15 years of bespoke shipping rules, replatformed to Shopify in 5 days.
How 15 years of custom shipping logic moved to Shopify Plus in two weeks — without losing a single rule.
"We moved from a custom-built solution to Shopify Plus with complex shipping requirements — multiple zones, upgrade options, and carrier integrations. Flare handled all of it with ease and saved us a significant amount of development time. Alex and Daniel were excellent throughout onboarding."
Live on Shopify Plus since April 2025
What a Time4sleep customer's delivery options actually depend on.
Three strategic reasons to move to Shopify Plus.
Maintainability
A modern, app-extensible foundation. Easier to hire for, easier to train, no individual developer holding the keys to the shipping logic.
Predictable cost
Subscription pricing replaces open-ended custom dev hours. No surprise quotes when something needs to change.
Checkout performance
The custom platform's checkout was years behind modern Shopify Plus — which matters in a category where mid-decision cart abandonment is the single biggest revenue leak.
This is what 15 years of furniture-delivery refinement looks like — and it couldn't break in the move.
Why Flare, not another rebuild.
Five dimensions of delivery logic. Configured in days, not months.
Time4sleep's full operational reality, mirrored inside Flare.
Remote postcodes stop seeing dates the courier can't meet.
UK mainland split into 6 delivery zones by postcode, plus separate zones for small-item parcel deliveries, dropship products, and sample orders. Highland and island customers automatically see adjusted lead times.
The website stops promising dates the dispatch team can't honour.
Midday cut-off for next-working-day delivery. Orders placed after midday on Friday don't show Saturday — they show Tuesday, because the warehouse doesn't pick over the weekend.
Premium delivery sold at checkout, without ops handling surcharges.
Standard, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Saturday — each priced independently, available in different zones, configurable from one dashboard. Customers see the price difference before they pick the date.
Stock-outs and dropship orders stop generating angry emails.
In-stock items show next-day delivery. Out-of-stock items show the real restock date, calculated from product-level lead times. Dropship products (shipped by suppliers, not Time4sleep's warehouse) skip the calendar entirely so customers aren't promised dates Time4sleep can't control.
No more accidental Christmas Eve orders that need refunding.
Bank holidays, warehouse closures, peak-period capacity caps — all blocked in one dashboard, applied either globally or per zone (so Scottish bank holidays can be blocked separately from English ones). Adjustable in seconds when operations change.
'This can mirror everything we've got now.'
Time4sleep's development is run by Northern Artillery, a UK agency that has worked with the brand for 15+ years across three platforms — custom PHP, Magento, and now Shopify Plus. Their role during this migration wasn't to implement after the decision was made. It was to evaluate feasibility before commitment. Ben Upex, who leads the Time4sleep account, sat in on the first Flare scoping call as the technical evaluator.
"We were a little bit concerned going into this — we had very bespoke shipping rules. So to find out that Flare can mirror everything we've got now is a big help."
The first scoping call walked through Time4sleep's existing rules one by one. Northern Artillery confirmed each was configurable in Flare without custom code. The decision to migrate followed.
For agencies evaluating Flare for a migrating client, what Northern Artillery did on that first scoping call is the model: walk through every existing rule, confirm whether each one is configurable in Flare without code, and only commission custom development for the specific things that genuinely need it. For Time4sleep, the answer to that question was almost universally yes.
How a Time4sleep customer selects their delivery date.
Video walkthrough coming soon — here's the flow as customers experience it today.
What Time4sleep did right that other migrating brands should copy.
Document every rule before migration starts
Time4sleep mapped all 314 postcode rules and 50+ annual blocked dates before kickoff, not during. This let Flare verify feasibility on the first scoping call.
Bring the agency into the scoping call
Northern Artillery were the evaluators of feasibility, not the implementers. Their verification on day one removed the biggest migration risk.
Migrate the shipping logic before launching
Time4sleep configured Flare in staging while the rest of the Shopify Plus build was in flight, so go-live was a switch-over, not a build-out.
Don't rebuild what an app can configure
Every custom-coded rule from the previous platform was tested against Flare's configuration surface first. Custom development was only commissioned for the specific carrier integration that needed it.
Treat post-launch as the test, not pre-launch
Time4sleep went live with the existing rule set, then iterated based on the first 30 days of real orders. Flare's dashboard meant changes happened in minutes, not engineering sprints.
Common questions from migrating brands
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