Add senior Shopify engineering to your agency without hiring. Forgify builds custom apps, integrations, Shopify Plus systems and technical CRO work under your brand, while you keep the client, the margin and the relationship.
Best for
Agencies that sell Shopify work without senior engineers in-house: branding, design, CRO, paid media and SEO agencies, e-commerce consultancies, and Shopify agencies at capacity.
Typical entry point
Partner call and NDA → a first fixed-scope project or paid discovery → reserved monthly capacity if the fit is right.
Starting range
A fixed CHF quote per brief, invoiced to your agency. Public reference: custom app sprints CHF 5’000–12’000.
01 — In one paragraph
White-label Shopify development is engineering an agency sells to its own client and has delivered by a specialist partner, under the agency's name. The agency keeps the relationship and the margin; the partner builds the technical scope and stays out of sight.
Forgify is that partner for Shopify and Shopify Plus. We take the part of a brief that needs real engineering, such as a custom app, a Shopify Functions build, an ERP integration or the tracking behind a CRO programme, and deliver it as your team would: to your standards, through your project leads, with nothing that points back to us.
02 — The economics
The client relationship stays where it is. Only the technical scope moves, and it moves below the line your client sees.
01 · Your agency
Pitch, proposal and contract stay under your agency's name.
02 · Your agency
Strategy, client communication and account management stay with your team.
03 · Forgify, under your brand
Scoped, built, tested and documented, behind your brand.
04 · Your agency
We invoice your agency. You decide what the client pays.
05 · Your client
One team, one invoice, one relationship. Yours.
Custom apps, ERP bridges and Plus work become scope you can sell, instead of work you refer to a competitor.
Senior Shopify engineering when a brief needs it. No recruiting, no bench cost between projects.
A fixed CHF quote to your agency before work starts, so your own proposal is built on a known cost.
03 — Why white-label
The questions agencies ask before they trust a partner with a client, answered as working rules rather than promises.
§ 1
We never contact, pitch or prospect your clients.
The client relationship is yours before, during and after the project. A non-solicitation clause can go in the agreement.
§ 2
We invoice your agency, never your client.
You get a fixed quote addressed to your agency and price your client however you choose.
§ 3
Client contact runs through your team.
We join a client call only when you ask us to, introduced as part of your team.
§ 4
No Forgify attribution anywhere client-facing.
Neutral documentation, and neutral repositories and commit identities where required. No logos, signatures or footer links.
§ 5
Senior capacity without permanent payroll.
Bring us in for the briefs that need deep Shopify engineering; your team stays focused on what it sells best.
§ 6
One difficult build or ongoing reinforcement.
Start with a single fixed-scope project. Move to reserved monthly capacity only if your pipeline justifies it.
04 — What agencies hand us
Each line is a piece of work you can put into your own statement of work, with the moment it usually comes up and what you get at the end.
Private and custom apps on the GraphQL Admin API, with embedded admin UIs built on App Bridge and Polaris.
Custom Shopify app developmentWhen agencies bring us in
The client's workflow doesn't fit any App Store app, or five apps are doing one job badly.
What gets delivered
A deployed app, typed source in the repository of your choice, setup and operations docs.
Shopify Functions for discount, delivery and payment logic; checkout UI extensions; Flow for Plus clients.
Example: bundle pricing with Shopify FunctionsWhen agencies bring us in
The client's pricing or checkout rules exceed what settings or existing apps can express.
What gets delivered
Functions and extensions shipped as an app, with the rule logic documented for whoever maintains it.
Order, inventory, customer and invoice sync with queues, retries, idempotent handlers and error alerts.
Shopify ERP integrationWhen agencies bring us in
Data drifts between Shopify and the back office, or the team re-keys orders by hand.
What gets delivered
A monitored integration, a field-mapping document and a runbook for failed syncs.
The technical side of conversion work: PDP and cart changes, GA4, server-side events and consent.
Shopify CRO audit and conversion sprintsWhen agencies bring us in
You sold the CRO strategy or the media plan, and the fixes or tracking need an engineer.
What gets delivered
Implemented changes, a verified event schema and before/after notes your team can present.
Wholesale portals, customer-specific pricing, quick reorder and B2B order export on Shopify or Shopify Plus.
Example: B2B wholesale portalWhen agencies bring us in
A client's wholesale customers still order by email or spreadsheet.
What gets delivered
Gated B2B ordering configured or custom-built, with the pricing logic documented.
Webhook-driven automations and Flow extensions for tagging, routing, notifications and back-office tasks.
Shopify automationWhen agencies bring us in
The client's team spends hours on repetitive order or customer handling.
What gets delivered
Automations with logging and failure alerts, plus a plain-language description of each rule.
Performance, tracking, app-stack and architecture reviews, written for a client audience.
See an example scan reportWhen agencies bring us in
You want a paid entry point with a new client, or need a technical view before you quote a build.
What gets delivered
A prioritised findings report, neutral or in your agency's template, ready to present.
Senior hands for your own Shopify team: architecture decisions, hard bugs, code review, delivery peaks.
When agencies bring us in
Your developers are at capacity, or a project needs depth your team doesn't have yet.
What gets delivered
Work inside your repositories and processes, with written handover notes at the end of each block.
Have a brief that fits one of these? Send it over. A fixed quote to your agency comes back before any work starts.
05 — Engagement models
Most partnerships start with one fixed-scope project. Ranges for every engagement type are published on our pricing page.
Mode A
For: One custom app, integration, audit, migration step or technical sprint.
Commercials
A fixed CHF quote to your agency before work starts. Reference: our public custom app sprints run CHF 5’000–12’000.
Mode B
For: Agencies that sell Shopify work regularly and want a known technical line behind them.
Commercials
A monthly block agreed with you, sized to your pipeline. Capacity is reserved ahead, so tell us about expected volume early.
Mode C
For: Briefs where the architecture, integration landscape or scope is still unclear.
Commercials
A fixed fee agreed upfront. It can be the paid entry point you sell to the client before implementation.
Not sure which model fits? Tell us how often you sell Shopify work and we'll suggest one.
06 — Typical briefs
Client work stays under NDA, so instead of logos, here are the patterns we're asked to solve. These are representative briefs, paraphrased; they are not client quotes or testimonials. Linked examples are Demo Lab builds.
“Our client's ERP and Shopify inventory keep drifting.”
We map the source of truth per field, then rebuild the sync with queues, retries and alerts so drift becomes visible and recoverable.
Shopify ERP integration“We need a custom B2B ordering workflow.”
Gated wholesale access, customer-specific pricing and fast reordering, on native B2B where it fits and a custom app where it doesn't.
B2B wholesale portal example“The client's current apps can't support the pricing logic.”
We move the rules into Shopify Functions, so pricing runs natively in the cart and checkout instead of in another storefront script.
Bundle builder example“We sold a CRO engagement but need someone to implement the technical fixes.”
Your team keeps the strategy and the reporting. We ship the template, cart and tracking changes behind it.
Shopify CRO implementation“We need Shopify Functions and checkout extensibility expertise.”
Discount, delivery and payment customisations plus checkout UI extensions, delivered as a maintainable app.
Shopify Functions, explained“We need senior Shopify help for six weeks but don't want to hire.”
A reserved block of senior capacity inside your process, ending with written handover notes rather than a dependency.
Engagement models07 — Operations
A white-label partner works with your clients' stores and data under your name. These are the working practices behind that; the full policy is on our trust and security page.
Security or procurement questions before a first brief? Send them with your enquiry and we'll answer in writing.
08 — Options
Each option fits a different situation. Here is how they compare on the things that decide whether a Shopify brief gets delivered.
Time to capacity
Shopify specialisation
Continuity
White-label capability
Complex integrations
Fixed-scope availability
Ongoing capacity
Documentation and handover
Where it's the better choice
09 — FAQ
White-label Shopify development is technical Shopify work that an agency sells to its own client but has built by a specialist partner, delivered under the agency's name. The agency keeps the client, the contract and the margin; the partner builds the scope and stays invisible to the end client.
10 — Become a partner
Tell us about your agency and the work you need covered. A live client brief or a partnership for future work are both welcome.
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