Pace & Co × Wren & Ivy — Proposal
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PACE & CO
WEB DESIGN & BUILD
FEBRUARY 2025
A proposal for Wren & Ivy

A storefront as considered as
the homes you furnish.

A complete website redesign and Shopify rebuild — built to make sustainability feel like the premium choice it is.

Investment
$42,000
Timeline
10 weeks
Prepared for
Maya Wren
Pace & Co × Wren & IvyCover
01 — Hello

A warm hello, and why we reached out.

Maya — we have admired Wren & Ivy for a long time. The way you source, the way you photograph a linen throw so it feels alive, the quiet confidence of your brand voice. You have built something genuinely premium in a category that too often shouts. We would love to help your website finally match it.

We are Pace & Co — a small, design-led studio that builds direct-to-consumer storefronts for brands who care about craft. We do not take on many clients at once, and we choose the ones whose values we share. Yours we share completely.

We reached out because we think Wren & Ivy is at the exact moment where a considered rebuild compounds — where the right Shopify foundation and the right design language turn browsers into a brand people return to. This proposal lays out exactly how we would do that, what it costs, and what you would have at the end.

We design storefronts that make the sustainable choice feel like the obvious, beautiful one.

On the pages that follow: where we think you are today, how we would work, what you would receive, and the investment to begin. Read it as a conversation — we wrote it for you, not from a template.

Pace & Co · Studio of RecordPage 02
02 — The situation

Where we think you are today.

The eco-homewares aisle online is crowded, and growing louder. Your product is better than most of it — but your current site asks visitors to take that on faith. The story that makes Wren & Ivy worth the premium is buried below a slow, template-bound storefront.

2.4s
Slower load than your top three competitors — on mobile, where most of your traffic lands.
1.6%
Current conversion rate, well below the 2.8–3.2% premium-homeware benchmark.
68%
Of carts abandoned at checkout — a friction problem, not a desire problem.

The good news hidden in those numbers: people already want what you sell. They arrive, they browse, they fill carts — and then the experience lets them go. That is not a marketing problem you can spend your way out of. It is a foundation problem, and foundations are exactly what we rebuild.

Lifting conversion from 1.6% to the 2.8% benchmark is worth an estimated $310k in added annual revenue at your current traffic — the rebuild pays for itself early.

We will validate every figure here with your real analytics in week one — but the shape of the opportunity is clear enough to act on now.

Pace & Co · The OpportunityPage 03
03 — Our approach

How we work.

We build the way you source — slowly enough to get it right, never slower. No offshore handoffs, no account-manager telephone game. The two people who design your site are the two people you talk to, start to finish.

Principle 01

Story before sliders

We design the narrative of why your homewares are worth it first, then build the interface around it — not the other way round.

Principle 02

Native Shopify, no bloat

A clean, headless-ready Shopify 2.0 build. Fast by construction, easy for your team to run without a developer on call.

Principle 03

Designed in the real

We test on real devices with real products and real photography from day one — never lorem ipsum, never desktop-only mockups.

Principle 04

You leave self-sufficient

We hand over a documented system and train your team. The goal is a site you own and can grow — not one you depend on us to touch.

Every decision runs through one filter: does this make a thoughtful buyer more confident to choose you?
Pace & Co · MethodPage 04
04 — Scope

What you receive.

A complete redesign and a ground-up Shopify rebuild — not a reskin. Everything below is included in the investment on page 06.

Design

Brand-led design system

A full UI kit, type scale, and component library extending your existing brand into digital — warm, tactile, unmistakably yours.

Build

Shopify 2.0 storefront

Custom theme, optimized for speed and conversion, with flexible sections your team can rearrange without code.

Templates

12 designed page types

Home, collection, product, story, journal, about, materials index, cart, and checkout — each crafted, not templated.

Commerce

Streamlined checkout

A frictionless one-page flow, Shop Pay, and abandoned-cart recovery wired in to recover that 68%.

Content

Sustainability storytelling

A materials-provenance module and impact pages that make your ethics legible at the point of decision.

Handover

Training & documentation

Two live training sessions, a written playbook, and 30 days of post-launch support included.

Migration of your full catalogue, redirects, and SEO equity is included — you keep every ranking you have earned.
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05 — Timeline

Ten weeks, four phases.

Each phase closes with something real in your hands — never a status update standing in for progress.

01
WEEKS 1–2

Discover & define

Analytics audit, stakeholder interviews, competitive teardown, and a shared content map.

You leave with: a signed-off sitemap and strategy brief.
02
WEEKS 3–5

Design the system

Brand-led design system, key page designs, and an interactive prototype of the buying flow.

You leave with: approved designs for every core template.
03
WEEKS 6–8

Build & migrate

Shopify 2.0 development, catalogue migration, checkout, and performance tuning on a staging store.

You leave with: a fully working store you can click through.
04
WEEKS 9–10

Launch & handover

QA across devices, redirects, team training, go-live, and a fortnight of close monitoring.

You leave with: a live site and a self-sufficient team.
Start by March 3 and you launch the week before your spring collection — fully tested, fully yours.
Pace & Co · SchedulePage 06
06 — Investment

The investment.

Strategy & discovery

Audit, interviews, sitemap, content strategy

$6,000

Design system & page design

Full UI kit, 12 page types, interactive prototype

$15,000

Shopify 2.0 build & migration

Custom theme, checkout, catalogue & SEO migration

$16,000

Launch, training & 30-day support

QA, go-live, two training sessions, playbook

$5,000
Total investment
$42,000
Milestone schedule
Deposit to begin (on signature)
20%
$8,400
Design approved (end of Phase 2)
30%
$12,600
Build complete (end of Phase 3)
35%
$14,700
Launch & handover
15%
$6,300
Optional — Growth care plan. Monthly CRO, design updates & priority support after launch.
$1,800/mo
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07 — Why Pace & Co

Why us.

We are not the cheapest studio you will speak to, and we are not a generalist agency. We are award-winning specialists in direct-to-consumer storefronts — and we have done this exact work for brands that look a lot like yours.

47
DTC storefronts shipped — every one we have ever launched is still live.
+38%
Median conversion lift across our last six Shopify rebuilds.
Awwwards Site of the Day, both for sustainable lifestyle brands.
From a recent client

Pace & Co rebuilt our store in nine weeks and our conversion rate climbed 41% in the first quarter. They understood our brand better than agencies we had paid three times as much.

— Founder, Field & Flax (sustainable bedding)

We take on six clients a year. We would like Wren & Ivy to be one of them.

Terms in brief — Fees are fixed for the scope on page 05; changes are quoted before work begins. Either party may pause with 14 days' notice. You own all final files and IP on receipt of the launch payment. This proposal is valid for 30 days.

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Acceptance

Let's give Wren & Ivy the storefront it deserves.

Signing below begins the work: a complete redesign and Shopify rebuild, delivered in ten weeks, for a fixed $42,000. We hold your start date the moment the deposit lands.

Scope: Full redesign + Shopify 2.0 rebuild, 12 page types, migration, training & 30-day support.
Timeline: 10 weeks across four phases, launching the week before your spring collection.
Investment: $42,000 fixed, billed across four milestones.
Deposit to start
$8,400
Signed — Maya Wren, Wren & Ivy
Date

Thank you for considering us, Maya. We would be proud to build this with you — and we cannot wait to see your homewares finally framed the way they deserve.

Pace & Co × Wren & IvyAcceptance