Shopify store broken or launch day approaching.Shopify expert in 10 minutes.

PM assigned in 10 minutes. Shopify specialist starts diagnosing within the hour. Shopify store outages during sales are typically caused by: a Shopify app conflict where a recently installed or updated app is breaking the theme render, a Liquid template error introduced by a recent theme edit causing a 500 on the storefront, a Shopify Payments webhook failure blocking order processing, or a CDN or custom domain configuration issue after an infrastructure change. The engineer accesses your Shopify admin and theme editor, identifies the exact error from Shopify's error logs, rolls back the breaking change or fixes the Liquid template, and verifies the storefront is rendering correctly before the session closes.

Yes. A custom Shopify section with schema, Liquid template, CSS styling, and JavaScript behavior is a standard Starter or Full Day session deliverable. The engineer builds the section to Shopify's section schema spec: JSON schema for the section settings panel (so your team can edit content without code), Liquid template rendering the HTML from schema values, responsive CSS using your theme's existing design tokens or a new custom stylesheet, and any JavaScript for interactive behavior (carousels, accordions, countdown timers). The section is delivered as a clean Liquid file that installs without breaking your existing theme and passes Shopify's Online Store 2.0 requirements.

Yes. Shopify Plus features and Shopify Functions are in scope. For Plus merchants: custom checkout via Checkout Extensibility (replacing the deprecated checkout.liquid), B2B catalog and pricing rules, multi-storefront setups, and Shopify Flow automations. For Shopify Functions: custom discount logic written in Rust or JavaScript that runs inside Shopify's infrastructure, custom payment method filtering, and custom shipping rate logic. Engineers are matched specifically to Plus or Functions engagements the complexity differs significantly from standard theme development and requires a specialist familiar with Shopify's Functions deployment pipeline and input/output schema.

Yes. Hydrogen, Shopify's official React-based headless framework built on Remix, is a core specialization. Engineers handle: new Hydrogen storefront builds with Shopify Storefront API integration, migration from a traditional Shopify theme to a Hydrogen headless architecture, performance optimization of existing Hydrogen storefronts (route-based code splitting, streaming SSR, image optimization), Shopify Storefront API query optimization to reduce over-fetching, and Cart API integration with custom cart logic. PM scopes the headless migration complexity in session 1 full migrations typically require Sprint Pack engagements, while individual features (product pages, cart, checkout) can be built in single sessions.

A 4-hour Starter session reliably resolves: a broken Liquid template causing a storefront error, a conflicting app causing theme render failures, a broken checkout extension (Checkout Extensibility block not rendering or submitting), a payment gateway integration error in Shopify Payments or a third-party gateway, a product metafield display issue in a section template, a broken custom discount function not applying correctly, slow page load from unoptimized images or blocking JavaScript in the theme, or a broken Shopify Flow automation not triggering correctly. More complex work full section builds, headless migrations, custom Functions requires Full Day or Sprint Pack sessions, which PM scopes precisely in the first 15 minutes.