The Free Shopify Developer Hiring Kit

What's included

• A developer vetting checklist

  Know exactly what to ask and which red flags mean walk away, before you pay a cent.

• 14 plain-English quality standards

  Exactly what a professionally built Shopify theme must meet, with no jargon, based on Shopify's own requirements.

• How to verify every standard yourself

  Simple checks you run in your browser, or hand the code to Claude Code, even if you can't read a line of code.

• A payment plan and contract template

  Structure milestone payments so you're never left with a broken theme, plus a ready-to-fill agreement.