HomyCasa: Shopify Plus migration with a custom checkout
A checkout that knows the operation as well as the team does
- Client
- HomyCasa
- Technology
- Shopify Plus
- Services
- Migration
- Checkout
- Integrations
- Custom development
- UX/UI
In 90 days, we moved Homycasa to Shopify Plus with a checkout built around its logistics: customers only see the right delivery options, pay a fair price and know exactly when their order will arrive. In the first month, sales rose 20%.
Homycasa is a Portuguese furniture and home décor retailer with around 4,000 products, from sofas and mattresses to lighting. It was born with ecommerce at the heart of its strategy, convinced that furniture shopping would increasingly move online.
Selling furniture online isn't like selling clothes or accessories. These are large products shipping from different warehouses, some still on their way, others sent directly by the supplier, and many sold with services such as assembly. For the customer, it all comes down to three questions: can I get it delivered here, how much will I pay and when will it arrive?
The challenge
Homycasa decided to move to Shopify Plus and had 90 days to do it. Within that time, there were two equally critical fronts: Migrating without losing anything. Catalogue, content and traffic had to reach the new platform intact, without breaking sales. A checkout that matches the operation. Homycasa's logistics rules, with several warehouses, incoming stock, island deliveries and products with their own conditions, had to be reflected at checkout. A standard checkout couldn't answer the customer's three questions accurately.
And there was one underlying condition: what customers see at the moment of purchase had to be exactly what the warehouse delivers afterwards.
A fast, safe migration
We brought around 4,000 products over to Shopify Plus, with images, variants, content and FAQs. We mapped every address from the old store to the new one, so no customer and no search ranking was lost along the way. On launch day, the switch to the new store took less than an hour, with virtually no interruption to sales.
A checkout that knows the operation
At the heart of the project is a checkout app we designed and built from scratch for Homycasa. It turns the brand's logistics rules into real‑time decisions, right at the moment of purchase.
Only the right options, at the right price. The checkout looks at the cart and the address and shows only the delivery methods that make sense for that order. Shipping is calculated automatically according to Homycasa's rules, and services such as assembly never count towards it. Customers always see a fair, clear price, with no surprises.
Every item ships from the right warehouse. For each product, the app decides which warehouse it should ship from, prioritising what's available right away. That way, the order arrives as quickly as possible.
A delivery date customers can trust. Before paying, customers see when each part of their order will arrive, whether the product is already in the warehouse or still on its way. That information follows the order all the way to the warehouse, so what customers see is exactly what the operation delivers. And when something doesn't add up, the order isn't forgotten: it's flagged for the team to handle.
ERP integration. We integrated the store with Homycasa's ERP. Stock, arrival dates and orders flow between the two systems with no manual processes, and every order reaches the warehouse with the decision already made at checkout. The team keeps working in the system it knows, and the store reflects it in real time.
A store connected to the whole business
We prepared the catalogue for acquisition channels such as Google Shopping. All of it built on Shopify Plus's native tools, with no third‑party apps or makeshift workarounds, so the store stays robust and upgradeable.
A self‑sufficient team
We handled the design and experience of the store and checkout, and gave the Homycasa team the documentation to manage content on its own from day one.
How we worked. Before writing a single line of code, we got to know the operation: how the warehouses are organised, how stock arrives, how shipping is calculated and what customers need to know at each step. Only then did we design the checkout and the migration. With Homycasa as a long‑standing partner, we delivered the project end to end, from experience to integration, in just three months.
Results
Homycasa now has a Shopify Plus store that sells furniture with the confidence this product demands. Before paying, customers know where they can receive their order, how much they'll pay and when it will arrive. The team has an operation where checkout and warehouse speak the same language. And the business felt the difference from the very first month.
See the case on the Shopify website- Sales in the first month on Shopify, compared with the previous month
- +20%
- Sales in the first month on Shopify, compared with the previous month
- Conversion rate over the same period
- +16%
- Conversion rate over the same period
- Switch to the new store, with virtually no interruption to sales
- < 1 hour
- Switch to the new store, with virtually no interruption to sales
- Products migrated
- ~4,000
- Products migrated
- From signing with Shopify to launch
- 3 months
- From signing with Shopify to launch
- AI-assisted product search since launch, according to Homycasa's project team
- +60%
- AI‑assisted product search since launch, according to Homycasa's project team
