders because the website only understands retail baskets. Every workaround adds staff time and chances for mistakes.
The consumer side is varied too. The metro holds about 9.4 million people, 35.4% of city residents speak a language other than English at home, and the Hispanic population passed 2.32 million in 2024. Product content, support and payment options need to work for more than one audience.
We build Shopify and Shopify Plus stores that handle both channels from one catalog and one inventory: retail checkout for consumers, company accounts and price lists for trade, and eCommerce SEO foundations that help both kinds of buyer find the right products.
For the wider picture across the country, see Shopify Development USA. Other cities we cover: New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin and Miami.
Related Chicago services include Shopify SEO, Ecommerce SEO and Web Design. Explore the full range of Chicago services.
Shopify development in Chicago: a distribution economy.
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Industries we help in Chicago.
Five sectors where selling to consumers and trade from one store pays off.
Wholesale and distribution
Shopify Plus B2B storefronts with company accounts, multiple buyers per company, customer-specific price lists, quantity rules and net payment terms, alongside a normal retail checkout.
Food brands and foodservice suppliers
Food innovation is a named growth industry. We build stores that sell retail packs to consumers and case quantities to restaurants, with cold-chain shipping rules and reorder lists.
Manufacturers going direct
Makers adding a direct channel without upsetting dealers, with dealer locators, MAP-friendly pricing, gated trade catalogs and quote requests for custom orders.
Hospitality and visitor retail
Gift, merch and souvenir stores built for the summer and fall visitor peaks, with international shipping for the many visitors who buy again once they are home.
Health and education products
Education and health services were the fastest-growing major sector in the year to July 2026. We build stores for clinical supplies and learning materials with account pricing for institutions.
Selling retail and wholesale from Chicago?
Talk to our Shopify developers about a combined B2B and B2C store, a Shopify Plus upgrade, ERP integration or a migration from Magento or WooCommerce.
What conversion-focused eCommerce work delivers.
Figures from Mojo Dojo eCommerce clients across our portfolio. They are not Illinois statistics, and the matching case studies appear lower on the page.
Why retail and wholesale brands choose Mojo Dojo for Shopify and Shopify Plus.
B2B and B2C buyers need different pricing and checkout logic, and most stores only get one of them right. Across 15 years of Shopify and Shopify Plus builds and replatforms, we have learned to design one store that serves both, so your catalog, stock and customer data stay in one place.
We are a web design and development agency with deep marketing expertise, which lets us plan the storefront, the trade portal and the campaigns that feed them as one project.
Shopify is a hosted platform for selling, shipping and managing inventory, and its native B2B features have made it a serious option for wholesalers. Configuring those features well, and connecting them to your ERP, still takes an experienced Shopify developer and designer.
Our project managers, designers, developers and SEO experts make the build easy on your sales and operations teams and help you plan for the next stage. That philosophy has converted millions in sales for our clients.
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 beats running two platforms for two channels.
Shopify takes care of hosting and security. We make one store work for consumer and trade buyers.
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.
Separate systems that drift apart
A retail store and a wholesale portal on different platforms mean duplicate product data, stock that disagrees and prices updated in one place but not the other.
One catalog, two sets of rules
We run retail and trade from one Shopify catalog and inventory, with price lists, catalogs and checkout rules that change automatically based on who is logged in.
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 buyers forced through a retail checkout
Procurement teams need purchase order numbers, net terms and approval steps, not a card form and a coupon box.
A checkout built for accounts
We set up company locations, payment terms, draft orders for approval and purchase order fields, and sync orders to your ERP so invoicing stays accurate.
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.
Retail, wholesale or both at once, each store we deliver is built to these four 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 your team manage both channels from one admin. 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, color, in bundles or singular items, and find the most efficient ways to categorize them.
Modify and customize 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, categorize customers, export for marketing purposes and learn more about your customer groups through their buyer behavior.
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.
Tell us where your store lives and we will send a Shopify audit within 48 hours, looking at the retail checkout, the trade ordering flow and page speed side by side. Nothing to sign and nobody will chase you.
Trade shows, festivals and seasonal peaks.
For B2B brands, McCormick Place sets much of the calendar. The National Restaurant Association Show in May drew more than 53,000 foodservice professionals in 2025, and trade buyers often place first orders online in the weeks after a show. We make sure trade signup, account approval and quick ordering are working before the booth goes up.
Consumer brands see different peaks. Choose Chicago reports that 34% of 2025 visits came in summer and 28% in fall, with Lollapalooza drawing 460,000+ attendees and the Chicago Marathon in October bringing runners from across the country. We plan launches away from those windows and the holiday peak, and run speed and checkout checks before each one.
Our Shopify development services in detail.
What a combined retail and trade store involves
For most retail and wholesale brands, the build centers on shared product data, pricing rules by customer group, a trade checkout with terms and purchase orders, and a clean ERP connection. Shopify Plus usually makes sense once wholesale volume grows. The services below explain each piece.
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 Optimization
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 optimization 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 rationalization 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 handled remotely. Your retail and trade teams both review the staging store and sign off before anything goes live.
Planning and discovery
We map your customers, catalog, 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 optimization retainer available.
Areas we serve in Chicago.
We work with brands across the metro area remotely, using video calls, shared staging stores and regular reporting. In the city that includes the Loop, River North, the West Loop, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Pilsen and Hyde Park.
We also build for suppliers and retailers in Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Rosemont, Oak Brook, Naperville, Aurora, Elgin, Joliet and Waukegan, and across the state line in Hammond, Indiana.
Selected results.
A short selection of featured client work, chosen because it shows our process. None of it is presented as a Midwest result.
“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 Chicago businesses?
Yes, remotely. Discovery, design reviews and training happen over video calls scheduled for US business hours, you test every change on a shared staging store and we send regular reporting. There is no office to visit, and trade and retail teams can join the same calls from wherever they are.
Can one Shopify store handle both B2B and B2C customers?
Yes. Shopify Plus includes native B2B features: company accounts, multiple locations and buyers, price lists, quantity rules, payment terms and vaulted payment methods. Retail shoppers see the normal store and checkout, while logged-in trade buyers see their own pricing and options.
Will Shopify integrate with our ERP?
Usually, yes. We integrate Shopify and Shopify Plus with ERP and order management systems such as NetSuite and SAP through established connectors or custom middleware, syncing products, stock, customers, orders and invoices. We map the data flows during discovery before any build starts.
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 catalog 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 optimization as a baseline requirement, not an optional add-on. This includes schema markup, canonical URL management, clean URL structures, image optimization, 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 customization 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 optimization 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.
Tell us where your store lives and we will send a Shopify audit within 48 hours, looking at the retail checkout, the trade ordering flow and page speed side by side. Nothing to sign and nobody will chase you.