Top 30 Shopify Agencies in the US Ranked by Tier [2026]

Last updated: October 2026

This guide covers 30 Shopify agencies that work with US brands, sorted into Platinum, Premier, and Plus by the tier each one holds in Shopify's Partner Directory today.

Every tier below was checked on the agency's own directory profile on October 1, 2026, the day Shopify's quarterly tier update took effect. Nine agencies are now in a different tier than our March edition showed, so the sections changed. Shero is one of them: we moved up to Platinum this quarter.

The order inside each tier is alphabetical and does not reflect any preference. I know most of the founders of these agencies personally. Each profile covers what the agency specializes in, who they're a good fit for, and clients you can check yourself.

Quick snapshot: 30 Shopify agencies across 3 tiers

Here is how the 30 agencies split by tier:

Which agencies changed tiers since March 2026

Shopify updates partner tiers every quarter, on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1. Here is who moved since our March edition:

Tiers move in both directions, so we recheck the directory before every update.

What the Shopify partner tiers actually mean

Shopify relaunched its Partner Program in January 2025 with five tiers for service partners: Registered, Select, Plus, Premier, and Platinum. According to Shopify's tiering guide, placement is based on commercial impact alone. Certifications no longer count toward a tier.

An agency qualifies through the stronger of two revenue measures, plus a minimum number of new merchants it brought to Shopify:

Revenue also counts over a trailing five years. New merchants count over five years for Select and Plus, and over two years for Premier and Platinum.

Here is how the 837 tiered service partners serving the US break down today, according to Shopify's Partner Directory:

A tier measures the business an agency has brought to Shopify. It says nothing about team size or technical range. A 15 person Platinum shop focused on fashion brands may lack the depth for a complex B2B migration with ERP integration.

Use tier as a starting filter, then judge the agency on capabilities, people, and whether they have solved your problem before. If your store does $10M+ a year, I would not go below Plus.

How to actually evaluate a Shopify agency

A pretty portfolio wins agency deals all the time, and it says little about how your project will go. In 16 years of watching brands pick agencies, the best predictor of success has been the people on the account, ahead of price or case studies.

I have seen brands pick an agency on the strength of a pitch deck, then watch the senior team that sold the project disappear after kickoff and hand the work to junior staff. Ask who will be on your account and how long those people have been at the agency. That conversation tells you more than any portfolio.

Here is how we would weigh the decision:

1. Ask what platforms they have migrated from

Every agency in Shopify's directory has Shopify experience. The question is whether they understand the platform you are leaving. An agency that has done complex Magento or Salesforce Commerce Cloud migrations knows where Shopify Plus is strong and where it needs workarounds.

2. Post-launch support model

The build is about 30% of the relationship. The other 70% is what happens after launch. Ask about retainer structure, marketing, SEO, response times, and who you will work with once the project team rolls off.

3. Technical vs. creative balance

Agencies lean either design first or engineering first. A brand that needs complex ERP integration should not hire a design agency, however good the portfolio looks, and a brand that needs a redesign should not hire a pure engineering shop.

4. References from your weight class

A brand doing $2M a year online has very different needs than one doing $50M. Ask for references from brands of similar size and complexity. If they cannot produce them, that tells you something.

5. Niche expertise

Look for a clear niche: B2B, CPG, beauty, outdoor, alcohol, or migrations. A specialist who has solved your exact problem three times is worth more than a generalist who has solved a hundred different problems once.

Questions to ask a Shopify agency before you hire

We put together the questions we would ask if we were hiring an agency ourselves. Use them on every call.

Download the checklist

How much does a Shopify agency cost by partner tier?

Platinum agencies take projects from $50K to $200K and up, Premier agencies from $25K to $200K, and Plus partners from $5K to $75K. Prices also vary by location, team size, and experience, so use these ranges to set expectations before proposals come in.

For a breakdown of what drives Shopify project costs, see our pricing guide.

Shopify Platinum partners

Platinum is the top tier of Shopify's partner program. These agencies bring Shopify the most revenue and take on the largest enterprise builds and migrations.

Absolute Web

absoluteweb.com | Miami | Platinum

Absolute Web has been building eCommerce sites since 1999, which makes it one of the longest running agencies on this list. It does design, development, and marketing under one roof, plus B2B work that covers ERP, PIM, and CRM integrations.

The team is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Best for: Brands that want one full service partner for both DTC and B2B.

Anatta

anatta.io | Austin, TX | Platinum

Anatta was founded in 2008 and works only on Shopify. It led Grove Collaborative's move from a decade old custom platform to Shopify while keeping its subscription logic intact.

For Vuori, Anatta added a product and engineering team of 10+ full time people alongside Vuori's own team, covering Checkout Extensibility and POS.

Best for: Enterprise brands ($50M+) on custom stacks that need headless architecture, multi warehouse logic, and ERP integration.

Arctic Grey

arcticgrey.com | New York | Platinum

Arctic Grey has built over 1,000 Shopify stores and holds a 5.0 rating across 185 reviews in the Shopify Partner Directory. The work centers on custom themes, ERP integration, and app development.

Best for: Brands that need custom theme development, app integrations, or a full store migration at scale.

Avenue Z

avenuez.com | Miami / New York | Platinum

Avenue Z is a performance marketing agency founded in 2023 by Jeffrey Herzog, who earlier built iCrossing and sold it to Hearst. In February 2026 it acquired Varfaj, a Shopify partner founded in 2018, and Avenue Z says the combined team has completed more than 500 Shopify builds.

The same team builds the store and drives traffic to it through paid media, PR, and AI search.

Best for: DTC brands that want Shopify development and performance marketing from one partner.

Avex

avexdesigns.com | New York | Platinum

Avex moved from Premier to Platinum in October 2025. With Shopify it built Outgrown the Homegrown, a structured path for brands stuck on custom commerce stacks to move to Shopify, with measurable results in under four months.

The team connects DTC, B2B, and in store sales on Shopify.

Best for: Brands leaving a custom platform that want a structured, low risk replatforming process.

Barrel

barrelny.com | New York | Platinum

Barrel is a CPG focused agency with a deep food and beverage portfolio, from McCormick to Bobo's and Once Upon a Farm.

Barrel is minority owned and maintains the open source Shopify Vite plugin, which logged about 670,000 npm downloads in the past year. It also publishes DTC Patterns, a research library of 300+ articles on how shoppers buy online.

Best for: CPG, food and beverage, and lifestyle brands that want polished design with Shopify Plus development.

Bear

beargroup.com | Charleston / Seattle | Platinum

Bear Group merged with Scoutside, a Charleston creative agency, in 2023 and now operates as Bear, led by former Scoutside CEO Thomas McCutchen. The merger added strategy, design, and CRO to an engineering team that works across Shopify, Adobe Commerce, and Drupal.

Bear lists platform migrations among its core services. Client work includes Clearly Filtered, Fresh Meal Plan, Stratia Skin, and Kravet, delivered by a 43 person team in Seattle and Charleston.

Best for: Mid market B2B and DTC brands that want a technical partner for builds, migrations, integrations, and ongoing CRO.

CQL

cqlcorp.com | Grand Rapids, MI / Chicago | Platinum

CQL acquired Riess Group, another Platinum partner, in September 2025 and calls the combined firm the leading global Shopify agency for unified commerce. The deal brought Riess Group's Shopify POS and omnichannel team in house.

CQL is backed by Superstep Capital. If your project connects online and physical retail, this is CQL's main focus.

Best for: Brands that need unified commerce across digital and physical retail, especially POS.

Domaine

domaineworldwide.com | New York | Platinum

Domaine has a 300+ person team backed by BV Investment Partners. It formed from the 2023 merger of Tomorrow and Half Helix, then acquired Code, a European Shopify partner, in June 2025.

Its strength is large enterprise migrations from Salesforce Commerce Cloud and custom stacks. In October 2025 it launched a Europe migration program with Shopify.

Best for: Mid market and enterprise brands with complex migrations, multi market rollouts, or headless builds.

eHouse

ehousestudio.com | Charleston, SC | Platinum

eHouse reports 145 retained clients and 1,300+ launches, built partly through the acquisitions of Pointer Creative, Commerce12, and VL OMNI. VL OMNI is an integration platform, so eHouse can connect ERP, EDI, and other back office systems through its own platform instead of a separate integration vendor.

The agency is backed by Periscope Equity.

Best for: Mid market and enterprise brands that need deep system integrations and a long term partner.

Praella

praella.com | Chicago | Platinum

Praella announced its move from Premier to Platinum in March 2026, less than a year after reaching Premier. The team of 135+ covers UX and design, CRO, integrations, migrations, custom apps, and subscriptions, and reports 1,000+ projects launched.

Its project list includes CrunchLabs, Fenty Beauty, Billie Eilish Fragrances, Rad Power Bikes, and KidKraft. Praella is also a certified Great Place to Work.

Best for: Growth and enterprise DTC brands that want design, CRO, and development from one Chicago based team.

Shero Commerce

sherocommerce.com | Red Hook, NY | Platinum

Yes, we are listing ourselves.

We have been building eCommerce since 2010, with 65 people across the US, UK, Albania, and Finland. We take the projects other agencies find difficult: migrations with tens of thousands of SKUs and custom pricing logic, B2B work that goes past native Shopify tools, and ERP, PIM, and fulfillment integrations that hold up in production.

We also do marketing, SEO, and CRO in house. We have worked on Magento, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce, so we know the system you are leaving as well as the one you are moving to.

Best for: Mid market and enterprise brands ($5M to $200M+ GMV) with complex migration, B2B, or integration needs that want senior people on the account from start to finish.

Third and Grove

thirdandgrove.com | Boston | Platinum

Third and Grove (TAG) works with beauty, CPG, apparel, footwear, and outdoor brands. It reached Platinum in October 2025 by acquiring Elva, a Platinum partner whose work includes Stanley 1913, Hey Dude, and bareMinerals.

TAG has deep Drupal roots and stays privately owned with no outside investors. Its managed services model suits brands that want steady improvement after launch.

Best for: Beauty, CPG, and consumer brands that want design, development, and managed services under one roof.

Uncap

uncap.com | Chicago | Platinum

In its October 2025 Platinum announcement, Uncap described itself as the only Platinum systems integrator focused exclusively on Shopify B2B. Manufacturers and distributors come to it for ordering portals, customer specific pricing, and ERP integration on Shopify Plus.

Migration projects start with a fixed $7,500 Blueprint that is credited toward the build and ends in a fixed cost estimate. Uncap holds a 5.0 rating across 65 directory reviews.

Best for: Mid market manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers that need ordering portals, ERP integration, and complex wholesale workflows.

Shopify Premier partners

Premier partners handle enterprise work with smaller teams and more senior involvement on each account. This tier fits brands doing $5M to $50M a year.

20North

20northmarketing.com | Atlanta | Premier

20North is a growth marketing agency with Shopify development attached. SEO, paid media, email, and CRO lead the work, with store builds, theme work, and migrations also on offer.

It helped BRUCE BOLT triple advertising sales to over $1M a month and holds a 5.0 rating across 18 directory reviews.

Best for: Brands whose store is solid but whose traffic and conversion need work.

Ambaum

ambaum.com | Burien, WA | Premier

Ambaum was built by former merchants and works like a fractional CTO: technical leadership for scaling brands juggling multiple apps, custom integrations, or a replatform. It holds a 5.0 rating across 28 directory reviews.

Best for: Growth stage B2B, wholesale, and manufacturing brands that want a technical partner.

Americaneagle.com

americaneagle.com | Des Plaines, IL + offices worldwide | Premier

Americaneagle.com is the largest agency on this list by headcount, with 750+ employees. It started in 1978, built its first website in 1995, and has launched nearly 20,000 websites and digital experiences.

It is family owned and works on Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Salesforce, Sitecore, and more. Its Shopify team holds 30+ Shopify certifications.

Best for: Enterprise and mid market brands that want a large, established agency with multi platform depth.

Electric Eye

electriceye.io | Columbus, OH | Premier

Electric Eye was founded in 2016 in Columbus by Chase Clymer and Shawn Khemsurov. It works only on Shopify, covering design, development, migrations, and CRO retainers, with 100+ stores launched.

It holds a 5.0 rating across 65 directory reviews.

Best for: DTC brands that want a Shopify only team for builds, migrations, and ongoing conversion work.

Irish Titan

irishtitan.com | Minneapolis | Premier

Irish Titan was founded in 2004 and runs a 100% in house team: no contractors, no freelancers, no offshore resources. It works across Shopify, BigCommerce, and Shopware.

Client results include Tradehome Shoes and White Oak Pastures.

Best for: Mid market B2B and DTC brands that want a fully in house team.

Minion

minionmade.com | Saint James, NY | Premier

Minion builds the custom Shopify apps and integrations a theme cannot handle. For Madison Avenue Couture it built a consignment app for luxury resale, and for Galiano Wine it routed orders to warehouses on both coasts.

It also built ShopSTR, its own booking platform for vacation rental hosts on Shopify's Draft Order API. Minion holds a 5.0 rating across 210 reviews, the most of any Premier agency on this list.

Best for: Brands that need custom apps, integrations, or automation on top of their Shopify store.

Sleepless Media

sleeplessmedia.com | Scotts Valley, CA | Premier

Sleepless Media has a deep niche in outdoor, lifestyle, and adventure brands. It says it was one of the first agencies hand selected by Shopify Plus, and it has been a Shopify Expert since 2012.

If you sell outdoor gear, its portfolio is full of brands like yours, from LifeStraw to Tepui.

Best for: Outdoor, adventure, CPG, and lifestyle brands that want custom design from a long tenured Shopify specialist.

Sweden Unlimited

swedenunlimited.com | New York | Premier

Sweden Unlimited is a design led agency for luxury, fashion, and beauty brands, founded in 2000 by Richard Agerbeek and twin sisters Leja and Alex Kress. It has built on Shopify Plus since 2017.

The client list shows its creative roots: Mansur Gavriel, Lunya, Cara Cara, Blu Dot, Outdoor Voices, and Assouline.

Best for: Luxury, fashion, and beauty brands where brand experience comes first.

Shopify Plus partners

The Plus agencies below are smaller specialists in one vertical or one service. Do not rule this tier out for complex work: the alcohol, private label, and SAP specialists on this list are all here.

Aeolidia

aeolidia.com | Seattle | Plus

Aeolidia is a women led Shopify Plus partner with an all senior, in house team and no outsourcing. It pairs branding with Shopify design and development for founder led creative brands in stationery, jewelry, skincare, and kids products.

Store builds start at $12,000, and the agency holds a 5.0 rating across 113 directory reviews.

Best for: Founder led brands that want branding and a Shopify store designed together.

Bemeir

bemeir.com | Brooklyn, NY | Plus

Bemeir was founded in 2014 by Maier Bianchi and has built on Shopify since then, alongside Magento, Shopware, and BigCommerce. That background suits brands moving to Shopify from Magento, since the team knows both sides of the migration.

For Anatomie it supports a Shopify Plus store, including a design update and conversion work ahead of Black Friday that Bemeir reports led to record holiday results. For Alumni of NY it built a custom Shopify theme with easier content management. Bemeir also lists 60+ technology partnerships across payments, shipping, and tax.

Best for: Brands on Magento or another platform that want a migration partner who knows both systems.

Ethercycle

ethercycle.com | Skokie, IL | Plus

Ethercycle has worked only on Shopify since 2014 and only takes independent brands that sell their own private label products. Its team redesigned the Montana Knife Company store around the brand's weekly knife drops and moved oVertone from a custom headless build to native Shopify within 60 days.

Ethercycle also hosts The Unofficial Shopify Podcast, with 2.2M+ downloads. It holds a 5.0 rating across 76 directory reviews.

Best for: Private label DTC brands that want custom themes and conversion work from a Shopify only team.

Fuel Made

fuelmade.com | Colbert, WA | Plus

Fuel Made has been a Shopify partner since 2011 and pairs Shopify design and development with Klaviyo email, SMS, and CRO. It holds Klaviyo Master Elite status, which Fuel Made says puts it in the top 1% of Klaviyo partners.

If you want your Shopify build and your email and SMS program run by one team, Fuel Made is a strong option.

Best for: DTC brands that need retention marketing with Shopify development.

Metacake

metacake.com | Franklin, TN | Plus

Metacake pairs Shopify builds with growth marketing: paid media, email, strategy, and coaching for the brand owner. It has been a Shopify partner since 2012 and also works with creators who want to launch their own product lines.

For Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams it built a custom connection between Shopify Plus and ShipStation to fix order syncing during the migration. For Tony Robbins it embedded Shopify Plus buy buttons across a WordPress content site. It holds a 4.9 rating across 17 directory reviews.

Best for: DTC brands and creators that want the Shopify build and the marketing that follows from one team.

Verbal+Visual

vpv.co | New York | Plus

Verbal+Visual builds what it calls digital flagships for consumer brands. Its Jonathan Adler work, featured on the Shopify Partners blog, reported a 163% revenue increase and a 65% conversion rate lift with Shopify Plus and POS.

It is also behind the Carhartt WIP US digital flagship, Faherty, and Patrick Ta Beauty.

Best for: Fashion, lifestyle, and home brands that want a design driven Shopify Plus partner.

Whirlwind eCommerce

whirlwind-ecommerce.com | Bethesda, MD | Plus

Whirlwind eCommerce has served 200+ eCommerce clients since 1999 and specializes in alcohol brands selling direct. It moves wineries to Shopify from WineDirect, Commerce7, VinSuite, and OrderPort.

As a Vinoshipper integration partner, it keeps Shopify on the storefront while Vinoshipper handles alcohol compliance, tax, and fulfillment. Fashion clients include BCBG and Ben Sherman, and food clients include Harbor Sweets.

Best for: Wineries, spirits, and other alcohol brands moving direct to consumer sales to Shopify.

Zaelab

zaelab.com | Westport, CT | Plus

Zaelab acquired Trellis in November 2024, then merged with Techmates Group in June 2025, bringing the team to 350+ people. Its roots are in B2B and enterprise commerce for manufacturers and distributors.

On Shopify it built a headless store with SAP for Pelican. In October 2025 it took an investment from ServiceNow's venture arm.

Best for: Mid market and enterprise B2B brands that need SAP or ERP integration alongside Shopify.

When you should NOT hire an agency

Not every store needs an agency, and that is coming from someone who runs one.

If you are doing under $1M in annual revenue and your needs are simple (pick a theme, set up products, connect Klaviyo), a freelancer at $75 to $125 per hour will serve you better than an agency at $150 to $200+ per hour. You will get more attention and spend less.

A Shopify development agency makes sense when the work outgrows one person: multi warehouse fulfillment, B2B plus DTC on the same store, complex ERP integrations, headless architecture, or migrations with 10,000+ SKUs.

Conclusion

Before you sign, ask every agency on your shortlist for the most complex project they have completed that looks like yours, then ask to speak with that client. Their answer will tell you more than any list, this one included.

If your project involves a migration, B2B, or ERP integration, tell us what you are working with and we will give you an honest read on scope, timeline, and budget.

Frequently asked questions about Shopify agencies