Fashion stores that sell without drowning in returns.
In apparel, returns decide profitability. A store that converts brilliantly and takes a third of it back has not sold anything. Fit, imagery and honest product detail are the commercial levers, not just the design ones.
What a fashion store actually needs
Size and fit taken seriously
Garment measurements, model height and worn size, fabric stretch and a fit note per product. Wrong size is the largest single cause of apparel returns and it is fixable with information.
Collection pages built to rank
Collections, not products, win the category searches. They need real copy, sensible internal links and filters that do not generate thousands of crawlable variants.
Imagery that stays fast
Apparel needs many large photographs. Responsive sizes, modern formats and disciplined lazy loading keep a visual store quick on mobile data.
Merchandising you control
Reordering a collection for a drop, pinning hero products, hiding sold-out sizes without hiding the product. Your team should do this without a developer.
Returns and exchange flow
Exchange offered before refund, with size guidance at that moment. Converting a return into an exchange is the difference between a lost sale and a kept one.
Feeds and retention
A clean product feed for Meta and Google Shopping, plus Klaviyo flows for back in stock, browse abandonment and the post-purchase sequence.
What most fashion stores get wrong
A size chart in centimetres and nothing else
It tells the customer nothing about how the garment fits. Model height, worn size and a fit note do the job a table cannot.
Filters that spawn thousands of URLs
Faceted navigation left unmanaged buries the pages you want ranked under near duplicates, and burns crawl budget doing it.
Beautiful and slow
Full-bleed hero video, uncompressed lookbooks and a six second load. The art direction is the brand, but not at the cost of everyone on 4G.
Refund-only returns
Every return becomes a lost sale. Offering the right size first keeps a share of the revenue that would otherwise walk.
What good looks like.
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What does a fashion ecommerce build cost?
£10,000 to £30,000 for a custom Shopify build with proper merchandising, fit tooling and performance work. Smaller brands launching a first collection can start at £5,000 to £8,000.
How much can size guidance actually reduce returns?
It varies by category and we will not promise a figure. What is consistent is that the brands publishing garment measurements, model height and worn size see fewer size-driven returns than those publishing a generic chart.
Shopify or something custom?
Shopify for almost every apparel brand under eight figures. Custom or headless earns its cost when you have unusual merchandising, multi-region pricing or content needs Shopify genuinely cannot meet.
Can you fix our collection page SEO?
Usually yes, and usually it starts with faceted navigation. Getting filter URLs under control and giving collections real content is where the traffic is.
How long does it take?
Ten to sixteen weeks for a full build. Product photography and copy for the whole catalogue is normally the critical path, not the development.
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