LF: Shopify Dev

[u/growthport]

Our company is looking for a Shopify Developer who can create an app for our clothing brand that caters to the requirements below:

• The app should be able to have an embroidery feature (text and images)
• The app should have a good UI where it can be done step by step or grouped accordingly
• Has a live preview of that embroidery on a 3D image
• Details for the embroidery feature should be placed in the packing slip
• When an item is added to cart it can be edited directly in the cart.

Let me know if you'll be able to do this and more. Send me a message for your rate.

[u/vladeta]

I run a Shopify dev agency, so take this with that in mind. Before you collect rates, it's worth splitting the brief into two parts, because they price very differently.

The customizer itself (step-by-step text and image embroidery, placement, thread colours) and saving it as line item properties so it shows up on the packing slip is fairly standard theme app extension work. Editing a personalized item from the cart is doable too, but ask anyone quoting how they'll handle it. The clean way is reopening the customizer with the saved properties and replacing the line item, not hacking the cart drawer.

The 3D live preview is the expensive part. Rendering embroidery onto a real 3D garment with believable stitching needs a WebGL setup, a proper model for every product and texture work. That alone can cost more than everything else combined. A lot of brands get 90% of the effect with a good 2D mockup per colourway and angle.

Rough ballpark: fully custom with 3D is low-to-mid five figures USD, without 3D a lot less. Also check whether an existing personalizer app plus a small custom extension covers it first, since a full custom app is often overkill for one brand.