Melbourne · Inner north
Web help for Fitzroy shops, studios and venues.
Fitzroy businesses tend to have strong taste and small teams. The site usually looks right. What breaks is the plumbing underneath: the store, the bookings, the speed.
Business in Fitzroy
Brunswick and Gertrude Streets are full of independent shops, design studios, galleries, cafés and bars, and many sell online as well as over the counter. Owners often built the site themselves on Shopify or Squarespace. That works until they need something the theme can’t do, or an app update breaks checkout on a Saturday.
The typical Fitzroy job is a specific fix or addition to a site the owner already likes. Product variants that don’t behave. A gallery that takes ten seconds to load. A new collection page. Stock that should sync with the point-of-sale system. We keep the design intact and fix the part that’s broken.
What we watch for
- Keeping the look the owner chose, and not swapping it for a template
- Stock and pricing staying in sync between the store and the counter
- Image-heavy product and portfolio pages that slow the site down
- Weekend trading: changes are scheduled around your busy days
Common jobs in Fitzroy
Shopify theme fixes and features
Fix variant, cart or layout problems, or add a feature your theme lacks.
Speed up product and portfolio images
Resize and lazy-load images so pages load fast without looking worse.
Collection and lookbook pages
New sections or templates that you can keep updating yourself.
Point-of-sale and stock sync check
Find out why online and in-store stock disagree, and fix the sync where your tools allow it.
How it works from Fitzroy
Scipio is based in Melbourne and works remotely, on Melbourne time. Send a brief and a developer replies within one business day, with a fixed price or a paid diagnostic when the cause is unclear.
Scoping agent
Tell us what’s stuck.
Two minutes of guided questions. You get a plain-English brief, and a developer replies within one business day.
- Guided questions, not an AI chatbot
- A person reviews every brief
- Never asks for passwords or keys
No account. No sales script. Never asks for passwords or keys.