Design, development, SEO, ads and email, each with its own team. One price and one date in writing before we start. The same people on your store from the first call to the last, and everything we make is yours.
Drinks, leather, jewelry, supplements, apparel. Real stores you can open in a new tab and go through yourself. Every number further down this page came out of one of them.
You already know what you want done. What you can't tell from a website is whether it'll be done well, and finished on the date you were given.
So that's what we'd rather be judged on. One price and one date, both in writing before we start, and the same people on your store from the first call to the last.
In short
We're Ecomm Wizards, a Shopify agency Austin brands hire for design, development, SEO, creative and email. Most people reach us knowing something's off but not which job it is. So we go and look first, for free, tell you which one it is, and quote that. You own everything we make.
Austin passed a million people last year. Close to ninety companies moved their headquarters here in the seven years before that, and they brought staff and money with them.
That cuts both ways. More customers within reach, and more brands going after the same ones. The brands pulling ahead are the ones spending on the store itself, month after month, and not only on ads.
So a store can't sit still for a year and expect to hold its ground. That's the work we do.
Sneak Energy
Ronaldo Jewelry
Dryrobe
Send us your store. We'll tell you which of the four you need, and why.
Get in touch with usSay your design sits with one company and your ads with another. Both do good work. Then an ad promises something the product page never says, and sales drop.
Ask either one whose fault it is and you'll get a fair answer. Neither is wrong. Neither fixes it.
Here all six services sit on one roadmap, run by one team. So when something breaks between two jobs, there's nothing to argue about. It's ours, and we fix it.
What we do
We'll tell you which of these would move your number and which wouldn't, before you've paid us anything.
Design and UX
The Shopify web design Austin brands buy usually arrives split across a designer and a separate developer. Here it doesn't.
Build and development
The Shopify developer Austin brands hire should hand over a finished store, then still be reachable when you want it changed.
Moving platforms
Your products, your customers and your order history come across too, and every old link still lands where it should.
Ecommerce SEO
First you get what those searches are worth to you in dollars. Then the plan to win them.
Creative strategy
Angles, hooks, scripts and creator content, run against the audiences worth most to you. Winners get scaled, tired ones get replaced before your cost per order moves.
Email and retention
Automated flows, segmented campaigns, subscriptions and win-backs, set up so the messages land in the inbox instead of the promotions tab.
These are the ones we've launched and still run. The platform behaves the same everywhere. What changes is what starts breaking once you grow, so here's what we watch in each.
Subscriptions people can pause without emailing you, bundles that hold their margin, and shelf-life rules the store respects.
What breaks first: The pause button. Hide it and a customer who'd have come back in March cancels in January instead.
Heavy product photography that still loads, spec detail buyers compare line by line, and shipping math on bulky items.
What breaks first: Weight. Real shipping cost on a bulky item, revealed at checkout, is one of the fastest ways to lose a full cart.
Size and fit data, drops that survive a traffic spike, and returns that don't eat the order they came from.
What breaks first: Returns. When the size chart doesn't match what shows up, one sale turns into two shipping legs and a refund.
Product visualization good enough to buy from, configurators for made-to-order pieces, and trust signals sized to the price tag.
What breaks first: Doubt. Above a few hundred dollars, an unanswered question just closes the tab. Almost nobody emails to ask.
Routine merchandising, ingredient detail that scales past twenty products, and replenishment that arrives before they run out.
What breaks first: The second purchase. Get the timing wrong and they've already bought the competitor's version.
Per-customer pricing, net terms, reorder from history, and a portal your reps don't quietly work around.
What breaks first: The workaround. If the portal is slower than a phone call, your reps go back to the phone and you lose the data.
Tell us what you want done. We'll come back with what we'd do and what it costs.
Get in touch with usAll four are legitimate, and your shortlist probably has more than one on it. They sell different things, so the quotes aren't comparable until you know which is which. We're the first row.
| What you'd be hiring | What you get | Best when | When you need something else |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-stack Shopify agency | A specialist team for the one service you're buying. Take one of the six, or take all of them. | You want one price, one date and one person answerable for all of it. | The same team picks it up. Nobody new to brief, no second contract, and your store already understood. |
| Specialist agency | Deep expertise in a single service, whether that's SEO, ads, email or development. | One thing needs real depth, and you've got someone in-house joining up the rest. | A second company, a second contract, and your brand explained from scratch again. |
| Freelance developer | One experienced person, working directly with you, with almost no overhead. | The job is well defined and you can write the spec yourself. | You're back to hiring, and the one person who knew your store has moved on. |
| Web studio | Websites in general, with Shopify as one platform among several they use. | A small catalog and a good-looking site, built cheaply. | Usually a specialist on top, because checkout, subscriptions and catalog rules sit outside what they do. |
One thing here catches people out. A specialist charges specialist rates, because having one service to sell is the whole pitch. The same work from a team that already runs the other five usually costs less, not more.
We're not generalists. Every service has its own team and its own lead. Buy one of them and that's what you get. You're just not paying the premium that comes with a firm having only one thing to sell.
Most of this you won't think to ask about until something has already gone wrong. So here it is up front.
Normal work runs on working days, same as anyone. But if your checkout stops taking money on a Saturday, you message the shared channel and a developer starts working on it that day. No ticket number, no auto-reply, no waiting for Monday.
Every change is reviewed by someone who didn't write it before it reaches your store. It's the least glamorous habit we have and it's the reason releases are dull.
Owning the code matters less than being able to hand it to somebody. So you get the how and the why written down, and a developer who's never met us can pick it up.
What we'd advise against, what we think won't work, what we got wrong. On a call those get softened. Written down they stay useful to you later.
That's how we run it. Now tell us what you're working with.
Get in touch with usFair, and we can't disprove it in a paragraph on our own website.
What we can do is make it checkable. We sell all six, so we've no reason to push you toward one. The write-up is yours before any money moves, and it names the ones we'd skip. Take it wherever you like.
Then keep them. Plenty of our clients have a Shopify developer Austin brands hired years ago, and we work alongside them.
What one person can't usually cover is everything either side of the build. If your setup already handles that, you don't need us and we'll tell you so.
On raw depth in one thing, sometimes, and we'd rather say that than pretend otherwise.
But we're not generalists. Every service has its own team and its own lead. The people doing your SEO don't touch your creative.
And a specialist charges specialist rates, because having one thing to sell is the whole pitch. The same work from us usually costs less, not more.
Every number opens the case study behind it, so you can go and check it.
We needed a store that could handle the complexity of the brand: serious athletes, casual fitness buyers, and trade accounts, all in one place. Ecomm Wizards built exactly that. The conversion numbers and the trade portal revenue both exceeded what we projected.
The migration was seamless. Our customers noticed nothing, and neither did Google. The new store architecture reflects how our buyers actually shop, and the conversion numbers followed. Ecomm Wizards delivered exactly what they promised.
We had the brand and the product. We just didn't have a store. Ecomm Wizards built the whole subscription infrastructure from scratch and 80,000 subscribers in year one was beyond anything we had projected. The scent-swap portal changed our churn numbers entirely.
Nothing gets quoted before it gets looked at. Week one we measure the store and tell you which of the six would move your number most. That write-up is yours either way.
Then one price and one date, in writing, before any work starts. Change the brief later and we requote it in front of you.
Builds run $5,000 to $50,000 depending on how much is custom, and most take six to twelve weeks. Ongoing work is a monthly retainer.
What comes with that number is ownership. We treat your store like we have money riding on it. If it goes down on a Saturday, someone is on it that day.
Work out which kind of company you're actually buying from first, because that decides everything after it. A build shop, a specialist, an ads agency and a full-stack Shopify agency are four different products with one job title on them. Then ask what they'd tell you not to spend money on, and get that answer in writing.
A developer builds what you specify. An agency is supposed to work out whether the spec was right before anyone builds it. If you already know exactly what you want, a developer is cheaper and probably the better buy. If what you can describe is the symptom and not the fix, get the diagnosis first.
Ours run $5,000 to $50,000 for a build, depending on how much of it is custom, with ongoing work as a monthly retainer. Quotes across a Shopify agency Austin shortlist can differ by ten times for what sounds like the same job. That's usually because it isn't the same job. Ask each one what's in and what's out before you compare the numbers.
Six to twelve weeks for most stores, depending on how much is custom and how quickly decisions come back from your side. A migration with a big catalog runs longer. Whoever you hire should give you that date up front, and you get ours in writing before work starts.
No. Shopify store setup Austin founders need at the start is a real project, and it's cheaper to get the structure right now than to unpick it later. The Shopify web design Austin brands buy at this stage should be built to grow into, not replaced in a year.
Yes, and it's the arrangement we'd argue for. The creative and the page it lands on are one system. When separate companies own each half, the ad promises something the product page doesn't deliver, and you pay for that twice.
Then you should, and nothing here makes it harder. The repository, the theme, the design files and the campaign templates are yours from day one, and the documentation comes with them. We'd rather be easy to leave than necessary.
Yes, right across the United States and further out. Nothing about how we work depends on where you sit, and nobody pays a different rate by city.
Next step
You already know which part you'd point at first.
Name it. We'll dig in properly and you get back what turned up:
You're getting the diagnosis. Doing the work is a separate number you're free to ignore.
Book any thirty-minute slot. Three business days later the person who did the digging walks you through it live, so you can interrupt and argue with it. You can't argue with a PDF.
Don't want a call? Leave your details and we'll send the same findings over.
No charge, no run of follow-up emails, and the findings stay yours whichever way you go.
Someone senior reads it and replies the same day or the next. It won't be a sales rep.
