Timmy’s Pet Shop – Shopify Website Redesign

Project overview

Timmy’s Pet Shop is a busy pet shop in Dungarvan that also sells online across Ireland: food, treats, toys and everyday essentials for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles and small pets.

I originally built their online shop on WordPress and WooCommerce with Elementor. As the business grew, so did everything else: thousands of products, lots of orders every day, and a custom barcode plugin to keep stock in line with the shop. It worked, but it had become heavy and hard to manage, and sorting categories was a real headache for the client.

So we made a big decision together: redesign the website from scratch and move it to Shopify.

What I built

We started with the design and finalised it before building anything. The goal wasn’t to add more. It was to make things simple: a website that is super fast for customers and easy for Timmy to run.

Then I built the new website on Shopify, page by page. To fill the new store, I exported the products from WordPress and brought over 2,000 of them across. The client also keeps products in a barcode system, so he sent me that file, I reshaped it to fit Shopify and imported it too. Shopify connects to the barcode system natively, so the old custom plugin was no longer needed.

WooCommerce categories don’t carry over to Shopify cleanly, so I planned a new structure from scratch as Shopify collections and sorted every product into the right place. I created custom images for the collections, so the whole store looks finished and consistent.

On top of that, I designed separate landing pages for each pet, Dog, Cat, Birds, Fish and Reptiles, plus a Sale page and a working contact page.

Key features

• A new website, built from scratch: redesigned and moved to Shopify, simple and fast.
• 2,000+ products: brought across from the old shop into the new store.
• Barcode system connected: linked through Shopify’s built-in connection, replacing a custom plugin.
• 138 collections: a new, clean structure that is easy to browse and easy to manage.
• Custom collection images: a consistent, polished look across the store.
• Pet landing pages: dedicated pages for dogs, cats, birds, fish and reptiles.
• Sale page and contact form: offers in one place, and enquiries that arrive.

Snapshots

The outcome

Timmy’s now has a brand-new website that is fast for shoppers and simple behind the scenes. Adding products, managing collections and keeping stock right no longer takes a fight with the system. The client is very happy, and we’re still working together.