Shopify agency · Columbus, OH
Shopify agency in Columbus: Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for Columbus’s retail, fashion and consumer brands.
Columbus is a retail and fashion headquarters city, home to several national apparel and beauty brands and the designers and merchants who came up through them. It is also within a day’s drive of much of the US population. We build Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for the brands that grow out of that talent.
Shopify agency in Columbus
What a Shopify agency has to get right in Columbus.
Written for Columbus, not swapped in from another city.
Columbus has one of the deepest pools of retail talent in the country: merchants, designers and marketers from the national brands headquartered here, many of whom go on to start their own. Their briefs are sophisticated — assortment planning, seasonal drops, fragrance and personal-care kits — and they expect the store to be run like a retailer.
We build fashion and personal-care storefronts with drops and kits, fulfilment from the Rickenbacker and I-70 warehouses, and the Ohio State season for fan merchandise. The studio is in Wyoming and Lahore; we travel to Columbus for kickoff, work in Eastern time, and put the number in writing first.
What we build for Columbus brands
Six things Columbus stores need more than most.
Each links to the Ohio service page where the scope, process and price live.
Fashion and apparel drops
Seasonal collections, timed releases and size logic, built by people who understand merchandising calendars.
Shopify Plus development in OhioFragrance and personal care
Kits, gift sets, samples with orders and replenishment flows, the categories Columbus retail is known for.
CocoLash case studyFulfilment in the middle of the country
Rickenbacker and I-70 3PLs integrated with the store, with two-day ground delivery promised accurately by ZIP.
App development in OhioBuckeye and fan merchandise
Football-season collections, game-week spikes and personalisation.
Shopify for retail storesRetention on the store’s events
Flows in Klaviyo or Attentive, loyalty and replenishment, measured in repeat revenue.
Retention marketingConversion testing
Experiments on the traffic the brand already has, with a written monthly readout.
CRO in Ohio
Local facts that change a build
Columbus in five lines: tax, time, peaks, logistics, buyers.
The five things we configure before a Columbus store launches.
- Sales tax
- Ohio’s 5.75% state rate plus Franklin County’s local and transit taxes: 8% for most Columbus addresses, set by ship-to address in Shopify Tax.
- Time zone
- Eastern. Calls in Columbus hours; the build keeps moving overnight.
- Peaks
- The holiday season, back-to-school, and the Ohio State football season from September to December.
- Logistics
- Rickenbacker International’s cargo operation and the I-70 and I-71 corridors; a large share of the US population is within a day’s drive.
- Buyers
- A young, growing metro with a large university population and a retail-savvy workforce.
How we work with Columbus brands
From a $1,500-a-month retainer to a full Shopify Plus build.
Same engineers, same written scope, whatever the size.
Read the store first
Theme, apps, speed, analytics, the systems behind it. The free audit tools on this site are the same ones we run; the written answer says whether you need a retainer, a project or a build.
Request the free auditOne number, in writing
Retainers from $1,500 a month; projects and Shopify Plus builds scoped as one figure with a launch date, before anything is billed.
How engagements startKickoff in person, build in your hours
We travel for kickoff on larger builds; from then on, weekly build reviews you can watch, calls in your time zone, and a written reply within twelve hours.
How we work with brandsLaunch, then thirty days of defect support
A launch checklist, a hand-over document for your team, and the same engineer available from day 31 on a retainer if you want one.
The retainers
Recent work
Stores we shipped, with the numbers that were published.
Every case study names the brand and the result.
Case study
PawGuard: a fully custom Shopify build for a new DTC brand, live in July 2026
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Case study
Gene Juarez: a custom Shopify Plus theme with Zenoti-native booking
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Case study
True Glory Hair: a Shopify Plus build, then three years of development, SEO and retention
Read the case studyNone of our published case studies is an Ohio brand yet, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. What they show is the standard: named brands, published numbers, the engineer who scoped the work on the call. All case studies.
Ohio
The rest of Ohio, and the state-wide services.
Columbus is the Ohio metro with its own page so far; the Shopify agency in Ohio page holds the state-wide services, and every Ohio service page below is written for the state rather than a city.
Questions Columbus brands ask first.
Do you have an office in Columbus?
No. Aqsa Shahzad Official LLC is registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, with engineering in Lahore; we travel to Columbus for kickoff on larger builds and run calls in Eastern time. The US agency comparison by partner tier lists agencies by the tier on their own sites.
Can you build around a merchandising calendar?
Yes: collections scheduled to go live on dates, drops and pre-orders, markdown rules, and a content system your team can run without a developer.
Can you promise two-day delivery from Ohio?
When the 3PL is integrated and carrier cut-offs are real, yes: delivery dates by ZIP on the product page and in the cart.
What does a Shopify agency cost in Columbus?
Retainers start at $1,500 a month; projects and Shopify Plus builds are priced as one written number after we have read the store.
How do you handle Ohio sales tax?
Shopify Tax by ship-to address: 5.75% state plus county and transit rates, 8% in most of Columbus, with resale certificates on B2B accounts.
Do you build gift sets and kits?
Yes: bundles with their own inventory rules, gift messaging, samples with orders and seasonal gift collections.
Start a project
Request a written proposal.
A senior engineer replies within twelve hours, in writing, in Eastern time.
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