Hire a Shopify Developer in the Philippines

Yes, through a third-party gateway app such as PayMongo, which puts GCash, Maya, cards and online banking into Shopify checkout. Shopify Payments is not offered to Philippine merchants, so every store here runs on a third-party gateway — and Shopify adds its own platform fee on top of the gateway's fee for that. Check the current percentage for your plan on Shopify's pricing page, because it differs by plan and changes.

Four things stack up: the Shopify plan, billed in US dollars so your peso cost moves with the exchange rate; app subscriptions, also usually in dollars; your gateway's per-transaction fee; and Shopify's extra fee for using a third-party gateway. Compare that against a WooCommerce store, where hosting with us starts at ₱499 a month after the first free year and nobody takes a percentage of your sales. At low volume Shopify often wins. At high volume with thin margins it rarely does.

When your margin is thin and your volume is high, because a percentage fee on every order compounds. When your checkout needs to do something Shopify's checkout will not — tiered wholesale pricing, per-branch stock rules, unusual COD verification. Or when you already run WordPress and want one system. We will say so up front and quote the WooCommerce or custom build instead; we would rather lose the Shopify job than sell you a monthly bill you resent in year two.

Yes, and it is mostly discipline. We work through theme sections, blocks, settings and theme app extensions instead of editing core Liquid files into a tangle, keep custom code isolated, and build on a development theme. That way the theme's vendor can still ship updates and you can take them. If you have already inherited a heavily edited theme, we audit it first and tell you honestly whether to clean it or rebuild.

Both. Products, variants, images, customers and order history move across, and we map every old URL to its new one with permanent redirects, which matters because Shopify's URL structure differs from WooCommerce's and an unmapped migration quietly costs you your search traffic. Migrations off Shopify onto WordPress work the same way. Timeline depends on catalogue size, so we quote after seeing an export.

It works, with a caveat. COD is set up as a manual payment method, and we add order tagging plus a confirmation step so parcels do not ship to unverified buyers. What Shopify will not do out of the box is automatic SMS or Viber confirmation and COD limits by zone — that needs an app or a small custom app, which we build once instead of renting monthly. If COD is most of your volume, ask us about WooCommerce before committing.

You do. The Shopify account is in your name and billed to you, the domain is yours, the theme code and any custom app we write for you are yours, and your product and customer data export whenever you want. We ask for a collaborator account to work, and you can revoke it in one click. Nothing about the build locks you to us.