Shopify builds wired for how PH actually buys.
React Web Development Services builds Shopify stores for Philippine brands from ₱195,000 over 4–6 weeks — theme development, apps, and local payments and couriers wired end to end. Headless commerce on Shopify or Medusa starts at ₱620,000 (10–14 weeks) where catalogue scale or speed demands it. Cart recovery and lifecycle automation is ₱75,000, marketplace operations across Lazada, Shopee and TikTok Shop ₱35,000/mo, and conversion work ₱48,000/mo. Shopify’s own subscription is paid by you, direct, from about US$39/mo. Based in Porac, Pampanga.
The part offshore builders leave broken.
A Shopify theme is a solved problem. What is not solved, and what we spend the build on, is everything between “add to cart” and a parcel arriving in Pampanga.
Cash on delivery is still a large share of Philippine e-commerce, and a store that treats it as an edge case will lose orders and then lose money on the returns it did not plan for. GCash and Maya belong at the top of the checkout, not behind a card form. Courier rates need to reflect provincial reality rather than a flat Metro Manila figure.
We wire those properly, including a COD policy that does not quietly bleed margin on refused parcels.
GCash, Maya, cards, COD
Local rails first, with COD configured against a refusal policy rather than left on by default.
Real courier rates
J&T, Flash, LBC, Lalamove and Grab wired with rates that reflect provincial delivery, not a flat guess.
Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop
Inventory synced so a sale on TikTok closes the stock on your own store. Run as one P&L from ₱35,000/mo.
Cart recovery from ₱75,000
The email, SMS and Viber flows that quietly add 10–20% to store revenue. Usually the highest-return thing after launch.
When you should not hire us for this.
You have under 20 products and no traffic
Buy a ₱2,000 premium theme, set it up yourself over a weekend and spend the ₱195,000 on inventory and ads instead. A ₱195,000 store with no demand behind it is a very expensive brochure. Come back when traffic is the constraint.
You’re selling only on Shopee and Lazada
If every order already comes from a marketplace and you have no brand search, marketplace operations at ₱35,000/mo will return more than a store build will. Own the channel that already works before building a new one.
Your problem is conversion, not the platform
If you have traffic and a working store that converts badly, rebuilding it is the expensive way to guess. Conversion work at ₱48,000/mo tests against the traffic you already have, and often finds the problem is the shipping cost reveal, not the design.
Before you commission it.
How much does a Shopify developer cost in the Philippines?
A Shopify build from React Web Development Services starts at ₱195,000 over 4–6 weeks, including theme development, app configuration, and Philippine payments and couriers wired end to end. Freelance rates locally run far lower for a theme setup, and for a small catalogue that is often the right call — the gap is in the integration work and whether anyone is accountable after launch.
Shopify or WooCommerce or headless?
Shopify for almost everyone: the hosting, security, PCI compliance and uptime are someone else’s problem, and that is worth more than the subscription. WooCommerce when you already run WordPress well and have someone maintaining it. Headless at ₱620,000 only when catalogue scale or page speed is demonstrably costing you sales — it is a real cost-of-ownership step up, not a prestige upgrade.
What does Shopify itself cost?
You pay Shopify directly, from about US$39/mo on the entry plan, plus transaction fees that depend on your payment provider. We never mark that up or resell it — it is your account and your billing, so you can leave with it. Our care retainers start at ₱9,500/mo on top.
Can you migrate our existing store?
Yes — products, customers, order history and URLs. The URL redirects are the part that gets skipped and the part that costs you rankings: a migration that drops the old product URLs loses the search traffic those pages had earned, and recovering it takes months.
Who owns the store afterwards?
You do. The Shopify account, the theme code, the domain and the customer data are yours and always in your name, transferred on final payment. We do not hold your store hostage as a retainer argument.