No results found
Try adjusting your search terms
The risky part of a Costa Rican Shopify build isn't the design. It's checkout, where the payment provider, prices in colones and hand-entered tax rates meet for the first time on a real order.
Stores based in Costa Rica have no Shopify Payments option, which is why that checkout depends on a third-party provider and careful testing. A good expert tests that meeting point before launch, not after your first refund request.
We don't have a Costa Rican shortlist yet, so the Shopify experts for Costa Rica listed below are remote specialists. They're based outside Costa Rica and take on merchants around Latin America.
Send two or three of them a brief that describes your checkout, not just your homepage, and ask for a fixed price.
Geeboox es una agencia especializada en diseño y desarrollo de tiendas Shopify para Perú, España y EE.UU. Creamos e-commerce modernos, optimizados para vender, con enfoque en experiencia de usuario, conversión y crecimiento digital sostenible a nivel internacional.
Established in 2016, Lightspace has partnered up with many reputable brands and provided support to many new as well as established businesses by working on projects ranging from website redesign to building custom Shopify Themes and Apps.
Share your project details, and we'll handpick the best matches from our Shopify expert directory.
Desenvolvemos e-commerces e integrações sob medida, com foco em performance, automação e resultados reais para o seu negócio.
Expertly designing, building, and scaling tech products and teams for startups and leading brands.
I help Shopify stores that sell personalized products with live previews, cart upsells and fast mobile pages. I'm based in Brazil (UTC−3). Since November 2023 I've worked as an in-house developer at Flavia Nasser, a Brazilian brand on Shopify Plus that sells personalized photo albums. Since March 2026 I've been the main contributor to its custom Online Store 2.0 theme, with 870+ commits on a theme of 60+ sections and blocks. There I built the personalized product pages with a live preview, the cart drawer where customers edit their personalization, a reels carousel that runs on metaobjects, landing pages and speed work. On the Plus checkout I built a gift option and a Thank-you page survey with Checkout UI extensions, plus a delivery customization with Shopify Functions. I also built an embedded admin app with Next.js, Polaris, App Bridge and the Admin GraphQL API. I can't show that store's code, so I built demo stores with fictional products to show the same kind of work in public: Snoot (a pet store for Brazil), Dewlane (skincare) and Nocte (fine jewelry in 3D), which are my case studies here, plus Arara (fashion for Brazil) and Inkly, a gift shop with a live product preview. Inkly also has a private app I wrote that sends each new order to an ERP and marks it fulfilled when the tracking number comes back. You can see all five stores on my portfolio: https://velozo.dev How I work: we agree on the scope and a fixed price in writing before I start. I work on a copy of your theme, and nothing goes live until you approve it. I test every change on a phone and a computer, and you get a written update every two days.
What the listing shows. The listing doesn't open with local experts, because too few are based in Costa Rica so far. The experts listed are located outside Costa Rica and work with Latin American merchants, which means every hire from this page is a remote one.
Panama has the same set-up. Stores in Panama get what Costa Rican stores get from Shopify: no Shopify Payments, Manual Tax only, POS hardware from outside retailers and a Spanish checkout. A small group of experts is based in Panama City, and their page is linked below. Someone who has launched a Panamanian store has already solved most of a Costa Rican one; ask whether they've priced a store in colones, then walk its checkout yourself.
The payment provider account is the one to guard. A third-party provider holds your customers' payments, so open that account in your own business's name, along with the Shopify store itself. The expert gets staff access to Shopify and, only if the integration needs it, limited access to the provider. When the project ends, you remove them; nothing has to be handed back.
Working hours decide how launch day goes. Agree a window each weekday when the expert can be reached, and how a checkout failure gets escalated outside it. An expert whose day barely overlaps yours can still do excellent build work. They just shouldn't be the only person on call when you go live.
Colones or another currency: decide before the quote. Your store sells in Costa Rican colones (CRC), while a remote expert could quote in something else. Agree the contract currency, who covers transfer fees and how exchange-rate swings are handled on longer projects, so the quote and the final invoice match.
Remote experts quote from what you send them. A thin brief gets a padded quote; a precise one gets a number you can trust.
What to put in it:
- What you sell, how many products, and whether you also sell in person
- The payment provider you've chosen, or a request for advice on one that settles in colones
- Who supplies the tax rates (usually your accountant), noting that Shopify offers Manual Tax only for Costa Rica
- The store's language, and any second language you plan to add
- Your launch date and what must be working by then
Questions to send with it. Ask which checkout scenarios they'll test: a successful payment, a declined card, a refund and a discount code. An expert who lists those unprompted has launched stores before. Ask, too, what they'll need from you in the first week.
A paid first step. If two quotes look alike, pay your preferred candidate for a small fixed-price task first, such as connecting the provider on a development store and running those test scenarios. An expert who finds a problem you didn't know about has earned the full contract.
Costa Rica's set-up comes down to five checks, and a capable expert works through them in this order.
1. Currency. The store prices in Costa Rican colones (CRC). Every price, discount and shipping rate should be set in colones and checked on the storefront before anything else.
2. Payments. With Shopify Payments unavailable in Costa Rica, a third-party provider handles checkout. The expert connects it and confirms that it accepts payments in colones and shows the methods your customers expect.
3. Tax. Costa Rican stores are limited to Manual Tax, without Shopify Tax or Basic Tax, which means the rates your accountant supplies are the rates customers pay, no more and no less, until someone changes them. The expert enters them, checks totals on test orders and can install a third-party tax app should you want the rates handled by software.
4. Language. Spanish works for staff in the Shopify admin and for customers at checkout. The expert should read the whole checkout in Spanish, including custom fields and the order confirmation email.
5. In-person sales. Shopify sells POS kit through its own hardware store, but not to Costa Rica, so devices come from third-party retailers. The expert confirms each device is supported before you buy, then runs a test sale at the counter.
For a Costa Rican store, expert time pays back fastest on these jobs:
Payments, refunds, discounts and declines tried before launch
A third-party provider connected and settling in colones
Manual rates keyed in from your accountant and proven on test orders
Custom text and notifications translated to match
Products, customers and old URLs moved across cleanly
This page has no Costa Rican price range, so price the job from its scope. Ask for a fixed price against your written brief and an hourly rate for changes outside it. Make sure every quote is in the same currency, whether colones or the expert's own, or you'll be judging exchange rates instead of value. Check what testing is included, since that's the line cheap quotes drop first.
For a full launch, often yes. An agency can put a designer, a developer and someone running checkout tests on the job at once, and someone covers when your main contact is away. For a single task, such as connecting a payment provider or fixing a theme, a freelancer usually delivers the same result for less. Our freelancer vs agency guide goes deeper.
Ask them to build on a duplicate theme and send you a preview link before anything goes live. Place a test order yourself in colones, request a refund on it, and read the confirmation email. Ask for a short handover note listing every app installed and setting changed. If you can't follow the note, ask for a clearer one; you'll need it when someone else takes over.
Check each profile's languages before you shortlist, because the remote experts listed here vary. A developer without Spanish can still configure the store, but the checkout will run in Spanish, so someone fluent should write and proofread anything customers read. Hiring a Spanish-speaking expert saves that extra step.
Agree it in the contract rather than hoping. A sensible standard is a reply within one working day for routine requests and a much faster response for anything that stops orders, such as payments failing at your provider or a broken checkout. Ask how urgent issues reach them outside normal hours and who covers their holidays.
