Shopify for food & beverage
Shopify stores for food and drink brands that ship things with a use-by date
Food sells in boxes, on repeat, and inside a shipping window that most themes know nothing about. We build Shopify and Shopify Plus stores where the box builder works on a phone, the subscription survives the third delivery, and the shipping rules keep a Friday order out of a warehouse over the weekend. Odd Bunch, a Canadian misshapen-produce subscription box, runs on a storefront we redesigned.
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Happy clients
01Where these stores lose money
What goes wrong in food and beverage stores
- 01Shipping rules the theme cannot expressPerishables ship Monday to Wednesday, frozen goods need insulated packaging priced by weight, and some products cannot cross a state or country line. Left on default shipping settings, the store either overcharges or ships a cold box on a Thursday.
- 02Subscriptions that churn after the first boxThe first order is the easy one. A customer who cannot skip a week, swap an item or move the delivery day from a phone will cancel instead of asking.
- 03Compliance copy and age checks bolted onAllergen lists, nutrition tables, alcohol age verification and country-specific labelling usually reach the store through a mix of apps and uploaded images. The data ends up in three places and nobody is sure which one is current.
02What we build
Shopify work we do for food and beverage brands
- 01Build-a-box and mixed-case buildersA box builder that enforces the slot count, prices the mix through Shopify Functions and hands a clean line item to fulfilment. We built emma&noah’s mix-and-match bundle creator and Ryzon’s custom bundle app on the same foundations.Custom Shopify apps
- 02Subscriptions designed for the fourth boxSkip, swap, pause and change-the-day inside the customer account, delivery-day cut-offs that match your packing schedule, and dunning that recovers failed cards. Odd Bunch’s redesign was built around subscription conversion.Subscriptions
- 03Shipping rules for perishablesDelivery customisation Functions that hide express options on the wrong days, weight-based rates for insulated packaging, local delivery zones with cut-off times, and a delivery date picker where the product needs one.Shopify Plus
- 04Nutrition, allergen and labelling data from one sourceNutrition tables, allergens and ingredients as structured metafields, rendered on the product page and filterable in collections (gluten free, vegan, organic), with one place to update when a recipe changes.Store design & development
- 05Age verification and restricted productsAn age gate for alcohol, delivery methods restricted by region through Shopify Functions, and checkout validation that blocks a restricted product going to an address it cannot be shipped to.
- 06A fast storefront with a short path to the boxOdd Bunch’s Shopify Plus redesign focused on page speed and on turning a first visit into a subscription in one session. The same brief applies to most food brands: big photography, a short path to the box, and a product page that works one-handed.Conversion rate optimisation
Tools we usually reach for
- Shopify Plus
- Shopify Subscriptions, Recharge or Loop Subscriptions
- Shopify Functions for delivery customisation
- Shopify Functions for box pricing
- Metafields for nutrition and allergens
- Zapiet for pickup and delivery dates
- ShipStation or Shopify Shipping
- Age verification gate
- Klaviyo
- Judge.me reviews
Stores and apps we built that food and beverage brands will recognise, with the product open so you can judge it yourself.
Related work
01€10,000+MRR in the first monthFerma GorataFarm-to-door meat boxes, moved to Shopify with subscriptions straight from the cart. €10,000+ in monthly recurring revenue in the first month.MigrationSubscriptions
0230 daysfrom idea to first saleAsiaDrinksA Swiss sake store with age checks at 16 and 18, a flavour profile on every bottle and a wiki that explains the category.Store buildAge verification
03Odd Bunch - a Shopify Plus storefront redesignShopify PlusCROUX/UI Design
04How a project runs
Four steps, and you can see every one of them
- 01A 30-minute callWe look through your store before the call and come with questions about what is slowing it down, so the time goes on your store and not on a pitch.
- 02A written scope with a fixed priceWhat we will build, what it costs and when it starts, on one page. Most projects start within 3–5 business days of you saying yes.
- 03Build in the openA shared Slack channel, a staging store you can click through at any point, an update at least every 48 hours and a call every week.
- 04Launch, then stay closeWe launch, watch the first weeks of data and fix what the data says to fix. Most clients keep us on for the next thing.
They said it on camera
Press play to hear themFounders and managers we worked with, in their own words.
Laura SchlaphorstProduct Owner eShop, Ryzon
Hassan FarhatFounder & CEO, Krafted
Grumspot's team successfully revamped the SEO ReRank app. The team made sure I'm kept up to date on the progress of the project at all times and were very quick to adapt any requested changes.
Mladen GrozevFounder, Meliora Web
Irakli LobjanidzeFounder & CEO, ABsolutely
Michael FenlonCMO, Nutri-Genetix
Very competent team who do the work diligently and professionally while still maintainting an agile approach to accomodating changing business needs.
Matthew WebbCTO, Top Screen Media
Andreas MüllerE-Commerce Manager, Emma & Noah
Martin HanewaldCTO, Simply Legal GmbH
We're impressed with their professionalism and quick reaction times to issues and requests.
Miroslav AntonovCo-Founder, Spoon
Danny ShislerCTO, The Floorr
Divyansh OjhaFounder & CEO, Odd Bunch
We loved working with Grumspot! They created a custom app for our Shopify checkout that fixed our address issue perfectly. Their quick and effective solution made a big difference for us. Highly recommend!
Andreas MüllerE-Commerce Manager, Emma & Noah
Grumspot were exceptionally great to work with. They always offered their best advice and were readily available. I thoroughly enjoyed working with them and highly recommend them.
Yash RanadiveFounder, RealityShop
It has been a pleasure working with Grumspot, and we are extremely satisfied with their services. Their communication was exceptional, and their meticulous attention to detail in data gathering stood out. Grumspot consistently exceeded expectations in their deliverables, completing the project on time and providing unwavering support for any questions our team had. We highly recommend Grumspot for any Shopify Plus projects and look forward to collaborating with them again in the future.
Sam CutroniCEO, DataTools
Working with Grumspot was a pleasure. They were highly professional in their communications and the final work product, even under a tight deadline.
Adam BrecklerCo-Founder and Head of Product @ Better Health
05Testimonials
What it is like to work with us, in their words
Reviews on Clutch and in writing from the founders and managers we worked with.
06Questions
Questions food and beverage brands ask us
Tell us about your food and drink store.
Get in touch
Send the URL and tell us how a box gets from the order to the doorstep. We will look at the subscription flow and the shipping rules before we reply.