Shopify Plus Agency Australia: Plus Builds, B2B and Migrations

Shopify’s help centre lists the extras: a fully customisable checkout, custom apps built with Shopify Functions, unlimited B2B catalogues with deposits and partial payments, unlimited staff accounts, up to 200 locations, nine expansion stores, up to 25 Hydrogen storefronts and priority 24/7 support. The storefront, themes and admin are the same as on Advanced. What changes is how far you can bend checkout, pricing and wholesale rules.

Shopify’s help centre lists Plus in Australian dollars at A$4,000 a month on a 1-year term or A$3,700 a month on a 3-year term, for standard setups. Higher-volume or more complex businesses may pay a variable platform fee based on revenue and business model, which Shopify says differs for B2B and direct-to-consumer orders. Check the live figure with Shopify before you sign, because plan prices change.

Shopify’s billing help page says Australian merchants pay 10% GST on the Shopify subscription and on shipping labels. It also says you do not pay that GST once you register for Australian GST and add your ABN to the store, and the change applies to invoices issued after the ABN goes in. Any established brand buying Plus will be GST registered, so add the ABN before the first Plus invoice.

Two Australian sources we read on 29 October 2026 agree on the range. WP Creative, a Sydney agency, puts a Shopify Plus build at A$30,000 to A$100,000 or more, and the cost guide What’s The Damage? gives the same band. Neither says whether GST is included. These are market figures, not ours. FactoryJet quotes a fixed price per phase in writing after a scoping call.

Plus pays off when a Plus-only feature fixes something that costs you money every week: stockists ordering by email, a New Zealand store kept in sync by hand, checkout rules that no app can build, or a pile of paid apps faking wholesale pricing. A higher card turnover on its own is a weak reason. If your problems are design, speed or conversion, a better build on Advanced does more.

On Shopify’s Australian pricing page, Advanced costs A$575 a month paid monthly, with card rates from 1.35% plus 30c and up to 15 staff accounts. Plus starts at A$3,700 a month, with card rates from 1.15% plus 30c, unlimited staff, a fully customisable checkout, up to 200 POS Pro locations and unlimited B2B catalogues. Advanced can be paid monthly or yearly with no lock-in term. Plus is a 1-year or 3-year contract.

On Shopify Payments, the online card rate on Plus is 1.15% plus 30c, so a A$100 order costs A$1.45. On Advanced it is 1.35% plus 30c, or A$1.65, and on Basic 1.7% plus 30c, or A$2.00. Those are Shopify’s Australian rates as read on 31 October 2026. If you use a third-party payment provider instead, Shopify adds 0.2% on Plus, which is 20c on A$100, on top of that provider’s own fee. The monthly plan fee is separate.

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Open Settings, then Plan, in your Shopify admin. The plan name and billing term are shown there. Plus stores can also add expansion stores and unlimited staff accounts, which standard plans cannot, so either one is a quick tell. If you inherited a store from another team and nobody is sure, check the most recent Shopify invoice, which names the plan and the billing term.

The best one is the one whose past work matches your problem. Four Australian Shopify Plus agencies we list on this page are Alinga on the Gold Coast, Flux, Prosper Digital in Melbourne and Sydney, and Swanky, which works internationally. Each has a note taken from its own homepage. Pick by fit: B2B and ERP depth, design, headless, or support after launch. Ask each one to show a Function or B2B flow running on your own data.

At minimum: how many SKUs and variants you carry, which channels you sell through, how trade customers order today, which accounting, ERP and inventory systems hold the truth for stock and prices, what checkout or discount rules you rely on, and what has broken in the last year. An agency that quotes a Plus build without asking those questions is guessing, and the guess usually lands in a change request later.

Yes. Shopify B2B runs on every paid plan, but Plus adds unlimited catalogues, catalogues assigned straight to company locations, deposits, partial payments and payment requests per fulfilment. Each stockist becomes a company with its own buyers, delivery addresses, prices and terms. Trade and retail customers can share one store, one stock pool and one product catalogue, or you can run a separate B2B-only store.

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Shopify’s help centre says Scripts were deprecated on 30 June 2026 and any still published were deactivated. Plus brands relied on them for bundle pricing, trade discounts, hidden payment options and shipping tweaks in the cart. The replacement is Shopify Functions. If a tiered discount, a free-shipping rule or a hidden payment option quietly stopped working this year, a switched-off Script is the first thing to check.

A Shopify Function is custom code, written for your store, that runs inside Shopify’s back end to change a discount, a delivery option, a payment method or a cart rule. A checkout extension adds an approved block to checkout, such as a purchase order field or a delivery date picker. On Plus you can ship both in your own custom app, so the logic is written for your rules rather than borrowed from a public app.

Yes, in two ways. Shopify Markets lets one store show New Zealand prices and settings. When the catalogue, stock, team or pricing in New Zealand is different, Plus includes nine expansion stores, which Shopify says are for internationalisation, separate physical locations and related purposes, so a separate NZ store sits under the same Plus plan. We help you choose before anything is built, because the choice is hard to reverse.

We audit the current store first: catalogue, customer groups, trade pricing, extensions, custom code and integrations. Each piece is mapped to native Plus, a Function, an app or custom code. Data moves in rehearsal runs on a copy of the store, every old web address gets a 301 redirect, and the domain switches at a quiet trading hour. If you already trade on Shopify, Plus is a contract upgrade with no data to move.

Shopify migration in Australia ↗ Magento to Shopify Plus migration checklist ↗

Not if the move is planned. Shopify fixes its own address patterns, such as /products/ and /collections/, so every old product, category and content address needs a permanent 301 redirect. We crawl the old site, keep the pages that earn traffic, carry titles and descriptions across, and watch Google Search Console daily for the first weeks so a dip is caught while it is still small.

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Yes. Shopify Plus connects to Xero, MYOB Business, MYOB Acumatica, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, Cin7 Core (formerly DEAR) and Unleashed through each system’s API. We use an existing connector where one fits and a small custom integration where it does not. Before any sync runs we agree which system owns stock, prices, customers and refunds, and how GST and payment fees are posted, so the books reconcile at month end.

Shopify Xero integration in Australia ↗ Ecommerce ERP integration in Australia ↗

Yes, through each marketplace’s own connector or a multichannel tool that sits between Shopify and the marketplaces. The hard part is the stock and pricing rules: which channel gets the last units, whether marketplace prices carry the fees, and how returns flow back. We set one source of truth for stock first, then connect the channels, so you stop overselling on a busy weekend.

It usually does once turnover passes A$3 million. The OAIC says most small businesses are not covered by the Privacy Act 1988, and defines a small business as one with annual turnover of A$3 million or less, counting income from all sources. Above that line the Act generally applies. Get your adviser to confirm. We build the store so customer data, consent and access are easy to manage.

OAIC, small business and the Privacy Act ↗

The contract runs one or three years, so you commit before you have used every feature. Large or complex businesses can move onto a variable platform fee tied to revenue. Plus features also only pay off if someone builds them, so plan the B2B, checkout and integration work before you sign.

Yes, and a handover is often where our work starts. We begin with a review of the theme code, every installed app, checkout extensions, Functions and integrations, plus a search for anything that depended on Scripts. You receive a written priority order with a fixed price per fix. Shopify collaborator access means you keep your own login, and we write up each app and sync as we learn it.

Yes. The Plus agreement is between your company and Shopify, billed to your account. The theme, custom apps and Functions sit in a repository in your name from day one, with the full change history. Paid apps and connectors are billed to you at cost, with no markup from us. If you move agencies or bring the work in-house, everything they need is already yours.

Defects in what we built are fixed inside the build price for a cover period we agree before work starts. After that, support is optional. Each change is quoted, you approve it, and then we do it, with no monthly minimum. The engineers who built the store answer the tickets, and every change goes into a written log so you can see what was done and why.

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Yes. For a store project we build a draft of your store on your own products, or a working Function or B2B flow on your own data, before you sign the build. You see how it handles your catalogue and your trade rules with your own eyes. The founder replies to every enquiry within 24 hours, and the first scoping call is free.

Yes. Use the form at the top of this page, which asks only for your name and work email. If you already have a written brief or an RFP, send it with your enquiry and we will answer it point by point, including the parts we would scope differently. The founder, Bhavesh Barot, books a short call, and you leave it knowing the phases, the order of work and what each phase needs from your team.