Your Olathe parts store sells fine until a customer needs the right fit for a specific aircraft and the theme has no idea

Most Olathe Shopify builds run $25,000 to $90,000 depending on catalog complexity, B2B pricing, and inventory integration. A custom theme with account pricing sits near the low end; a full parts store with fitment lookup and ERP sync costs more. Digital Heroes scopes it after seeing your catalog and how customers choose parts.

Not out of the box, but a custom build adds fitment and cross-reference lookup so buyers match parts to a specific aircraft or machine. This is one of the main reasons Olathe parts sellers invest in custom Shopify work rather than a stock theme, because wrong-fit orders drive returns and erode trust. We build the lookup around your catalog's real compatibility rules.

Yes. We build account-based pricing so logged-in B2B customers see their negotiated rates automatically, while the catalog still works for anyone browsing. Stock themes know only one price for everyone, which is a dealbreaker for distribution selling. Tiered and customer-specific pricing is a standard part of a serious B2B Shopify build.

We connect the storefront to your inventory system or ERP so stock and pricing are live, and the store never sells what you can't ship. Without that sync, a spreadsheet-driven catalog is always slightly wrong, which turns into cancelled orders and support calls. Live integration keeps the storefront honest.

We configure tax handling for the Kansas Department of Revenue rules, including Olathe's combined rate above 10 percent on in-state orders, layered on the 6.5 percent state base. Shopify's tax engine is set up correctly for your nexus, and destination-based rules apply for shipments across Kansas. That keeps your invoicing defensible.

You own the custom theme and any code we build. Shopify hosts the platform, but the storefront work is yours, with no dependency that traps you. You can maintain it with us or move it to another developer, which fits the Olathe preference for owning the relationship on your own terms.

For most Olathe parts and B2B sellers, custom development on Shopify is the sweet spot because you get payments, security, and hosting handled while adding the catalog logic you need. A fully custom store makes sense only when your requirements exceed what Shopify can extend, which is rare for parts commerce. We help you make that call during discovery.

A custom theme with B2B pricing takes 6 to 10 weeks; a full parts store with fitment and inventory sync runs 10 to 14 weeks. Much of the timeline is data work, structuring thousands of SKUs and their compatibility rules, which is the unglamorous part that determines whether the store actually works. We plan that cleanup into the schedule.

Yes. We integrate Shopify with your accounting, shipping, and back-office systems so orders flow without rekeying, and we can feed sales data into your dashboards. The goal is a store that is part of your operation rather than an island your team reconciles by hand.

Because the low quote prices a theme install and the high quote prices software. A $3,000 bid typically covers configuring a purchased theme, while a $50,000 bid covers custom Liquid sections, wholesale or subscription logic, ERP sync, and load testing before launch. Ask each bidder which templates they are building from scratch and which integrations they own end to end, and the gap usually explains itself.

Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 a month on a three-year term, and the usual crossover is $1M to $2M in annual sales, or earlier if you specifically need checkout customization, built-in B2B wholesale features, or expansion stores for international markets. Below that, the Advanced plan at $399 a month covers most growing brands. Upgrade for a named capability you will actually use, not for prestige.

For most stores under about $5M a year, no. In Digital Heroes scoping, headless builds run 3 to 5 times the cost of a comparable theme build and put every content change back in developer hands, while modern Online Store 2.0 themes are already fast enough for strong conversion. Hydrogen earns its cost for content-heavy brands, complex international catalogs, or teams with in-house React developers who need storefront control a theme cannot give.

The crossover usually shows up between 20 and 50 seats on premium tiers. Salesforce Enterprise lists at $165 per user per month, so 40 users cost about $79,000 a year in subscriptions, which is real money against a custom system you would own outright. Run the comparison over three years: if subscription spend beats the build cost plus 15-20% annual maintenance, custom wins on price before you even count workflow fit.

Shopify is certified PCI DSS Level 1, the highest level, and it covers checkout and card handling for you. Your remaining responsibilities are the things you add: vetting apps before granting customer-data access, removing unused apps and staff accounts, enforcing two-factor authentication, and handling GDPR or CCPA requests since you are the data controller. Most Shopify security incidents we get called into start with an over-permissioned app or a shared admin login, not the platform.

The big five: no version control, direct edits to core theme files, no staging store for testing, promising checkout customization without asking what plan you are on, and a quote produced with no written scope. Any one of these predicts expensive trouble; two or more and you should walk. Deep checkout customization requires Shopify Plus with Checkout Extensibility, so a vendor who promises it on the $39 Basic plan does not know the platform.

Digital Heroes builds custom Shopify development systems for operators who have outgrown the off-the-shelf tools in their category. The work is delivered remotely: our engineers work from Delhi and Lucknow, leadership is in New York, and some team members live in London and Sydney and work remotely from there. We have no office in Olathe. You can chat with the team directly, and every form gets an email reply within 24 hours.