We’re a Manchester Web Design Agency who develop responsive Fully Bespoke CMS, Shopify and Wordpress websites to engage with your audience

Before anything is designed or built, we map the full scope of your Shopify project. We define the architecture of your store, agree on deliverables, and make sure every expectation is aligned, so nothing gets missed when it matters most.

We dig into your market, your competitors, and your customers. Data analysis, competitor benchmarking, user research, and audience profiling all feed into a clear picture of what your Shopify store needs to do and what it needs to do better than everyone else.

Your full Create8 project team joins you in a dedicated discovery session. We walk through our research findings, share our strategic recommendations for your Shopify build, and ask every question that needs answering before design begins. This is where the project gets its direction.

For eCommerce stores with existing data, this stage is critical. We audit your customer data, order history, product catalogue, and platform architecture — whether you’re migrating from Magento, WooCommerce, PrestaShop or another platform. We define exactly how data moves to Shopify, what gets cleaned, and how third-party integrations are structured before a single line of code is written.

Function comes before form. We map out the full user journey across your Shopify store — focussing on conversion rate optimisation, intuitive navigation, and removing every point of friction between landing and checkout. Wireframes are reviewed and signed off before we move to visual design.

We gather everything the build needs — copy, imagery, video, product data, brand assets. Getting this stage right means no delays, no placeholder text going live, and no last-minute scrambles before launch. We guide you through exactly what’s needed and when.

With UX locked in, we build the full UI. Every screen, every component, every interaction — designed to reflect your brand and optimised for eCommerce performance. You see it, review it, and sign it off before development starts.

Our Shopify developers build your bespoke store against the approved design, implementing all required app integrations, custom functionality, and initial data migration for testing. Whether it’s Klaviyo, Yotpo, ReCharge, or a custom API integration, everything is built and tested in parallel.

With the build in place, we execute the full data migration, products, collections, customer records, order history and validate everything against your source platform. Clean data in, clean store out.

Full QA across every aspect of the project. Development, design, migration data, SEO, integrations, speed, mobile responsiveness, checkout flows, everything is tested against a structured checklist before we give the green light to launch.

We manage the launch phase and continue testing after go-live. Once your Shopify store is live, we don’t disappear, we monitor performance, fix anything that needs fixing, and start identifying the next opportunities for conversion growth and revenue improvement.