Bespoke Shopify development

We build on Shopify what your theme and off-the-shelf apps cannot do: Liquid sections, custom apps, Shopify Functions, checkout extensions and integrations with your own systems. Meelz is a Paris-based Shopify Partner agency.

Shopify Partner since 2019, Select tier · 52 Shopify projects delivered

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What we build on Shopify

Bespoke development starts from one specific need in your store. We then decide where it lives: in the theme, in an app, or in a function that Shopify runs.

Liquid themes and sections

We build themes and sections in Liquid, with their blocks and settings in the Shopify theme editor. Your team then updates content from that editor. Product-specific information is stored in metafields and metaobjects.

Custom Shopify apps

When the need goes beyond the theme, we build an app: a screen in the Shopify admin, server-side logic, and data exchanged with other services. An app can stay private to your store or be listed on the Shopify App Store.

Shopify Functions: discounts, delivery, payment

Shopify Functions run your own rules inside Shopify's infrastructure: a discount calculated from the customer or the cart, a delivery option renamed or hidden, a payment method removed, a cart checked before payment. A Function is always shipped inside an app.

Checkout and customer account extensions

Extensions add blocks to the checkout, the thank-you page and the customer account: a field, a message, an option. They replace edits to the checkout.liquid file, which Shopify has retired.

ERP, logistics and CRM integrations

We connect Shopify to the systems you run the business on: ERP, fulfilment provider, CRM, email platform. Data covers products, stock, orders, customers and prices. For each flow, the direction, the frequency and the rule for conflicts are written down before development starts.

Shopify apps published by Meelz

Meelz builds and maintains its own Shopify apps. Each one has its own page on this site.

Private Prices

Private Prices shows discounted prices reserved for your logged-in customers, or for those with a specific tag. The discount applies on its own in the cart and at checkout, with no discount code. Each campaign has a start date and an end date.

See the Private Prices app

Norma

Norma creates a Factur-X e-invoice for every Shopify order, with credit notes and e-reporting. It is built for merchants affected by the French e-invoicing reform.

See Norma

Shopify Odoo connector

The connector syncs products, stock, orders, customers and price lists between Shopify and Odoo, in both directions. It works with Odoo 14 to 17, whether self-hosted, on Odoo.sh or on Odoo Cloud.

See the Odoo connector

Stores we have built and extended

This work runs in our clients' stores.

Leon & Harper

For Leon & Harper, a womenswear brand, we built private sales on collections reserved for logged-in customers, colour swatches linking to each style's other colourways, and size selection by buttons. The store runs in French, English and Spanish.

Read the case study

Maison les Dames

Maison les Dames, a denim brand, had its store built entirely on Shopify from a Figma design.

SIXSOEURS

For SIXSOEURS, we migrated the store from Squarespace to Shopify, then developed the theme and its new features.

L'Enfantin and Lazypants

L'Enfantin, embroidered kidswear, and Lazypants, comfortable clothing, both brought us in for bespoke development on their stores.

Other stores are shown in our work.

Shopify or Shopify Plus: what changes for development

Most development work runs on every Shopify plan: themes and sections, public apps, Shopify Functions shipped in a public app, and extensions for the thank-you page and the customer account. Shopify Plus adds two options. Extensions for the information, shipping and payment steps of the checkout are reserved for it. A custom app that contains Shopify Functions can only be installed on a Shopify Plus store.

At scoping, we tell you whether your need requires Shopify Plus. Four brands on Shopify Plus have handed us their entire store.

How a development project runs

Scoping

We write down the need, the data involved and what is out of scope. The quote is based on that document.

Store access

You add us as a Shopify collaborator, with no password shared.

Build and testing

We build on a copy of your theme or on a development store. You test on that preview before anything goes live.

Going live

We go live once you approve. The theme code stays yours, versioned on GitHub.

Once live, the Shopify maintenance subscription takes over fixes and new features.

Bespoke Shopify development: your questions

How much does bespoke Shopify development cost?

From €5,000 excl. VAT. Simple projects: €5,000 to €7,000 excl. VAT. Bespoke work (ERP and logistics connectors): quoted separately. The quote is based on the scope written at the start.

Should we build an app or change the theme?

Anything that changes how the store looks is built in the theme, in Liquid. Anything that needs server-side logic, an admin screen or a calculation in the cart is built in an app, with a Shopify Function where needed. We make that choice at scoping.

Who owns the code Meelz writes?

The theme code is yours, versioned on GitHub. For a custom app, ownership of the code is set by the terms of the quote.

Do you need Shopify Plus to customise the checkout?

Yes for the information, shipping and payment steps: their extensions are reserved for Shopify Plus. Extensions for the thank-you page and the customer account work on every plan.

Who maintains the work after it goes live?

Meelz can, through the Shopify maintenance subscription. It covers fixes and new features for your store.

Your Shopify development project

We reply to every project enquiry within 24 hours.

Tell us about your projectLucas Deschamps

Lucas Deschamps · Co-founder, Meelz

contact@meelz.agency