Spacey Studios designed and developed Built For The Trade, a custom Shopify platform created to sell productised website subscriptions to tradies, contractors and small service businesses. Unlike a traditional ecommerce store, the platform needed to guide customers through selecting a website theme, comparing plans, choosing billing preferences, adding optional extras and understanding an ongoing subscription model. We developed a fully custom Shopify theme and ecommerce experience built around clarity, conversion and scalability. The platform includes a tailored product configurator, custom product templates, multi-market pricing, Shopify Markets support and a structured checkout journey that makes a complex service offering feel straightforward and easy to understand. The subscription workflow combines Shopify for the initial payment with GoCardless for ongoing Direct Debit billing. This required carefully planned cart messaging, post-purchase instructions, automated onboarding emails and custom integration logic to synchronise recurring GoCardless payments with Shopify customer and order records. The final platform brings together brand strategy, UI/UX design, website development, ecommerce, automation and subscription infrastructure in one scalable system. More than a marketing website, it serves as the operational foundation of the business, supporting customers from initial research and theme selection through to purchase, payment setup and onboarding.