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Shopify Plus · Fashion & Apparel

Fashion on Shopify Plus, engineered for drops.

Drops spike traffic 10-50x for minutes, lookbooks fight Core Web Vitals, and size-and-fit returns quietly eat margin. We engineer the Shopify Plus systems fashion brands run on when the launch actually lands.

The problem

Where fashion brands get stuck

The patterns recur. Shopify Plus solves some by default; the rest is engineering.

Challenge

Drop-day traffic

Launches spike 10-50x for minutes. A theme that is fine on Tuesday falls over at the drop.

Challenge

Content-heavy PLPs

Lookbooks and editorial slow the catalog. Merchandising and speed fight each other.

Challenge

Returns drag margin

Size-and-fit returns are the silent margin leak; the flow is usually manual.

How it fits

The Shopify Plus stack, tuned for fashion & apparel

Commerce stack · cross-section
REQUESTExperience tierStorefront · Lookbook · Size guide · MobileCommerce APIsCatalog · Cart · Checkout · DropsContent & searchHeadless CMS · Editorial · AlgoliaData foundationPIM · OMS · InventoryAI & opsRecommendations · Returns triage

What we build

Shopify Plus for fashion & apparel, engineered to fit

Challenge

Drop-ready architecture

Queueing, caching, and inventory holds tuned for launch spikes, load-tested before the date.

Challenge

Editorial + fast PLPs

Hydrogen or Liquid with media discipline so lookbooks do not tax Core Web Vitals.

Challenge

Returns + exchange flows

Self-serve exchanges that keep the sale instead of refunding it.

The AI layer

AI that moves the numbers for fashion & apparel

Not AI bolted on the side — agents and models wired into the fashion & apparel workflows that actually decide revenue, with human approval and an audit trail.

The AI layer

Demand & size forecasting

Predict drop demand and size curves, so you buy and allocate to the sizes that actually sell — not last season's guess.

Returns triage

Agents read return reasons, flag fit and quality patterns, and route exchanges before the refund — protecting margin.

Merchandising copilot

AI drafts PLP ordering, tags, and SEO copy from product data; merchandisers approve instead of authoring.

Where we built

Engagement record

Engineered for the minutes that matter — the drop, the restock, the seasonal launch..

90+Lighthouse Score

Read the case study

Questions

Fashion & Apparel on Shopify Plus, answered

Hydrogen or Liquid for a fashion build?
It depends on how editorial you are and who maintains it. Content-heavy, animation-rich brands lean Hydrogen; if your team lives in Liquid and the theme can hit the speed bar, we keep you there. We pick per your team, not per trend.
How do you keep drop day from falling over?
Queueing, inventory holds, and a caching strategy tuned for the spike — and we load-test the exact launch window before the date, not during it.
Can you actually cut size-and-fit returns?
We instrument return reasons, add fit guidance where the data points, and make self-serve exchanges the default — so a return keeps the sale instead of refunding it.
Do you handle international and multi-currency?
Yes — Shopify Markets for currency, pricing, and tax by region, wired so the catalog and promotions stay consistent across storefronts.

How an engagement starts

Three steps to a partnership

01

Intake call

30 minutes. We listen, you talk. No deck.

02

Diagnostic

We audit the surface, name the bottleneck, propose a path.

03

Kickoff

Senior engineer in your standup by week two.