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Case study

From an Outdated Site to a Shopify Store That Sells

A family-owned specialty food brand had outgrown its old e-commerce site. Helios rebuilt the store on Shopify, migrated every product and customer, and added Shopify POS for their farmers' market and pop-up sales.

Small business owner checking online orders next to packed boxes

The results

Measured six months after launch compared with the same period the year before

38%

Increase in online revenue

2.1x

Faster page load on mobile

9,000+

Customer accounts migrated with order history

0

Orders lost during the switch

The old site was slow on phones, hard to update, and disconnected from the market stall, where sales were recorded in a notebook. The owners spent evenings fixing plugins instead of running the business.

  • Checkout abandoned on mobile because pages loaded slowly
  • Separate inventory for online and in-person sales
  • Every product update needed a developer

Helios designed a custom Shopify theme around the brand's products, migrated products, customers, and order history, and set up Shopify POS so market sales pull from the same inventory as the website.

We also added subscriptions for best-selling items and trained the team to manage products and promotions on their own.

Packing an online order for shipment
  1. Weeks 1 to 2

    Discovery & design

    Reviewed analytics, mapped the product catalogue, and designed the new storefront.

  2. Weeks 3 to 6

    Build & migration

    Built the theme and migrated products, customers, orders, and redirects for SEO.

  3. Weeks 7 to 8

    POS & apps

    Set up Shopify POS for markets, subscriptions, and shipping rules.

  4. Weeks 9 to 10

    Launch & training

    Launched overnight, monitored orders, and trained the team.

  • Shopify
  • Shopify POS
  • Custom Shopify theme
  • Subscriptions app
  • Data migration
  • Helios Shopify support

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