# Custom Shopify theme development.

- URL: https://sevsolutions.com/services/custom-themes

Bespoke Shopify themes engineered for UX, speed and merchandising flexibility. Liquid, Hydrogen or hybrid — built on your brand system, not a ThemeForest shell. Every section, block and template shipped the way your team needs to sell.

- Typical build: 6–10 wks
- Section Everything: OS 2.0
- PageSpeed target: 98+
- Template clones: 0

## Every theme ships with the full system.

No half-built page builders, no leftover demo content, no abandoned sections. Every custom theme we ship is a complete, documented, merchandising-ready system.

- **Design-to-Liquid build**: Pixel-faithful translation of your Figma or brand direction into a production Shopify theme with OS 2.0 sections.
- **Section everything**: Every block becomes a reusable section — your merchandising team composes pages without touching code.
- **Performance budget**: Lighthouse-gated CI. We set an LCP/INP/CLS budget on day one and ship against it every week.
- **Accessibility baked in**: WCAG 2.2 AA, keyboard-navigable, screen-reader tested — not bolted on at launch.
- **Clean, documented code**: Readable Liquid, SCSS tokens, JSDoc'd JS modules. Your next dev inherits a codebase, not a mystery.
- **Conversion built-in**: PDP, cart drawer, upsells, sticky ATC — merchandising patterns that lift AOV from the first deploy.

## Most builds run 6–10 weeks.

The process behind the 40+ Liquid themes and 12 Hydrogen builds we've shipped in the last three years. You see progress every week, and the dates are in writing before the build starts.

1. **Discovery & scope**: We audit your store, agree on goals and KPIs, and settle Liquid or Hydrogen. You sign off a written scope, dates included.
2. **Design to code**: Your Figma or brand direction becomes a theme of reusable OS 2.0 sections. You see it on staging in a demo every week.
3. **Test & launch**: Every change passes the Lighthouse budget. We test across devices, by keyboard and with screen readers, and launch in the window we agreed.
4. **After launch**: Monitoring, experiments and a backlog that keeps improving the store, usually on a monthly retainer.

## Questions we hear

### How long does a custom theme take?

Most Liquid builds run 6–10 weeks from kickoff to launch; a Hydrogen build takes longer, typically 4–6 months. Discovery ends with a written scope that includes the dates, and we commit to them in writing.

### Should we build on Liquid or Hydrogen?

We settle it in kickoff with seven yes-or-no questions: custom UX you can't build with sections, content that must refresh within a minute, different layouts per region, a 95+ mobile Lighthouse target, a React-fluent team, whether you can do without theme apps, and a year-one budget that can carry a Hydrogen build. Four or more yeses put Hydrogen on the table; two or fewer mean Liquid. Most stores grow into Hydrogen rather than start there.

### What does a custom theme cost?

It depends on the templates, the integrations and the platform layer: a Hydrogen build costs meaningfully more than a Liquid one. Every build is a fixed-scope project, scoped and quoted after a short discovery call, in writing, before anything is built.

### Can our team edit pages without a developer?

Yes. Every block is a reusable section, so your merchandising team builds and rearranges pages in Shopify's theme editor without touching code. When you do need a developer, the code is readable and documented.

### Will the new theme be fast?

Speed is budgeted from day one: we set LCP, INP and CLS targets at kickoff, and Lighthouse checks every change before it ships. Our PageSpeed target is 98+.

### Is it a marketplace template underneath?

No. Every theme is built on your brand system, not a ThemeForest shell: no leftover demo content, no abandoned sections, and accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA from the first build, not bolted on at launch.