The time it takes to create a Shopify site obviously depends on who's doing it. Of course you can do it yourself, but this will certainly be time-consuming and error-prone, even if documentation is extensive on Shopify. The other approach is to have a Shopify site created by a professional, an expert or a freelancer. This choice will also depend on the ambition of the project. Whether it's a simple Shopify site or something that requires more thought and development.
Having a Shopify site created with close involvement but with a trusted integrator will certainly be more cost-effective in the end.
An experienced Shopify agency, and with the agency label, Shopify expert can offer you in general:
Four time approaches to creating a Shopify site:
An express Shopify site in a week.
It will be simple, basic but functional. You'll soon need to consider updating, upgrading or redesigning. As soon as you've exceeded your sales target of between €5 and €6,000.
One month to create a shopify site in a hurry.
In the price-qualities combo in this formula, we need to consider a priority on the timeframe, for reasons such as the advanced creation of being forced to migrate, or simply an urgent schedule due to the seasonal nature of the launch. We'll have to set priorities and certainly make trade-offs for a version 1 launch.
Two and three months for a more complex site with customized functionalities.
This is the most conventional and reasonable timeframe, to give you a margin of safety on the production launch date. This period can also be justified in the case of mock-ups, which require time-consuming round-trips, followed by integration by the developer. Of course, you also need to bear in mind that, as a company director, you or your teams will be called upon in addition to your day-to-day work, and this may slightly delay the validation round-trips.
Three to six months for customized or scratch-built sites
This timeframe is generally observed for the creation of Shopify with back-end complexities far more complex than those of the front end. Typically, if it involves connecting an ERP, a PIM or a WMS, or developing private applications. You'll need to start with this timeframe between the scoping, acceptance and production phases.
