SHOPIFY AGENCY · CHARLOTTE
Shopify agency for Charlotte brands and builders.
A Shopify Partner agency in Eastern Time, a short drive from Charlotte, building stores for Carolina apparel, home and outdoor brands — and the B2B businesses behind them.
CREATIVE LABS IN CHARLOTTE, IN SHORT
Senior Shopify people in your time zone, a half-day drive away.
WHERE WE ARE
HQ in Forest, Virginia — three and a half hours south on US-29 and I-85. On site by arrangement.
TIME ZONE
HOW WE WORK
TYPICAL PROJECTS
PRICING
Store builds from $10k, migrations from $2.5k, retainers from $3k a month. Fixed scope, fixed price, see /pricing.
FIRST STEP
WHO WE WORK WITH
Teams we work with in Charlotte and the Carolinas.
Charlotte’s apparel and athleisure labels, furniture and home brands from the High Point corridor, outdoor companies and the distributors that supply them.
Apparel and athleisure
Brands with drops, pre-orders and a wholesale channel.
Home and furniture
Large-item shipping, swatches, financing and showroom pickup on Shopify.
Outdoor and sporting goods
Variant-heavy catalogs with fit guides, bundles and dealer locators.
B2B and distribution
Net terms, company accounts and rep ordering on Shopify B2B.
ONE WORKING DAY
Same time zone, same working day.
Reviews between 10:00 and 16:00 ET, one senior lead, developers shipping overnight.
REVIEWS
Reviews in your afternoon
Design and build reviews land on your calendar between 10:00 and 16:00 your time. Nothing waits overnight.
ONE LEAD
One senior point of contact
ON SITE
On site in Charlotte by arrangement
Kickoff and launch in person when the project warrants it; otherwise a weekly Loom and a live staging link.
CHANNEL
Your Slack or ours
A shared channel, a weekly Loom and a live staging link. No ticket portal.
WHAT TO GET RIGHT
Rules that shape Charlotte stores in 2026.
What a store selling from North Carolina has to handle — and what we set up by default.
Privacy
North Carolina has no comprehensive consumer privacy law yet; selling into California, Virginia, Texas and others triggers theirs. We set up consent and opt-outs that satisfy all of them.
Sales tax, handled by Shopify Tax
North Carolina rates plus economic nexus in other states, configured and checked with you.
Furniture and large-item shipping
Freight quotes, white-glove options and delivery zones built into checkout rather than bolted on.
HOW WE WORK
How we work with teams in Charlotte.
01
Intro call with a senior
30 minutes on your store, your numbers and your deadline. An honest fit check on the call.
02
Free audit, then a fixed price
A Loom walkthrough of the three things we would fix first, followed by a scoped proposal with one price.
03
Build on a duplicate, reviewed in your day
Theme and app work ships to a preview theme. You review in your working hours; nothing goes live without your yes.
04
Launch and handover
Redirects, analytics and backups checked, then a handover your team can run — plus a retainer if you want us to stay.
WHAT WE BUILD
What we design and build for Charlotte teams.
MORE OF OUR WORK
From local businesses to national DTC brands.
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Why Charlotte, specifically
Charlotte is the largest DTC market within a day's drive of our studio, and the brands here are at a different stage than most of Virginia: funded, hiring, running paid acquisition, and usually on Shopify Plus or about to be.
Charlotte work tends to be sprints rather than first builds: a conversion rate optimization program on a store already doing seven figures, a checkout extensibility migration off checkout.liquid, a Klaviyo account that has grown expensive and needs cleaning up, or a Shopify Plus build for a brand leaving BigCommerce or Magento. The city's banking and fintech workforce also produces a steady stream of founder-led apparel, fitness and home brands with the budget to do things properly.
We travel to Charlotte for kickoff and quarterly reviews; the rest runs in Eastern time from Forest with developers in Lagos and Jaipur overnight. For South End and Uptown brands that want a local agency feel without a Charlotte agency's rates, that arrangement has worked well.
CHARLOTTE
4 questions
Do you have an office in Charlotte?
No. We are headquartered in Forest, Virginia and work remotely in Eastern Time, with on-site days when needed.
Can you handle furniture freight and showroom pickup?
Yes. We set up freight and delivery-zone rates for large items and showroom pickup through Shopify POS, so online and in-store orders share one inventory. See Shopify POS.
Do you work with wholesale distributors?
Yes. We move distributors onto Shopify with trade pricing, minimums and payment terms, using native B2B on Plus or an app on other plans. See B2B & wholesale.
What does a Charlotte store build cost?
Store builds start at $10,000 and migrations at $2,500, fixed price. See pricing or estimate yours with the website cost calculator.
You've reached the end, so now…
Tell us what you're selling.
Send us your store. Within one business day you get a short Loom from a senior: the three things we'd fix first, what it would cost, and whether we're the right team for it.
- No pitch deck, no discovery-call theatre
- You keep the audit whether or not you hire us
- Fixed-scope quotes, no hourly surprises
Prefer to talk? Book 20 minutes with Haniel or call +1 855-764-4977