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Replo: Buy vs Skip (Shopify Agency Storefront Delivery)

IF your agency runs Shopify storefront builds for DTC clients and needs pages published from Figma or ad creative without a separate dev handoff, THEN start on Replo Starter at $99 monthly (10,000 credits, 1 custom domain, 100,000 visitor sessions, full analytics on published pages) and only move to Pro at $499 monthly when a single client needs 500,000 visitor sessions or the ad-creative-to-site-content conversion. IF the retainer book spans multiple client domains or you need the optimization tooling gated behind Pro, budget $499 monthly per workspace before pitching the work.

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Replo: Buy vs Skip (Shopify Agency Storefront Delivery)

“IF your agency runs Shopify storefront builds for DTC clients and needs pages published from Figma or ad creative without a separate dev handoff, THEN start on Replo Starter at $99 monthly (10,000 credits, 1 custom domain, 100,000 visitor sessions, full analytics on published pages) and only move to Pro at $499 monthly when a single client needs 500,000 visitor sessions or the ad-creative-to-site-content conversion. IF the retainer book spans multiple client domains or you need the optimization tooling gated behind Pro, budget $499 monthly per workspace before pitching the work.”

When is it the right choice?
  • Client work already starts from Figma files or Meta and TikTok ad creative, which Replo imports directly into traffic-ready pages instead of a manual rebuild
  • The agency manages one flagship DTC storefront at a time, so Starter's single custom domain and 100,000 monthly visitor sessions cover delivery without an upgrade
  • Shopify catalog sync plus Klaviyo and Meta connections replace three or four point tools the delivery team currently stitches together
  • A $540 monthly managed storefront offer (20h setup, 3h monthly) clears margin against the $99 Starter fee on local retail and boutique clients
  • Brand Studio and the SEO and conversion-rate audit skills let a small team ship brand kits and audit cycles inside the same workspace the pages live in
When should you skip it?
  • The retainer book requires several client domains live at once, since Starter includes only 1 custom domain and each additional storefront pushes toward the $499 Pro tier
  • Clients are enterprise DTC brands that will interrogate platform reliability during procurement, given the vendor's own testimonial page carries a negative claim about reliability for serious DTC brands
  • Delivery depends on WooCommerce or WordPress-native stacks rather than Shopify, which sits outside Replo's stated integration set
  • Traffic per client regularly exceeds 100,000 monthly visitor sessions, making the $99 tier a staging step rather than a home
  • The agency cannot absorb medium setup complexity before client-facing work, because onboarding must confirm Shopify catalog and integration connections first
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