The template site is the easy money. Makro is built for the other kind: large catalogs, B2B rules, multi-entity operations, and enterprise DTC where the storefront has to carry the business.
Commerce got operational. Storefronts now carry contracts, entities, warehouses, and systems of record, and a generalist cannot guess their way through that world. The market has moved to specialists: firms brought in for a known outcome, with the patterns already proven somewhere else.
That is the firm we built. One vertical: complex commerce on Shopify. One kind of client: the merchant whose storefront has to carry the business. We arrive with the machinery, the playbook, and the scar tissue already in place, and we are accountable to an outcome from the first conversation.
Go deep enough in one world and the problems arrive already solved. You are not funding our learning curve. You are inheriting it.
We start with who buys and how they buy, then the data that serves them. Screens come last.
The ERP, the inventory truth, the pricing rules: mapped before a pixel moves.
Native Shopify capability first. Every platform release makes your build stronger.
The integration is the spine of the operation. We will not put the spine in someone else's box.
The person who scopes your build is the person who answers when something matters.
The person who scoped your build is the person who answers when something matters.
I started Makro because the interesting problems were being avoided.
Everyone wanted the brand refresh. Nobody wanted the sixty-thousand-SKU catalog, the price lists buried in an ERP, the storefront that had to survive a warehouse migration. So that became our work, and we built the machinery to do it properly instead of renting it.
Eight years in, the conviction is the same: do the hard thing well, own what you build, and keep senior people in the room. Everything good about this firm follows from those three. It is what we mean when we say complex commerce, made usable.
Mike Chammas · Founder