Scale beyond Standard Shopify
...without the Plus price tag!
We know exactly how you feel. Your standard Shopify store, the very thing that got you started, has turned into an operational nightmare… and the stress is keeping you awake at night!
Those apps don’t just click together after all, and the constant debugging and technical maintenance is absorbing too much of your valuable time, and burning big holes in your profits.
Growth is stagnating fast, and every day feels like damage limitation rather than growth planning. Your current setup is now so fragile and bloated with apps that it’s become your biggest liability, but the vast leap to Shopify Plus still feels way out of reach.
Sound familiar? Welcome to the “glass ceiling”.
ProStore® fixes this common problem. It’s a cost-effective, fully managed, ready-to-race Ecommerce platform that’s the vital gateway when you find yourself stuck in this difficult middle ground.
It provides all of the enterprise power and advanced functionality you need to scale your business and bridge the gap, but without the massive complexity and expense of Shopify Plus.
Still trying to scale the hard way?
ProStore® is the only Ecommerce solution designed entirely for the growing online retail business seeking to sustainably scale from £50k per month to £1M. It sits perfectly between standard Shopify and Shopify Plus, and is the only viable, purpose-built solution of its type. ProStore® addresses every major barrier to growth and offers a seamless path to scale that is simply not possible with starter platforms.
ProStore® is the smarter, more powerful, and higher-value proposition for serious retailers. It offers a strategic Ecommerce partnership that solves complex operational problems for businesses hitting common pain points and growth barriers. Businesses like yours.
You can't build a ship while you're sailing it
Unlike anything else on the market, ProStore® isn’t just another over-hyped self-build toolkit. It’s is a seamlessly integrated, end-to-end software and services ecosystem expertly designed and built from decades of real World online retailing experience. It provides all of the enterprise features your business needs during its growth journey, but without any of the complexity or sky-high costs of Shopify Plus.
While others will happily sell you a basic hull and then watch you struggling from the shore, ProStore® provides the complete expedition yacht, the professional crew, and all of the charts needed to navigate the long and complex voyage of your scaling business. Rather than just being a supplier, we function as an extension of your leadership team. We provide the extra commercial intelligence needed to scale, and to filter out all of the “tech noise”. In other words, we don’t just help you do things… we help you decide what’s actually worth doing.
If you’re done with the overwhelming weight of platform maintenance, and of trying to be your own Technical Architect, UX Designer, Project Manager, Full-Stack Developer, and Support Technician, we would love to talk to you.
Navigate past these Shopify pain points… fast!
The App Trap
You are trying to manage at least 10+ different apps, which are conflicting, slowing down your site, and creating major security problems.
Cost Creep Stress
Your monthly bill is a confusing mess of platform charges, card transaction fees, and numerous different 3rd party app subscriptions.
Tech Nightmares
You can't even make simple changes without using a costly developer, or risk breaking everything by trying to do it yourself.
Sleepless Nights
It feels like the only way forward is to hire an expensive in-house expert to try and ease the pain of keeping everything running!
We’ll do the tech… you do the selling
All ProStore® features are fully integrated as standard so there are no apps to worry about, and because we remove your entire technical burden, your focus stays exactly where it belongs… on your brand and your customers. We’ll also be here to future-proof your business and proactively spot growth opportunities using our unrivalled Ecommerce industry expertise and our decades of online retailing experience.
Lose The Digital Friction
✓ Unique ProStore® Advantage
ProStore® will free you of all technical and app-related burdens so you can fully focus on growth. Our team of professionals will be expertly managing every part of your tech stack for you.
Gain Essential Growth Capital
✓ Unique ProStore® Advantage
ProStore® is the only turnkey solution that does everything your business needs, as standard, and with one affordable payment. Compared like-for-like, ProStore® reduces platform costs by up to 70%
Win Back Time and Headspace
✓ Unique ProStore® Advantage
Because ProStore® is a managed service and requires no apps, you will get back all of the time currently spent on tech problems, such as running app updates, troubleshooting performance issues etc.
Gain An Unfair Advantage
✓ Unique ProStore® Advantage
ProStore® isn't just another platform... it's a growth partnership. We all work as one unified team to navigate challenges and ensure that your business is future-proof and scales rapidly and sustainably.
From maintenance drain to strategic growth
If you think we’re just another Shopify competitor… think again. Shopify is like an empty box, and we’re really not interested in building another homebrew kit for the masses. What we’re interested in is showing retailers a way to escape.
ProStore® has been designed from the ground up to solve the inherent problems with the self-build app model. We occupy the critical “missing middle” of the market, slotting neatly between the basic limitations of a standard Shopify store and the massive, often unnecessary overhead of Shopify Plus. This makes ProStore® the perfect landing zone for businesses that have outgrown their starter setup, but aren’t willing to be forced into enterprise-level pricing and complexity, just to get the control they deserve.
How ProStore® ends the DIY chaos… for good!
Save Time
Ditch the fragile apps and get every premium productivity tool straight out-of-the-box.
Save Money
Lose the sky high app subscription fees and enjoy one manageable monthly payment.
Save Effort
Forget the hassle of the flatpack DIY build and feel the burden lifting from day 1.
Streamline
Cancel that expensive new tech hire and those crippling development agency retainers.
Get Ahead
Enjoy "FAST & FREE" migration and start generating serious growth in no time.
Stay Ahead
Keep up with all of the latest tech and innovations, and stay moving with the times.
De-Risk
Optimise your back-office efficiencies and just concentrate on what works.
Boost Conversions
Benefit from one of the highest converting checkouts on the market - as standard.
Dominate
Work hand-in-hand with us and capitalise on beating your online rivals at every turn.
Grow
Focus on your business and your customer experience and let us do all of the tech.
Advance
Get a huge and immediate competitive edge that seriously boosts your capabilities
Relax
Choose from 4 uniquely cost-effective payment plans and sleep better at night.
Connect
Unlock the benefits of working with a team of expert humans, not dumb AI chat bots.
Step Up
Maintain your current site's look and feel, or unleash a brand new ProStore® visual glow-up.
Consolidate
Optimise efficiencies by having just one expert supplier for your entire tech stack.
De-Stress
Leap forward, see results fast, and fall back in love with your business again.
Breaking though the glass ceiling
We were online retailers for over 2 decades, so when we talk about the challenges of growing an Ecommerce business, we’re speaking from real-world experience. For years, we were in your shoes, working on the front lines and running our own busy and successful online brands. Like most, we started with a cheap app-based starter platform, and at first the DIY freedom was empowering and business was good.
But with success came complexity. An app for this, an app for that. Before long, we’d built a hugely over-complicated and fragile barrier to our own growth. A monster. Something that left us living in constant fear that just touching one single component might trigger a domino effect of outages. Growth had stopped feeling exciting and had started feeling heavy. We weren’t running our business anymore… our platform was running us!
Just like us, many other businesses end up trapped between the limitations of their standard plan, and the daunting commitment of an enterprise solution. And this is the growth paradox. You feel that you need the power of Shopify Plus to truly scale, but you can’t see how you can achieve it until you’ve already scaled!
We built ProStore® because we could see this happening everywhere. ProStore® is the perfect path forward once the glass ceiling is reached. It’s the strategic next step for growing businesses, delivering the advanced features needed to scale, but without enterprise-level commitment.
ProStore® is the exact high-performance, feature-rich platform we were attempting to construct ourselves from all of the app-based digital Lego, but delivered as a turnkey, fully-integrated solution. It provides all of the capability without any of the compromises. It’s the platform that every retailer on the growth path is striving for, and it’s the only one that is purpose-built for where your business is going, not where it is today.
Eliminate constraints and forge growth
The rationale behind ProStore® stems from our decades of working within the Ecommerce industry. We observed (and discovered first-hand) that while many other platforms exist, they often force businesses into a series of compromises. These compromises create distraction, kill focus, and ultimately stifle growth. In addition, their pricing models mean that the platform will always profit, regardless of your own success.
ProStore® was meticulously engineered to address these common problems. Unlike any other platform, our all-inclusive partnership-based business model eliminates all of the barriers to growth, and most importantly… it aligns our success directly with yours.
Despite the hype and billion pound advertising campaigns, choosing a mass market starter platform like Shopify may not be the status symbol that people are lead to believe. Today’s shoppers are savvy. They spot that bog standard checkout a mile off, and that free template that’s also being used by a million other flash-in-the-pan hobbyists and scammers. Read about the Shopify Scam problem here.
Trust signals mean everything in online retail, and potential customers will assess your credibility fast. If they are in any doubt whatsoever, they will leave in seconds. Having a blatant “I built my store in minutes” persona can look like a public admission that your business has prioritised the path of least resistance over quality and individuality. That you’re just another one of those millions of “here today, gone tomorrow” wantrepreneurs chasing a fast buck from their spare bedroom. If your brand claims to offer a fine dining experience, don’t add yourself to the fast-food menu next to the Happy Meals. That would be like entering the Tour De France on a kid’s bike with stabilisers!
1. Brittle App Reliance
Other platforms can become fragile by relying on a patchwork of varying quality 3rd party apps, where one failed update can cause system-wide failure and expensive business interruption.
To solve this problem, ProStore® is engineered completely app-free, with all functionality robustly integrated. This eliminates the need for app updates entirely.
2. Technical Distractions
Other platforms create a constant tech burden for retailers, forcing them to spend too much of their valuable time working on security patches, troubleshooting IT problems, and general maintenance.
As a fully managed service, our team handles all of this for you, removing the technical workload so you can focus on your customers and on scaling your business.
3. Out of Control Pricing
Although seemingly cheap, other platforms often hit you later down the line with a host of unforeseen costs, such as multiple app subscriptions, theme development costs, and pricey agency retainers.
ProStore® wipes out this problem by including everything you need in one, cost-effective plan, so you always know your total cost of ownership for your entire platform.
4. Limited Support
Other platforms use online chat bots for support, or expect you to debug problems yourself via numerous forums and technical documents. This can ultimately leave you navigating technical challenges alone.
ProStore® is completely different, providing dedicated human collaboration from a team of professional, proactive experts who are fully invested in your success.
5. SEO / AEO Constraints
Other platforms have poor native search and discovery capabilities unless you install more expensive apps. These act like barnacles on a hull and slow your site, which ironically will get you penalised by Google themselves.
ProStore® is built around powerful SEO routines and is the only platform that gets you AEO ready 90% faster than other platforms, straight out-of-the-box.
6. Site Performance
Other platforms quickly start to suffer from the dreaded "app bloat", a situation where every app erodes site performance. The heavy reliance on apps means that this problem is unavoidable.
With ProStore®, all features are built directly into the core platform, giving you a single, powerful, and unified system with no risk of feature-based performance degradation.
Core demographic
Shopify brands: The three distinct camps.
- Major Brands (heavily committed to Shopify Plus and usually in too deep to even consider change).
- Hobbyists (happy with their basic starter plans and with no real growth aspirations).
- The Middle Ground (motivated retailers seeking to scale, but held back by the burden of a DIY starter setup).
ProStore® has been designed specifically for businesses wanting to go places, but who do not have the financial or human resources necessary to move straight to Shopify Plus i.e. those that are stuck in the digital quicksand.
ProStore® is the much needed boost that aspiring retailers need, but without the huge upfront cost and disruption of a major enterprise re-platforming exercise.
We provide the long-awaited escape route for brands that have outpaced their current infrastructure and are looking for a platform that can actually keep up.
Working together to scale your business
Online retailers are facing unprecedented pressure to try and stand out from the crowd. Competition is fierce, and consumer expectations have shifted dramatically, and permanently.
Today’s online shoppers want so much more than just transactions. They want personalised, convenient, and ultra reliable experiences.
ProStore® is built to get those experiences live and performing right away, ensuring your business stays agile and ahead of the curve.
ProStore® is the only cost-effective, tech-free, risk-free solution that turns today’s retailing challenges into tomorrow’s sustainable growth.
If you’re struggling with any of these, we’ve got your back.
- Increased Competition
- AI Search Readiness (AEO)
- Customer Acquisition Costs
- Evolving Customer Expectations
- Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
- Logistics and Fulfilment
- Conversion Rate Optimization
- Customer Loyalty and Retention
- Mobile Commerce
- Keeping Up with Technology
- Managing Inventory
