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Service: Maintenance_Support

Shopify Maintenance & Support

Dedicated engineering support that keeps your Shopify store running at peak performance. Proactive monitoring, rapid bug fixes, and continuous feature development on retainer.

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Essential
$950/month
// Includes 10 engineering hours
  • Bug fixes & troubleshooting
  • Monthly performance report
  • 24-hour response SLA
  • App update management
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Professional
$2,700/month
// Includes 30 engineering hours
  • Everything in Essential
  • Feature development sprints
  • 4-hour response SLA
  • Weekly performance monitoring
  • CRO testing & optimization
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Enterprise
$6,500/month
// Includes 80+ engineering hours
  • Everything in Professional
  • Dedicated development team
  • 1-hour emergency SLA
  • 24/7 monitoring & alerting
  • Strategic roadmap planning
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Your Store Never Stops — Neither Do We

A Shopify store is not a set-and-forget operation. Theme updates, app conflicts, Shopify platform changes, security vulnerabilities, and evolving customer expectations demand continuous technical attention. Without dedicated maintenance, stores accumulate technical debt that degrades performance, breaks functionality, and erodes conversion rates over time.

Our maintenance and support retainers provide you with a dedicated engineering team that treats your store as their own. Every retainer includes proactive monitoring that catches issues before they impact customers, rapid response to bugs and broken functionality, ongoing performance optimization, and planned feature development that keeps your store evolving alongside your business goals.

We manage the full spectrum of Shopify operational needs. When Shopify releases platform updates or deprecates APIs, we ensure your store and custom integrations remain compatible. When third-party apps push updates that break your theme's layout, we diagnose and resolve conflicts within hours. When you need new features — a product configurator, a custom landing page, a seasonal promotion engine — your retainer hours cover the development work.

Our support clients span DTC brands, enterprise retailers, and high-growth startups across the United States and international markets. Each client receives a dedicated Slack channel or project management board for direct communication with their assigned engineers, along with monthly reports documenting all work performed, performance metrics, and strategic recommendations for the roadmap ahead. This is not generic help desk support — this is embedded technical partnership.

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What Every Retainer Covers

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Bug Fixes & QA

Rapid diagnosis and resolution of frontend bugs, broken layouts, app conflicts, checkout errors, and mobile responsiveness issues across all browsers and devices.

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Performance Monitoring

Continuous Core Web Vitals tracking, uptime monitoring, error rate alerting, and proactive optimization to maintain peak store performance and prevent degradation.

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Feature Development

New section builds, custom functionality, landing page creation, promotional feature implementation, and UX improvements developed within your monthly retainer hours.

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Platform Updates

Theme version management, app compatibility updates, Shopify API migration handling, and security patch deployment to keep your store current and protected.

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Support Infrastructure

Uptime Robot
Google Lighthouse
Sentry / Bugsnag
Google Analytics
Slack / Teams
GitHub / GitLab
Shopify CLI
CrUX Dashboard
Hotjar
Linear / Jira
Datadog
PagerDuty
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is included in a maintenance retainer? +
Every retainer includes bug fixes, performance monitoring, app update management, security patch deployment, and a dedicated communication channel. Higher-tier plans add feature development, CRO testing, dedicated team members, and emergency response SLAs. All work is documented in monthly reports.
How quickly do you respond to urgent issues? +
Response times depend on your plan tier. Essential plans have a 24-hour SLA. Professional plans include a 4-hour SLA for critical issues. Enterprise plans guarantee 1-hour emergency response with 24/7 on-call engineer availability for revenue-impacting incidents.
Do unused retainer hours roll over? +
Yes. Unused hours roll over for up to 60 days on Professional and Enterprise plans. Essential plan hours are use-or-lose monthly. We proactively suggest optimization and improvement work to ensure your hours are invested in meaningful store improvements rather than expiring.
Can I use retainer hours for new feature development? +
Absolutely. Retainer hours cover all Shopify development work including new features, custom sections, landing pages, promotional elements, A/B test implementations, and integration development. For large feature projects that exceed monthly hours, we can scope them as add-on projects or temporarily increase your retainer allocation.
How much does Shopify maintenance cost? +
Essential retainers (10 hours/month) start at $950/month. Professional retainers (30 hours/month) are $2,700/month. Enterprise retainers (80+ hours/month) start at $6,500/month with custom pricing based on team size and SLA requirements. All plans include access to senior engineers and monthly reporting.
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Protect Your Investment

Stop firefighting. Start with a maintenance plan that keeps your store running at peak performance while continuously improving your customer experience.