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Sanctuary Computer
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Custom eCommerce

Our team specializes in building custom eCommerce experiences with Shopify and more.

Dialed storefronts, headless commerce, content driven experiences and bespoke sales engines that process millions in transactions.

High taste experiences

In a sea of lookalike templated storefronts, we like to create memorable, standout experiences for our clients and their customers. From single-page checkout experiences to shopping cart aware carbon offsetting, we look to empower and activate brands through our technical lens.

Our Process

  1. We like to start new engagements with our Technical Blueprinting phase. We listen, research, test, and consolidate our plan into an architecture document that guides the build.

  2. Our development process is agile, transparent, and collaborative, managed through lightweight weekly touchpoints, tight feedback loops, and waves of iteration.

  3. As your storefront rolls out, we’re standing by, fixing bugs, tweaking performance, and shipping features in realtime, from your first transaction to your 100,000th.

I’m such a big design fan and feel like you guys are the designers I’ve been searching for since I started the brand… you guys continue to blow me away with your innovation and clever approach. The brand has grown 5x this year, we’re riding a wave of momentum right now.

Salt & Stone

Triple Digit Growth

Salt & Stone needed an ecommerce experience that evolved their brand language to improve conversions and increase revenue, as well as design stewardship for the brand across all touchpoints to ensure consistency and authenticity.

By working together on an ongoing basis, we established a creative partnership with Salt & Stone that gives the client team direction over all digital surfaces, packaging, physical products, and in-store experiences.

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We design and build experiences that respect the customer, turning shoppers into long-term fans of the brand.

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Drake & Nike's NOCTA

NOCTA needed an ecommerce experience that matched the cultural weight of the Drake and Nike partnership: a Shopify site capable of holding capsule drops, managing demand at release, and reading as confidently as the product itself.

By treating each release as its own creative moment, we built a high-performing Shopify storefront that supports timed launches, scales through traffic spikes, and gives the NOCTA team a flexible system for shaping how every drop is staged, sold, and remembered.

We build products our clients can trust, with an open and transparent approach to timelines and estimates.

We're not a traditional agency

An experience as versatile as the swimwear

Youswim had launched and grown their company from 0 → 1 using Shopify’s generic templates. It was time to take the brand into its next phase of evolution with a custom platform expressing its unique approach to sizing, materials, and body positivity.

Inherent to the Youswim brand is the notion of change. As the body changes, how can what we put on change with it? Flexibility and versatility are important tenets of Youswim’s vision, and creating a CMS that felt as fluid and able to evolve as the brand itself was our first challenge.

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Our storefronts process millions of dollars in payments for our clients each year, including a single $1.6m auction transaction.

Read more about Loupe This
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Time will tell

Sanctuary Computer worked with Loupe This to build a realtime auction platform for luxury watches. The result is elegant, bespoke software, accountable for orchestrating large-sum financial transactions.

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Today, our team is worldwide, but we started in NYC, and we’re still mostly based in the US Eastern timezone.

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