Nudient replatforming to Shopify Plus from Centra

Background

Founded in 2016, Nudient is a leading fashion tech brand for mobile accessories like phone cases, screen protectors, AirPods cases, laptop sleeves, and more. The Stockholm-based brand stands out with its sustainable materials and award-winning product design.

The project

Back when Pontus, Vidar and Max founded the brand, the trio decided to build the first iteration of their webstore on Shopify. Not quite yet fully developed to what it is today, they were soon growing out of Shopify and decided to migrate to Centra. In 2023, Nudient found themselves in a similar situation again: not only was the scaling of their business hard to manage, but most importantly the cost of upkeep was also an issue. Looking around, Nudient soon zoomed in on Shopify which had developed into a full-blown powerhouse of a platform. They partnered up with Woolman and together we embarked on a journey of migrating their business to Shopify and launching a new store on Shopify Plus in 3 months.

Why Nudient chose Shopify Plus?

Total cost of ownership

"With Shopify, we can save roughly 30-40% in total cost of ownership"

Ease of use

"The stability and diversity of the Shopify ecosystem and scalability without technical difficulties is important for Nudient to keep growing our business. Shopify delivers so much great features out of the box without separate development needs."

Data management

"An important topic for us is also how we can leverage the data in Shopify to drive business growth, customer experience and insights for us at Nudient. The possibility of moving data between software and apps brings true benefits"

Future proof

"With Shopify's huge customer base driving the development of features forward on a large scale and finding best practices, we see so much upside to being able to do things we earlier either had to develop ourselves or weren't aware of. For us it makes total sense of taking advantage of Shopify's large scale R&D and merchant-driven features"

Pontus Krusing, CEO, Nudient

Shopify vs Centra comparison

	Shopify Plus	centra	Sample title
Built for...	Any small, large or enterprise sized company wanting to have a scalable & flexible e-commerce platform.	Focuses in fashion brands	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Market Positioning	Shopify is trusted by millions of global brands and partners. The misconception that Shopify is solely a platform for entrepreneurs and SMB has faded away, with some of the world's largest brands and retailers running their commerce business — online, in-store, wholesale — on Shopify	Centra has focused lifestyle and fashion brands, and are building a vertical specific solution.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Product development	Shopify invested $1,7 billion in R&D in 2023 alone and releases hundreds of features and updates every year — all built by thousand of engineers focused solely on the future of commerce. Last year, Gartner® placed Shopify highest in their ability to execute in the Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce	Centra is a small privately owned company, public figures of product development budget isn't available	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Technology approach	Shopify offers the flexibility to build anything as Shopify native, headless or even composable. The global CDN and reported 99,9% uptime makes Shopify an extremely scalable and safe option.	Centra focuses in headless and/or composable builds only and offers a 99,9% availability.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Performance	Over Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 weekend, Shopify merchants reached a record $9.3 billion in sales, with the platform handling at its peak 58M requests and $4.2M sales per minute. The continuously improved storefront technology matches the performance of any headless site.	Headless builds require extra attention for maintenance and preparations for peak seasons.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Sales channels	Shopify allows you to sell anywhere — from Shopify POS to sell in-person, to integrations that make it quick and easy to sync and sell on the world's biggest social media platforms (Meta, Tiktok), marketplaces (Amazon, Ebay, Mirakl), and across Google surfaces.	Centra is relaying the merchant to use API's and build custom connections.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Ecosystem	Shopify offers the largest ecosystem in world through Shopify App Store and other publicly available sources. Whether your looking for the best marketing automation tools or ERP connecttion, they are almost always available as ready integrated solutions for quick & easy connectivity. Shopify's open APIs allow the custom connection to any external system.	Centra has a limited number of third party providers that are supported through a ready made integrations, and are relying in API first approach for clients building custom connections to any external solution.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Ease of use	Shopify admin including the CMS is probably the most easy to use on the market. With Shopify your e-com team can do most of the work without being supported by an internal or external development team.	Centra backend is easy to use. Headless storefronts have limitations in the use without the suppport from a development team	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Checkout	Shopify has the highest converting checkout on the planet, proven to increase conversion by 15% on average. Payment options are almost unlimited with Shopify Payments and over xx readily integrated local PSPs	Centra offers several PSPs (such as Klarna, Adyen) that can be connected through APIs	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Wholesale (B2B)	Shopify Plus comes with a powerful B2B stack including company structures, customer specific catalogues, unlimited UI & UX for whosale customers, and more. More advanced features such as sales rep ordering has just been released.	Centra has a wholesale stack built in the platform.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Multiple markets & localization	With Shopify markets you can offer multiple languages and currencies for your customers. You can also localize & customise the content for every market and assign dedicated warehouses for all markets.	Centra offers flexible localization from languages to currencies.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Promotions	Shopify offers flexible campaign options through scheduled price adjustment and automated discounts. Cross sell & uppsell can be customized freely from the storefront all the way to the checkout.	Native support for bundles, advanced promotions, and discounts. High flexibility in terms of pricing, stock, discounts, inheriting of attributes, etc.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Order management	Shopify offers standard order management functionalities, but most larger merchants use WMS or ERP for order fulfillment,	Centra offers an advanced order management system. It enables order viewing, and automation of many processes, and supports replenishment, overselling protection, return, and refunds.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.
Total cost of ownership	The Shopify Plus plan starts at US$2,300 a month for standard setups and integrations on a 3-year term, or US$2,500 per month for a 1-year term.More complex, higher volume businesses switch to a variable platform fee based on their revenue and business model. Get in touch with sales for more details	Centra comes at a fixed monthly fee, with no transaction fees. The headless or composable build maintance comes with additional hosting and service fees that increase the total cost of ownership.	Add your column content to this richtext field. Add,remove and organize rows as you please. Note that the row header will be sticky in mobile.