We build the systems commerce runs on: custom ecommerce platforms, POS-to-web inventory sync, headless storefronts, marketplaces, analytics dashboards, and mobile shopping apps. Scoped in 48 hours, demoed every Friday, shipped on a six-week cadence.
A retail software development company builds the systems a commerce business actually runs on — not the marketing around them. That means the storefront platform, the point-of-sale bridge, the inventory engine that decides whether the same unit can be sold twice, the analytics layer the Monday trading meeting reads from, and the mobile app the repeat customer lives in. Since 2017 we have shipped this work for 2,000+ brands across 55+ countries. Eight systems below; each links to the practice that builds it.
Ground-up commerce platforms on Next.js, React, and Node.js for retailers whose pricing logic, catalog structure, or ERP integrations have outgrown every template. You own the codebase, the data model, and the roadmap.
Scope a platform that outlives your roadmap →Register-to-web synchronization so the store floor and the online storefront stop fighting over the same units. Shopify POS wiring, custom middleware for legacy registers, and buy-online-pickup-in-store flows.
Unify floor and web inventory →Multi-location stock engines with reorder points, cycle-count workflows, channel-level allocation, and audit trails. Built as internal tools when the off-the-shelf options force your operation into their shape.
Stop overselling across channels →Hydrogen and Next.js storefronts on the Shopify Storefront API. The commerce backend stays where it works; the front end becomes yours — sub-second loads, editorial layouts, no theme ceiling.
Ship a sub-second storefront →Multi-vendor platforms with seller onboarding, moderated catalogs, commission logic, and split payouts through Stripe Connect — the operations model built alongside the checkout.
Launch a multi-vendor revenue engine →Sell-through, contribution margin, cohort retention, and channel P&L in one dashboard fed from your platform's own events — not five tools each holding a different version of last week.
Turn sales data into weekly decisions →Native and React Native shopping apps with push-driven retention, carts synced to the web store, and store-mode features — scan-to-check-price, pickup notifications — for omnichannel retailers.
Put the store in the customer's pocket →Recurring-revenue architecture built into the platform: subscription billing, skip-before-ship controls, dunning, and churn telemetry. The mechanics behind the 42% subscription share in the Emani engagement.
Build recurring revenue mechanics →Retail software touches card data, customer PII, and inventory that reconciles against real money, so the architecture posture matters more than the feature list. We build PCI-aware checkout architecture — hosted payment fields and tokenized flows through Stripe or Shopify's checkout so raw card numbers never transit or rest on infrastructure you own — and GDPR-aware data handling designed into the data model, not patched in after a complaint. The payment processors carry the certifications; our job is an architecture that keeps your side of the shared-responsibility line clean.
Card entry lives in Stripe Elements or Shopify's hosted checkout; your servers see tokens, never PANs. Webhook-driven order state, idempotent payment handling, and a reconciliation report your finance team can actually close the month against.
Consent recorded at capture, purpose-scoped data storage, configurable retention windows, and a working erasure path across platform, email, and analytics. Designed into the schema on day one because retrofitting deletion into a live retail database is the expensive version.
Deep integration against the Admin API for inventory, orders, and fulfillment automation, and the Storefront API for custom buying experiences — rate-limit-aware, bulk-operation-first, version-pinned.
Hydrogen when the backend is Shopify and you want first-party framework support; Next.js commerce builds when the stack is composed from multiple backends. We pick per project, and we will tell you when headless is the wrong spend.
Every retail software brief we see is one of four problems wearing a different logo. Each has an architectural fix, not an app-install fix.
The floor sells a unit the website just promised to someone in another state. Refunds, apology emails, and a support queue that scales with revenue. Most retailers run three inventory truths: the POS, the platform, and a spreadsheet.
One inventory service as the source of truth, with POS and web as subscribers — webhook-driven sync against the Shopify Admin API, location-level allocation rules, and a reserved-stock buffer for in-flight carts. Oversells drop to reconciliation noise instead of weekly incidents.
Custom pricing tiers, contract customers, bundles, regional catalogs — the template platform says no, and the workaround apps now cost more than engineering would. Replatforming feels existential because last time it broke revenue for a quarter.
Revenue-safe migration: parallel build, full URL redirect mapping, order-history import, and a cutover rehearsed twice before it happens. That is the playbook behind Big Game Sports' Magento 2 exit — +340% revenue and a 1.9s LCP on the other side.
Five tools, five numbers for the same Tuesday. Merchandising decisions run on gut feel because assembling the real sell-through picture takes an analyst most of a week.
An event pipeline from platform, POS, and payments into one warehouse, with dashboards built for the questions the trading meeting actually asks: sell-through by SKU age, contribution margin by channel, repeat-rate cohorts. One number set, refreshed continuously, owned by you.
The B2B side of the business — often a third of revenue — still orders by spreadsheet, with rep-keyed entries and pricing disputes settled by memory.
A wholesale portal with company accounts, contract pricing, NET terms, and reorder-from-history — the same pattern we document on our B2B & wholesale industry page. Rep time moves from data entry to actual selling.
Retail software costs anywhere from $3,000 for a paid-theme storefront with light setup to $300,000+ for a custom Hydrogen storefront with headless CMS and ERP integration. The platform decision is the biggest single cost lever. Real ranges from our scoped engagements: Shopify Basic and Grow builds run $3K–$15K, Shopify Advanced $15K–$50K, and Shopify Plus $50K–$150K. WooCommerce lands at $5K–$40K, BigCommerce $8K–$60K, Magento (Adobe Commerce) $30K–$250K, and custom or headless builds on Hydrogen or Next.js at $80K–$300K+. Custom internal software — inventory engines, POS middleware, analytics dashboards — prices by scope inside the same brackets.
The full platform-by-platform table, the recurring costs nobody quotes, and the four levers that move a bill 5x are broken down in our ecommerce website cost guide. Match the platform to your stage, not your aspiration — and get the number in writing: we return a scoped, fixed-fee quote within 48 hours of the first call.
A 24-month engagement that shows what retail software does when the systems agree with each other. Emani arrived with real product-market fit and a storefront that could not close at the rate the product deserved — PDP conversion at 1.8%, subscription share under 12%. We rebuilt the platform layer by layer: conversion architecture, subscription commerce systems on ReCharge, retention flows fired from in-app events, and a compliance-ready data model. By month 24 the numbers were structural, not seasonal.
MRR at month 24, up from $322K pre-engagement, measured on Shopify analytics.
Year-over-year revenue growth versus the pre-engagement baseline, trailing twelve months.
Subscription share among new orders within 30 days — the subscription system carrying the compounding.
Monthly subscription churn including pauses, well under the 7% industry median.
The cadence is the product: a written scope inside 48 hours of the first call, a demo every Friday, and a six-week delivery cycle that either ships something usable or tells you early why it will not.
Systems audit: platform, POS, inventory flows, and the spreadsheet holding it all together. Written scope, fixed fee, and a build plan inside 48 hours of the first call.
Data model first, screens second. Integration map for every system the software must agree with, plus the UX flows for the people who will live in it daily.
Senior engineers in New York and Delhi, working code demoed every Friday against real data — not slideware.
Rehearsed cutover with rollback plan, redirect mapping on replatforms, and monitoring wired before traffic arrives. Launch day should be the most boring day of the project.
Post-launch six-week cycles against the metrics that matter — conversion, oversell rate, report latency, app-store retention. Each cycle scoped and priced before it starts.
Opinionated defaults, revisited every six months. We choose per project — and we will tell you when the boring option is the right one.
Five reasons that survive a reference call — no invented local offices, no junior bench billed as senior.
115 people across five offices — New York and Delhi HQs with London, Sydney, and Lucknow satellites. Honest remote-first: we will never invent a local address to win a deal, and every hire passes a paid take-home before joining.
The NY–Delhi axis covers your morning standup and ships while you sleep. Questions asked at 5pm Eastern have answers — and often commits — by 9am.
Written scope inside 48 hours of the first call, weekly Friday demos, six-week delivery cycles. The rhythm is the accountability mechanism — drift shows up in days, not quarters.
Our ranges are published on the cost pages before you ever book a call. Clutch 4.9, Upwork Top Rated Plus, D-U-N-S 650878346 — the verifiable kind of trust.
Our ERP, client portal, and internal dashboards are software we built and operate daily. We know what an inventory mismatch feels like at 8am Monday because we run the same class of software on ourselves.
Three shapes. We confirm which one fits on the intro call, and the cost guide shows the ranges each shape lands in before you ever talk to us.
One system, scoped and priced in writing: a platform build, a POS integration, an inventory engine, a headless storefront. One to three six-week cycles depending on scope.
A standing pod that ships in six-week cycles against a shared roadmap — platform work, integrations, dashboards, and the mobile app, prioritized quarterly with you.
Senior engineers embedded in your team, your standups, your repo. Timezone overlap from the NY–Delhi axis keeps the handoff seam invisible.
The software patterns above meet different operating realities in each retail category — drop calendars in apparel, replenishment windows in beauty, cold-chain logistics in food. We keep a playbook per vertical.
Lite vs Pro, hardware costs, and the register-to-web sync decisions retailers get wrong before the first transaction.
The buy-versus-build comparison we run before recommending custom inventory management software over an off-the-shelf tool.
Where headless, composable commerce, and AI-assisted search are actually heading — and which trends are safe to ignore.
From $3,000 for a paid-theme storefront with light setup to $300,000+ for a custom headless build with ERP integration. By platform: Shopify Basic/Grow $3K–$15K, Shopify Advanced $15K–$50K, Shopify Plus $50K–$150K, WooCommerce $5K–$40K, BigCommerce $8K–$60K, Magento $30K–$250K, custom Hydrogen or Next.js $80K–$300K+. We send a scoped, fixed-fee quote within 48 hours of the intro call — scope moves price, not the conversation.
We work in six-week delivery cycles. A focused build — a POS integration, an analytics dashboard, a storefront refresh — fits one cycle. A custom platform or headless storefront typically runs two to three cycles (12–18 weeks). Full replatforms with data migration run longest because cutover rehearsal is non-negotiable. A written scope lands inside 48 hours of the first call, and weekly Friday demos keep drift visible in days.
Precise answer: the payment processors carry the certifications; we build PCI-aware architecture around them. Card data is entered into hosted fields owned by Stripe or Shopify's checkout, so raw card numbers never transit or rest on your infrastructure — which keeps your side of the PCI shared-responsibility model in the lightest self-assessment tier. What we own is everything around that boundary: tokenized flows, idempotent webhooks, order-state integrity, and reconciliation.
TypeScript end to end. Storefronts on Hydrogen or Next.js with React; commerce backends on Shopify Plus via the Admin and Storefront APIs, or fully custom on Node.js with PostgreSQL and Supabase where the logic demands it. Payments through Stripe, subscriptions through ReCharge or custom billing, retention through Klaviyo, mobile apps in React Native, hosting on Vercel.
Yes. Most retail engagements continue as post-launch optimization cycles or a product retainer: monitoring, dependency and API-version updates, conversion experiments, and the next roadmap items in the same six-week rhythm. Prefer in-house maintenance? You get full code ownership, documentation, and a handover sprint — we build in your accounts and repos from day one, so there is no hostage situation at exit.
Both, with different shapes. Startups usually need one well-chosen platform and the discipline not to build custom software too early — we will say so when a $3K–$15K hosted setup is the right call. Multi-location and enterprise retailers usually need the opposite: custom seams between POS, inventory, ERP, and storefront where off-the-shelf connectors quietly fail. Both playbooks are load-tested across 2,000+ brands, not theoretical.
Yes — this is one of the most common briefs we take. Shopify POS to Shopify web is native and we tune it: location-level inventory, BOPIS flows, and staff permissions. Legacy or third-party registers get custom middleware that translates the register's event stream into Admin API inventory mutations, with a reserved-stock buffer for in-flight web carts. The result: one inventory truth with sync latency measured in seconds.
Stay on a template until one of three constraints binds: the brand experience you need is impossible in the theme layer, content and commerce must blend beyond what templates allow, or performance at your catalog size has a measurable revenue cost. Headless commerce development on Hydrogen or Next.js removes the ceiling but adds engineering ownership — it is an $80K–$300K+ decision that should be justified by numbers, not fashion. We run this assessment on the intro call, in writing, either way.
A 30-minute call to map your platform, POS, and inventory reality against the eight systems above. You leave knowing which build shape fits and what it costs — scoped quote in writing within 48 hours.
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