What does a Shopify Plus agency actually do?

It plans and runs the move to Shopify Plus, then keeps the store growing. In practice: migrating products, customers, orders and subscriptions from another platform, building the theme or a headless storefront, rebuilding checkout rules with Shopify Functions, connecting the ERP, OMS and warehouse, and handling B2B price lists and several country storefronts. Most of the agencies on this page also sell a retainer after launch for fixes, conversion work and new features. Tip: ask which of those the quote covers, because the build and the upkeep are often priced apart.

What's the difference between a Shopify Plus Expert and a Shopify Plus Partner?

Both labels sound like a skill in the Plus plan, and neither is a grade of your project's quality. "Plus Partner" was a tier on Shopify's partner directory, sitting between Select and Premier, and Platinum above them. "Shopify Plus Expert" was an earlier accreditation: Swanky, for example, was one of the first three agencies in Europe to receive it, in 2016. In 2027 Shopify replaces Select, Plus and Premier with Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond, set by the sales volume and the number of shops credited to a partner. Tip: judge an agency on the Plus stores it launched recently and their results, and read the tier as a measure of its volume with Shopify.

Does a Shopify Plus agency work only with Shopify Plus merchants?

No. Several agencies on this page work outside Plus too: Absolute Web has Magento and WooCommerce clients, Convert Digital also builds on commercetools, and Netalico draws up a roadmap to Plus for brands that aren't on it yet. What really filters clients is the minimum budget. A Clutch minimum of $10,000 (Absolute Web, Praella) or $25,000 (ehouse, Avex) already leaves small stores out, and Anatta starts at $100,000.

How much does a Shopify Plus agency cost?

Count on $5,000 to $100,000 for a first project with a ranked agency, more for a large migration, then $3,700 to $25,000 a month if you keep it on retainer. Those bounds come from the agencies' Clutch minimums and Netalico's published retainers. Add the Plus license on top: $2,300 a month at least, so $27,600 a year, plus 0.2% per order if you pay through a third-party provider. Tip: ask for the build as a fixed price and the retainer as a separate line, so you can compare two quotes line by line.

How long does a migration to Shopify Plus take?

Plan 4 weeks to 9 months, depending on where you come from. A small WooCommerce store can move in 4 weeks (Swanky's Salon Supplies and Furniture). The published Plus migrations here took 19 weeks (Aje) to 23 weeks (POLYWOOD from Adobe Commerce, PEARL iZUMi). Published guides put a Magento 1 migration at 5 to 9 months and a Salesforce Commerce Cloud one at 7 to 12. Add a few weeks of scoping before the clock starts, and keep the old platform's contract until the redirects are live.

Who owns the store and the code if you part ways with the agency?

You do, if your company holds the store owner account and the contract assigns the code to you. If the agency created the store in its partner account, ask for the transfer early: it fails once Shopify Payments, Balance, Credit or Capital is active. Then check three things: the theme code in a Git repository in your name, each app billed through your Shopify account, and written documentation delivered before the last payment.

Can a Shopify Plus agency still use Shopify Scripts?

No. Shopify Scripts stopped running in 2026. Discount, shipping and payment rules now run on Shopify Functions, and anything shown in the checkout uses Checkout UI Extensions. If your store still relied on Scripts, ask the agency to list each one and its replacement. Shopify's own report of your Script customizations says which ones become Functions and which become public apps.

Is a Platinum partner always better than a Premier one?

No. Platinum today and the new tiers in 2027 measure the sales and the number of shops credited to a partner, not the quality of its work. On this page, Premier partner Netalico ranks above six Platinum agencies, because it publishes its prices and has 28 reviews. Platinum still tells you the agency has shipped many Plus stores. Tip: read the tier on Shopify's directory itself, since several blog lists still print old tiers.

Should your Shopify Plus agency be in your time zone?

Yes for support, less for the build. A checkout that breaks during a sale needs someone awake to fix it. On this page, Absolute Web, Anatta, ehouse, Avex, Praella, Domaine and IM Digital have their head office in the US, and ehouse has a second office in Ottawa; Absolute Web also has an office in Lisbon, and Domaine works remote-first with a team in Amsterdam. Netalico promises an Americas team on US hours. Swanky works from the UK and Australia, and Convert Digital from Australia with part of its team in Vietnam and the Philippines. Tip: write the support hours and their time zone into the contract, next to the response time.

Which Shopify Plus agency should you hire in 2026?

Ten Shopify Plus partners compared on tier, named case studies, independent reviews and price, with a pick for each kind of project.

The short answer: Absolute Web comes first, at 4.3 out of 5. It's a Platinum partner based in Miami with 195 independent reviews, and Shopify itself publishes its Capezio migration: three Magento stores moved to Shopify, conversion up 144%. Projects start at $10,000. Pick Anatta (4.2) if you're a $50M to $2B brand planning an enterprise migration and can budget $100,000 or more. For other projects:

An ERP, an OMS and many connected systems: ehouse
A mid-market or B2B store that wants a written monthly price: Netalico, retainers from $3,700 a month
Fashion, lifestyle and several country storefronts: Avex
Subscription brands in the UK or Australia: Swanky
Australia and New Zealand, headless builds: Convert Digital
B2B manufacturers and wholesalers: IM Digital

Shopify Plus is Shopify's plan for larger merchants. It costs $2,500 a month on a 1-year term or $2,300 on a 3-year term, so the license alone comes to at least $27,600 a year before any agency work. We compared 26 agencies on what they publish: their tier on Shopify's partner directory, case studies with a named client and a figure, independent reviews, prices and team. Ten made the list. One warning before you trust a badge: Shopify retires its Select, Plus and Premier partner tiers in 2027, and "Plus Partner" never meant an expert in the Plus plan. The tier table below explains the trap.

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Partner tiers at a glance

What Shopify's partner tiers tell you, and what they don't

Shopify's partner directory is free to search and lists 3,975 partners in alphabetical order. On the store-building service, the tiers split like this: 989 partners at Plus, 197 at Premier and 143 at Platinum worldwide. Platinum is rare outside North America: 57 in the US, 13 in Canada, 19 in the UK and 10 in Australia. We score Platinum as the top tier, Premier and Plus as intermediate tiers, and Select as the first partner level. Nine of the ten agencies below are Platinum; Netalico is Premier.

Here's the trap. The "Plus" in "Shopify Plus Partner" was the name of a partner tier, not a certificate in the Shopify Plus plan. Merchants read it as one, which is why Shopify is dropping the name. In 2027 the Select, Plus and Premier tiers retire, and four new tiers replace them, set by attributed GMV (gross merchandise volume: the sales of the shops a partner is credited with) and by the number of those shops. Silver needs $25K and 1 shop over one year. Gold needs $5M and 5 shops over four years, Platinum $50M and 20 shops, Diamond $500M and 25 shops. Tiers will update daily, and a partner that moves up keeps its tier for at least six months.

So a tier measures how much merchants sell through the shops an agency built or runs. It says nothing about how well it migrates a Magento catalog or handles your ERP. The directory profiles also stopped showing ratings, review counts and starting prices. What they still show is useful: the city, the languages, the estimated team size, the estimated number of active projects, the year the agency became a partner and, on some profiles, clients under "Relationships verified by Shopify".

	Shopify tier, entry price and proof	Where they work, what they do best, languages
Absolute WebPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2015. Projects from $10,000, $100 to $149 an hour (Clutch). Capezio case published by Shopify.	Miami (head office), Los Angeles, Lisbon. Magento migrations, checkout customization, Shopify Functions. English, Spanish.
AnattaPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2018. Projects from $100,000, $150 to $199 an hour (Clutch). Six named cases with figures on its site.	Austin. Enterprise migrations for $50M to $2B brands, headless, subscriptions, Functions. English, Spanish, Hindi.
ehousePlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2015. Projects from $25,000, $150 to $199 an hour (Clutch). Own integration platform with 300+ connectors.	Charleston and Ottawa. ERP and OMS integrations, unified commerce, international sites. English.
NetalicoPremier	Premier, partner since 2016. Retainers from $3,700 to $10,000 a month on its own site; prepaid hours at $165 to $185.	Americas team on US hours. Migrations from Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce; CRO; mid-market DTC and B2B. English, Spanish.
AvexPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2012. Projects from $25,000, $100 to $149 an hour (Clutch). Kith case with figures.	New York. Replatforming, internationalization, UX, B2B app layer. English, Russian.
PraellaPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2018. Projects from $10,000 (Clutch). Great Place to Work certified.	Chicago. Migrations from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento and NetSuite SuiteCommerce; B2B; custom apps. English.
SwankyPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2011. Quote only. Shopify-only since 2012.	Exeter (UK), Australia and France. DTC subscriptions, Recharge migrations, international markets. English, French.
Convert DigitalPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2017. Quote only. Also builds on commercetools.	Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, with part of the team in Vietnam and the Philippines. Headless, checkout extensions. English.
DomainePlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2014. Quote only. 750+ Shopify sites launched, 150+ migrations to Shopify.	New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam. Large migrations from Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Adobe Commerce, Hydrogen, B2B. English, Spanish, French.
IM DigitalPlatinum	Platinum, partner since 2016. Quote only. Its own B2B products, Elevate and Prospect.	Boca Raton and New York. B2B for manufacturers and wholesalers, TotalCare support. English, Spanish, Portuguese.

Tiers as shown on Shopify's partner directory; a tier says nothing about price or quality. Each score runs from 2 (nothing to read) to 5. Expertise: 5 for Platinum, 4.5 for Premier or Plus, 4 for Select or a Shopify specialist; 3.5 with a Shopify page and named projects, 3 when Shopify is one service among others. Track record: 3 for named clients, 3.5 for one named case with figures, 4 for two to four, 4.5 for five or more, 5 when they include results measured over time. Client reviews: 3 under 5 independent reviews (Clutch, the agency's Google listing), 3.5 from 5, 4 from 20, 4.5 from 50, 5 from 100, half a point less under a 4.0 average. Transparency: 2 with no price and no method, 3 for a method or a price read only on a directory, 3.5 for an entry price on the agency's own site, 4 for prices, 4.5 with the commitment, 5 with the reporting. Team & support: 3 for an unknown size or under 10 people, 3.5 for 10 to 49, 4 for 50 or more, plus half a point for published support after launch and half a point when the team that delivers works in this page's markets (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia). The overall score is the average of the five, and the rank follows it. A tie goes to the better Track record score, then Client reviews, then the larger number of independent reviews.

Best Shopify Plus agency for a multi-store Magento migration

Absolute Web

4.3/5

Price fromFrom $10,000 per project; $100 to $149 an hour (Clutch)

Best forMid-size brands moving several Magento or Adobe Commerce stores to one Shopify Plus setup.

Absolute Web has been in Miami since 1999 and a Shopify partner since 2015. It sits at Platinum on the directory, with 51 to 200 people and offices in Los Angeles and Lisbon. Its directory profile names the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates as its top markets, and the team works in English and Spanish. It isn't Shopify-only: its client reviews also cover Magento and WooCommerce work.

Its best proof is public and checkable. Capezio ran three Magento stores for the US, the UK and Europe. Absolute Web moved them to Shopify, and Shopify's own case study reports a 144% increase in conversion, 81% more average engagement time, deployments 90% faster and QA cycles improved by 60%. Shopify also features that project on the home page of its partner directory.

Standout features

Capezio: three Magento stores (US, UK, EU) moved to Shopify, conversion up 144%
Farmbox Co.: checkout shortened, conversion from 3-4% to around 5-6%
195 independent reviews at 4.9 on Clutch and Google
Featured on the home page of Shopify's partner directory

+Pros

✓A migration case you can read on Shopify's own site, not only the agency's
✓Entry budget of $10,000, low for a Platinum partner
✓A Spanish-speaking team for Spanish-language storefronts

−Cons

✗One Clutch reviewer praises the web design but calls the marketing work disappointing, and one Magento client calls the team "weak on QA"
✗An office in Lisbon: ask which developers work on your project, and in which time zone
✗Prices appear only on its Clutch profile, with no published support terms after launch

Verdict

The safest first call for a mid-size brand with a Magento or multi-country setup to retire. Ask for its post-launch support terms in writing, and ask who runs QA. If your project is mostly integrations with an ERP, ehouse publishes more on that side.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for enterprise migrations ($50M+ brands)

Anatta

4.2/5

Price fromFrom $100,000 per project; $150 to $199 an hour (Clutch)

Best forOmnichannel brands between $50M and $2B that need a senior team for a full replatform.

Anatta was founded in Austin, Texas, in 2008, has worked only on Shopify since 2014 and has been a partner since 2018. It says it was one of the first five Platinum partners selected in North America. Its directory profile lists custom app and API development, checkout and customer accounts customization, and Shopify Functions; the team works in English, Spanish and Hindi.

The pitch is an enterprise one: modular, headless Shopify architecture and a senior architect on every account, with 120+ specialists behind. Its delivery method, the Anatta Operating System, hands repetitive work to AI agents so the specialists can focus on strategy, and Anatta says it cuts delivery from 3-6 months to 3-6 weeks. That gain is the agency's own measure.

Standout features

AG1: retention up 31% year over year
True Botanicals: conversion from 4.1% to 6.2%, customer acquisition cost halved
buybuy BABY: live on Shopify Plus in 31 days
Dollar Shave Club, Grove Collaborative, Dose Daily and Berkey Filters: four more cases with figures

+Pros

✓The deepest list of named enterprise cases on this page
✓Shopify-only for over a decade, with checkout and Functions work on its profile
✓Retainer engagements after launch, with a senior architect on every account

−Cons

✗Almost no independent reviews: 4 on Google, none on Clutch
✗A $100,000 minimum project rules out most mid-market brands
✗Its speed gains are measured by Anatta itself; ask a client to confirm them

Verdict

The pick when the store is a large business and the migration can't slip. With so few public reviews, ask for two client references at your revenue level before you sign. Below $100,000 of budget, Absolute Web or Praella are the realistic options.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for ERP and OMS integrations

ehouse

4.2/5

Price fromFrom $25,000 per project; $150 to $199 an hour (Clutch)

Best forBrands whose Shopify Plus store has to talk to an ERP, an OMS and a warehouse without manual exports.

ehouse has 23 years in business, 135+ experts and a head office in Charleston, South Carolina, with a second office in Ottawa. It has been a Shopify partner since 2015 and now includes Pointer, the Ottawa Platinum agency it acquired. Its specialty is unified commerce: connecting Shopify to the rest of the business.

For that it runs its own managed integration platform, with 300+ pre-built connectors and a stated 99.99% uptime. One number needs a careful read. On Tetley and Teapigs, ehouse reports a 100% return on investment within 30 months, and then an ROI of 1,382% per site that it calculates by dividing sales by the monthly cost of the integration platform. The first figure is the useful one.

Standout features

PEARL iZUMi: revenue up 24%, conversion up 13%, transactions up 14%; main site in 23 weeks, international versions in 5
Tetley Canada and Teapigs Canada: a 100% return on the integration
Managed integration platform with 300+ pre-built connectors
Acquired Pointer, another Platinum partner

+Pros

✓Integrations are its core business, not an add-on
✓Support after launch comes with the integration platform
✓A North American team across the US and Canada

−Cons

✗A 1.0 review on Clutch, from an older project on the Pointer side, says a migration erased data and hurt the client's SEO
✗Clutch lists 10 to 49 employees while the directory says 135+: ask which team, ehouse or ex-Pointer, will run your build
✗Prices appear only on Clutch

Verdict

Choose ehouse when the hard part of your project is NetSuite, an OMS or a 3PL, not the theme. Put the redirect plan and an SEO check in the contract, given that one-star migration review. If you're still choosing the ERP itself, read our comparison of NetSuite alternatives first.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for mid-market brands that want a fixed monthly price

Netalico

4.1/5

Price fromRetainers from $3,700 to $10,000/month; 30 hours for $5,100/month

Best forMid-market DTC and B2B brands on Plus, or about to move to it, that want a known monthly budget.

Netalico describes itself as a Shopify Plus Premier partner for mid-market DTC and B2B brands such as Big Green Egg, Qunol and Mauna Loa. One senior team runs migrations from Magento, BigCommerce and WooCommerce, Plus builds, conversion work and the monthly retainer after launch. It has been a partner since 2016, and its Plus page promises a fully in-house Americas team working US hours. Shopify verifies six of its client relationships on the directory, among them Audio Advice, Big Green Egg and Martin Saddlery.

What sets it apart is the price page. Retainers start at $3,700 a month and run to $10,000, and the average client pays around $4,500. A 30-hour plan costs $5,100 a month. Prepaid hours cost $185 an hour for 20 to 30 hours and $165 for 100 hours or more, and you can use them within 6 months. It also publishes two project prices: a $25,000 flat-rate build for Sheets & Giggles, and a $40,000 initial investment for Limitless Walls' move from Magento 1 to Shopify Plus.

Standout features

Retainers from $3,700 to $10,000 a month, average around $4,500
Lovey & Grink: conversion from about 1.75% to 2.4%
Limitless Walls: Magento 1 to Shopify Plus for a $40,000 initial investment
Six client relationships verified by Shopify

+Pros

✓Prices you can put in a budget before the first call
✓Monthly reports and urgent support written into the plans
✓Builds a roadmap to Shopify Plus for brands that aren't there yet

−Cons

✗Premier, not Platinum, and that tier disappears in 2027
✗A small team: the directory estimates 1 to 10 people, Clutch 10 to 49
✗One Clutch client mentions "a few account managers" over the relationship

Verdict

The most predictable budget here for a mid-market brand. Ask for one named account manager in the contract. If your migration needs a large team for an ERP or several countries, ehouse or Absolute Web have more people.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for fashion and international storefronts

Avex

4.0/5

Price fromFrom $25,000 per project; $100 to $149 an hour (Clutch)

Best forFashion and lifestyle brands that sell in several countries and care about the storefront as much as the back end.

Avex is a New York agency on 9th Avenue, a Shopify partner since 2012 and Platinum today. It works with high-growth and enterprise brands on Shopify Plus, and lists the United States, Canada and Hong Kong as its top markets. Its site sells replatforming and a custom B2B app layer, and its portfolio shows the range: Novus Shoes from Magento, Kit and Ace from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Formlabs in B2B, ALASTIN Skincare internationally.

Kith is the case to ask about. Avex reports conversion up 235%, average order value up 15% and mobile conversions up 50%. After launch, its "360 Total Support" keeps the team on as an extension of yours, working on conversion, retention and performance.

Standout features

Kith: conversion up 235%, average order up 15%, mobile conversions up 50%
Migrations from Magento (Novus Shoes) and Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Kit and Ace)
"360 Total Support" after launch
A partner since 2012

+Pros

✓Strong design and UX work for brands where the storefront sells
✓Experience with international storefronts and B2B apps
✓32 independent reviews averaging close to 5

−Cons

✗A team of 11 to 50 people: check capacity before a large migration
✗One published case with figures; ask for results on your kind of project
✗Prices appear only on Clutch

Verdict

A good fit for a fashion or lifestyle brand on Plus that sells abroad and wants a design-led team in New York. For a migration where ERP work dominates, ehouse fits better.

Visit Avex →

Best Shopify Plus agency for complex migrations on a mid-size budget

Praella

4.0/5

Price fromFrom $10,000 per project (Clutch)

Best forMid-size brands leaving Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento or NetSuite SuiteCommerce without an enterprise budget.

Praella is a Chicago agency, a partner since 2018, with 135+ team members and a Great Place to Work certification. Its projects page filters by the platform a client migrated from: Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento (Adobe Commerce) and NetSuite SuiteCommerce, plus a B2B filter. Clients it names include Drone Nerds, BattlBox, Billie Eilish Fragrances and CrunchLabs.

Its migration write-ups give volumes more than results. For Indigo Wild, it reports 345 collections, 371 products and over 111,905 customers migrated. Its one result with a client's name is DoggieLawn, from Magento to Shopify Plus, with conversion up 33%, told on Praella's own blog.

Standout features

DoggieLawn: Magento to Shopify Plus, conversion up 33%
Indigo Wild: 111,905+ customers and 371 products migrated
Migrations from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento and NetSuite SuiteCommerce
135+ people, Great Place to Work certified

+Pros

✓A $10,000 entry budget for a Platinum team of 135+
✓25 independent reviews, all at 5.0
✓Experience with B2B and with three legacy platforms

−Cons

✗Its results come from blog posts, not dated case studies
✗Platinum is recent for Praella
✗Its home page describes no support terms after launch: ask for them in writing

Verdict

A strong option for a brand with a few million in sales leaving Magento or SFCC, if you ask for two references with numbers. If you need a retainer price before the first call, Netalico publishes one.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for subscription brands in the UK and Australia

Swanky

3.9/5

Price fromQuote only (no minimum on its site or Clutch)

Best forDTC subscription brands selling in the UK, Australia or Europe that need Recharge done right.

Swanky was founded in 2010 in Exeter, England, and has worked only on Shopify since 2012. It runs teams in the UK, Australia and France, with a 70-person in-house team, and it reached Platinum in 2025. Its directory profile lists the UK, Australia and the United States as top markets, internationalization among its specialties, and English and French as its languages.

Its angle on Plus is subscriptions. For FutureYou Cambridge, it safely moved more than 30,000 subscribers to Recharge, the subscription app, and the case study reports 95% of the technical debt eliminated. For Salon Supplies and Furniture, an Australian beauty retailer, a 4-week move from WooCommerce helped double revenue. A third case, up 651% in nine days, names no client, so it doesn't count here.

Standout features

FutureYou Cambridge: 30,000+ subscribers moved to Recharge, 95% of technical debt removed
Salon Supplies and Furniture: WooCommerce to Shopify in 4 weeks, revenue doubled
Shopify-only since 2012, Platinum since 2025
Teams in the UK, Australia and France

+Pros

✓Real depth on subscription migrations, the riskiest data to move
✓A large in-house team for a UK-based agency
✓Long-term support after launch

−Cons

✗A 4.2 average on its Google listing, from 13 reviews, and a single Clutch review
✗No price anywhere public: expect a full scoping before any number
✗Its offices are in the UK and Australia, so US brands get a team on UK or Australian hours

Verdict

The pick for a subscription brand selling in the UK or Australia. Before you choose the app side, compare subscription apps for ecommerce by real fee. If you're a London brand that wants an agency in the city, our Shopify agencies in London ranking covers that.

Visit Swanky →

Best Shopify Plus agency in Australia and New Zealand

Convert Digital

3.8/5

Price fromQuote only (no price on its site or Clutch)

Best forAustralian and New Zealand brands that want a headless Shopify Plus build or advanced checkout work.

Convert Digital was founded in 2014 and has offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. It lists Australia, the United States and New Zealand as its top markets. Its About page says many of its people work in those Australian offices, alongside Vietnam and the Philippines, so ask who will build your store.

Its two Plus cases are the most technical on this page. Ghanda left Magento for a fully custom headless build on Shopify Plus (the storefront runs separately from Shopify's theme layer): load time down 66%, bounce rate down 38%, revenue up 9.1% within 12 months. Convert Digital also presents Ghanda as the first brand in Australia and New Zealand to adopt Shopify's checkout extensibility. Aje took a 19-week transformation on Shopify Plus; one month after launch, revenue was up 50% and conversion up 27%.

Standout features

Ghanda: headless on Shopify Plus, load time down 66%, revenue up 9.1% in 12 months
Aje: 19 weeks on Shopify Plus, revenue up 50% and conversion up 27% in the first month
Offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
Builds on Shopify and commercetools

+Pros

✓Headless and checkout work with published results
✓Ongoing website support after launch
✓Three offices in Australia's largest east-coast cities

−Cons

✗No price, minimum or method published
✗13 public reviews, all on Google
✗Part of the delivery team is in Vietnam and the Philippines

Verdict

The first call for an Australian brand moving to Plus, especially a headless one. Outside Australia and New Zealand, the agencies above have more reviews and teams in your time zone.

Visit Convert Digital →

Best Shopify Plus agency for a Salesforce Commerce Cloud exit

Domaine

3.8/5

Price fromQuote only (one Clutch review sits in the $200,000 to $999,999 bracket)

Best forLarge brands leaving Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Adobe Commerce, often with several brands or countries.

Domaine has launched 750+ Shopify sites and completed more than 150 migrations to Shopify. Its 300+ full-time team members work remote-first, with locations that include Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam, and it counts more than $5B of total GMV within its portfolio. Shopify verifies its relationships with ASSOULINE, Fenty Beauty, Timex US, The Row, Arhaus and Tupperware Brand. Its work list includes Timex's move from SFCC with four global expansions, and a Hydrogen storefront (Shopify's own headless framework) for Shopify Supply.

Shopify publishes its migration results. On Orveon's three beauty brands, moved from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, average order value rose 10% across the brands; Laura Mercier alone saw 38% and bareMinerals' conversion rose 26%. POLYWOOD's 23-week migration from Adobe Commerce came in 99% on budget, with conversion up 19%.

Standout features

Orveon (bareMinerals, Laura Mercier, Buxom): SFCC to Shopify, average order up 10%
POLYWOOD: 23 weeks from Adobe Commerce, 99% on budget, conversion up 19%
750+ Shopify sites launched, 150+ migrations to Shopify
Hydrogen storefront for Shopify Supply

+Pros

✓Results published by Shopify, not only by the agency
✓A team of 300+ that can run several brands at once
✓B2B work for Olaplex, Industry West, Sunpan and Saris

−Cons

✗Only 2 public reviews
✗No price published; budgets look like enterprise budgets
✗Built for large migrations, less for a brand under a few million in sales

Verdict

On proof alone, Domaine belongs near the top for a large SFCC or Adobe Commerce exit. Its two public reviews and zero price grid are what keep it ninth. Ask Shopify's team or the brands it names how the project ran.

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Best Shopify Plus agency for B2B manufacturers and wholesalers

IM Digital

3.7/5

Price fromQuote only (no price on its site or Clutch)

Best forManufacturers and wholesalers that need Shopify Plus B2B with field sales on top.

IM Digital started in 2010 and has been a Shopify partner since 2016. It works from Boca Raton and New York, in English, Spanish and Portuguese. It has built two products of its own for B2B on Plus: Elevate, which extends Shopify Plus for manufacturers and wholesalers, and Prospect, which handles the field sales cycle for a B2B sales team.

Its biggest named project is American Standard, which it describes as the largest kitchen and bath manufacturer, moved to Shopify Plus. The case with numbers is retail: 260 Sample Sale grew sales 100% in its first year, and average order value rose 16% among customers who redeemed an offer. After launch, its TotalCare service keeps one team with your full context on the account.

Standout features

American Standard: migrated to Shopify Plus
260 Sample Sale: sales up 100% in its first year, average order up 16% among redeeming customers
Elevate and Prospect, its own B2B products
TotalCare support after launch

+Pros

✓Its own B2B products, built on Shopify Plus
✓A large team in the US with ongoing support
✓Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese spoken

−Cons

✗Only 3 public reviews
✗Its only case with figures is a retail one, not B2B
✗No price published anywhere public

Verdict

Shortlist it if you're a manufacturer selling to dealers and distributors. Ask for a B2B reference with figures before signing. To check whether Shopify Plus is even your best B2B platform, see our ranking of B2B ecommerce platforms for manufacturers.

Visit IM Digital →

Also considered

Shopify Plus agencies we compared but did not rank

Each one ranks for this search, appears in a "top Shopify Plus agencies" list you may have read, or holds a high tier on Shopify's directory. Here is the fact that kept it off this list.

Eastside CoPlatinum, and named by most of the lists that rank for this search, but its directory profile says "Not accepting new clients", with an estimated 1 to 5 active projects. You can't hire it today.
Not ranked
BORN (ex-We Make Websites)A Platinum partner that is now part of Tech Mahindra and works as a Shopify global systems integrator from London. No independent reviews to read, and a scale meant for very large accounts.
Not ranked
Coalition TechnologiesIn the top 10 for this search, listed at Premier as "Coalition SEO". It presents itself as an SEO firm first, and we found no Shopify Plus case with a named client and a figure.
Not ranked
Fahrenheit MarketingIn the top 10 for this search with a guide to choosing a Shopify Plus agency, but it is an Austin marketing agency whose home page leads with SEO, paid media and web work for Central Texas businesses, not a Shopify Plus specialist.
Not ranked
PointerA Platinum partner in Ottawa, acquired by ehouse. It's ranked here as part of ehouse.
Not ranked
Blue BadgerPlatinum in Montreal with 11 to 50 people and a 4.4 Google average from 7 reviews, but no case with a named client and a figure.
Not ranked
Overdose.Platinum in South Yarra, Australia. Its published case, Better Music, has no result figure, and Convert Digital covers the same market with two.
Not ranked
FostrPlatinum in Leeds, with an estimated 1 to 5 active projects on its profile, no review and no price.
Not ranked
Charle and UnderwaterpistolTwo London partners that appear in several of these lists. They're ranked on our <a href="/agency/shopify/london">London Shopify agency page</a>, which compares agencies with an office in the city.
Ranked elsewhere
Cake Agency and bluboltUK partners whose profiles serve the United Kingdom only, while this page is for brands across the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
Not ranked
craftberryA Premier partner headquartered in Varna, Bulgaria, outside this page's markets.
Not ranked
LionsorbetPresented as a Shopify Plus agency in one list, at the Select tier, and focused on jewelry brands.
Not ranked
AtwixFirst in one Shopify Plus list, but a Magento-first B2B agency with no Shopify case with figures.
Not ranked
Accenture, Deloitte Digital, Publicis SapientGlobal consultancies at Platinum, with no reviews on Clutch or Google for their Shopify work and no analyst ranking of it.
Not ranked

Before you sign

Make your Shopify Plus project work with an agency, step by step

A Plus project rarely fails on the theme. It fails on a redirect map nobody finished, a checkout rule that no longer runs, or a store that turns out to belong to the agency. These eight steps follow a real migration and close those gaps one by one.

Shortlist on the directory profile, not the agency's site

Week 0

Open each agency's profile on Shopify's partner directory before the first call. It tells you three things the agency's site won't. Whether it takes new clients: Eastside Co's profile says it doesn't. How busy it is: Eastside and Fostr show an estimated 1 to 5 active projects. And which clients Shopify has confirmed, under "Relationships verified by Shopify" (Domaine and Netalico list six each).

Don't trust the tier printed in a blog list. Lists that rank for this search still show old tiers: one calls Swanky "Premier", and it has been Platinum since 2025. And remember the trap above: "Plus Partner" was a tier name, not proof of Plus work. Ask instead how many Shopify Plus builds or migrations the agency shipped in the last 12 months, and for brands at what revenue.

Read on the profile: Active projects, verified clients
Ask: Plus launches in the last 12 months

Scope the migration before anyone quotes

Weeks 1 to 3

Write down what moves: products and variants, customers, orders, subscriptions, B2B price lists, and every URL that ranks on Google. Then list the systems the store talks to: ERP, OMS, warehouse, tax, reviews. Published price guides list B2B and ERP work as separate costs, and the ERP connection belongs in the scope from day one, not after the design.

Plan the overrun too. Published migration guides from Shopify agencies put the typical overrun at 40% to 60% of the first quote, with redirect cleanup as the first item to blow up. Ask for a fixed scope and a written rule for change orders: what sits inside the price, and what doesn't.

Typical overrun: +40% to +60%
Ask for: Fixed scope and change-order rule

Protect your search traffic and your customers' logins

Trap

Two details decide whether launch day is quiet. First, the redirect map: every old product, category and blog URL must point to its new address. Published migration guides warn that skipping it can cost 40% to 70% of organic traffic for 6 to 18 months. A one-star Clutch review of an older ehouse project, from the Pointer side, says exactly that: data erased, Google positions gone.

Second, passwords. Shopify can't import the password hashes of most other platforms, so customers have to reset them, and the same guides expect 60% to 80% of returning customers to do it within 30 days. Ask the agency how it will email them, and test it on your own account before launch.

Without redirects: -40% to -70% organic traffic
Password resets: 60% to 80% within 30 days

Rebuild checkout rules with Functions, not Scripts

2026 change

Shopify Scripts, the custom code Plus merchants used for discount, shipping and payment rules, stopped running in 2026. Their replacement is Shopify Functions, with Checkout UI Extensions for anything you show in the checkout. Some agency guides still tell you to look for "Shopify Scripts experience". That advice is out of date.

Ask each agency for Functions and checkout extensions it has already shipped, with the store's name. Absolute Web and Anatta list Shopify Functions and checkout customization on their directory profiles, and Convert Digital presents Ghanda as the first brand in Australia and New Zealand on Shopify's checkout extensibility. Plan this in the design phase: the Plus checkout is more constrained than a Magento checkout, and every rule needs a home.

Scripts: Stopped running in 2026
Ask for: Functions already shipped

Keep the store, the code and the apps in your name

Contract

You own a Shopify store only if your company holds the store owner account. If the agency opens the store in its partner account, it must transfer it to you, and after the transfer it leaves the agency's organization. Do it early: a transfer fails when Shopify Payments, Balance, Credit or Capital is already switched on, and a transferred store loses access to promotions and free trials.

A standard build contract assigns the intellectual property to you on final payment, but it doesn't give you a login. So ask for three more things. The theme code in a Git repository your company owns. Each app billed through your Shopify account, because a subscription in the agency's name can lapse without warning. And documentation as a deliverable, listed in the contract.

Owner account: In your company's name
Code: In your own Git repository

Budget the full first year, not the build

Year one

Add four lines. The license: $2,500 a month on a 1-year term or $2,300 on a 3-year term, which you can cancel only when the term ends. Payment fees: 0.2% extra on each order if you use a third-party payment provider instead of Shopify Payments, on top of the provider's own rate. The apps, billed monthly. And the agency: the build, then a retainer.

A quick example with published numbers: $27,600 of license, a $40,000 migration like Limitless Walls', and a Netalico-style retainer at its $4,500 average for the months after launch. Shopify charges no setup fee, and its own calculator estimates a five-year total cost against other platforms, so use it, knowing it's the vendor's tool.

License: $2,500/month (1 year), $2,300 (3 years)
Third-party payments: +0.2% per order

Find out who builds, and from where

Ask

An agency's head office says little about its developers. Absolute Web has an office in Lisbon. Convert Digital's team works partly from Vietnam and the Philippines. Netalico, on the other side, promises an in-house Americas team on US hours. None of that is a problem if you know it before you sign.

Ask for the names and roles of the people on your project, the time zone of the developers, and the share of work subcontracted. Then put the name and role of your day-to-day contact in writing. One Netalico client on Clutch regrets changing account managers several times: a clause avoids it.

Ask: Where the developers work
In writing: Your day-to-day contact

Plan the 90 days after launch

After launch

Launch is when the bugs you didn't test show up: a tax rule, a B2B price list, a Function that blocks one shipping zone. Ask what the first 90 days after launch look like: who watches the store, how fast they fix, and what it costs. Several agencies here publish their after-launch offer: Avex's 360 Total Support, IM Digital's TotalCare, Anatta's retainers, ehouse's managed integration platform.

Netalico is the agency that publishes the full model: bi-weekly check-ins, monthly progress reports and urgent support, from $3,700 a month. Published agency guides put a Plus development retainer at $8,000 to $25,000 a month. Ask how many hours you get, how long they stay valid (6 months at Netalico) and what falls outside the retainer.

Retainer range: $3,700 to $25,000/month
Ask: Hours, validity, exclusions

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Buyer's guide

Shopify Plus agency, freelancer or in-house: who should do the work?

Not every Plus store needs an agency, and not every brand needs Plus. The choice depends on what you're moving from, how many systems the store talks to, and whether someone on your team can own the store day to day. Here is how the options compare, with the prices that Shopify and agencies publish.

Check first that you need Shopify Plus

Plus starts at $2,500 a month on a 1-year term or $2,300 on a 3-year term. Advanced, the plan below Plus, costs $399 a month billed monthly, or $299 billed yearly, and charges 0.6% on orders paid through a third-party provider, against 0.2% on Plus. Some agencies say openly that Plus only makes sense above a certain size: Coalition Technologies puts the sweet spot at $5M to $20M in revenue for a DTC brand. Netalico builds roadmaps to Plus for brands that aren't there yet. And read the help center's fine print: for more complex, higher-volume businesses, Shopify may add a variable platform fee on top of the license, based on revenue and on whether you sell B2B or DTC. Ask for it in writing before you sign. If you're unsure Shopify is the right platform at all, our ranking of enterprise ecommerce platforms and our list of Shopify Plus alternatives compare it with the rest.

Use what Shopify gives you for free

The partner directory is free and filters by tier, location, language, years as a partner, markets, industries and services. Its profiles show the top markets, industries and services of each partner, based on four years of Shopify data. Shopify's help center, developer docs and changelog are free too, and so is its total cost calculator. You can try Plus for $399. Shopify's Plus page also points to Premium Support and Professional Services, without describing their content there, so ask your Shopify contact.

Stay in-house for a store already on Shopify

A brand already on Shopify that moves up to Plus without changing its theme or its ERP can often do the switch with its own team and the help center, then hire an agency on retainer for specific work. Give one person the owner account, the app billing and the checkout rules. If your team needs to level up first, our ranking of ecommerce courses lists programs with prices and certificates.

Hire a freelancer for one clear job

A single Shopify developer is enough for a defined task on a store that already runs: a theme section, one Function, an app setup. Keep the work in your own Git repository and your own store, so the next person can pick it up. A freelancer isn't the right fit for a migration with data, redirects and an ERP: if they're away on launch week, nobody else knows the project.

Hire a Plus agency on retainer once the store carries the business

When the store makes millions and every change touches checkout, apps and integrations, a retainer buys you a team that knows your setup. Netalico publishes the clearest grid: $3,700 to $10,000 a month, around $4,500 on average, or prepaid hours at $165 to $185. Published agency guides place Plus development retainers at $8,000 to $25,000 a month. Clutch minimums for one-off projects run from $5,000 (Netalico) and $10,000 (Absolute Web, Praella) to $25,000 (ehouse, Avex) and $100,000 (Anatta).

Hire an integrator for a migration from Magento or SFCC

Moving from Magento, Adobe Commerce or Salesforce Commerce Cloud is a different budget. Published migration guides from Shopify agencies put a simple WooCommerce move to Plus around $50K, and a Magento Commerce move with B2B and an ERP at $500K or more. They put a Magento 1 migration at $125K to $300K over 5 to 9 months, and an SFCC one at $250K to $600K over 7 to 12 months. Another published guide places agency-assisted mid-market replatforms at $15,000 to $75,000 and enterprise Plus replatforms at $80,000 to $200,000 or more. The published projects here took 19 to 23 weeks (Aje, POLYWOOD, PEARL iZUMi), and buybuy BABY went live in 31 days.

Who holds the store owner account, the app billing and the theme repository?
How many Shopify Plus launches did the agency ship in the last 12 months, and at what revenue?
What does its directory profile say: tier, active projects, verified clients, accepting new clients?
Which Shopify Functions and checkout extensions has it already shipped?
Who writes and tests the redirect map, and how will customers reset their passwords?
Is the ERP or OMS connection in the scope and the price from day one?
What sits inside the fixed scope, and what counts as a change order?
Where do the developers work, and who is your named day-to-day contact?
What do the first 90 days after launch include, and what does the retainer cost?
Case studies with a named client, a period and a base you can check

FAQ

Questions buyers ask about Shopify Plus agencies

What does a Shopify Plus agency actually do?
It plans and runs the move to Shopify Plus, then keeps the store growing. In practice: migrating products, customers, orders and subscriptions from another platform, building the theme or a headless storefront, rebuilding checkout rules with Shopify Functions, connecting the ERP, OMS and warehouse, and handling B2B price lists and several country storefronts. Most of the agencies on this page also sell a retainer after launch for fixes, conversion work and new features. Tip: ask which of those the quote covers, because the build and the upkeep are often priced apart.
What's the difference between a Shopify Plus Expert and a Shopify Plus Partner?
Both labels sound like a skill in the Plus plan, and neither is a grade of your project's quality. "Plus Partner" was a tier on Shopify's partner directory, sitting between Select and Premier, and Platinum above them. "Shopify Plus Expert" was an earlier accreditation: Swanky, for example, was one of the first three agencies in Europe to receive it, in 2016. In 2027 Shopify replaces Select, Plus and Premier with Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond, set by the sales volume and the number of shops credited to a partner. Tip: judge an agency on the Plus stores it launched recently and their results, and read the tier as a measure of its volume with Shopify.
Does a Shopify Plus agency work only with Shopify Plus merchants?
No. Several agencies on this page work outside Plus too: Absolute Web has Magento and WooCommerce clients, Convert Digital also builds on commercetools, and Netalico draws up a roadmap to Plus for brands that aren't on it yet. What really filters clients is the minimum budget. A Clutch minimum of $10,000 (Absolute Web, Praella) or $25,000 (ehouse, Avex) already leaves small stores out, and Anatta starts at $100,000.
How much does a Shopify Plus agency cost?
Count on $5,000 to $100,000 for a first project with a ranked agency, more for a large migration, then $3,700 to $25,000 a month if you keep it on retainer. Those bounds come from the agencies' Clutch minimums and Netalico's published retainers. Add the Plus license on top: $2,300 a month at least, so $27,600 a year, plus 0.2% per order if you pay through a third-party provider. Tip: ask for the build as a fixed price and the retainer as a separate line, so you can compare two quotes line by line.
How long does a migration to Shopify Plus take?
Plan 4 weeks to 9 months, depending on where you come from. A small WooCommerce store can move in 4 weeks (Swanky's Salon Supplies and Furniture). The published Plus migrations here took 19 weeks (Aje) to 23 weeks (POLYWOOD from Adobe Commerce, PEARL iZUMi). Published guides put a Magento 1 migration at 5 to 9 months and a Salesforce Commerce Cloud one at 7 to 12. Add a few weeks of scoping before the clock starts, and keep the old platform's contract until the redirects are live.
Who owns the store and the code if you part ways with the agency?
You do, if your company holds the store owner account and the contract assigns the code to you. If the agency created the store in its partner account, ask for the transfer early: it fails once Shopify Payments, Balance, Credit or Capital is active. Then check three things: the theme code in a Git repository in your name, each app billed through your Shopify account, and written documentation delivered before the last payment.
Can a Shopify Plus agency still use Shopify Scripts?
No. Shopify Scripts stopped running in 2026. Discount, shipping and payment rules now run on Shopify Functions, and anything shown in the checkout uses Checkout UI Extensions. If your store still relied on Scripts, ask the agency to list each one and its replacement. Shopify's own report of your Script customizations says which ones become Functions and which become public apps.
Is a Platinum partner always better than a Premier one?
No. Platinum today and the new tiers in 2027 measure the sales and the number of shops credited to a partner, not the quality of its work. On this page, Premier partner Netalico ranks above six Platinum agencies, because it publishes its prices and has 28 reviews. Platinum still tells you the agency has shipped many Plus stores. Tip: read the tier on Shopify's directory itself, since several blog lists still print old tiers.
Should your Shopify Plus agency be in your time zone?
Yes for support, less for the build. A checkout that breaks during a sale needs someone awake to fix it. On this page, Absolute Web, Anatta, ehouse, Avex, Praella, Domaine and IM Digital have their head office in the US, and ehouse has a second office in Ottawa; Absolute Web also has an office in Lisbon, and Domaine works remote-first with a team in Amsterdam. Netalico promises an Americas team on US hours. Swanky works from the UK and Australia, and Convert Digital from Australia with part of its team in Vietnam and the Philippines. Tip: write the support hours and their time zone into the contract, next to the response time.