How we built an agency without retainers, hidden pricing, or discovery calls
Most Shopify agencies sell time. We sell outcomes. Every project on this site has a fixed price, a fixed scope, and a delivery window. We don't hide prices behind a discovery call. We don't sign 12-month retainers. We don't charge you for account-management overhead. Twelve fixed-price products, most delivered in 3–7 days, starting at $47.
The problem with how Shopify agencies usually work
You can't see prices until you book a call — and the call is just a sales pitch dressed as strategy.
The proposal arrives 2 weeks later with custom pricing nobody can verify against a market rate.
You sign a 12-month retainer and spend the first 3 months on onboarding and account setup.
You pay account-management overhead every month whether the work is getting done or not.
How we work instead
Every product on the site has a public price. No call required to find out what things cost.
You buy from the catalog. Work starts the same day — no proposal, no kickoff ceremony.
Async-first delivery. Loom walkthroughs, Slack updates, and a shared ticket. No mandatory meetings.
Project-based or month-to-month. No 12-month contracts, no cancellation fees.
Typical Shopify agency vs Shopyard
| Feature | Typical Shopify agency | Shopyard |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Quote on call. Hourly or retainer — you won't know the number until you sit through the pitch. | Public price sheet. Every product is fixed-price and listed on the site. |
| Engagement model | 12-month contract or open-ended retainer. Breaking it early costs you. | One-off projects or month-to-month only. No 12-month lock-in. |
| Time to start | 1–3 weeks: discovery call, proposal, revision, kickoff. | Same day. Buy from the catalog and work starts immediately. |
| Scope | Defined in a custom proposal after the discovery call — by which point you've already invested 2 hours. | Listed on the product page. Read the deliverables before you buy. |
| Communication | Weekly account-manager calls. You pay for the overhead whether you use it or not. | Async-first. Loom walkthroughs, Slack, and a ticket. No mandatory meetings. |
| Contract length | 12 months minimum. Some agencies require 24. | Project-based or month-to-month. Leave anytime. |
| What you're paying for | Account-management overhead + junior execution + the occasional senior review. | The work. No PM tax. Senior delivery on every engagement. |
| Refund policy | None. The retainer is non-refundable whether we delivered or not. | Money-back guarantee on the First $10K Sprint. |
Why this works
The traditional agency model bills for time. That creates a perverse incentive: the longer a project takes, the more the agency earns. Productization removes that incentive entirely. We sell a fixed outcome for a fixed price. If we can deliver it in 2 days instead of 5, that's margin for us — not a reason to slow down. Every product on the Shopyard catalog reflects a clearly scoped outcome, not an open-ended engagement that can expand indefinitely.
Async-first delivery is the other half of the model. We don't bill for account-management calls. We don't have a weekly status meeting. We deliver Loom walkthroughs, written summaries, and shared workspaces. Your time is not our overhead — it's yours. That's not a constraint; it's a design choice. Shopify merchants who hire us are operators, not project managers. We keep them out of the weeds and ship the work.
Project-based pricing also aligns incentives on outcomes. We don't have a reason to drag a retainer out. We have every reason to deliver fast and clean so you come back for the next product. That's what repeat business looks like when you remove the retainer model. The catalog has 12 fixed-price products today. Most are delivered in 3–7 days. The entry point is $47. There's no minimum spend, no minimum term, and no discovery call standing between you and the work.
Start with an audit. No call required.
We built a catalog of fixed-price audits so you can find out exactly what's broken — and how to fix it — without talking to a salesperson first.
Browse the AuditsFixed prices. No discovery call. Work starts the same day.