Industries — who we serve

Jewelry

First Pier helps jewelry brands grow on Shopify — turning high-value, high-trust purchases into confident buyers, thoughtful gifts, and lifetime customers.

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The challenges we solve

Selling considered products online isn’t like selling impulse buys. These are the headwinds the category throws at you — and a generic Shopify build doesn’t address any of them.

Trust and authenticity for high-value purchases

Jewelry is a high-value, high-trust purchase, and buyers need reassurance before they spend online. We build the product detail, reviews, guarantees, and secure buying experience that give first-time customers the confidence to check out.

Gifting and personalization

A large share of jewelry is bought as a gift, often engraved, sized, or personalized. We build the gifting flows, customization options, and messaging that make it easy to buy the right piece for someone else and get it right.

Photography and product detail

Fine detail, materials, and finish are hard to convey on a screen, and weak imagery undersells a premium piece. We build the photography-forward product pages, zoom, and detail experiences that let the craftsmanship carry the sale.

Custom and made-to-order flows

Bespoke, engraved, and made-to-order pieces need buying flows that standard Shopify themes do not handle cleanly. We build the configuration, quoting, and fulfillment logic that turn custom requests into smooth, profitable orders.

Driving repeat purchases and referrals

Jewelry customers buy for milestones and often return for the next one, if you stay in touch. We build the retention, loyalty, and referral programs that turn a single meaningful purchase into a lifetime of occasions.

How we grow your brand

Three levers that actually move the needle

01 · Convert

Convert the researcher

We turn dense product knowledge into buying confidence — PDPs that answer the real questions, comparison and finder tools, and CRO tested against your actual traffic, not best-practice guesswork.

02 · Acquire

Acquire efficiently

Paid search and paid social built around your margins and seasonality, not vanity ROAS — so growth is profitable, not just big.

03 · Retain

Grow lifetime value

Email, SMS, loyalty, and post-purchase experiences that turn a first-time buyer into a repeat customer and a referral source.

The First Pier method — how every engagement runs

Strategize

Tie every build to a growth outcome.

Integrate

Connect the tools and data that run the store.

Measure

Prove it in revenue, retention, and ROAS.

Iterate

Ship, learn, refine in fast sprints.

Results we’ve delivered

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POS & Inventory System for Ravenstone

A POS and inventory system for jewelry brand Ravenstone, live and running in time for their brick-and-mortar store opening.

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Brand Identity for Ravenstone

A cohesive brand identity for Ravenstone, capturing the everyday magic of its jewelry, curated gifts, and natural wonders.

Packaging & Signage for Becoming Jewelry

Packaging and storefront signage for a Kennebunk jewelry brand, built so the unboxing reads as part of the piece rather than something you throw away.

Shopify Redesign for Becoming Jewelry

A Shopify redesign for Becoming Jewelry delivered ahead of Q4, producing the best holiday trading season in the company's history.

What we bring to your store

Shopify & Shopify Plus development

Stores built for technical, variant-heavy catalogs — fast and ready to scale.

Conversion rate optimization

Testing and buying-guide UX that converts high-consideration traffic.

Paid search & paid social

Google Ads and Meta built around your margins and seasonality.

Klaviyo email & SMS

Flows and campaigns that carry customers across seasons.

Retention & loyalty

Programs that reward repeat and referral-driven customers.

Migration to Shopify

Move off a legacy platform without losing SEO or sales.

Why brands choose First Pier

Senior team, no handoffs

You work directly with the people doing the work — senior Shopify specialists, not an account manager relaying to an offshore queue.

Shopify specialists

We build, optimize, and scale on Shopify and Shopify Plus every day — from technical catalogs to conversion and retention.

Maine-built, growth-obsessed

Headquartered in Portland, Maine, we partner with brands across the U.S. and measure our work in revenue, retention, and ROAS.

What clients say

“They thought through every detail and gave us a scalable foundation.”

Baske

Omnichannel Shopify + POS launch

“They are an extension of our small team.”

Helen Milan

Higher traffic & AOV after Shopify migration

Award-winning ecommerce work

First Pier is recognized by Clutch across Shopify, ecommerce development, design, and performance marketing — nationally and here in Maine.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you work with jewelry brands specifically?

Yes. Jewelry is one of our core verticals — we've built and grown jewelry brands on Shopify, and the category's challenges like buyer trust, gifting, and product detail are ones we solve every day.

How do you build trust for high-value jewelry purchases?

Spending hundreds or thousands online takes reassurance. We build the product detail, reviews, guarantees, and secure buying experience that give first-time customers the confidence to check out.

Can you support custom, engraved, or made-to-order pieces?

Absolutely. Bespoke and personalized orders need buying flows standard themes don't handle cleanly. We build the configuration, gifting, and fulfillment logic that turn custom requests into smooth, profitable orders.

Where are you located, and does it matter?

We're in Portland, Maine, and we work with jewelry brands across the U.S. Our senior-led team does the work directly, so you get a team that has been in ecommerce since 2009 — without account-manager handoffs.