Your store should sell like a product.
Storefronts built like products. Real checkout, subscriptions, inventory and the operations behind them.
- Product pages that read like editorial
- Checkout that doesn't shed carts on mobile
- Real inventory, not a pretend counter
- Subscriptions, discount stacking, gift cards
Template shops cap what you can sell.
A store you can rank, brand and iterate needs all four.
- Product pages that read like editorial
- Checkout that doesn't shed carts on mobile
- Real inventory, not a pretend counter
- Subscriptions, discount stacking, gift cards
- One-of-one luxury pieces or 5,000 SKUs
Why not just grab a cheap template?
Here is the honest difference, side by side.
Two live examples.
Both do things a Shopify theme can't.
Luxury vintage storefront — one-of-one inventory, editorial catalog, concierge made-to-order flow, phone-first motion. 858vintage.com ↗
Telehealth commerce — intake built with compliance in mind before checkout, prescriber review behind it, HSA/FSA, Stripe, PayPal and Venmo. shopcandyrx.com ↗
What's in a build.
The customer-facing half of every store we ship.
- Custom product templates built around your catalog
- Checkout wired to your own payment account
- We can integrate Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, ACH or crypto into your store
- Real search and filtering, not tag lookups
- Discount stacking rules you control
- Editorial and content pages beside product
The half behind the storefront.
Order tooling your team runs without calling us.
- Branded order confirmations, shipping notices, receipts
- Refunds and subscription pause, skip, cancel
- Inventory synced with your source of truth
- Analytics and funnel tracking
- Abandoned-cart lifecycle email and deliverability
- Admin tooling plus hand-off documentation
Custom-scoped from $25,000.
Flat number per phase, quoted after a paid discovery week.
- $25,000 floor — catalog, real checkout, order tooling
- Payment Processing Setup — connect you to a processor that approves your category (Price TBD)
- Larger catalogs and subscriptions push the number up
- Marketplaces, headless and multi-country priced separately
- Storefront rebuilds for existing catalogs, same model
First releases land in six to ten weeks.
Discovery week sets the scope, timeline and price.
- Week 1Paid discovery — scope, timeline, flat price
- Weeks 2+Working build in your hands every two weeks
- DailyYou sit in the standup
- LaunchSix to ten weeks for most first releases
- AfterMaintenance and iteration retainer
What we don't do.
Other studios do these well and cheap.
- Shopify themes with a color change
- Running your ad accounts
- Lead-form sites without checkout — see Web Design
- Business cards, door hangers, postcards & flyers alone — see Brand Kits
- App-shaped products — see App Development
- · Luxury / one-of-one inventory
- · Compliant telehealth commerce
- · Subscription and membership
- · Wellness, beauty, DTC brands
- · Marketplaces and multi-vendor
- · Headless / composable stacks
- · Stripe + Apple/Google Pay
- · PayPal, Venmo
- · ACH and bank transfer
- · Crypto where it fits
- · Subscriptions, pause/skip
- · Refund / dispute tooling
These are rails we can build into your store on your own accounts — not methods Phantom Era accepts.
We get you connected to a processor that will actually approve your category — including high-risk categories most agencies won't touch. While your application is in review, we set you up with a manual checkout so you're taking orders from day one. Your money always lands in your own merchant account, in your own business name.
We connect and integrate the processor — we are not the processor, and approval is always the processor's decision.
Have a store to build (or rebuild)? Let's scope it.
Tell us about your catalog and checkout. We reply in 24 hours.