For stores that already run
Bugs, features, and updates on the store you already have. $20/hour. Intro call is free.
You have a store that sells and a list of things that are broken or missing. The last freelancer disappeared. An agency wants a six-week discovery. You need someone who opens the theme.
Broken variant, app update ate the cart, a section that only works on desktop. You do not need a new store. You need a developer who will finish the issue.
Upsell, chatbot, search, reviews — five scripts fighting checkout. A contained feature in the theme is often cheaper than another SaaS that owns your cart.
Clear rates. Intro call is free.
I review bugs before I quote them — the $40 is the floor, not a promise that every ticket is two hours.
Start here
Send the ticket. I look at it first, then we lock a number — the $40 is the floor, not a blank check.
From $40 after review
The offer
Ongoing bugs, features, and updates. Intro call is free. I am the person you ping.
$20 / hour
A section, a landing, a cart path — on the store that is already selling.
From $200
On a store that is already live.
Tap a row. Most tickets sit in Fixes or Features. Advanced is for when an app stack is the expensive part.
Fixes
The live store. The ticket. I review it before I quote it.
Features
Contained work on the store you already have. Starting from $200.
Advanced
2026 features that replace a stack of apps — quoted after the free call.
Fixes · selected
Cart drawer died after an app update. Variant picker hides the only in-stock size. I repro in your theme, patch, and leave a Loom — not a hostage rebuild.
Advanced feature development
Quoted after the free call. If a $200 section would do it, I will not upsell a chatbot.
Cuts the $200+/mo widget that still invents return policies.
Trained on your products, FAQs, and shipping — not the open web. If the shopper is angry, wholesale, or asks for a human, it hands off to inbox or WhatsApp with the thread. You do not pay an agent for ‘where is my order’ at 1am.
Stops reporting purchases Shopify already saw and the dashboard did not.
Customer events, pixels, and the product feed aligned with live inventory. Your developer should own this — not another tracking app.
One feature instead of a search app plus a quiz app.
Shoppers search like they talk. Metafields, filters, and a short Q&A on the PDP so ‘is this for oily skin / is it in beige’ does not become a support ticket.
Removes the extra upsell app sitting on every order.
A post-purchase offer, a gift note, a warranty checkbox — on Shopify’s checkout, not a third script that slows Shop Pay. Same conversion, less monthly tax.
A page for the offer — without a new store or a page-builder tax.
A section or template: offer, product, proof, one add-to-cart. I build it in your theme so ops can reuse it for the next drop.
Discount and bundle logic without another merchandising SaaS.
Shopify Functions for stacking deals, native bundles, and conversational checkout when the catalog is ready. I will say if a $200 section is enough instead.
01
Send the store URL and the ticket. Fifteen minutes. I tell you if it is a $40 fix, a $200 feature, or a rebuild you should not buy.
02
Collaborator access. I look at the theme, the apps, and the repro. Bug pricing is not locked until that review — the $40 is the floor, not a blank check.
03
Patch, section, or small app. Preview theme when the change is scary. I do not take the store down to prove I am busy.
04
What changed, how to revert, how to edit the metafield. Hourly work is billed for hours used. No retainer trap.
Later, if you actually need it
Most stores need a developer on the theme they have. A rebuild is $2,500–$4,000 when the live theme is the bottleneck — not because it looks nicer in a pitch deck.
Only if the live theme is actually the problem. Most stores I talk to need a developer, not a new Dawn.
$2,500–$4,000
Client work sits under NDA. No live URLs, no brand names. What you see below is the system, the metro, and the numbers — enough to judge the work without putting another owner on blast.
DTC skincare · Los Angeles, CA
9 days
The store sold. PDP was a Dawn gallery. Support was answering ‘which order do I use these’ in DMs. An agency had quoted a full theme. They needed sections and a person who would stay.
What shipped
Outcome
Apparel · Austin, TX
ongoing, billed hourly
Live store, decent revenue, a theme.json nobody understood. Variant bugs after every app update. They did not want a new theme. They wanted the cart to add to cart.
What shipped
Outcome
Supplements · catalog chatbot · Miami, FL
3 weeks
Chat was the same 40 questions. A $249/mo widget was guessing ingredients. Angry ‘where is my order’ threads were getting a made-up tracking link.
What shipped
Outcome
“He did not try to sell me a $4k theme. He became the person I ping when something breaks. Intro call was actually free. That is rare.”
“$20/hour and he reviews the ticket before quoting. We send screenshots. He sends a Loom. Cart stopped breaking every time an app auto-updated. I do not need an agency. I need a developer.”
“The chatbot was the feature. The human handoff was why we paid. It does not invent tracking numbers. When someone is mad it comes to me. We killed the old widget the same week.”
“We put him on client stores when they need a real Shopify person — not a kickoff deck. Liquid, a section, an app if it is honest. He will tell you which. NDA is why I cannot name the brands.”
Free intro call. $20/hour after that.
WhatsApp the URL and what you need. I will tell you if it is a $40 fix, a $200 feature, or a rebuild you should skip — before anyone writes Liquid.