Stores built to sell, not just to exist.
Key Resolutions IT builds Shopify and headless Hydrogen storefronts, migrations, and subscription checkouts, with product photography shot and delivered straight into the store.
Most small stores do not need a headless build. They need a well-built theme, a product taxonomy that makes sense, photographs that sell the product, and a checkout that does not lose people on mobile, and Key Resolutions IT says so before selling the bigger project. When headless is the right answer, the team has built it: Prime8 runs Next.js 16 with Shopify Hydrogen on the Storefront API, with a contracted motion budget so the GSAP and Lenis work never costs a Core Web Vital. The catalogue is up now and the storefront opens when the merch drops.
What does a Shopify store build include?
A build covers custom theme development or heavy theme customization, product taxonomy and collection architecture, a product detail page template system, checkout and shipping configuration, Product and Offer schema, and conversion tracking that actually fires. This is the default recommendation for most merchants, and Key Resolutions IT says so out loud rather than steering everyone toward a bigger project.
When is headless commerce actually worth it?
Headless earns its cost when there is a named, specific reason for it: a performance ceiling already hit and measured, a multi-brand or multi-market requirement the theme layer cannot hold, or a content-plus-commerce experience that genuinely does not fit a theme. Without one of those reasons, the better move is optimizing the existing theme and putting the budget into growth instead. Key Resolutions IT would rather talk you out of the bigger project than sell it unnecessarily.
How does a store migration work?
A replatform moves product, variant, customer, and order data with a reconciliation report you sign off before cutover, alongside a URL and redirect map with ranking monitoring. Apps and integrations get audited and rebuilt, payments and tax get reconfigured, and a launch runbook with a rollback step gets written before launch day, not during it.
What does the product photography include?
Studio shots on consistent backgrounds, lifestyle and in-context frames, and scale and detail shots all get delivered in AVIF and WebP at the exact dimensions the theme requests. Files arrive named to your asset conventions with alt text written per image, ready to drop straight into the store. Nobody else in this market shoots the products and ships them optimized into the pipeline.
Prime8 is the commerce build to see: Next.js 16 with Shopify Hydrogen, a GSAP and Lenis motion layer, a gallery, and a link-in-bio page, with the storefront opening when the merch drops.
What this includes.
Written down before anything starts, and the same whatever the size of the job.
- 01Custom theme development or heavy theme customization, product taxonomy and collection architecture, a product page template system, checkout and shipping configuration, and conversion tracking that fires.
- 02For headless builds, Hydrogen or a custom storefront on the Storefront API with a performance budget agreed before the build, and Shopify still running the checkout, the payments, and the tax.
- 03Product, variant, customer, and order data migrated with a reconciliation report you sign off before cutover, and a launch runbook with a rollback step written before launch day.
- 04A product data model with required-field standards, Product and Offer schema on every product page, and collection and filtering architecture.
- 05Product photography shot, cropped, compressed, named to your asset conventions, and dropped straight into the store with the alt text written.
Questions we get on this one.
Answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
All the questionsWill a store migration lose my product rankings?
Product and collection URLs carry the risk, not the products themselves. Key Resolutions IT builds the redirect map from a full crawl of what exists today, baselines rankings before the move, and monitors for 90 days after. Anything that slipped because of the migration gets fixed at no cost to you.
Does going headless mean leaving Shopify?
No, and most merchants should not leave it. Shopify still runs the checkout, the payments, the tax, and the order management even in a headless build. Key Resolutions IT only changes what the customer sees on the front end, which is exactly why headless stays a manageable risk when it is actually warranted.
Can Key Resolutions IT just shoot my products and leave the site alone?
Yes, product photography stands alone as its own project. Key Resolutions IT delivers the files ready to upload into whatever store you already run, with no site work attached. It is often the easiest and lowest-risk way to work with the team for the first time before committing to anything larger.
Send us the store.
We go through your storefront the same way we go through a website: speed on a real phone, the mobile path to checkout, product page structure, and search health. Twenty minutes, live.
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