Articles and insights from the Shakewell team.
Shopify Plus starts at A$3,700 a month on a three-year term, A$4,000 on one year. What it really costs Australian retailers: the platform fee, transaction fees, and what drives a build quote.
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Most replatforms are decided on the new storefront and lost on the details behind it. What to settle before choosing a platform: what the current store really does, data, URLs, integrations, and the B2B rules nobody wrote down.
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Shopify costs A$42 to A$431 a month in Australia on yearly billing, and Plus starts at A$3,700. Every plan's card rates and fees, and the monthly sales at which each upgrade pays for itself.
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Cloudflare's rule for StyleSmuggler arrived six days after exploitation began. What an edge WAF actually does for a Magento store, the settings that matter, and why it is a backstop, not a patch.
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Most Shopify stores should install apps, not build them. The signs a custom Shopify app is worth it, what it can and cannot touch, which parts need Shopify Plus, and what it costs to own.
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A WooCommerce to Shopify migration moves products and orders easily. URLs, customer logins, plugins and payment fees are where it goes wrong. What to plan for, in the order it bites.
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Akeneo 7 reaches end of support on 30 September 2026 and Pimcore's free edition now has a revenue cap. How to choose PIM software now, and what to do if you are on Akeneo 7.
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Adobe has released APSB26-146 for CVE-2026-75650. Apply it now, but a patch does not clean a store that was already compromised. What to preserve before you patch, what to check after, and the disclosure clock most coverage skips.
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Shopify Scripts stopped running on 30 June 2026. Stores that did not migrate lost discount, shipping and payment rules without an error. How to check yours and move to Shopify Functions.
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Should a sports club or venue build its own ticketing system? Almost never. What to buy, what to ask a vendor, and the membership, gate and data layer worth owning.
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The GST carve-outs that break Australian catalogue tax logic, why a flat national shipping rate quietly loses money, and how to configure both properly on Shopify and Adobe Commerce.
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We built a WCAG contrast audit for our own site and two thirds of its first findings were wrong. What broke, why generic checkers get this wrong, and how to test a gradient.
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A decision framework for headless and Jamstack architecture: the four situations where it pays for itself, and the ones where a traditional CMS is the better answer.
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What to check before committing to a legacy PHP or Laravel codebase, the questions that decide whether it can be safely changed, and what a rewrite really costs.
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Discovery output people can use: journey maps, user stories and research findings that change what gets built, not a slide deck that gets filed.
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We measured 21 of Australia's largest online retailers. None scored above 44. The median site ships 7MB, and 62% of it is third-party code the retailer didn't write.
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Why ERP integration is the line item that blows e-commerce budgets, the four questions that decide the price, and how to tell real-time requirements from imagined ones.
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Where Adobe Commerce genuinely beats Shopify Plus, where it does not, and the three questions that actually decide it, from a team that builds on both.
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Whether to run one store or two across the Tasman, what actually differs between AU and NZ commerce (GST, freight, currency) and the duplication that costs more than it solves.
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Controlling who sees which documents when access follows what a customer bought, entitlement models, role-based views, and enforcement at the data layer.
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Why association member portals go unused, what to fix first, and how to take one over from another agency without starting again.
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Why off-the-shelf booking software fails for stadiums and multi-space venues, provisional holds, space hierarchies, approvals and downstream systems.
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Shopify vs WooCommerce for Australian retailers, total cost of ownership, GST and shipping, who maintains it, and when each is genuinely right. Compared both ways round.
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Adobe Commerce version support dates, what an upgrade actually costs, and how to budget for support, including the deadlines landing in August 2026.
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What AI genuinely changes in structured publishing (tagging, conversion, retrieval) and what still depends on standards, review and provenance.
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Typical market ranges for mobile app projects in Australia in 2026, what actually drives the number, and the costs most quotes leave out.
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Where WordPress genuinely holds up at enterprise scale, where it does not, and the build decisions that decide which of those you end up with.
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What headless architectures actually buy you in production, what they cost in complexity, and a decision framework for going headless versus keeping a CMS.
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When one codebase is the right call and when you genuinely need native, judged on hardware access, performance, team skills and long-term maintenance cost.
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How to move a business off an Access database it has outgrown, what breaks, what migration involves, and how to keep the workflows people rely on.
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Typical costs for moving from Magento or Adobe Commerce to Shopify in Australia, what drives the number, and the mistakes that make it more expensive.
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How to choose between augmenting your team, outsourcing a project and hiring permanently, judged on speed, knowledge retention and flexibility.
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Typical market ranges for website projects in Australia in 2026, what drives cost up or down, and how to choose between fixed-scope delivery and augmentation.
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A decision framework for choosing between Laravel and WordPress, when a CMS is the right tool, when a framework is, and how to avoid rebuilding in two years.
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