Shopify, simplified

Shopify is the very best way to sell online. The hard part is making it fit your business.

Your Shopify store has to do more than look good. Products, payments, shipping, inventory, point of sale, subscriptions, customer data and the tools behind the scenes all need to work together. Doesn’t matter if you’re starting fresh, moving platforms or refining your existing store.

Getbusi’s been a Shopify Partner since 2018. We’ve helped dozens of businesses sell everything from Tassie-made clothing to wine, flowers, gemstones, plant seeds, tours and event tickets. In 8 years, not one we’ve moved to Shopify has moved away.

What do you need?

Start your dream store

A good store should be easy to buy from and straightforward to run. We’ll help plan it, tailor the right theme, organise your products, configure payments and shipping, connect your other business tools and prepare everything for launch.

Migrate without losing what works

Changing platforms shouldn’t mean starting your business again. Products, customers, pages, reviews, URLs and search rankings all need to arrive intact. We schedule the switch around your trading calendar to minimise downtime and avoid surprises.

Refine the store you have

Sometimes a store needs a careful repair, rather than a rebuild. Getbusi is well practised at untangling overgrown themes, making products easier to find, shortening the path to checkout and replacing problematic apps. All of which can make your store feel brand new. After that, we can tackle whatever else is on your wish list.

Sell online and in-person

When something sells at the counter or a market stall, it should disappear from online stock too. Shopify POS brings your website, shopfronts, cellar doors or pop-ups into one system, keeping products, stock, orders and customers in sync. We can configure the hardware, locations, payments and staff access, then connect accounting, email marketing, inventory, loyalty programs, bookings and other back-of-house tools. That means less double handling and fewer mysteries.

Ride the latest shopping trends and channels

Your Shopify store goes way beyond your own website. Its catalogue can feed the Shop app, Google Shopping, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and eBay, as well as agentic storefronts like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot. All from the one source of truth you control: your Shopify admin dashboard.

Clients are often surprised by how much revenue comes through these channels. Shopify shows where customers and orders came from, what people searched for and how each channel performs.

The Shop app is now a smartphone-optimised marketplace in its own right. It brings together every store in the world that has chosen Shopify to run their business. Customers can discover products, leave reviews, follow brands they like and order in two taps. Unlike Amazon, your brand stays up front and your customers stay yours. And it costs nothing extra (time or money) to be there.

Ask our clients

• Southern Harvest moved 750+ products and 16,000 customers from Drupal, retained its SEO data and kept trading throughout the launch.

• Metal Urges moved its website and 12,000 customer records from WordPress, while connecting Shopify to its specialised gemstone photography and inventory system.

• Smitten Merino runs Shopify Plus, serves more than 30,000 customers and processes hundreds of orders a week from Tasmania to the world.

“James & Dan at Getbusi were fantastic at helping us transfer our old website and online store over to Shopify. Very professional and helpful in the transfer. They were also able to suggest improvements on the site and able to create some specific requests that we had for our new site. Highly recommend them : )”

(Scroll to the bottom for even more success stories.)

What it’s like to work with us

• Small team. Direct access. You work with the people planning and building your store. When you call, you get someone who knows you and your business, rather than a chatbot, ticket number or an account manager relaying messages.

• Fixed scope. No surprises. After an initial consultation, we give you a clear scope, quote and timeline. You’ll know what we’re doing, what we need from you and what it will cost before work starts.

• Customised, not complicated. Your store should reflect your personality instead of looking like a template. We’ll customise what matters and leave alone what already works. If an off-the-shelf app solves the problem, we’ll use that. Custom code is for problems that are actually unique.

• Yours to run. We explain our decisions, train your team and provide documentation where it helps. You shouldn’t need to call a developer every time a price, photo or page needs changing.

• We stick around. Getbusi’s been solving business problems since 2002. Every project comes with a warranty, and we’re available for ongoing support, improvements and the new ideas that inevitably arrive once your customers arrive.

Based in Tasmania. Not limited by it.

Selling from a small island teaches you to think beyond the local market. We’ve set up far-reaching online stores with cellar doors, retail counters, market stalls, tour bookings, wine clubs and shipping around Australia and overseas.

We’re based in Hobart but work with clients across Australia. If you’re lucky enough to live here too, we can meet in person.

What happens next?

1. We talk. The first hour is free. We discuss what you’re selling, what already exists, what’s getting in the way and what a successful result looks like.

2. We agree on the job. You get a fixed scope, cost and timeline. Bigger projects receive a detailed proposal; smaller jobs receive an itemised quote.

3. We build it together. You can see the work, answer questions and give feedback as it develops. No disappearing act followed by a grand reveal.

4. We test and launch. We check the store carefully, train your team and schedule the launch around your business. For a migration, we plan the final data move so orders and customers aren’t left behind.

5. We remain available. We fix anything covered by the warranty, answer the questions that only occur after launch, and help the store evolve when you need us.

That’s the short version. See how we work.

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