Timesact
Pre-orders, deposits, backorders and waitlists — controlled per variant.
We use it
Shopify builds · migrations · app stack
Your store,
correctly loaded.
We build Shopify stores, move them across from other platforms, and sort out the pile of apps behind them. Most handovers come with twelve apps and a login. We would rather leave you with four that earn their keep.
Taking on 3 more projects this year
19
Apps reviewed in the open
6–8 wks
Typical build
1 day
We reply within
None
Hourly billing
What we do
Build the store. Then look after what runs on it.
Launch covers everything up to going live. Grow is what happens afterwards, which is where most stores quietly get slower and more expensive. We do not do ads, SEO or social, and we will say so early rather than take the budget.
Launch
Store builds
A new store, built into the theme instead of bolted on top of it.
Launch
Migrations onto Shopify
From WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, or whatever has been running since 2014.
Launch
App stack review
Which apps stay, which go, and what that saves you.
Launch
International & multi-market
Selling into more countries without three more subscriptions.
Grow
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Nine times out of ten, the fix is removing things.
Grow
Subscriptions
Worth doing if it is the business model. Rarely worth it as a feature.
Grow
Conversion work
Changes we can measure, not opinions about button colours.
Grow
Looking after it
A monthly arrangement you can end whenever it stops being useful.
The stack
Every app we build with,
and what it costs you.
19 of them, with the reasoning written out, including the ones we turn down and why. It is the closest thing we have to a portfolio right now. Updated 20 September 2026.
How it goes
How a project actually runs.
01
We go through the store
Theme code, the app list, page weight, checkout, analytics. A person reads it and writes down what they find. It takes about two days.
02
You get that in writing
What is slow, what is duplicated, what you are paying for twice. Yours to keep either way, including if you take it to another agency.
03
One scope, one number
Quoted against what we found rather than what you described. You also get a date, and you hear early if it starts to slip.
04
Build, then hand it over
Repository, app accounts, and the reasoning behind each decision. Nothing about the setup depends on us still being around.
Why the app list matters
Your customer waits for all of it.
An app that sounds free rarely is. Most of them add their own scripts to the page, and the cost lands on whoever is loading your product page on a train with two bars of signal.
Six apps installed
ReviewsEmail popupLive chatUpsellsCurrencyCountdown
Your storefrontEvery one of those apps loads here, on every page view
ShopifyCheckout, orders, inventory, payments
Questions
Questions we get asked.
Including the one about why you would hire an agency that cannot show you any work yet. That one is first.
You have no case studies. Why would we hire you?
Because we would rather you judged the reasoning than a logo wall. Shipshape is new, and that is just true. What we can show you is how we think: the stack page lists every app we build with, what it costs, and which ones we will not touch. Read it and you will know more about how we would treat your store than most case studies would tell you. It is also why the first few projects are priced lower. You are taking a risk, so we are pricing one.
How long does a build take?
Six to eight weeks for a straightforward store. Ten to fourteen if there is order history, subscriptions or several markets to move. You get the date with the quote, and if it starts slipping you hear about it that week, not on the deadline.
What does it cost?
It depends on the store, which is a boring answer, so here is the useful part: you get one fixed number against a written scope, and you get it after we have spent a week actually in your store rather than guessing from a brief. No hourly billing. If something is genuinely hard to price we will say so instead of padding the number and hoping.
Can you work with our developer or in-house team?
Usually the better setup, yes. Plenty of brands have someone who knows the store inside out and needs help with one specific piece. We scope around that person rather than around replacing them.
Send us a link to your store.
That is genuinely enough to start. We will have been through it before we speak.