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Home & Garden on Shopify Plus, freight included.

Dimensional freight, made-to-order configuration, and broad catalogs break a checkout built for parcel shipping. We engineer the Shopify Plus systems home & garden brands need beyond the theme.

The problem

Where home & garden brands get stuck

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

Challenge

Freight & bulky shipping

Dimensional rates and LTL freight do not fit native parcel shipping rules, so the cart quotes wrong or not at all.

Challenge

Configurable products

Swatches, dimensions, and made-to-order options strain a catalog built for simple SKUs.

Challenge

Catalog breadth

Large assortments need search and merchandising that scale past the default.

How it fits

The Shopify Plus stack, tuned for home & garden

Commerce stack · cross-section
REQUESTExperience tierStorefront · Room visualizer · Configurator · MobileCommerce APIsCatalog · Cart · Checkout · Freight quoteContent & searchCMS · Faceted search · MerchandisingData foundationPIM · OMS · InventoryAI & opsVisual search · Freight forecast · Configurator assist

What we build

Shopify Plus for home & garden, engineered to fit

Challenge

Freight integration

Dimensional and LTL rate logic wired to carriers and the cart, with white-glove and threshold rules.

Challenge

Product configuration

Swatch, made-to-order, and bundle modeling the OMS and fulfillment actually respect.

Challenge

Search at scale

Algolia or native search tuned for broad home catalogs and faceted discovery.

The AI layer

AI that moves the numbers for home & garden

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

The AI layer

Visual search

Shoppers search by photo or room style and land on the right SKUs — strong for broad, hard-to-describe home catalogs.

Freight & inventory forecast

Forecast demand and freight load by SKU and region so stock and carrier capacity are ready, not reactive.

Configurator assist

AI guides made-to-order choices and flags invalid combinations before they reach fulfillment.

Where we built

Engagement record

Engineered for big-and-bulky reality — freight, lead times, and catalogs in the hundreds of thousands..

90+Lighthouse Score

Read the case study

Questions

Home & Garden on Shopify Plus, answered

Can Shopify Plus handle freight and LTL?
Native shipping is parcel-first, so we wire dimensional and LTL rate logic to your carriers and the cart — including white-glove and threshold rules — so quotes are right at checkout.
How do you handle configurable / made-to-order products?
We model swatches, dimensions, and options as real product structure the OMS and fulfillment respect, not as line-item notes that break downstream.
Will search hold up on a huge catalog?
Yes — Algolia or tuned native search with faceting built for broad home assortments and the way shoppers actually filter.
Do you support room visualization or AR?
Where it earns its keep — we integrate visualizers and AR for considered, high-AOV categories rather than bolting it on everywhere.

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.