Shopify Agency · Houston, TX

Shopify built for
Houston's boldest
commerce ambitions.

We've been building Shopify stores since 2011 and serving Houston brands since they started taking eCommerce seriously. Energy-sector merchandise, multicultural DTC, Texas BBQ and food brands going direct, western wear for the Houston Rodeo crowd, medical and healthcare adjacent retail we know what Houston commerce actually looks like, and we build stores that match it. Our New York HQ works with Houston brands remotely, with 30+ in-house specialists on every project.

500+
Shopify stores built
14+
Years of experience
5.0
Partner rating
2017
Shopify Partner since

Houston eCommerce is as diverse as the city itself

Houston’s the fourth-largest city in the US, and it doesn’t operate like any other market. It’s a global energy capital. It’s home to the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical complex. It’s America’s most ethnically diverse major city. And it’s one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the South. That’s not one eCommerce opportunity. It’s six distinct ones, each with its own rules.

Energy and industrial brands need Shopify B2B built for high-SKU technical catalogues, ERP integration, and trade account management at real scale. Healthcare and medical supply brands need secure procurement flows, credential-gated product access, and NET payment terms. Multicultural and Hispanic-owned brands need bilingual storefronts — not auto-translated afterthoughts, but natively designed Spanish-language experiences with payment options that reflect how Houston’s shoppers actually buy. Then there’s Texas BBQ and specialty food brands going DTC, western wear shops capitalising on the Houston Rodeo audience, and Space Center Houston adjacent gift and merchandise retail. None of these fit a generic Shopify template.

We’ve built Shopify stores since 2011 and we’re a Shopify Partner since 2017. Our 500+ stores span exactly this kind of commercial complexity. We work with Houston brands remotely from our New York HQ, with 30 in-house specialists — no freelancers, no outsourcing on every project. Check out our portfolio to see the range of what we’ve built.

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Energy & industrial B2B Houston's anchor sector
Houston's energy sector is the largest concentration of oil and gas companies in the world, supported by a massive ecosystem of industrial suppliers, equipment distributors, and MRO providers. These businesses are moving purchasing workflows online that have run on phone calls and paper orders for decades. They need Shopify Plus B2B with high-SKU technical catalogues, trade account portals, tiered pricing by buyer segment, and ERP integrations that actually hold up under real procurement volumes.
02
Multicultural & Hispanic commerce
Houston's the most ethnically diverse major city in the US. Its Hispanic consumer market is one of the largest and fastest-growing in the country. Brands serving this audience need bilingual Shopify storefronts built with cultural intent — Spanish-language UX that's been thought through, payment options like OXXO and Mercado Pago that reflect how the market actually transacts, and copy that isn't just a machine translation of the English version. Houston's multicultural consumer base rewards brands that show up properly.
03
Healthcare & medical supply
The Texas Medical Center employs over 100,000 people and drives enormous commercial procurement activity across medical supplies, surgical equipment, PPE, lab consumables, and professional healthcare products. It's not standard retail. These brands need Shopify B2B with credential verification, restricted product access by buyer type, quantity-based pricing, and NET payment terms. Healthcare procurement teams don't browse they buy with intent, and your store needs to match that.
04
Texas BBQ, food & agriculture DTC
Texas is the largest agricultural state in the US by value, and Houston's its commercial centre. Texas BBQ brands, Gulf Coast seafood, Tex-Mex food producers, and craft food and beverage makers are all pushing DTC and wholesale online. Subscription boxes, local Houston delivery, food service wholesale portals — this sector's got specific Shopify requirements: perishable shipping logic, variable-weight products, subscription flows, and regulatory compliance built into the checkout. We handle all of it.
05
Logistics, import/export & Texas-sized distribution
The Port of Houston's one of the busiest in the US, making the city a natural import/export and distribution hub. Distributors moving commercial volume online need Shopify B2B stores with the operational depth to match: high SKU counts, complex pricing structures, multi-warehouse inventory management, and freight-aware checkout. Texas-sized wholesale operations have Texas-sized complexity and a generic Shopify setup won't cut it.
06
Houston Rodeo, western wear & lifestyle DTC
Houston's population growth is among the fastest in the US, and a new generation of DTC brands is riding it. Western wear tied to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Space Center Houston merchandise and gift retail, fashion and beauty brands targeting Houston's diverse consumer base these brands need conversion-built Shopify store design that captures national audiences through strong brand identity and Shopify SEO that doesn't leave organic traffic on the table.

Built for Houston's most complex eCommerce sectors

From energy-sector B2B to multicultural DTC and medical supply procurement Houston's eCommerce landscape is one of the most commercially varied in America. We bring sector-specific knowledge to every Houston project. We're not learning on the job.

Energy & Industrial Supply
Core vertical
High-SKU B2B Shopify stores for oil and gas suppliers, MRO distributors, industrial equipment providers, and oilfield services companies. Trade portals with technical specification filtering, tiered pricing by customer segment, purchase order workflows, and ERP integration with SAP, Oracle, and the industry-specific back-office systems Houston's energy sector relies on. These aren't standard eCommerce builds they're operational platforms that digitise purchasing workflows buyers have run manually for years.
Brands: Energy supply, MRO, oilfield equipment, industrial distributor, safety supply
Multicultural & Hispanic Commerce
Core vertical
Bilingual Shopify stores built for Houston's Hispanic, Latin American, and broader multicultural consumer base. We're talking natively designed Spanish-language storefronts, culturally informed UX, and payment options that reflect how the market actually shops. Houston's the most diverse major city in the US. Brands that speak to that diversity don't just earn more customers they earn a loyalty advantage that English-only competitors can't replicate, however hard they try.
Brands: Hispanic-owned retail, Latin food & culture, multicultural beauty, import goods
Healthcare & Medical Supply
Core vertical
Shopify B2B built for the Texas Medical Center ecosystem and Houston's broader healthcare market. Medical supply distributors, surgical equipment providers, PPE brands, lab consumables, and professional healthcare products all have specific purchasing requirements. We've built stores with credential verification, restricted product access by buyer type, quantity-based pricing, NET payment terms, and compliance-aware UX that healthcare procurement teams actually trust.
Brands: Medical supply, surgical equipment, dental, veterinary, lab, PPE distributor
Food & Agriculture
Fast-growing
Texas BBQ brands shipping nationally, Gulf Coast seafood going DTC, Tex-Mex food producers, craft beverage makers, and agri-product distributors are all moving online. Subscription models, perishable shipping logic, variable-weight products, food service wholesale portals, and local Houston delivery integration we've handled it all. This sector's requirements aren't basic. The store has to work for how food actually gets sold and shipped.
Brands: Specialty food, seafood, craft beverage, Tex-Mex, agri-product distributor, CPG
Logistics & Distribution
Fast-growing
Houston's port-driven import/export economy generates significant Shopify demand from distributors and importers building B2B online channels. We build Shopify B2B stores with high-SKU catalogues, multi-warehouse inventory management, freight-inclusive pricing at checkout, trade account management, and the ERP connectivity that distribution operations need to process online orders without manual data re-entry. Texas-sized distribution requires infrastructure to match.
Brands: Importers, distributors, 3PL, wholesale supply, port-adjacent trade businesses
DTC & Lifestyle Retail
Growing
Houston's population keeps growing, and a new generation of DTC brands is capitalising on it. Western wear tied to the Houston Rodeo, lifestyle brands targeting Houston's diverse multicultural consumer base, Space Center Houston-adjacent merchandise retail, and home goods brands with national ambitions we build conversion-built Shopify stores for Houston DTC brands that want to compete at a national level, with custom theme development and SEO architecture that holds up.
Brands: Fashion, beauty, home goods, lifestyle, outdoor, wellness, pet, gifting

Every Shopify service, available to Houston brands

From a first Shopify store for a Houston DTC startup to a fully bilingual Shopify Plus B2B build with ERP integration for an energy-sector supplier we handle the full scope. We've got 500+ stores behind us. Houston's most commercially ambitious brands don't need to train us on how their sector works.

B2B
Shopify Plus B2B for Houston's Industrial & Energy Sector
Dedicated trade portals for Houston's energy and industrial supply sector with company profiles, customer-group pricing, minimum order quantities, purchase order upload, net-30 and net-60 payment terms, and quote request workflows. We've built Shopify B2B stores that handle the purchasing complexity of oil & gas buyers, engineering procurement teams, and industrial distributors. Your sales team shouldn't be manually processing every order that can run through a properly built portal.
Bilingual
Bilingual & Multicultural Shopify Storefronts
Natively designed Spanish-English Shopify stores not plugin-translated pages, but properly localised storefronts with culturally informed UX, Spanish-language product copy, and payment options like OXXO, SPEI, and Mercado Pago that are actually relevant to Houston's Latin American consumer base. Bilingual Shopify SEO with separate hreflang-tagged URLs means your store ranks in both English and Spanish search results you're not leaving half the addressable market to competitors.
Migration
Platform Migration to Shopify Zero Data Loss
Houston's established retail and B2B brands are replatforming from Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and custom legacy systems. We carry over every product, customer record, order history, pricing tier, and SEO URL and we've completed over 100 such platform migrations without losing a record. For Houston brands with complex ERP integrations on existing platforms, every data flow is documented and rebuilt on Shopify before a single page goes live.
Visibility
Shopify SEO for Houston's High-Intent Commercial Search
Houston's search audience is commercially intent-heavy energy buyers, medical procurement teams, and a multicultural consumer base with specific search behaviour across English and Spanish. Our Shopify SEO service covers the full landscape: technical SEO for large-catalogue stores, bilingual keyword architecture with hreflang, structured data for B2B product catalogues, and Core Web Vitals compliance. Houston's most competitive brands aren't ranking by accident.
500+
Shopify stores built since 2011
14+
Years serving US & international brands
37
Verified 5-star Shopify Partner reviews
98%
Client retention rate across all accounts

What makes us the right Shopify partner for Houston

Houston brands operate in one of the most commercially demanding markets in the US. They need a Shopify partner who understands the specific requirements of their sector whether that's B2B industrial, bilingual DTC, or medical supply procurement. Here's why Houston brands choose Axis Web Art over a local freelancer or a generalist agency.

01 - B2B depth
Industrial & energy B2B experience on Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus B2B for energy-sector and industrial supply brands isn't standard eCommerce with a portal bolted on. We understand the purchasing flows, pricing structures, and system integrations that energy buyers and industrial procurement teams require. Houston's B2B brands get a partner who's solved these problems before not one treating their project as a first attempt. We've built trade portals that reduced inbound sales calls by over 40% while growing average order value. That's what sector experience actually looks like.
02 - Bilingual capability
Natively bilingual Shopify storefront design
Building a bilingual Shopify store properly Spanish and English, with culturally localised UX, hreflang SEO, and payment options relevant to Houston's Latin American consumer base is a distinct technical and creative skill. We've built bilingual storefronts for multicultural brands and we understand both the technical implementation and the cultural nuance required. Houston's diverse consumer base rewards brands that get this right. It isn't a cosmetic exercise.
03 - Integration expertise
SAP, Oracle, NetSuite & industry-specific ERP
Houston's energy and industrial brands are typically connected to enterprise ERP systems SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Infor, or industry-specific platforms. We've built custom Shopify integrations with all of these. Every integration architecture is documented before development begins so your IT team, procurement department, and finance team can review and approve every data flow before go-live. No surprises, no undocumented workarounds.
04 - Healthcare compliance
Medical & healthcare supply eCommerce experience
Houston's proximity to the Texas Medical Center means we work with medical supply and healthcare brands regularly. We understand credential-gated product access, restricted purchasing by buyer type, compliance-aware UX, and the NET payment term structures that healthcare procurement teams expect. Medical supply brands don't need a generalist Shopify agency that's figuring out their requirements as they go. They need one that's already built this before.
05 - Fixed pricing
Transparent, fixed-scope projects
Houston's a business city. Its brands are commercially direct and they value clear, fair deals. Every project we undertake is scoped in detail, priced as a fixed total, and delivered against a milestone timeline. We don't charge by the hour, move goalposts mid-project, or deliver scope creep invoices at the end. The number you agree to is the number you pay. The timeline we commit to is the one we deliver against.
06 - Long-term
A growth partner, not a one-off vendor
The Houston brands that get the most from our work are the ones who engage us as a long-term partner for ongoing support, new features, and the technical evolution of their Shopify store as their business scales. Our 98% client retention rate isn't an accident. We invest in understanding your operations, your customers, and your market. Every subsequent project delivers faster results because we're not starting from zero each time. Compare that to how we work with Dallas brands or Miami clients the approach is the same.

A process built for Houston's commercial pace

Houston moves fast. It's one of the most commercially active markets in the country, and Houston brands don't have patience for agencies that drag their heels. Our six-step process is built to match that pace: clear scope, honest timelines, parallel workstreams, and no ambiguity from kickoff to launch.

Step 01
Discovery & Technical Scoping
We start with a structured discovery call in Central Time typically involving your eCommerce, operations, and IT teams alongside executive stakeholders. We map your current platform, your product catalogue, your customer types (B2C, B2B, bilingual, or all three), your back-office systems, and the specific commercial requirements your Houston business has built over time. For energy, industrial, and healthcare brands, that includes a detailed audit of your existing ERP integrations and pricing structures. The output's a granular technical scope document not a vague service description that leaves room for interpretation later.
Step 02
Detailed Proposal & Fixed Contract
Your proposal names every deliverable page templates, B2B features, bilingual storefront components, ERP integration endpoints, data migration volumes, and app configurations with fixed pricing and a milestone-based timeline. For Houston brands with complex scopes, we itemise every component so you know precisely what you're buying before you commit. Once it's signed, your project start date is locked in and your dedicated project lead is assigned. We're not double-booking your slot.
Step 03
Data Migration & Integration Architecture
For Houston brands migrating from existing platforms, data migration runs in parallel with design and build not sequentially after it. We map your product catalogue (including technical specifications and custom attributes for industrial brands), customer records, order history, pricing tiers, and ERP data structures to Shopify's data model before theme development begins. For bilingual stores, translation architecture is defined at this stage — URL structure, metadata, and hreflang setup are correct from day one, not retrofitted after launch when fixing them is painful and costly.
Step 04
Theme Development & B2B or Bilingual Configuration
The Shopify theme is built in a staging environment your team can access and review throughout development. For B2B Houston brands, trade portal features company profiles, customer group pricing, payment terms, quote workflows, purchase order upload — are configured and tested alongside the consumer-facing build. For bilingual stores, both language versions are developed simultaneously, with parity reviews at each milestone. The Spanish-language experience gets the same level of design attention as the English version. It's not an afterthought.
Step 05
QA, Integration Testing & Pre-Launch Validation
Pre-launch QA for Houston brands covers more than standard consumer eCommerce testing. We test every B2B purchase flow, every ERP data sync, every language variant, and every edge case in your catalogue including product restriction logic for healthcare brands and variable-weight checkout for Texas BBQ and food brands. For energy and industrial brands, we run integration stress tests that simulate real procurement volumes before we authorise go-live. For bilingual stores, every page is reviewed in both languages by bilingual QA testers who know what cultural and linguistic accuracy actually looks like.
Step 06
Launch, Training & Ongoing Support
Launch is a managed event DNS cutover, live integration validation, real-order testing, and active monitoring for the first 48 hours. After launch, your team gets full admin training specific to your store's configuration: product management, order processing, B2B account administration, bilingual content updates, or integration monitoring depending on what you've built. For ongoing support, our monthly retainer plans cover everything from integration health monitoring to new feature development, with CT availability and same-day response for priority issues. For Houston brands in energy, healthcare, or logistics where downtime has real commercial cost that level of cover isn't optional.

Houston Shopify questions answered

The most common questions we get from Houston brands particularly in energy & industrial B2B, bilingual & multicultural commerce, and healthcare supply. Got something specific to your situation? Ask us directly.

Ask us directly
Can you build a bilingual English/Spanish Shopify store that ranks in both languages?

Yes and it’s one of our most-requested capabilities for Houston brands. A properly bilingual Shopify store isn’t just translation. It needs dedicated URL structures for each language (e.g. /en/ and /es/), hreflang tags that tell Google which variant to serve in which search context, natively written Spanish-language product copy rather than machine output, and culturally informed UX decisions that reflect how Spanish-speaking consumers prefer to navigate and buy.

We implement Shopify’s native Markets feature for bilingual stores, combined with professionally written Spanish content and a bilingual SEO keyword strategy that targets high-intent terms in both languages. For Houston brands, that typically means ranking for English terms like “wholesale kitchen equipment Houston” alongside Spanish terms like “equipos de cocina al por mayor Houston” capturing the full addressable search market. You’re not leaving half the audience to competitors who got there first.

Can Shopify Plus handle our energy-sector B2B purchasing requirements?

Yes. ERP integration is one of our most-requested services for Houston’s industrial and energy-sector brands. We’ve built Shopify integrations with SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, and a range of industry-specific ERP platforms used across the energy sector.

Depending on your ERP, the integration can be implemented using the ERP vendor’s native Shopify connector (where one exists and meets your data flow requirements), a middleware integration platform like Celigo, Boomi, or MuleSoft, or a fully custom API integration that we design, build, test, and maintain. The full integration architecture every data field, sync frequency, and error-handling logic is documented before development begins, so your IT and operations teams can sign off the approach before a single line of integration code is written.

Can you integrate Shopify with SAP or Oracle for our Houston operation?

Yes. ERP integration is one of our most-requested services for Houston’s industrial and energy-sector brands. We have built Shopify integrations with SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, and a range of industry-specific ERP platforms used in the energy sector.

Depending on your ERP, the integration can be implemented using: the ERP vendor’s native Shopify connector (where one exists and meets your data flow requirements), a middleware integration platform such as Celigo, Boomi, or MuleSoft, or a fully custom API integration that we design, build, test, and maintain. We document the full integration architecture including every data field, sync frequency, and error-handling logic before development begins, so your IT and operations teams can sign off the approach before a single line of integration code is written.

How do you handle large technical catalogues for industrial and energy brands?

Large technical catalogues need careful product data architecture before theme development begins. For Houston industrial and energy brands, our approach is: define the product metafield structure that stores your technical specifications (dimensions, materials, pressure ratings, compatibility, regulatory certifications), build the category taxonomy that makes 10,000 to 100,000+ SKUs navigable without performance degradation, and implement the faceted search and filtering system that lets buyers find products by technical attribute not just by keyword.

We typically implement Shopify’s native search and filter for catalogues up to 20,000 SKUs, and integrate Searchanise, Boost Commerce, or Constructor for larger catalogues or more complex technical filtering requirements. The result is a product catalogue that works the way an industrial buyer expects filterable by spec, sortable by compatibility, and fast to load at scale. That’s not something you achieve by default.

Can you build a Shopify store for our medical supply or healthcare brand in Houston?

Yes. We work with medical supply, surgical equipment, dental, veterinary, and professional healthcare supply brands across the US, and the Texas Medical Center ecosystem has generated a significant share of our healthcare B2B work. Shopify B2B for healthcare brands typically requires credential verification before purchase (medical licence, DEA number, professional licence), restricted product visibility by buyer type, quantity-based pricing for professional procurement, NET payment terms, and a purchase experience that reflects professional healthcare procurement standards — not consumer retail defaults.

We implement all of this on Shopify Plus using a combination of native B2B features, custom app development for credential verification, and metafield-based product restriction logic. The result is a store your professional healthcare buyers can use with confidence and that keeps non-credentialed consumers away from restricted product categories without breaking the user experience for everyone else.

How much does a Shopify project cost for a Houston business?

Cost depends directly on scope the complexity of your B2B or bilingual requirements, the size of your catalogue, the number of integrations, and whether a full redesign is part of the project alongside a migration.

A focused Shopify DTC build or redesign for a growing Houston brand typically starts from $5,000–$12,000. A bilingual Shopify storefront with Spanish-language SEO architecture typically ranges from $8,000–$18,000 depending on catalogue size. A Shopify Plus B2B build with trade portal, pricing tiers, and basic ERP integration typically ranges from $18,000–$40,000. A complex migration with full redesign, ERP integration, bilingual setup, and B2B configuration typically starts from $30,000 and scales with the complexity of your systems.

We provide a detailed, itemised fixed-price quote after a discovery call. Every line item is named, every assumption is stated, and the price doesn’t change after signature unless you request additional scope. No moving goalposts.

Do you provide ongoing support for Houston brands after launch?

Yes. For Houston’s more complex builds B2B with ERP integration, bilingual stores with ongoing content in two languages, or healthcare brands with credential management ongoing support isn’t optional. These stores have more moving parts than standard DTC builds, and they benefit from having a partner who already understands the full architecture. You don’t want to spend an hour briefing a support team on how your ERP integration works every time something needs fixing.

Our monthly retainer plans cover ERP integration monitoring (catching data sync failures before they affect order processing), catalogue management (new products, pricing updates, spec changes), B2B account management (new company setup, payment term adjustments), bilingual content updates, and new feature development. We’re available in Central Time and handle priority issues same-day. For Houston brands in energy, healthcare, or logistics where system downtime has real commercial cost that kind of cover is what separates a growth partner from a one-off vendor.

What our clients say about working with us

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★★★★★

"Axis Web Art developed our website. They are easy to work with, thorough, and responsive. We have been very happy with their service."

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Garrett Leather
Roberta Sand, Marketing Director
★★★★★

"Great work, they know how to change your theme effectively without any issues. Fixed a few tiny issues moments after identifying them. Always a pleasure to work with this team of highly skilled players."

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Timothy
Founder, Timothy De Clue Collection
★★★★★

"We crafted a soothing online shopping experience for Bubbaroo, a leading Australian baby sleep bag brand. Our Shopify store design and development focused on safety, comfort, and parent peace of mind."

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Bubbaroo
Nicole Cassey, Founder
Houston
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