What Does a Shopify Plus Build Cost in Australia?
Shopify Plus starts at A$3,700 a month on a three-year term, A$4,000 on one year. What Australian retailers pay: platform fee, transaction fees, build cost.
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Articles and insights from the Shakewell team.
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E-commerce Replatforming: What to Settle Before You Choose the New Platform
An e-commerce replatforming checklist: what the current store really does, the URLs Google has, data, integrations and B2B rules, then the platform, last.
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Shopify Pricing in Australia (2026): Every Plan, and When Upgrading Pays
What Shopify costs in Australia in AUD: Basic A$42, Grow A$114, Advanced A$431, Plus from A$3,700. Card fees, GST, and when each upgrade pays off.
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Putting Magento Behind Cloudflare: What a WAF Does, and What It Cannot
Cloudflare's StyleSmuggler rule arrived six days after exploitation began. What an edge WAF does for a Magento store, which settings matter, and its limits.
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Custom Shopify Apps: When to Build One, and When to Install One
Most Shopify stores should install apps, not build them. When a custom Shopify app is worth it, what it can touch, which parts need Plus, and the cost to own.
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Adobe Has Patched StyleSmuggler. Patching Is Not the Whole Job.
Adobe's APSB26-146 fixes CVE-2026-75650. Apply it now, but a patch does not clean a store already compromised. What to keep before patching and check after.
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Shopify Scripts Stopped on 30 June. Is Your Checkout Still Doing What You Think?
Shopify Scripts stopped running on 30 June 2026. Unmigrated stores silently lost discount, shipping and payment rules. Check yours and move to Functions.
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Ticketing for Sports Clubs: Buy the Engine, Own the Layer Around It
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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GST and Shipping: The Two Things Australian Stores Get Wrong
The GST carve-outs that break Australian catalogue tax logic, why a flat shipping rate loses money, and how to set both up on Shopify and Adobe Commerce.
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The Contrast Failures Automated Tools Miss
We built a WCAG contrast audit for our own site and two thirds of its first findings were wrong. Why generic checkers miss it, and how to test a gradient.
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Headless CMS: When It's Worth It for Australian Businesses
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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Inheriting a Legacy PHP Application: The First Two Weeks
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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What a UX Research Phase Actually Produces
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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Two Thirds of Australian Retail's Page Weight Isn't Theirs
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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ERP Integration for E-commerce: What It Actually Costs
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 needs from imagined.
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Adobe Commerce vs Shopify Plus for Australian Retailers
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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Selling Into Australia and New Zealand From One Store
One store or two across the Tasman? What differs between AU and NZ commerce (GST, freight, currency), and the duplication that costs more than it solves.
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Entitlement and Access Control in Document Portals
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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