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Shopify Developers for South African Brands

Shopify stores designed around your products and built for South African payments, delivery and stock systems. From first setup to fully custom themes.

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Digital Fold is a Shopify development agency in Cape Town. Our Shopify developers design and build new stores, customise themes and connect Shopify to the systems you run your business on. Whether you need a straightforward store setup or a fully custom build, one team handles design, development and launch.

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Services

Shopify development services

Shopify store setup

Products, collections, navigation, payments, shipping, taxes and policies configured properly from day one.

Shopify website design

Store designs created in Figma around your brand and best-selling products, for desktop and mobile.

Custom theme development

Premium themes adapted to your brand, or custom-built themes when you need full control.

Bundles, subscriptions and promotions

Routine builders, subscribe-and-save, gift-with-purchase offers and free shipping thresholds.

Integrations

Connections to accounting and stock systems such as Sage, email platforms such as Mailchimp, and the apps your team relies on.

Ongoing Shopify support

New sections, campaign pages, app changes and fixes after launch.

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Selected work

Recent Shopify stores

Pro Sales Broadcast website

Pro Sales Broadcast

A Shopify store design for Pro Sales Broadcast, a supplier of cine and broadcast production equipment.

The problem

A Shopify store takes more than a theme

Anyone can start a Shopify store. Getting one that sells is harder. South African stores need local payment gateways, courier rates that make sense, stock that stays in sync with your accounting system, and product pages that answer buyers' questions before they ask. Get those wrong and you lose sales at checkout, or spend hours fixing orders by hand.

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Built for selling in South Africa

Shopify Payments isn't available in South Africa, so local stores need a third-party gateway such as PayFast, Yoco or Peach Payments. We help you choose one, set up shipping rates with your courier, and make sure prices, VAT and delivery times are clear at checkout. If you also sell internationally, we can set up separate markets and currencies.

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Why us

Why work with Digital Fold

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Design and development together

The people who design your store work alongside the developers who build it.

Practical advice

We tell you when an app will do the job and when custom work is worth it, so you don't overspend.

Local ecommerce know-how

We work with the payment gateways, couriers and stock systems South African retailers actually use.

We stay after launch

Campaign pages, promotions and new features as your store grows.

How it works

How a Shopify project runs

  1. 01

    Store discovery

    Products, customers, fulfilment, payments and the systems your store needs to talk to.

  2. 02

    Theme and app plan

    We choose the theme approach and the apps you need, and agree what must be custom.

  3. 03

    Design in Figma

    Homepage, collection, product and cart designs signed off before the build.

  4. 04

    Build and load products

    We develop the store, import products and configure payments and shipping.

  5. 05

    Test orders and launch

    We run test orders end to end, connect your domain and go live.

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FAQs

Shopify FAQs

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Do we need a Shopify developer, or can we set up a store ourselves?
A simple store can be set up yourself. A Shopify developer is worth it when you need a store that matches your brand, works with local payments and couriers, and connects to your stock or accounting systems.
Can you handle Shopify store setup from start to finish?
Yes. We set up products, collections, payments, shipping, taxes, policies, email notifications and your domain, then test orders before launch.
What's the difference between Shopify website design and a theme?
A theme is a starting point. Shopify website design means adapting that theme, or building a custom one, around your brand, products and customers.
Which payment gateways work with Shopify in South Africa?
Shopify Payments isn't available here, so stores use gateways such as PayFast, Yoco or Peach Payments. We recommend one based on fees, payment methods and how you want to be paid out.
Can Shopify connect to Sage or our stock system?
Usually, through a connector app or a custom integration. We check which options support your system before recommending one.
Will we be able to manage the store ourselves?
Yes. Shopify is easy to run day to day, and we show your team how to add products, run promotions and process orders.
Are you Shopify experts or a general agency?
We're a full-service agency, and Shopify is one of our core platforms. We're a Shopify Partner, listed in Shopify's Partner Directory since 2021. That means your store can also get SEO, Google Shopping campaigns and email design from the same team.

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New store, redesign or a store that needs fixing? Send us the details and we'll come back within one working day.

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