Shopify store management, for the parts Shopify does not do.
Shopify already handles your hosting, SSL and PCI compliance. We will not bill you for those. We handle theme updates, app bloat, store structure, content, and getting found.
From $59 CAD/mo for care, $299 with SEO. Canada-wide. No promise of a sales figure.
Velogics is a Shopify Partner, so we can build your storefront in a free development store before you pay Shopify anything.
Half of what other plans charge you for, Shopify already did.
A WordPress care plan sells you hosting, SSL, backups and patching. On Shopify those come with the platform on every plan. Paying a monthly fee for them is paying twice, so here is the honest split.
Shopify already does this
- Hosting, and the CDN in front of it
- SSL certificates, issued and renewed automatically
- PCI compliance for payments
- Platform security patching
- Checkout, which is locked on every plan below Plus
- Automatic platform updates you never schedule
Straight from Shopify's own documentation, not from us. Check it before you pay anyone a monthly fee for this column.
Shopify leaves this to you
- Keep your theme customisations working through a theme update
- Tell you which of your apps is costing you two seconds of load time
- Fix a collection and product URL structure that buries your best products
- Write your product copy, or the content that wins the search before the search
- Get you into Google for the terms people actually buy on
- Capture the visitor who was not ready to buy today
This column is the whole job, and it is the only thing we charge for.
Four things, every month.
Not a checklist run once at onboarding. A store changes every time you add a product, install an app, or update a theme, and each of those is a chance for something to quietly break.
Theme and app hygiene
Theme updates that do not silently drop your customisations, and an honest audit of which apps are earning their script weight. App creep is the single most common reason a Shopify store is slow, and it is invisible until somebody adds it up.
Store structure and technical SEO
Collection and product architecture, internal linking, and the duplicate-path problem every Shopify store has: a product is reachable under both /products/ and /collections/*/products/. Shopify canonicalises it, and the internal linking still has to agree.
Content that wins the search before the cart
Product and collection copy, and the buying-intent pages that rank ahead of the product itself. On the $299 plan this is the recurring work, not a one-off.
The visitor who did not buy
Most of your traffic leaves without purchasing. On the $388 plan the AI front desk answers, qualifies and captures them, so the store is not the only thing doing the selling.
The same three plans, on your store.
No Shopify surcharge and no separate ecommerce tier. Shopify hosts the store, so the hosting inside these numbers is the work rather than the server.
Care
$59/mo
Theme and app hygiene, store monitoring, up to 2 content edit requests a month, priority support.
Keeps the store running.
Care + SEO
$299/mo
Everything above, plus store structure and technical SEO, product and collection content, Google Business Profile management, and a monthly ranking report.
The plan that works on getting found.
Care + SEO + AI Agents
$388/mo
Everything above, plus the AI front desk on your store: chatbot, smart forms, automatic booking, missed-call text-back and review follow-up.
Catches the visitor who did not buy.
Prices in CAD, and the full side-by-side is on our pricing page. Running a WordPress or Squarespace site alongside the store? One plan covers both, and that is website maintenance and support. For the local half, Google and Maps in Ottawa, see SEO Ottawa.
Including the awkward one.
Are you actually a Shopify Partner, and what does that mean?
Yes, and it means less than most agencies waving the badge want you to think, so here is the honest version. The Shopify Partner Program is free and self-serve. Registering is not a certification, Shopify has not vetted us, and it does not make anyone a “Shopify Expert”, which is a separate programme with its own marketplace that we are not in. What it does give you is practical: we can spin up a full, free development store and build your actual storefront in it before you pay Shopify a cent, so you can click through the real thing rather than a mockup. That is the part worth having, and it is the part we will use on your project.
Shopify already handles hosting and security. What am I paying you for?
Exactly the right question, and the honest answer is that you are not paying us for the parts Shopify already does. Hosting, SSL, PCI compliance, platform patching and checkout are Shopify's, on every plan, and we will not bill you for them. What is left is the work Shopify deliberately leaves to you: theme customisations surviving updates, the app load that is quietly costing you seconds, the collection and product structure, the content, and whether any of it is found on Google. That is what the plan covers, and it is why a Shopify plan is not the same product as a WordPress one even at the same price.
How much does Shopify SEO cost?
Ours is published rather than quoted: $299 CAD a month on the Hosting + SEO plan, which is the SEO work plus the store care in one flat figure. Add the AI front desk and it is $388. Care on its own, without the SEO, is $59. For context, Shopify's own partner directory lists SEO services in a $249 to $999 band and the agencies on the first page of this search are mostly quote-only, so ours sits at the bottom of the published range rather than below it. Every project starts with a free scoping call and a written, fixed quote.
Do I have to move off Shopify or rebuild the store?
No, and we would rather you did not. This service is for the store you already run. If the honest answer after the scoping call is that the theme is the problem and a rebuild would pay for itself, you get that in writing with a number attached, and you are free to ignore it. We do not make a rebuild a condition of the monthly plan.
Will you guarantee more sales?
No. Nobody can, and the ones who do are guessing with your money. We do not control your prices, your margins, your competitors, your product, or where Google decides to put you. What we are accountable for is the work: the theme and app hygiene, the store structure, the content, the Business Profile, and a monthly report you can check us against whether or not it flatters us.
Do you work with stores outside Ottawa?
Yes. Shopify work is remote by nature and most of it never needs anyone in the room, so this service is Canada-wide rather than Ottawa-only. Our local SEO and Google Business Profile work is the part that is genuinely tied to a place, and that is on the Ottawa SEO page.
Can you do both my Shopify store and my WordPress site?
Yes, and that is more common than it sounds. Plenty of businesses run a WordPress or Squarespace marketing site with a Shopify store beside it, and the two usually get maintained by two different people who do not talk. One plan covers both.
Send us the store. We will tell you what is slowing it down.
Free scoping call, written fixed quote, and no obligation attached to either. If the answer is that your store is fine and the problem is elsewhere, that is what you will hear.
Ana, our AI receptionist, answers the phone 24/7.