10 Best Shopify Agencies for Ecommerce Brand Growth

A Shopify agency is a team you hire to build, design, or grow your store on Shopify. Some handle the code and the migration. Others handle the ads, the creative, and the design work that turns visits into orders.

Ranking lists usually sort these agencies by their Shopify partner tier. That tier describes an agency's commercial relationship with Shopify. It says very little about whether they can fix the thing slowing your revenue down.

The more useful question is which job you actually need done.

TL;DR: The Best Shopify Agencies at a Glance

Here is how the 10 agencies below sort by the problem they solve:

• Paid media and creative: Interlace Digital runs Meta and Google ads, ad creative, and store design for growing DTC brands.
• Enterprise migrations: Domaine and Praella move large catalogs off legacy platforms onto Shopify Plus.
• Custom themes and builds: Arctic Grey and Irish Titan build stores from the theme up.
• Design and brand experience: Sweden Unlimited, Verbal+Visual, and Sleepless Media lead with brand and user experience.
• B2B and wholesale: Uncap and Shero Commerce build ordering portals, tiered pricing, and back-office integrations.

What a Shopify Agency Actually Does

The phrase covers at least 5 different jobs, and very few agencies do all 5 well. Knowing which one you are buying saves you a discovery call with the wrong team.

Here are the services that sit under the label:

• Store design: Redesigning your theme, product pages, and checkout flow so more of your existing traffic buys. Our team covers this under Shopify web design.
• Development: Custom theme code, app integrations, and platform migrations onto Shopify or Shopify Plus.
• Paid media: Buying traffic on Meta and Google, then managing the budget against what it returns. This is the core of our Shopify PPC work.
• Creative production: Static ads, animation, and user-generated video, briefed and cut for specific placements.
• Retention: Email and SMS flows that bring existing customers back so you stop paying to reacquire them.

Work out which of these is your bottleneck before you call anyone. A store converting at 1% has a very different problem from a store converting at 3% that nobody visits, and the agency that fixes one is often the wrong hire for the other.

How We Assessed These Shopify Agencies

Every partner tier and review score below was pulled from the Shopify Partner Directory at the time of writing. Tiers and ratings are updated quarterly, so treat them as a snapshot.

One caveat matters more than the tier itself. Shopify's own partner program documentation explains that the Service Partner track runs 5 tiers, and placement in them is earned through demonstrated commercial impact. A Platinum badge tells you an agency has driven significant revenue to Shopify. Whether that agency has solved a problem shaped like yours is a separate question.

So we grouped the 10 by the job they do. The order below follows those categories, which means position 1 is not a claim to be better than position 10. Every client result quoted here comes from the agency or its client, and none of it has been independently audited.

Shopify Agency Comparison Table

Use the table to shortlist, then read the profile for the detail:

The 10 Best Shopify Agencies for Ecommerce Growth

Each profile covers where the agency is based, the partner tier it holds, the work it is known for, and the type of brand it suits. Budgets appear wherever the agency publishes a figure.

Read the "Best for" line at the end of each entry first. It is the fastest way to rule an agency in or out before you spend time on the detail.

Here are the 10, starting with paid media and creative:

1. Interlace Digital

Interlace is a performance marketing and Shopify design partner based in Buffalo, New York. Our team also works out of Manhattan Beach, California.

We buy media on Meta and Google, produce the ad creative that runs on it, and do the store design work that turns those clicks into orders.

Every engagement opens with the PACK Method, which means a performance marketing plan, an audit and cleanse of your ad accounts, a continuous creative testing cycle, and a custom dashboard showing what each dollar returns.

3 results our clients have reported:

• Niagara Chocolates: A previous vendor averaged 0.32 return on ad spend across 2022. Niagara reported average return reaching 2.1 within 45 days of our team auditing the accounts and rebuilding the creative.
• Sticky Brand: Meta was running static images only when we took over. Sticky Brand reported $729,000 in revenue from ads across the first 90 days of a rebuilt account structure and new user-generated video.
• Marigold Gourmet Popcorn: Marigold reported a 148% increase in online sales in the first 90 days, which erased a 30% year-over-year deficit.

Those figures are client-reported for those named brands. Your category, your margins, and your starting point all change what is realistic.

Best for: Shopify brands that already have a solid store and need more customers finding it.

2. Domaine

Domaine is the largest independent Shopify service partner, according to Shopify's own partner blog. It was formed in September 2023 when Tomorrow merged with Half Helix in a deal backed by private equity firm BV Investment Partners.

The combined business runs out of New York and delivers across the US, Canada, and Europe.

The work is enterprise replatforming. Domaine moves brands off legacy monolithic systems onto Shopify Plus, then handles the technical architecture afterward. Client names include Arhaus, Rothy's, Timex, Benchmade, and NoBull.

You are hiring scale here. That helps on a complicated multi-market build, and it is overkill if what you need is a theme refresh.

Best for: Enterprise brands migrating off Salesforce Commerce Cloud, a custom stack, or another legacy platform.

3. Praella

Praella is a Chicago-based Shopify Platinum partner that has been in the directory since March 2018. It carries a 5.0 rating from directory reviews at the time of writing, runs a team of more than 135 people across 3 continents, and is Great Place to Work certified.

The specialty is migration work joined to user experience design. Praella has moved BattlBox, The Beard Club, and Wahoo Fitness onto Shopify Plus, and it built the Billie Eilish Fragrances store using 3D product modelling.

Project minimums start around $10,000 according to its Clutch profile. That is a lower entry point than you usually find at Platinum level.

Best for: Mid-market brands that need the replatform and the redesign handled by the same team.

4. Arctic Grey

Arctic Grey has been a Shopify partner since April 2013 and holds Platinum status. The agency is based in New York and carries a 5.0 rating across more than 170 directory reviews at the time of writing, one of the deepest review histories on this list.

Arctic Grey says it has supported over 1,000 Shopify stores covering DTC, business-to-business, wholesale, and point of sale. Featured work includes Bark, Olaplex, Lids, and the Harvard University store, where the agency reports a 52% increase in conversion rate and a 19% rise in average order value.

Volume is the story here. This is a team that has done custom theme work and app integration hundreds of times over, so very little about your build will be new to them.

Best for: Custom theme development, app integrations, and store migrations at scale.

5. Sweden Unlimited

Sweden Unlimited is a boutique design and development agency in New York City. It has been a Shopify partner since November 2016 and sits at the Plus tier.

The team describes itself as small, senior, independent, and female-founded, with more than 20 years of work behind it. Mansur Gavriel, Lunya, Cara Cara, Assouline, Blu Dot, and Kashwere all sell on aesthetics first, and the work runs from branding and content through to Shopify Plus development.

You get senior people on your account instead of a large bench. That trade works when brand experience is the product, and it works against you when the project needs a big engineering team.

Best for: Luxury, fashion, and beauty brands where the design has to carry the sale.

6. Verbal+Visual

Verbal+Visual is a Brooklyn agency at the Plus tier that has worked with more than 100 brands on Shopify Plus. The focus is flagship store experiences for established DTC brands, not first builds.

The published results are specific. Carhartt WIP reported a 25% increase in conversion rate and a return on investment inside 2 months after a migration and redesign. Faherty reported a 3x increase in revenue and an 82% increase in average order value, and Jonathan Adler reported a 54% revenue increase with payback in 6 weeks.

Project budgets start around $50,000 based on its listing in the Ordergroove partner directory. This suits brands with a real redesign budget behind them.

Best for: Established brands rebuilding a flagship store around storytelling and conversion.

7. Sleepless Media

Sleepless Media has been a Shopify partner since February 2012, holds Plus status, and works out of the Santa Cruz area in California. It carries a 5.0 rating from directory reviews at the time of writing and was founded in 2003.

The niche is clear and unusually well defended. Outdoor, adventure, lifestyle, and national food brands make up the portfolio, including LifeStraw, Traditional Medicinals, Breeo, and Zpacks. The team handles branding alongside the build, so the store and the identity are designed together.

Minimum budgets sit in the $25,000 to $50,000 range at an average rate of $175 per hour according to its DesignRush profile.

Best for: Outdoor, adventure, and food brands that want a partner who already knows the customer.

8. Shero Commerce

Shero Commerce is a Shopify Premier partner headquartered in Red Hook, New York. The agency also runs teams in Albania, Finland, and the UK, and it has been migrating and scaling high-volume stores since 2010.

Complexity is the specialty. Shero takes on migrations with tens of thousands of products and custom pricing logic, business-to-business stores that need more than Shopify's native tools, and integrations into inventory and fulfillment systems. Client work includes STX, Justrite Safety Group, and Benchmade.

Minimum project size is $25,000 based on the figure Shero publishes. Marketing, search, and conversion work run in-house alongside development, so the relationship continues past launch.

Best for: Brands with large catalogs, wholesale requirements, or back-office systems that have to connect properly.

9. Uncap

Uncap is a Chicago agency that became a Shopify Platinum partner in October 2025. It is the only systems integrator at that tier working exclusively on Shopify business-to-business commerce, and it has carried a 5.0 rating across 48 directory reviews since joining in May 2013.

Shopify's own partner solutions page credits the agency with more than 200 migrations and 350 storefront and portal builds. ULE Group reported a 559% traffic increase year over year and 599% online sales growth quarter over quarter after a rebuild that connected an enterprise resource planning system, the software running inventory and pricing behind the scenes. Kooks Headers reported 38% lower total cost of ownership after its migration.

Pricing is fixed-bid. On a long integration project, that removes most of the usual argument about scope creep.

Best for: Manufacturers and distributors moving wholesale ordering onto Shopify.

10. Irish Titan

Irish Titan works out of the Minneapolis area and keeps a second office in Austin. It has been a Shopify Plus partner since September 2017.

The defining trait is staffing. Every person on a project is an employee, so there are no contractors, freelancers, or offshore resources on your account.

The agency builds on Shopify and Shopify Plus and also runs paid media, search, and email, which puts the build team and the growth team in the same room. Keller Heartt reported a 55% boost in sales and a 23x return on investment. Northstar Bison reported a 75% increase in conversion rate and a 288% increase in revenue after moving to Shopify Plus, and Tradehome Shoes reported a 7x return in its first year selling online.

Best for: Brands that want one accountable team handling both the store and the marketing behind it.

How to Choose a Shopify Agency for Your Revenue Stage

Revenue changes the answer more than industry does. What a store needs at $500,000 a year is rarely what it needs at $15 million.

Under $1M a Year

At this stage an agency retainer is usually premature. A skilled freelancer can set up your theme, connect your apps, and keep the store running for a fraction of what a team costs.

Spend the money on the one thing blocking you, which is usually traffic or creative. A rebuild at this stage tends to solve a problem you do not have yet.

$1M to $10M a Year

This is where an agency starts to pay for itself. You have enough revenue to fund media spend and enough data to make testing meaningful.

Look for a partner that connects your advertising to your store pages as one system. A 20% lift in conversion rate and a 20% drop in what a new customer costs you compound together.

$10M a Year and Above

Complexity becomes the constraint. Multi-warehouse fulfillment, wholesale alongside DTC, international markets, and system integrations all need engineering depth.

This is where Platinum and Premier partners earn their rates. Budget for custom Shopify development as an ongoing line item in your plan.

What a Shopify Agency Costs

Published figures from the agencies on this list give you a usable range. These are the starting budgets each one puts in writing:

• Praella: From around $10,000 per project, according to its Clutch profile.
• Arctic Grey: From around $20,000 for its design and development package.
• Sleepless Media: From $25,000, at an average rate of $175 per hour.
• Shero Commerce: From $25,000 per project.
• Verbal+Visual: From around $50,000, based on its partner directory listing.

Hourly rates for US agencies generally sit between $150 and $200. Freelancers typically run well below that, which is part of why they make sense for smaller stores.

Retainers work differently from builds. A paid media retainer is usually a monthly fee on top of your ad budget, so an agency charging $4,000 a month to manage $30,000 in spend is a very different commitment from a $50,000 fixed-scope build.

Ask what the number covers before you compare 2 quotes. One agency's $30,000 includes design, build, and 3 months of support, while another's covers design only.

Shopify Agency vs In-House Team vs Freelancer

Each option fails in a predictable way, so the choice comes down to which failure you can absorb:

• Freelancer: Cheapest and most flexible of the 3. You get one person's skill set, and the work stops when they go on holiday or take a bigger client.
• In-house team: Deepest brand knowledge and full control over priorities. Hiring a media buyer, a designer, and a developer costs more than most retainers, and those skills go stale without outside exposure.
• Agency: Broad skills and pattern recognition from other brands in your category. You are one of several clients, and a weak account team makes that obvious fast.
• Hybrid: An in-house owner directing an agency on execution. This works well once you are past $5 million in revenue, and it needs someone internal who can hold the agency accountable.

A useful middle path is keeping strategy and brand in house while an agency runs the specialist channels. Plenty of brands manage their own email and SMS programs while an outside team handles paid acquisition.

Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Contract

A pitch deck shows you an agency at its best. These 6 questions get you closer to how the work will actually run:

• Who works on my account day to day? Senior people sell the project and junior people often deliver it. Ask for names and how long they have been there.
• Can you show me a brand my size that you helped? A $2 million store and a $50 million store have different problems. Ask for references in your revenue band.
• What platform did you migrate them from? An agency that has handled difficult Magento or Salesforce migrations knows where Shopify needs workarounds.
• What happens after launch? The build is a fraction of the relationship. Ask about retainer structure, response times, and who stays on the account.
• How do you report on results? You want to see what the whole business earned against everything you spent, not a single platform dashboard.
• What would make you turn down this project? An agency that has never turned down work is selling capacity. Good partners are honest about what they are not right for.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

A few questions come up in almost every agency search:

What is a Shopify Agency?

A Shopify agency is a company that designs, builds, or grows online stores on the Shopify platform. Services usually cover store design, development, migration, paid advertising, and email marketing. Some agencies do all of it, and many specialize in 1 or 2 areas.

How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Shopify Agency?

Project budgets on this list start between $10,000 and $50,000 depending on the agency. Hourly rates for US agencies generally run $150 to $200. Ongoing marketing retainers are quoted monthly and sit separately from your ad spend.

What is a Shopify Plus Partner?

Plus is one of 5 tiers in Shopify's Service Partner program, and it sits above Registered and Select and below Premier and Platinum. Partners at this tier have a verified track record with Shopify Plus merchants, and the tier appears on their Shopify Partner Directory listing.

Does a Higher Partner Tier Mean a Better Agency?

Not necessarily. Shopify awards tiers based on demonstrated commercial impact, which measures an agency's relationship with Shopify more than its fit for your project. Use tier as a filter, then judge on relevant case studies and the people assigned to your account.

Should I Hire a Shopify Agency or a Freelancer?

Hire a freelancer if your needs are straightforward and your store is under about $1 million in annual revenue. Hire an agency when complexity grows past what one person can hold, such as multi-warehouse fulfillment, wholesale alongside DTC, or a migration with thousands of products.

How Long Does It Take to See Results from a Shopify Agency?

Paid media usually shows signal in 30 to 90 days once tracking is clean and new creative is running. Design and development projects take longer, since you need traffic through the new pages before the numbers mean anything. Migrations commonly run 3 to 6 months.

Can One Agency Handle Both My Ads and My Store?

Yes, several agencies on this list do both. The advantage is that your landing pages and your ads get built by people who talk to each other. The risk is that an agency strong in one area treats the other as a bolt-on, so ask for proof in both.

Do I Need a Shopify Agency if My Store is Already Built?

Often yes, and for a different reason than you would expect. Existing stores usually need traffic, better creative, or conversion work. An audit of your organic search and your ad accounts will tell you which one is holding the revenue back.

Grow Your Shopify Store with Interlace Digital

The agency you pick shapes your next 2 years of revenue, so choose based on the bottleneck you have right now.

Interlace is a trusted Shopify growth partner for DTC brands. We create winning ads, offers, and landing pages that help brands break through revenue barriers and hit record sales. Our team runs your Meta and Google campaigns, builds fresh creative every month, and fixes the store pages where your traffic drops off.

You also get a custom analytics dashboard, weekly optimizations, and bi-weekly calls, so you always know what every dollar is returning.