Shopify Plus
Almost nobody needs Shopify Plus. The point is finding out whether you are the exception.
Plus starts at around $2,300 a month. It only pays for itself when the platform is already costing you more than that: maintenance climbing, markets you cannot open, peaks you cannot handle. We look at your numbers and tell you straight.
Shopify Plus is not an upgrade. It is a change of category.
Standard Shopify is perfectly fine for most shops. Plus is for when complexity becomes the problem: a checkout that needs customizing, automations that turn into a house of cards with ordinary apps, B2B price lists and roles, several markets and currencies, traffic peaks to carry without praying.
That is where extensible checkout, Shopify Flow’s native automations, native B2B, multistore (up to 9 shops included) and dedicated support with a 99.99% SLA come in. The signs that the moment has come are concrete: maintenance costs climbing, international expansion blocked by the platform, volumes demanding guarantees. If you do not have them, you do not need Plus — and we tell you.
When Plus genuinely makes the difference
A bespoke checkout, Shopify Flow for the automations, native B2B with price lists and roles, multistore and multicurrency, a 99.99% SLA for the peaks. All included, with no scaffolding of apps.
What actually changes when you stop maintaining the platform.
The difference is not a prettier theme. It is that a whole layer of problems disappears. No servers to manage, no updates that block your operations on a Saturday, no plugins fighting each other: the infrastructure is managed, the security is included, the speed comes as standard.
In our projects load times settle around 1.3 seconds and IT costs fall by an average of 60%. Translated: you stop paying for invisible maintenance and go back to selling.
01
WHY
PARTNER, NOT SUPPLIER
Being a partner does not mean selling you the bigger plan. It means telling you when you do NOT need it.
In 2005 I put one of the first Italian ecommerce stores online. Since then I have grown shops on Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce — and watched platforms rise and die. Today we work mainly on Shopify and Shopify Plus, and we are certified partners. But “partner” means something precise to us: that we also tell you when Plus makes no sense, or when plain Shopify is more than enough for you. An agency that sells the same answer every time is not a partner. It is a supplier with a price list.
“Commerce is no longer only about selling products. It is about creating experiences that turn visitors into a community.”
— Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify
SHOPIFY, BY THE NUMBERS
Shopify stores that pay more.
CFSCFS
From Italy's number one in medical supplies: Magento to Shopify Plus.
Peraga Garden CenterPeraga Garden Center
From a physical garden center to an ecommerce giant.
CuoieriashopCuoieriashop
A historic workshop turned into a landmark digital case.
CASE STUDY · MEDICAL B2B
How does a traditional B2B company double its conversions?
That was CFS’s question, Italy’s number one in online medical supplies. They were handling more than 5,000 orders a month on a Magento that had become fragile: a technical catalog, 800 categories, complex B2B logic. We migrated everything to Shopify Plus — 100,000 historical orders and 160 customizations built up over the years — without a single day of sales stopped.
One figure tells the project best: the conversion rate went from 1.14% to 2.51%. More than double. And maintenance costs fell by 70%.
02
SERVICES
WHERE WE WORK ON YOUR STORE
From development to growth, in one place.
01
Development
New stores on Shopify and Shopify Plus, built to sell and to last.
02
Migrations
From Magento, PrestaShop and WooCommerce, without losing data, SEO or order history.
03
CRO
Conversion optimization on the real numbers: often the margin is already there, unexpressed.
04
Integrations
ERP, CRM, logistics, payments, and the tools we always use: Klaviyo and Clerk.
05
Support and growth
After go-live we stay: tracking, campaigns, feeds, continuous development.
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The advantage
We work with your team, not instead of it. A store that depends only on the supplier is fragile by definition.
03
METHOD
HOW WE WORK
Assessment first, quote second.
We do not start from a quote, we start from an assessment. In the first ten days we put a concrete document in black and white: the total cost you carry today compared with the projected cost on Shopify, the map of integrations to rebuild, and a roadmap with the risks and how we mitigate them. Only then do you decide — with the numbers in front of you, not with slides.
From there every piece of work has a KPI, an owner and a deadline. No generic “done”: either a number moved, or we have not finished. It is the Measure phase of the ADAM method, applied from day one.
TOOLS
Shopify
Shopify Plus
Shopify Flow
Checkout Extensibility
Native B2B
Klaviyo
Clerk
ERP/CRM APIs
04
PROCESS
HOW WE RUN A MIGRATION
Without one day of sales stopped.
01
Analysis
We fix what must not break, what should be simplified, what should be improved. And the real TCO.
02
Mapping and staging
Product, customer and order data in a test environment; URL map and 301 redirects ready.
03
Controlled go-live
Integrity tests before launch, planned cutover, rollback plan in the drawer.
04
Stabilization and growth
Monitoring through the first weeks, tracking alive, then CRO and growth.
Ecommerce · Shopify
There is only one boss: the customer. And they can fire everybody in the company simply by spending their money somewhere else.
05
COMPARISON
PARTNER VS SUPPLIER
A packaged supplier and a partner are not the same thing.
KOM, partner
Packaged agency
The goal
Your revenue
Delivering the site
Shopify
Yes — recommended when it pays
Sold regardless
Your team
We work together
The supplier does everything
The results
Measured in KPIs
“It is online, it works”
After go-live
We grow with you
We disappear
06
EVIDENCE
THE NUMBERS, WITH REAL NAMES
We measured it. We can measure you too.
GARDEN · B2C/B2B
Peraga
60,000 products migrated to Shopify Plus, three markets.
+126%
revenue (Q1, ROAS 7.3)
FASHION · B2C
Cuoieriashop
1,500+ products, CRO redesign on Shopify Plus.
+28%
conversions (+40% on mobile)
RETAIL · B2C
Via Verdi
Store built from scratch on Shopify.
+320%
organic traffic (in 12 months)
07
DOUBTS
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Got doubts?
When does moving to Shopify Plus make sense?
When the platform limits you: a checkout you cannot customize, automations that need too many apps, B2B or international expansion blocked, volumes that demand an SLA. If you are not there, standard Shopify is enough.
What does it cost?
The Plus subscription starts around $2,300/month; the project, whether development or migration, runs from €15,000 to €60,000 depending on complexity. In most cases we analyze, the total annual cost stays below Magento’s.
How long does it take?
A complete migration usually goes live in 3–4 months, against the 8–12 of traditional enterprise platforms.
Any risk of losing Google and the order history?
That is the delicate point, and it is handled with method: staging, 301 redirects, integrity tests and a rollback plan. For CFS we moved 100,000 historical orders without an hour of sales stopped.
Why you?
We have been doing ecommerce since 2005, we have run migrations of up to 100,000 historical orders and we work on KPIs, not on standard packages. And we also tell you when Shopify is not the answer.
Let us find out whether Plus suits you
before we sell it to you.
We run a free analysis and tell you the truth that comes out of your numbers — even when the truth is “plain Shopify is enough” or “stay where you are”. It happened with ODF: the right choice was PrestaShop, not Shopify, and by cutting 60% off their running costs we did the opposite of what sells. Twenty years of craft are also for that.