Scandicommerce helped LNDA cut development costs and reclaim focus for growth with Shopify Plus

LNDA's WooCommerce store had earned its complexity honestly. The makeup palette builder — which let customers assemble personalised, reusable palettes from individual eyeshadows, blushes, lipsticks, and highlighters — was not something you could configure with an off-the-shelf plugin. It was purpose-built, deeply integrated into the product catalogue, and central to the brand's identity. The same was true of the subscription system, which rewarded higher-frequency orders with progressively greater discounts and allowed customers to adjust the contents and delivery intervals of their packages from their own account page.

The problem ran deeper than a single complicated feature. LNDA had been operating across three separate site solutions — each requiring its own maintenance cycle, its own agency touchpoints, and its own set of manual update processes. Any change that touched more than one system meant coordinating across platforms, reconciling data, and absorbing the overhead of three distinct tech stacks.

Custom builds of this depth require a developer's involvement for every platform update, every compatibility issue, and every new feature request. For a brand with LNDA's commercial ambitions, that created a fundamental imbalance: engineering time was being spent on maintenance rather than momentum. The team's attention — which should have been directed toward campaigns, customer acquisition, and entering new markets — was being pulled instead toward support queues and technical debt.

Moving a WooCommerce store with custom subscription logic, a skincare quiz, and a bespoke palette builder requires a partner with both technical depth and sound judgment — knowing what Shopify's native architecture can handle, what Shopify Functions can extend, and where genuine custom development is actually necessary. Shopify Plus offered the path forward. Finding the right team to execute it was the critical variable.