We choose the platform with you on the first call.
It is settled before any code is written, and it comes down to how much of your business fits a standard shopping cart.
Shopify
Physical products sold through a standard cart
For a product store, Shopify is usually faster to build and cheaper to run. We build on it and skip the custom work you do not need.
A custom build
Booking, scheduling, quotes or ordering rules of your own
Shopify cannot express rules like these without workarounds, and over time the workarounds cost more than building the system to fit. You own the code once the final invoice is paid.
For booking alone, off-the-shelf tools such as Calendly, Square and Jane cover most small businesses for a monthly fee. If one of them does what you need, we will say so on the first call.