Shopify Plus Consultants and Architects

Get them to name the Plus features they've shipped. "Plus experience" on a profile can mean one migration or years of enterprise work. Ask for specifics, such as checkout UI extensions in the shipping or payment step, a custom app built on Shopify Functions, B2B running more than three catalogues or an expansion store, then ask what went wrong on one of them.

Check their map of the plans is current. Ask them to list which of your requirements a lower plan already covers. If the answer is "none", or they talk about Scripts as something you can keep, their knowledge predates the latest platform changes.

Make them argue against Plus. A useful consultant can describe a store that shouldn't upgrade and explain why. If every scenario they sketch ends on Plus, you're talking to a salesperson with a technical vocabulary.

Find out who actually runs your account. The senior name on the proposal isn't always the one on your weekly calls, so ask who handles the work day to day, how many other Plus projects they're carrying, and whether the lead from the pitch stays past kick-off.

Ask how they'd sequence the decisions. On Plus, checkout logic, B2B structure, store architecture and integrations depend on each other. A strong consultant tells you what must be settled first, what can wait for a second phase, and why.

When to move on: Plus recommended on the first call before they've asked about order volumes, channels or trade customers, any promise that Plus will lift conversion, or a discovery fee credited against a build nobody has scoped yet.

Plus earns its place when the business needs something only Plus can do. The capabilities that change how a store actually runs:

- Checkout UI extensions in the three steps before an order is placed: information, shipping and payment.

- Custom apps that run Shopify Functions, for discount, shipping or payment rules only your business needs. Functions delivered through public apps run on any plan.

- B2B beyond the basics: unlimited catalogues, catalogues assigned directly to companies and locations, deposits, partial payments and payment requests per fulfilment.

- Expansion stores, for regions or brands that need a store of their own.

- Launchpad, for scheduling sales events.

Several things that once pushed brands onto Plus now come with Basic, Grow and Advanced: B2B basics (companies and locations, net terms, quantity rules and up to three active catalogues), Shopify Markets for countries, currencies, languages and domains, and Shopify Flow. If every requirement on your list sits in that group, a good consultant will say so.

Old Script logic needs rebuilding. Since 30 June 2026 Scripts no longer run at all, and Functions are their replacement. Whatever your Scripts handled, from tag-based discounts to hiding delivery options by region, now has to run on Functions, through a public app, Shopify's native discounts or a custom app from a Functions developer, and the consultant should inventory that logic before the build is quoted.

Settle independence at the start. The consultant who scopes the build should tell you up front whether they'll bid for it. Either answer can work; finding out after the scope has been written around their own team's strengths doesn't.

Plus consulting is quoted either as a project, running from the upgrade case to a build plan, or by the hour for senior review. Each format has a typical range below, followed by the entry prices of the consultants listed on this page.

Advisory Plus work sits upstream of the build and typically covers: