Overview
Shopify Plus delivery for retailers that sell across channels and markets
Shopify Plus is Shopify's plan for high-volume and enterprise merchants. It runs on the same hosted commerce platform as other Shopify plans, adding features and limits for larger operations: up to nine expansion stores, unlimited B2B catalogues, full checkout customisation and higher API limits. Because Shopify hosts and upgrades the platform, most of the work in a Plus project is the storefront, the checkout customisations and the integrations behind them.
Great Minds is a Sydney-based systems integrator with delivery experience on Shopify Plus. We work with retailers and brands that are moving from Magento (Adobe Commerce), WooCommerce, BigCommerce or a custom platform, adding markets or brands, or untangling a store whose apps and scripts have grown faster than anyone can maintain.
We usually come in because the store has to connect to everything else: ERP for stock, pricing and orders; a PIM such as Akeneo for product data; a DAM such as Bynder for images and video; a CRM; and Klaviyo for email and SMS, where we're a Klaviyo Gold Advisor. We design those data flows first, so each field has one system that owns it.
Shopify Plus services
Shopify Plus services we deliver
Whether you're launching a new brand, replatforming or expanding into new markets, these are the four pieces of work we deliver, on their own or as one program. We connect Shopify Plus with Klaviyo, Akeneo, Bynder, Adobe, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and custom back-office systems.
How we deliver
A Shopify Plus project, from discovery to launch
We review your current platform, apps, customisations, integrations and traffic, and agree what to keep, rebuild or retire. You get a scoped plan, a target architecture and a price.
Store structure, markets and currencies, checkout customisations, the app list, and every data flow to ERP, PIM, DAM and CRM, with an owner for each field and process.
Theme or headless storefront, checkout extensions, integrations and data migration, tested end to end with trial migrations. AI agents do much of the repetitive mapping and checking; our consultants own the design and sign off every change.
A planned cut-over with redirects, monitoring and hypercare, then improvements based on analytics. We can stay on for releases and new markets, or hand over to your team.
Australian considerations
What Australian retailers need to check
Customer, order and marketing data in Shopify and its apps is personal information under the Privacy Act. Check where Shopify and each installed app store and process it, because APP 8 applies to overseas disclosure, and keep the app list short: every app with customer access is another place data can leak.
Email and SMS campaigns from Shopify or Klaviyo must follow the Spam Act 2003: consent, clear identification of the sender and a working unsubscribe. If your store automatically approves or declines refunds, flags orders as fraud or shows personalised prices or offers, those may count as decisions that significantly affect people under the Privacy Act's automated-decision transparency rules, which apply from 10 December 2026.
Online stores are covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, and the Australian Human Rights Commission points to WCAG as the benchmark for accessible websites. Check whether your Shopify Plus agreement and each app are billed in Australian or US dollars, and budget for exchange-rate movement on anything in US dollars.
FAQ
Shopify Plus questions
When does a business need Shopify Plus rather than a standard Shopify plan?
Usually when you need several stores or brands, B2B selling alongside retail at scale, full control over checkout, or higher API limits for integrations. If none of those apply, a standard plan may be enough. We'll tell you which, as part of discovery.
Can you migrate us from Magento or WooCommerce?
Yes. We migrate products, customers, orders and content, map old URLs to new ones with redirects, and rebuild custom features with Shopify apps, Functions or integrations. We don't copy old workarounds across without checking they're still needed.
What happened to Shopify Scripts and checkout.liquid?
Shopify replaced them with checkout extensibility: checkout UI extensions, Shopify Functions and web pixels. Shopify Scripts stopped running on 30 June 2026, so discount, shipping and payment customisations now need Shopify Functions or an app. If your checkout still depends on older customisations, we review and rebuild them.
Should we go headless with Hydrogen?
Only if you need it. A well-built theme suits most stores and costs less to run. Headless suits brands with heavy content, several storefronts or front-end requirements a theme can't meet. We weigh the extra build and maintenance against the benefit before recommending it.
How do you connect Shopify Plus to our ERP and PIM?
Through Shopify's APIs and webhooks, using a proven connector where one fits and a custom integration where your data needs it. Product data usually flows from the PIM, stock and prices from the ERP, and orders back to the ERP. Our Integration Hub includes a template for syncing Akeneo product data to Shopify Plus.
What Shopify Plus experience does Great Minds have?
We have delivery experience implementing and integrating Shopify Plus, and we're a Klaviyo Gold Advisor for the email and SMS side. Ask us about the Shopify experience of the team on your project.
People
Commerce architects and integration engineers
Our consultants combine ecommerce, UX and integration experience. They design the storefront, checkout and data flows and are accountable for the decisions, with AI agents handling repetitive mapping and testing.
Case studies
Ecommerce work from our case studies
For a global online retailer on Shopify Plus, we ran an accessibility audit, remediation and testing to bring its store in line with WCAG.
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