Shopify Plus stores for food and beverage brands
We build and run stores for Ardbeg, Glenmorangie, ALOHA, N!CK’S and The Bruery: age gates and alcohol compliance, subscriptions that survive a platform change, and one brand selling into several countries.
Sound familiar?
We sell spirits in several countries, and U.S. alcohol law decides who can ship a bottle to whom.
Compliance is the checkout. Age gates, who’s allowed to sell, and which market a shopper is in all get decided before the cart does.
What food & beverage brands usually run
- Age gate
- Compliance rules before anyone browses.
- Shipping rules
- Which products can ship where, and how cold they have to stay.
- Shopify Markets
- Each country with its own catalog, prices and rules.
- Subscriptions
- Repeat orders for food and pantry brands.
What we fix
Where food & beverage stores lose the sale
Every item here is a problem we solved on a food & beverage store. The client is named next to it.
- Leaving Salesforce Commerce Cloud without stopping sales Moved to Shopify Plus one market at a time: France first, then the UK, Germany and the global store. Ardbeg
- U.S. alcohol shipping rules ReserveBar handles U.S. compliance; Shopify Markets runs the other countries. Glenmorangie
- Moving subscribers to a new app Active subscribers moved from ReCharge to Skio, then a bilingual Canadian store launched on Shopify Markets. ALOHA
- Frozen and shelf-stable in one cart Cart logic with temperature-based shipping rules for ice cream and protein bars, and subscribers moved from Bold to ReCharge. N!CK’S
- An age gate on every order Age gate and order-level age verification for low-dose THC drinks, with Subscribe & Save built into the theme’s own cart. Nowadays
Food & beverage work
What we shipped
Ardbeg · SFCC to Shopify Plus
Market by market, France first
Off Salesforce Commerce Cloud one market at a time, from one shared design system.
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ALOHA · Shopify Plus · Embedded team
New subscriptions app, new country
Subscribers moved from ReCharge to Skio, a bilingual Canadian store, and a phased ADA program.
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Glenmorangie · Shopify Plus · Markets
One whisky, many markets
A custom Shopify theme with ReserveBar for U.S. orders and Shopify Markets for other countries.
Read the case studyMore food & beverage work
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- Forks Over KnivesDevelopment · UX Design→
- N!CK'SDevelopment · UX Design→
- The BrueryStrategy · Development · Digital Marketing→
- That's ItDevelopment→
- Hawaii Coffee CompanyDevelopment · UX Design→
- EchelonDevelopment · CRO · Email/SMS→
- Sysco NorthDevelopment→
- Rise BarStrategy · UX Design · Email/SMS→
- Naked NutritionDevelopment→
Services for food & beverage brands
What we can take on
Site builds & migrations
Shopify Plus, BigCommerce
- Market-by-market replatforms
- Age gates and consent per region
- Shopify Markets setup
Ongoing maintenance
A team after launch
- Subscription app migrations
- Cart and shipping rules
FAQ
Questions food & beverage brands ask us
Can you handle alcohol compliance on Shopify?
Yes. We route U.S. alcohol orders through licensed retailers like ReserveBar, run other countries on Shopify Markets, and build region-specific age gates and consent into each market launch.
Can I sell alcohol on Shopify?
Yes, with the right setup. Spirits brands we work with run on Shopify Plus. Your licenses decide who you can sell and ship to, so U.S. spirits orders often go through a licensed retailer like ReserveBar. You also need an age gate and a payment provider that accepts alcohol.
Can you run ads for an alcohol brand?
Yes, inside the platforms’ rules. Google won’t serve alcohol ads to anyone under the legal drinking age where the ad runs. Meta requires 18 and over at minimum, 21 and over in the U.S., and bans alcohol ads in some countries. We set age and country targeting per market and keep the creative to what both platforms allow.
Can you move our subscribers to a new subscription app?
Yes. We move active subscribers between apps, including ReCharge to Skio and Bold to ReCharge, so renewals carry on without customers having to sign up again.
Can one store sell into several countries?
Yes. We set up Shopify Markets and per-region stores on one shared theme, rolled out a market at a time, including bilingual stores like English and French for Canada.
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