Food & Drink Shopify Agency
Custom Shopify stores for CPG, beverage, specialty food, and alcohol brands
Food and drink brands have store requirements that almost no generalist agency handles well. Bundles that don’t look like an afterthought. Subscription mechanics customers can actually manage. Age gating for alcohol that doesn’t tank conversion. Zone-based shipping logic that works for perishables. Plus a wholesale side selling into cafes, retailers, or restaurants.
We build Shopify stores for CPG, beverage, specialty food, and alcohol brands. The work blends the standard Shopify build with category-specific patterns we’ve shipped before.
Food & Drink Work in Production
Real projects, named where the client allows it: a global coffee brand’s multi-roaster marketplace and an outdoor-kitchen retailer’s first online store.
Multi-vendor marketplaceManual order routing, eliminated
The global leader in chemical-free decaf runs a marketplace where every order routes to an independent roaster. Routing on metaobjects, live carrier rates per origin, automated label dispatch, delivered in phases against a live revenue stream.
See the Swiss Water project →A brick-and-mortar retailer's first online store
Years of in-store BBQ and outdoor kitchen retail, no ecommerce. We catalogued the inventory, structured the site so customers find the right grill without digging, and targeted the searches their customers actually use.
See the Capital Grills project →“Thank you very much. You and your team are worth every penny, and more!”
Who you'll work with
You scope the project with the people who build it. The developer on the kickoff call is the developer on launch day.
Request a Proposal
Tell us what you sell, how it ships (cold chain, alcohol, subscriptions), and where the current store hurts. We'll come back with a plan, a timeline, and a fixed quote.
What Food & Drink Stores Need
Bundles and mix packs. Build-your-own six-pack or a starter bundle priced as a single SKU. Done right, bundles raise AOV by 20 to 40 percent. Done wrong, they break inventory, confuse customers, and create returns headaches.
Subscription mechanics that customers can manage. Recharge or Bold or Skio, configured so customers can swap, skip, and pause without contacting support. Brands that get this right keep subscribers twice as long as brands that hide self-service.
Age gating for alcohol. Modal age gates aren’t enough. Regional compliance varies. We’ve built age-gated flows that respect Ontario, Quebec, and US state rules without the conversion penalty of a hostile entry experience.
Shipping logic for perishables. Cold chain handling, transit-time-aware shipping zones, and blocked weekend cutoffs so customers don’t end up with thawed packages on Mondays. This is custom logic that often needs Shopify Functions on Plus or carrier app integrations on standard.
Wholesale and B2B. Cafes, retailers, restaurants. Linesheets, MOQs, customer-specific pricing, and net 30 terms. Native B2B on Shopify Plus is the cleanest setup; standard Shopify works with the right app stack.
App Stack for Food & Drink
The working stack varies by sub-category, but most food and drink stores end up running:
- Recharge or Skio for subscriptions
- Klaviyo for email and SMS lifecycle
- Yotpo or Okendo for reviews
- Rebuy or Bold Upsell for bundling and cart upsells
- Shipstation for fulfillment routing
- AgeChecked or custom age gate for alcohol compliance
- Klevu or Searchspring for catalog search on large product ranges
We have opinions on which combinations work and which fight each other.
Related Services
- Shopify web design agency. The core theme build.
- Shopify app development agency. For custom bundle, subscription, or shipping logic that off-the-shelf apps cannot handle.
- Shopify Plus agency. For brands needing native B2B and Shopify Functions for shipping logic.
Working With Food & Drink Brands
We do Shopify development in Ontario for food and drink brands across the province, Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, and across Canada and the US. Most work happens remotely. For brands in southwestern Ontario or the GTA, we’re happy to meet for kickoff or product photoshoots.
Request a proposal for your food or drink Shopify project.
What's included
- Custom theme design built around appetite appeal
- Bundles, mix packs, and build-your-own box flows
- Subscription mechanics: regular delivery, swap, skip, pause
- Age gating and regional compliance for alcohol brands
- Cold chain and zone-based shipping logic
- Wholesale and B2B for cafe, retailer, and restaurant accounts
