An elegant Modular Furniture Builder for The Dormy House
A Custom Bike Builder for Source BMX
Sleek, dynamic, and interactive designs for Bella Freud and Chelsea Peers
A fun, educational and personality-filled subscription service for Rave Coffee
A custom Date & Delivery Selector for Pipers Farm and Cutter & Squidge
A sophisticated and user-friendly Product Sample Selector for Porcelain Superstore
A bold theme design with videography and augmented reality for EvenGreener.
We’re not your typical Shopify agency; we’ve mastered our craft by first building our own successful eCommerce platform from scratch. We’re also the quickest agency ever to gain Shopify Plus Partner accreditation.
We don’t do cookie-cutter eCommerce experiences! As a design & UX-first Shopify agency, our award-winning websites reflect your brand's personality and goals, ensuring you stand out from the competition.
We’ve achieved a 7-year average client partnership and delivered over 400 eCommerce projects by first understanding how you define success and then integrating all your needs and ambitions into our work!
Our rich technical heritage has imbued our fully in-house agency team with lateral thinking and a problem-solving attitude. We use this to maintain best practices while developing custom Shopify Plus solutions.
We utilise data and research to support all our design and optimisation decisions. We focus on speed, accessibility, and usability to deliver engaging eCommerce experiences that drive conversions on Shopify Plus.
With 30 dedicated Shopify Plus experts, we’re small enough to care about the details but large enough to deliver complex eCommerce projects. And with staff churn under 10%, you’ll enjoy 24/7 support tailored to your needs.
“The migration process with blubolt was seamless, with a well-executed project plan. Shopify Plus has opened new avenues, allowing us to introduce exciting features & improve team productivity with its ease of use!”
“Working with blubolt was fantastic; our project was managed seamlessly & delivered on time. We're really happy with the new site! Our customers have reacted well to the new Shopify Plus functionality & it’s perfectly designed for growth.”
"Moving to Shopify Plus with blubolt has accelerated our momentum & given us a stable platform that also keeps pace with the industry. Migrating to Shopify Plus with blubolt’s support is the best decision I’ve made in 6 years with teapigs."
"We’ve received positive feedback on our new Shopify Plus website delivered by blubolt, particularly with its easy navigation, and it has continued to increase conversions and revenue since launch!"
"I would highly recommend blubolt! They've been extremely proactive as our Shopify Development partner for our eCommerce store. The team has an excellent knowledge of eCommerce and the needs of our stores"
"blubolt was exceptional throughout. We had an idea of what we wanted, and blubolt brought our concepts to life incredibly quickly. Their design team are not just highly talented but equally importantly, an absolute pleasure to work with."
"We’ve had nothing but positive feedback on our new Shopify Plus site! Our customers find it much more user-friendly as the layout is clearer, it’s easier to find products, and the checkout is more efficient."
"blubolt’s Date & Delivery Selector App has been a big win for us. It’s increased customer trust and saved us countless hours in administration! With the app, our customers now have more choice and a more accurate timeframe for deliveries."
"Over the years, the teams from blubolt and Seasalt have worked well together. The key benefit is that we've developed a site tailored to our exact needs, which works perfectly in terms of what we want to create with our customer experience."
"Our customers have been so positive about the new Shopify Plus site, highlighting how user-friendly it is. The proof is in the metrics: since launch, our conversion rate has increased to 3%, and revenue is up by 200% YoY."
Our Advanced Shopify and Shopify Plus clients are typically ambitious brands looking to stand out from the crowd without compromising on either form or function. Determined to grow faster on Shopify, their annual revenue tends to be over £1 million; if less, they’re aiming to reach that figure soon!
In terms of verticals, our Shopify agency clients range from fashion and beauty, homewares and gifts, to sports, food and drink. Read more about our clients here.
Unsurprisingly, the overall costs will largely depend on the complexity of the Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus design and build. After having a quick, obligation-free chat about your Shopify project requirements, we can give you a ballpark starting price. From there, we can put together a detailed proposal with specific estimated costs for the whole project (see details on Shopify project proposals below).
The time from discovery to launch will significantly depend on your specific Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus project requirements. After discussing this with you, we’ll prepare a full proposal, including timescales tailored to your Shopify project. Generally, for a more complex Shopify project, we typically estimate a 4-6 month timescale.
Our Shopify agency specialises in custom Shopify websites and is known for our innovative, bespoke design and development work. As a result, all of the Shopify builds, and Shopify redesigns we deliver have bespoke themes. Read more about the standard versus bespoke Shopify themes in this post
After contacting us to discuss your requirements, we’ll respond with a detailed Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus project proposal covering key areas like:
blubolt services and processes. We’ll explain what we do, how we do it, and who does it! In short, you’ll know what’s happening at every project stage, from discovery, design, and build to UAT and launch.
Project inclusions. We’ll advise what Shopify Plus services are included (like technical and design workshops, frontend build, and data migration, to name a few), as well as the specific website pages and integrations included within the project scope.
Costs. We’ll give you a clear breakdown of proposed costs for items like the design and build, retainer-only and optimisation services, and Shopify Plus fees.
Timings. We’ll give you an estimated timeframe for the Shopify Plus project completion.
We’ll chat through the proposal on a video call, so you’ll have the opportunity to meet the team and ask as many questions as you like! Naturally, you’ll need time to process the information afterwards, but we’re on hand for any follow-up queries you may have.
We certainly can! Our growth and optimisation packages - which form your bluprint for success with blubolt and Shopify - are available in Gold and Platinum. Each can be tailored to your specific needs and include:
Gold Package. We can take over the management of your existing Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus website and provide services like website development, design refreshes, and partner recommendations, as well as deliver ad hoc project work. Our thorough onboarding process means you’ll hit the ground running. We’ll organise your website code into our super-sleek blubolt folder structure, whereby each section of your code is broken down into smaller, consistently labelled folders. This becomes our pristine ‘source of truth’ so we can effectively and efficiently manage your website while keeping a clear record of changes. And, crucially, multiple blubolt developers can work on your Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus site without any confusion!
Platinum Package. Want to supercharge your site? In addition to the Gold Package services, you’ll enjoy our popular and highly effective Advanced Shopify or Shopify Plus optimisation service. We’ll help you seize untapped ecommerce opportunities by analysing data and user research to identify friction points and website opportunities. This ultimately leads to meaningful A/B tests and changes to improve user experience and boost KPIs.
Read more about our growth and optimisation packages here, or get in touch to discuss your specific requirements here.
We have flexible working arrangements, so our team of Advanced Shopify and Shopify Plus experts is based at home and at our fun and friendly office, located on the world-famous Queen’s Square in Bath, Somerset. Spread over several floors of a historic Georgian terrace, it’s the perfect hub for our energetic, creative, and collaborative Shopify agency team. Contact us to arrange a visit!
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blubolt services eCommerce brands in Bath, Somerset, London, the rest of the UK and Europe. Get in touch to discuss your Shopify agency requirements today.
blubolt has been a trailblazer for beautiful, bold and technically brilliant eCommerce stores since 2006. First powered by our own platform, bluCommerce, we now channel our expertise into Advanced Shopify and Shopify Plus - the fast and flexible platform of choice for ambitious brands. As a Shopify agency, we're known for delivering innovative, custom solutions that also look beautiful to a wide range of clients. You can read more about our award-winning work here or more about our Shopify agency here.
