Pussy Home Boutique: Shopify migration and POS
An independent shop in the Lanes in Brighton & Hove moved its website, stock and POS to Shopify in around 66 hours, not including 17 hours of data transfer.
The brief
Pussy Home Boutique is an independent shop in the Lanes in Brighton & Hove (3A Kensington Gardens, BN1 4AL). The brief was to move their entire setup to Shopify: the website, the products, the customer and order history, the stock and the till.
The solution
I moved everything onto Shopify in around 66 hours (not including 17 hours of data transfer).
Website: a custom theme built with feedback from Freya, designed mobile-first and checked on real phones, tablets and desktops, with accessibility held to WCAG 2.2 AAA.
Products, customers and orders: around 3,600 products reconciled from two catalogues, duplicates grouped, and more than 64,000 historical orders carried across using a script that I built with Codex.
SEO: page titles, descriptions, alt text and structured data for the key pages, with a sitemap submitted to Google Search Console.
The till: the shop changed over to Shopify POS in an evening. The iPad in the store is now integrated with the POS hub and the Zebra scanner, while the receipt printer, label printer and card machine were kept. I used Claude to download the manuals and check each device’s compatibility with Shopify POS and the iPad before buying anything.
Handover: a shop-floor guide for the till and hardware, plus documentation for the store and theme, so the owners can run it without me.
The result
The shop now runs its website, stock and till from one Shopify store, with a catalogue where every product shown online has a photo and a description, and a till that scans barcodes cleanly. The owners have written guides for the day-to-day, and the old systems no longer need to be kept in step.
This is the short version. Read the full case study on the blog for the detail: the design process, the migration, the SEO and domain switch, the equipment research and what went wrong along the way.
See the result: Visit the Pussy Home Boutique website.