Austria
Shopify development for Austrian businesses
Most Austrian stores that grow end up selling into Germany, a market roughly ten times the size that speaks the same language. Sharing a language makes it look like the same market, and almost everything else about it differs. We build Shopify stores for Austrian businesses remotely.
What changes about Shopify Development in Austria?
A shared language removes the obvious barrier and hides the real ones. The carriers are different, the delivery expectations are different, the competitors are considerably larger and better resourced, and the payment methods customers reach for first are not identical. Because the copy needs no translation, businesses frequently switch the market on and assume the work is done, then wonder why conversion is lower than at home. The parts worth deciding deliberately are the ones a translation would have forced you to think about: which delivery promise you can hold, which payment methods appear and in what order, and whether the pricing is set for that market or inherited from yours. There is a smaller decision underneath, which is whether the copy acknowledges its origin at all. In the stores we have worked on, being visibly Austrian is an asset for some categories and a distraction in others, and it is worth deciding rather than defaulting to whichever the existing content already implies.
What a Shopify Development project includes
Three things, and they do not change by country. What changes is the section above, which is the part worth reading before anybody agrees a scope for Austria.
- Custom Online Store 2.0 theme or headless storefront
- App, payment and fulfilment integration
- Migration with a full URL redirect map
Cities we cover in Austria
8 cities, each with its own page describing what commerce looks like there — what sells, who buys it and what makes selling there different — rather than repeating this one. All four services are delivered in every one of them, and we hold no office in any.
The rest of what we build in Austria
Replatforming rarely arrives on its own. The interface decides whether the new store converts, and the automation decides how much manual work it leaves behind, so the other services in this market are usually the next question rather than a later one.
Shopify Development questions from Austria
Three questions specific to Shopify Development in Austria. The general ones — how we work, what it costs, who owns the code — are answered on the service page, and the ones about selling into this market generally are on the Europe page above.
Do you have an office in Austria?
No. Our studio is in Rajkot, India, and Austrian clients work with us remotely. There is no Austrian address behind this page. We put it in the opening paragraph rather than the footer, because that is where a reader forms the assumption and correcting it costs nothing.
One store for both markets, or two?
One store with a market per country, in almost every case. The catalogue and the content stay in one place while pricing, delivery and payment methods differ, which is exactly the split you want when the language is shared and everything operational is not.
Should the copy sound Austrian or neutral?
It depends on the category, and it is worth deciding rather than inheriting. For food, craft and anything where origin is part of the product, being visibly Austrian helps. For commodity categories it can read as a smaller supplier, which is not the impression the same words give at home.
Planning Shopify Development work in Austria?
Tell us what you are building and we will come back within one business day.