Best Shopify Agencies for 2027: 10 Teams Worth Shortlisting

1. craftberry

craftberry is a Shopify Premier Partner with 11+ years on the platform, working with mid-sized and large ecommerce brands that generate $2M or more a year. 

Strategy, design, development, and optimization sit in one all-in-house team, so a brand briefs one group instead of coordinating several vendors, whether it is moving off WooCommerce, Magento, Shopware, or BigCommerce or improving a live store. 

That includes UX/UI design, custom development, CRO, and ongoing maintenance after launch.

Some of the clients are On, the Swiss footwear brand whose Shopify Plus store for the UAE launched in 11 weeks with a custom theme and ERP and 3PL integrations; 

Vivo, whose official online store went live in three European markets in 8 weeks; and Enhance, a Tesla accessories brand moved to a rebuilt Shopify store, where a single A/B test later lifted conversion by 21%,

Best for: brands that want a launch, a redesign, or a migration handled alongside testing and support, without handing the store between vendors.

2. Alaska Agency

Alaska Agency is a self-described boutique agency in Braga, Portugal, that builds Shopify stores alongside branding, UX/UI, packaging, and visual identity. It sets up local payment methods such as MB Way and Multibanco and offers email, social, and search marketing as an option.

For Quad Padel, a Portuguese padel brand, the team created the branding, the product and packaging design, and the full Shopify store, including racket-characteristics sections on product pages. Swimwear label Frambooesas moved from WooCommerce to a redesigned Shopify store.

Best for: young DTC brands that need identity, product design and a store from one small team.

3. 8Kilo

8Kilo is an Aarhus agency that builds online stores only on Shopify, and says it has been Shopify-certified since 2015. Its services include custom UX/UI design, B2B and wholesale shops, checkout flow, page speed, Klaviyo setup and ERP integration.

For Danish design brand UMAGE, it merged four clone shops into one store using Shopify Markets. For home-interior brand Nordal, it built a webshop that unifies B2B and B2C with a customized checkout.

Best for: Nordic and European brands that sell in several markets or run B2B alongside DTC.

4. Okaia

Okaia is a Rotterdam collective of designers, developers, and strategists that builds Shopify stores in a modular way, so clients can add and edit pages in Shopify's CMS themselves. It publishes starting prices, with e-commerce projects from €20,000.

Its work includes Kinfill, a store built around selling subscriptions, and Skjur, a skincare platform with video, micro-animations and a smart cart upsell. The studio says it has no ambition to become a large agency.

Best for: design-led DTC brands, such as skincare or subscription businesses, with budget for a bespoke build.

5. Dash Creative

Dash Creative is a London studio that calls itself a branding agency specialised in ecommerce, run by a lean team of ten. It builds and redesigns Shopify 2.0 stores for fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands and has been a Shopify partner since 2015.

For WatchHouse, a London coffee brand, it designed and built a new Shopify 2.0 storefront with UX improvements, Klaviyo and Stamped integrations and conversion work. The project earned an Awwwards honorable mention.

Best for: fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands that want brand and store design handled together.

6. Blue Horizons

Blue Horizons is a small independent team in Gloucester, established in 2002, covering Shopify design, development, theme upgrades, B2B and wholesale builds, branding, packaging and Klaviyo email. It lists Shopify support packages from £180 plus VAT a month, with up to two hours of work and a dedicated account manager, and also supports stores it did not build.

Clients include Cote at Home, a WordPress-to-Shopify move with design, development and Shopify training for the client's team.

Best for: small, growing UK food, drink and lifestyle brands that want design, build and a priced support plan from one team.

7. Studio Seagraves

Studio Seagraves is a St. Louis studio founded in 2015 that works on Shopify and Shopify Plus, with strategy, theme-based or custom design and development, Klaviyo email, and fractional creative direction. 

Founder Amber Seagraves works directly with clients, and specialists join when the work calls for them.

For VoCÊ Haircare, it refreshed the Shopify site and launched Klaviyo email ahead of Black Friday. The studio reports a 28% lift in email-attributed revenue for that first holiday campaign.

Best for: consumer and lifestyle brands in fashion, home and beauty that want senior, founder-led creative direction.

8. Commence Studio

Commence Studio is a Reno team that describes itself as twelve people with eleven years behind it. It builds custom Shopify Plus themes, app stacks and integrations, with DTC and B2B in one store, and runs brand identity work and a monthly growth retainer with quarterly reviews.

For Derby Barber and Supply, it delivered brand identity, a Shopify Plus build and a subscription portal, and the case study reports D2C revenue up 187% in the first year. For Sorella Apothecary, it moved WooCommerce to a custom Shopify Plus storefront with a wholesale quick-order interface.

Best for: growth-stage DTC and DTC plus B2B brands in beauty, food and drink and lifestyle.

9. Studio Almond

Studio Almond is an Auckland studio, co-founded in 2016, that builds bespoke Shopify and Shopify Plus stores with UX/UI design, custom Shopify apps, Klaviyo strategy and B2B builds. Its studio page lists 14 people across the studio and its Labs arm.

For Muse, a boutique fashion retailer with five New Zealand stores, it replaced a bought theme with a bespoke design, a mega menu and size guides. The project was a 2024 NZ Best Awards finalist.

Best for: premium fashion, beauty and design-led brands that want a UX-led custom build.

10. DAC Design

DAC Design is a Sydney design studio that sets up new Shopify stores, upgrades older themes to Online Store 2.0 and offers ongoing support, custom theme work and integrations with systems such as Cin7, Lightspeed POS and NetSuite.

For NUNE Apparel, it built a restrained design system with product pathways for sleepwear, underwear and loungewear, plus fit guidance and mix-and-match.

Best for: Australian and New Zealand consumer brands that need B2B, POS or ERP links.

How do I choose a Shopify agency?

Start with scope. Match each agency's stated services to your next 12 months, whether that is a launch, a migration, or ongoing testing, then ask for a named case study and meet the person who would run your account. 

The Shopify Partner Directory lets you filter by price, location, services, and partner tier, and read reviews and work samples.

Should I hire a small studio or a larger team?

A small studio suits a focused project and direct access to the people doing the work. A larger all-in-house team such as craftberry suits brands past $2M a year that want migration, design, development, CRO, and maintenance to stay with one team after launch.

How fast should a rebuilt store be?

Google's Core Web Vitals give the benchmark: Largest Contentful Paint at 2.5 seconds or less, Interaction to Next Paint at 200 milliseconds or less, and Cumulative Layout Shift at 0.1 or less, measured at the 75th percentile on mobile and desktop. 

Ask any agency how it measures these before and after a launch.

Why does checkout matter when comparing agencies?

Baymard Institute puts the average documented cart abandonment rate at 70.22%, based on 50 studies, so cart and checkout design deserve a place in every brief. Ask each agency what it has changed there and how it measured the result.

• Web Vitals, web.dev

• Cart abandonment rate statistics, Baymard Institute

• Shopify Partner Directory