Shopify agency · Houston, TX
Shopify agency in Houston: Shopify and Shopify Plus stores for Houston’s energy-belt retailers, medical and wellness brands, and Gulf Coast distributors.
Houston is the largest city in Texas and one of the most bilingual big cities in America, with the country’s busiest port by tonnage and its largest medical complex. Its Shopify brands sell industrial and workwear goods, medical and wellness products, Latin-American food and beauty, and the apparel of a city that shops in two languages. We build the storefronts and the integrations behind them.
Shopify agency in Houston
What a Shopify agency has to get right in Houston.
Written for Houston, not swapped in from another city.
Houston commerce is wide rather than tall: sprawling suburbs from Katy to The Woodlands, a Hispanic-majority customer base, energy and medical payrolls, and a distribution economy fed by Port Houston and the I-10 and I-45 corridors. A store here has to work in English and Spanish, ship cheaply across a metro the size of a small state, and hold up through a hurricane season that closes warehouses and roads.
We build for that: bilingual storefronts on one Shopify admin, checkout with local pickup and ship-from-store for retailers with several locations, B2B ordering for the distributors and suppliers who sell into energy and healthcare, and speed on the phones most of Houston’s traffic arrives on. The studio is in Wyoming and Lahore; we travel to Texas for kickoff, work in Central time, and put the number in writing before anything starts.
What we build for Houston brands
Six things Houston stores need more than most.
Each links to the Texas service page where the scope, process and price live.
Bilingual storefronts
English and Spanish on one store through Shopify’s own translation model, with search, filters, checkout and email flows that read naturally in both.
Shopify Plus development in TexasIndustrial, workwear and safety catalogues
Specification data, size and compliance attributes, bulk quantities and quote requests for the suppliers who sell into energy, construction and the port.
B2B and wholesaleMedical and wellness products
Catalogues built to the rules of the category, subscriptions for replenishment, and reviews wired into product data — for the brands around the Texas Medical Center.
Subscription optimizationMulti-location retail across the metro
Shopify POS or an existing POS on one inventory, local pickup and ship-from-store for chains with locations from Sugar Land to Humble.
Shopify for retail storesPort-side fulfilment integrations
3PLs and importers along the Ship Channel and the Beltway: inventory, orders and tracking synced and reconciled nightly.
App development in TexasConversion on paid traffic
Houston brands buy a lot of traffic. CRO run as experiments on it, with a written monthly readout.
CRO in Texas
Local facts that change a build
Houston in five lines: tax, time, peaks, logistics, buyers.
The five things we configure before a Houston store launches.
- Sales tax
- Texas’ 6.25% state rate plus up to 2% local: 8.25% at checkout for Houston addresses, set by ship-to address in Shopify Tax and checked against the current rate tables before launch; the August back-to-school tax holiday handled each year.
- Time zone
- Central. Calls in Houston hours; the build runs in ours and yours.
- Peaks
- The holiday season, the Rodeo in February and March, back-to-school in August, and a hurricane season from June to November that a store has to stay up through.
- Logistics
- Port Houston is the busiest US port by tonnage; the Ship Channel, I-10 and I-45 hold the warehouses. Most Houston brands ship regionally by ground and nationally from the same dock.
- Buyers
- A Hispanic-majority metro of seven million spread over a very large area: Spanish-language flows, long delivery distances inside the metro, and energy and medical incomes that support premium DTC.
How we work with Houston 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 a Texas 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.
Texas
The rest of Texas, and the state-wide services.
Houston is one of four Texas metros with its own page; the Shopify agency in Texas page holds the state-wide services, and every Texas service page below is written for the state rather than a city.
Questions Houston brands ask first.
Do you have an office in Houston?
No. Aqsa Shahzad Official LLC is registered in Sheridan, Wyoming, with engineering in Lahore; we travel to Texas for kickoff on larger builds and run calls in Central time. The Texas agency comparison shows which agencies print a Texas office on their own sites.
Can you build an English and Spanish store on one Shopify account?
Yes, and it is the right way to do it in Houston: one store, Shopify’s translation model for both languages, a theme built so navigation, search and checkout read naturally in each, and email and SMS flows in the language the customer chose.
Can you connect our distributor ordering to Shopify?
That is Shopify Plus B2B: company accounts, price lists, net terms, quick order and rep-placed orders beside the retail storefront, with ERP sync scoped line by line.
What does a Shopify agency cost in Houston?
A monthly retainer from $1,500, or a project or Shopify Plus build scoped as one written number after we have read the store. No Houston premium and no day rate.
How do you handle Texas sales tax?
Shopify Tax by ship-to address: 6.25% state plus local rates to the 2% cap, 8.25% in Houston, with resale certificates on B2B accounts and the August tax holiday handled in the calendar.
How fast can a Houston store launch?
Four weeks for a private-label launch, eight to fourteen for a Shopify Plus build with integrations, more when a migration has to reconcile customers and orders. The timeline is in the written scope.
Start a project
Request a written proposal.
A senior engineer replies within twelve hours, in writing, in Central time.
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