Most Shift4Shop owners we talk to are weighing the same two options and nobody has laid them out straight: give the store a modern theme and keep the free plan, or move to a platform with more room to grow. Both are good answers for the right business.

Staying put with a new theme

If your catalog is steady, the free plan suits your margins and Shift4 Payments works for you, a new theme is the cheapest way to look current. Every industry in the directory above has a page on how we'd approach it. We design the storefront around your products and buyers, set up options, customer groups and wholesale pricing and install it on your store with a walkthrough for your team.

When it's time to move

If you need bookings, subscriptions, a bigger app ecosystem, international selling or the freedom to pick your own payment processor, migrating is usually the better spend. We move Shift4Shop stores to WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopify: products and options, customers, order history, categories, reviews where possible and every old URL redirected so your search rankings follow you. Migration is scoped as its own project once we've looked at your store.

Custom work on either path

QuickBooks, shipping and inventory integrations, custom features and catalog cleanup come along whichever way you go. Your Shift4Shop plan or payment terms and any paid apps sit with Shift4Shop and the app makers.

Why a microagency

Good Shift4Shop freelancers are hard to find and bigger agencies rarely want a 3dcart-era store. Foxco runs as a microagency with 100 years of combined experience and lessons from more than 500 clients: a small senior team that can redesign the store you have or move it somewhere new and give you an honest call on which one makes sense.

An honest call on stay or go.

Let's get to work.
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