Year 2024
Platform Shopify
Industry Beverage
Disciplines
E-commerce Custom Dev Fulfilment
Developer

FOUR LOKO UK

Launching a cult US beverage brand into the UK market, end-to-end Shopify build with custom order fulfilment and theme.

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Overview

How do you launch a notorious American energy drink into a market that doesn't know it yet?

Four Loko, the polarising, high-ABV party drink beloved in the US needed a UK home. The brief was ambitious: a full Shopify D2C store, third-party fulfilment integration, and a brand experience that felt as bold as the product itself.

The challenge wasn't just technical it was translating an American cultural icon into a UK context while staying compliant with strict alcohol advertising and fulfilment regulations.

The Challenge
  • No UK digital presence
  • Complex fulfilment rules
  • Brand had to feel bold and unqiue
My Role
  • Shopify theme architecture
  • Custom Liquid templating
  • Third-party fulfilment API
  • Age verification layer
Deliverables
  • Full Shopify store build
  • Custom theme build
  • Fulfilment middleware
The Solution

Built to
Convert.

A bespoke Shopify experience designed around the product's energy and attitude fast, frictionless, and built to last and grow.

fourloko.co.uk
01

Custom Shopify
Theme

Fully custom Liquid theme, no off-the-shelf templates. Every section built from scratch with brand-aligned design tokens and performance-first markup.

02

Age Verification
System

Inline age gate with cookie persistence and bot-resistant validation. Designed to comply with UK alcohol advertising standards while keeping conversion impact minimal.

03

Fulfilment
Integration

Real-time order sync to a specialist alcohol logistics partner via a custom middleware. Automated tracking updates and delivery windows communicated.