Custom eCommerce
Our team specializes in building custom eCommerce experiences with Shopify and more.
Beyond off-the-shelf themes — bespoke storefronts, real-time auction engines, and headless commerce that has processed millions in transactions.
Brooklyn Museum
A digital platform that connects, contextualizes, and elevates every corner of the museum.
Loupe This
A custom-built, real-time auction engine and online community for luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors.
Salt & Stone
Aplós
A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.
Presq
A bespoke shopping experience for a cutting edge approach to product development and manufacturing.
Cocoon
A platform for the business of modern childcare.
Youswim
A fluid ecommerce platform for a radically flexible swimsuit brand.
Memorable experiences
In today's sea of lookalike templated storefronts, we like to create memorable, standout experiences for our clients and their customers. From single-page checkout experiences to shopping cart aware carbon offsetting, we look to empower and activate brands through our deep technical lens.
Our storefronts continue to process millions of dollars of payments for our clients each year (including a single record-breaking $1.6mm transaction from an auction sale).
Our Process
We like to start new engagements with our Technical Blueprinting phase. We listen, research, test — and consolidate our plan into an architecture document that guides the build.
Our development process is agile, transparent and collaborative, managed through lightweight weekly touchpoints, tight feedback loops and waves of iteration.
As your storefront rolls out, we’re standing by — fixing bugs, tweaking performance, and shipping features in realtime, from your first transaction, to your 100,000th.
We’re friendly, transparent, communicative and hospitable, as it’s our best relationships that produce the most meaningful work. *How we ship better work ↗*
We strive to build thoughtful, human-centric products through an open and transparent approach to timelines and estimates. *We're not a traditional agency ↗*
Time will tell
Sanctuary Computer worked with Loupe This to build a realtime auction platform for luxury watches. The result is elegant, bespoke software, accountable for orchestrating large-sum financial transactions.
Today, our team is worldwide, but we started in NYC, and we’re still mostly based in the US Eastern timezone.
If you’d like to chat more, please email us at [hello@sanctuary.computer](mailto:hello@sanctuary.computer)