Offering Overview
This offering empowers organizations who are evaluating a move to Shopify (including Shopify Plus) with an insight-driven audit and assessment. It delivers a clear roadmap for successful replatforming—covering strategy, planning, performance, and support—leveraging Astound Digital’s deep eCommerce and Shopify partnership expertise.
What’s Included
1. Discovery & Strategic Alignment
- Business Goals Workshop: Define objectives like faster time-to-market, improved conversion, omni-channel integration, global expansion, or cost reduction.
- Current State Audit: Evaluate existing platform architecture, operational workflows, integrations, and pain points.
- Shopify Fit Analysis: Map business needs to Shopify capabilities—POS, B2B Commerce, Markets for global expansions, Shop Pay benefits, etc.—showing how the platform supports unified commerce.
2. Shopify Configuration and Theme Development
- Rapid Launch to Full Custom Build
From a fast, MVP storefront live in a matter of weeks to a fully bespoke, conversion-optimized theme, we design and configure Shopify experiences that scale with your business. Our approach balances speed, flexibility, and brand expression — whether you need a quick entry point or a flagship digital storefront.
- Outline process phases: Strategy & Workshops, Experience & UX Ideation, Development Backlog & Sprints, Theme Configuration & Integrations, UAT & Go-Live, plus post-launch hypercare.
3. Technical & Performance Evaluation
- Theme & Infrastructure Review: Assess preparedness for responsive design, Shopify theme architecture, and performance optimization.
- Integration Inventory: Assess readiness for essential commerce integrations across payments, taxes, merchandising, email & UGC, customer care, reviews, search, loyalty, logistics, and more to ensure a seamless, scalable Shopify ecosystem.
4. Global & Omni-Channel Readiness
- Evaluate ability to support international growth using Shopify’s Markets for multi-currency, localized catalogs, multilingual, compliance, and fulfillment strategies.
- Review multi-channel synergies (online, in-store via POS, B2B portals).
5. ROI & Performance Projection
- Estimate business impact: increased conversion rates (Shopify stores see up to 36% higher conversion, averaging 15%), faster launches, streamlined checkout (Shop Pay drives up to 50% higher conversion vs. guest checkout and 10%+ vs. other accelerated checkouts), and improved workflows.
- Scenario modeling for long-term gains and reduced TCO compared to legacy platforms.
6. Roadmap & Recommendations
- Provide prioritized recommendations across:
- Platform readiness (theme, integrations, data, UX)
- Business process adjustments
- International technical architecture (e.g., Markets, logistics)
- Accelerators and third-party ecosystem
- Present a phased rollout plan with timelines, dependencies, and suggested sprint cycles.
7. Executive Summary & Briefing
- Deliver an executive-ready report: key findings, benefits, risks, timeline, and ROI estimates.
- Optional: deliver a stakeholder presentation (C-suite, IT, marketing) to align on next steps.
Ready to Replatform to Shopify?
Uncover your path to faster launches, higher conversions, and scalable growth.
Astound Digital’s Shopify Replatform Audit & Assessment helps you evaluate your current commerce ecosystem, identify gaps, and build a clear roadmap to launch on Shopify—fast.
What's in it for you?
✔ Assess your current platform & integrations
✔ Identify opportunities to streamline operations
✔ Get a tailored Shopify roadmap with ROI projections
✔ Learn how to accelerate launch with Astound’s Evolve Framework
