# The Common Sense Agency

> The Common Sense Agency designs and builds websites that get mistaken for art — brand, design, and engineering under one roof.

Based in Australia, working across Shopify, headless commerce, and full-stack platforms with native mobile apps.

## Pages

- [Home](https://commsense.agency/): Australian Shopify & headless commerce studio. Websites engineered like infrastructure — no plugin jenga, no rebuild invoices — for brands built to grow.
- [About](https://commsense.agency/about): Your template expires, the rebuild invoice lands, you pay for the same site twice. We build Shopify Plus and headless platforms that don't. $6M+ on ours.
- [Insights](https://commsense.agency/insights): Teardowns, migrations, and opinions with receipts — hung salon-style.
- [Shopify Developer Adelaide](https://commsense.agency/shopify-developer-adelaide): Adelaide and Barossa brands built on Shopify. Hentley Farm: 8 years of orders migrated, 0 lost. Book a free 30-minute teardown.
- [Work](https://commsense.agency/work): Eight years of orders migrated, none lost. A hotel live in three weeks. A platform with two native apps. Every project on its own stack — no templates.
- [Contact](https://commsense.agency/contact): Bring us the messy version. A one-line email is a fine brief — we'll ask the right questions on a call.
- [WooCommerce to Shopify](https://commsense.agency/woocommerce-to-shopify): Moving from WooCommerce to Shopify without losing orders, rankings or sleep. We migrated 8 years of order history with zero lost — and we guarantee it.
- [The Teardown](https://commsense.agency/teardown): Thirty minutes on your store, live — speed, stack, checkout, order history. You leave with the written punch list, whether you hire us or not.
- [Shopify Migrations](https://commsense.agency/shopify-migration): Australian Shopify migration specialists. We moved 8 years of Hentley Farm's order history onto Shopify with zero orders lost — and we guarantee it.

## Work — case studies

- [Hentley Farm: 8 yrs of orders migrated to Shopify](https://commsense.agency/work/hentley-farm): Hentley Farm had a $300k+ quote for custom development on an agency-owned CMS. We moved eight years of order history onto Shopify instead — zero orders lost.
- [Kakadu Crocodile Hotel — Umbraco Site in 3 Weeks | Common Sense](https://commsense.agency/work/kakadu-crocodile-hotel): The first brand on Journey Beyond's Umbraco framework: a website for the croc-shaped Kakadu Crocodile Hotel, live at settlement in three weeks.
- [WhistleWorks: a sports officials platform](https://commsense.agency/work/whistleworks): WhistleWorks needed a build partner, not an agency. We took a sports officials platform from idea to beta — admin, native iOS and Android apps, 14 games a weekend.

## Insights — articles

- [$1M a year doesn’t mean you need Shopify Plus.](https://commsense.agency/insights/do-you-need-shopify-plus-yet): The better card rate on Shopify Plus needs about $18.75M a year in card volume to cover the fee. At $1M you'd spend $37,500 to save $2,000. Here's the sum.
- [Why your website should be boring underneath](https://commsense.agency/insights/why-your-website-should-be-boring-underneath): Interesting on top, boring-strong underneath: the engineering philosophy that keeps brands off the rebuild treadmill.
- [Custom code is the last rung](https://commsense.agency/insights/custom-code-is-the-last-rung): Flow, then a private app, then custom code. Each rung costs more to own. One retailer was quoted $300k+ to build at the top of that ladder.

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://commsense.agency/privacy): Company privacy policy