for-business / 03 / ecommerce
Stop renting your storefront.
Custom storefronts with product management, checkout, order fulfillment, customer accounts. Choose your own payment processor. Own the code. Eliminate vendor lock-in.
$ cat cases/active.md
An e-commerce build in production.
Veltrigen
A peptide-research brand on Shopify. We rebuilt the storefront on Dawn, built a custom admin SPA for the fulfillment workflow, and now run the production stack on AWS — storefront, admin, and shipping pipeline under one roof.
Open the case study →// problem
Shopify is renting a storefront.
Monthly platform fee. A surcharge on every sale unless you use their first-party processor. App-marketplace fees for things that should be built in. Theme licensing. Locked checkout. And the contact list, the order history, the customizations — all live inside someone else's product.
That model works fine until your margins start mattering. Building your own commerce stack used to be expensive. With modern frameworks, it isn't anymore — you can own the entire stack for less than a few years of the per-sale surcharges.
$ ls deliverables/
What's in the build.
Storefront & theme
Custom-designed storefront, your brand voice, your photography. Built for performance — we audit Lighthouse — SEO-clean, mobile-first.
Product & variant management
Catalog, variants, options, modifiers, inventory tracking with low-stock alerts, bundles, digital products.
Checkout & payments
Optimized checkout (single-page or multi-step), integrate with Stripe, Square, Venmo, Zelle, or whichever processor you've negotiated the best rate with. Apple Pay / Google Pay where supported. Discount codes, abandoned-cart recovery.
Order fulfillment
Order pipeline (paid → packed → shipped → delivered), shipping-label integration with whichever provider you use, return management, refund automation.
Customer accounts
Account creation, order history, saved addresses, subscription management, loyalty points, wishlist, custom audiences for marketing.
Admin & reports
Single-pane admin dashboard, real-time sales, customer LTV, channel attribution, refund/dispute audit, exports to whichever accounting tool you use.
$ diff stagg shopify
Stagg vs Shopify.
$ stagg --quote ecommerce
Ready to own it?
Free consultation. We audit your current stack, scope a migration path, and give you a fixed quote within 24 hours.