9 Best Shopify Premier Partners to Work with in 2026

Picking a Shopify agency off a badge is how brands end up paying enterprise rates for a theme tweak. A Shopify Premier Partner has cleared real commercial thresholds with Shopify, which shrinks the field before you ever compare fit.

So I compared 9 Shopify Premier Partner agencies on four things: the tier and rating on each agency's own Shopify Partner Directory profile, their published case studies, their Clutch reviews (the one-star ones included) and what a project actually costs to start. Research was done in October 2026, and self-reported numbers are marked as such.

Best Shopify Premier Partners: Comparison Table

Ratings and starting prices come from each agency's Shopify Partner Directory profile and Clutch. "Custom quote" means the agency publishes no price.

What is a Shopify Premier Partner?

A Shopify Premier Partner is a service partner in the Premier tier of the Shopify Partner Program, whose partner tiers run Registered, Select, Plus, Premier and Platinum. Second from the top. Shopify recalculates every tier four times a year, on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1.

According to Shopify's Q4 2026 tiering guide, a Premier agency needs at least $2 million in new referral and co-sell revenue, or $10 million from existing merchants it supports. Shopify takes whichever is stronger, measured over the trailing five years. On top of that the agency has to bring in four or more net-new Shopify Plus or Enterprise merchants within two years.

How many Shopify Premier Partners are there? When I filtered the Shopify Partner Directory by tier in October 2026, it showed 180 Premier service partners. Platinum had 140 and Plus had 1,019.

How to choose a Shopify Premier Partner

Every agency below can handle larger Shopify Plus work. Whether it can handle yours comes down to a handful of checks:

• Matching proof. Ask for a case study on your old platform, at your catalog size, in your market. A Magento migration and a B2B portal are different jobs.
• The actual team. Premier agencies here range from under 10 people to 250+. Find out who works your account and whether anything gets subcontracted.
• How you pay after launch. Fixed-scope builds, monthly retainers and hourly blocks behave very differently once the store is live, so ask how overages get billed.
• Handover. Thin documentation and rushed training were the complaints I saw most often in reviews. Put both in the contract.
• App judgment. Plenty of average order value (AOV) work needs no developer at all, and a good agency says so. Kaching merchant Axzenia set up bundles on its best-selling posture corrector with Kaching Bundles App & Upsells, no outside devs involved, and added 23% to AOV and $109,800 in revenue.

1. craftberry

craftberry is a Shopify agency for mid-sized and large ecommerce brands doing $2M+ in annual revenue. As a Shopify Premier Partner with 11+ years of Shopify experience, its in-house team handles strategy, design, development, and optimization, covering the full ecommerce lifecycle from migration through to ongoing maintenance.

Key strengths

• Migrations from WooCommerce, Magento, Shopware and BigCommerce
• UX/UI design and custom development
• Shopify subscriptions
• Conversion rate optimization (CRO)
• Ongoing maintenance and support

Best for

Growing ecommerce brands that want one Shopify partner to handle everything from migration and design to development, CRO, and long-term support.

Case studies

Shelly is the case study I would read first. craftberry moved the smart-home brand's 500,000+ customers from Shopware to Shopify Plus across two storefronts that sell into 100+ markets, and the new stores loaded 43% faster. An A/B test on bundle labeling afterward lifted conversion rate by 11% and revenue per visitor by 8%.

Überlube is another strong example. After craftberry migrated the brand to Shopify, conversions rose 45%, site speed improved 40%, and the store expanded into 15 new countries with 99.99% uptime.

Price

No public price list. Projects are scoped and quoted per brand.

2. Electric Eye

Electric Eye is a Shopify-only shop in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2016, that describes itself as "a small agency by choice." It holds 5.0 from 65 directory reviews, and most clients are design-led DTC brands between $1 million and $50 million a year.

Key strengths

• CRO driven by heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests
• Migrations with historical data transfer and 301 redirects handled
• Custom product and bundle builders

Best for

DTC lifestyle brands that want design, development and conversion work from one Shopify team.

Case studies

CRO retainers drive a big share of the work. Happy Curves reported a 181% conversion rate increase and a 56% jump in AOV on one, and Happy Nuts grew conversion 55%.

On the migration side, Electric Eye took Giordano's off UltraCart and built the chain a custom pizza-pack bundle builder, then moved Proleve's subscriptions over in nine days. Paid media, email programs and social sit outside its services, so budget for another partner there.

Price

Projects start from $5,000 according to the directory. Retainers are quoted per client.

3. Netalico

Netalico runs on monthly retainers, and the agency says about 80% of its clients pay for ongoing development each month. Listed in Miami, it has been a Shopify partner since January 2016 and moved up to Premier in January 2026.

Key strengths

• In-house, Shopify-only developers
• Magento and BigCommerce to Shopify Plus replatforming

Best for

DTC brands in roughly the $2 million to $50 million GMV range that want a development team on retainer.

Case studies

Shopify published two of its migrations as official case studies. Audio Advice went from Magento to Shopify Plus and reported 21% more revenue, 28% more orders and a 47% higher conversion rate year over year. Crossrope came over from BigCommerce and grew revenue 90%.

Clutch reviewers (4.9 from 28) keep returning to honest scoping. They also raise the same three problems: account managers changing, overage fees, and a day or two of wait on urgent hotfixes.

Price

Clutch lists a $5,000 minimum and $150 to $199 an hour. The agency's own figures put retainers between about $2,700 and $10,000 a month.

4. Minion

Minion holds 5.0 from 210 reviews in the Shopify directory, the biggest review count in this roundup by a wide margin. The New York agency has been a Shopify partner since September 2012.

Key strengths

• Ongoing Shopify management for brands with no in-house developer
• Custom apps and integrations, from fulfillment routing to vehicle fitment and booking sync
• Shopify Plus migrations plus subscription and membership builds

Best for

Stores that need a reliable Shopify team on call month after month.

Case studies

For James Cress Florist, Minion automated order routing between local and national fulfillment. Order processing time fell 25%, and the shop got back more than 500 labor hours a month.

One small merchant described a $1,500-a-month trial that ended in a quote of about $30,000 a year, so check the retainer math early.

Price

Directory starting prices are $100 for theme changes, $500 for ongoing management and $1,000 for builds. Bigger custom projects get a quote.

5. Fyresite

Fyresite made Premier in April 2026, which by its count put it among 46 Premier partners in the US and first in Arizona. The Tempe agency dates back to 2009 and has 5.0 from 38 reviews on Clutch.

Key strengths

• Shopify Plus replatforming, NetSuite integrations included
• Fitment search and parts catalogs for automotive brands
• B2B, POS and custom apps

Best for

Brands with large or technical catalogs leaving an older platform for Shopify Plus.

Case studies

Almost every featured project is a replatform onto Shopify Plus from Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce or CartLogic. Automotive parts are a clear niche, with custom year, make and model search built for brands like Chassis Unlimited. In one self-reported case, META PCs left WooCommerce and saw orders rise 18% and revenue 27%.

Clients rate the timing and transparency. The repeated request in reviews is fuller documentation and handover training, worth writing into the scope if your own developers will take over later.

Price

Clutch shows a $5,000 minimum and $150 to $199 an hour. Ongoing website management starts at $1,800 in the directory.

6. Coalition Technologies

Coalition Technologies has 250+ staff, the biggest agency here, and its Shopify partnership goes back to September 2011. Search is the main business, and Clutch puts roughly 70% of its work in SEO.

Key strengths

• SEO-safe migrations with full redirect maps
• Shopify builds bundled with SEO, PPC and Klaviyo retainers
• Enough people to run large marketing programs

Best for

Merchants who want the store build and their organic and paid growth handled by one agency.

Case studies

Magnolia Boutique moved its 20,000+ products from BigCommerce to Shopify, ran paid media alongside, and reported 42% revenue growth year over year. By the agency's own numbers, Native Union's Shopify Plus migration came with 58% more traffic and a 37% higher conversion rate.

It has the deepest third-party record in this list, 167 Clutch reviews averaging 4.8. The low ones complain about web builds running months over and hourly billing for calls and emails, some of which Coalition disputes. Contracts run month to month.

Price

The directory range is $1,800 to $100,000. SEO packages start at $1,800 a month, and Clutch lists $50 to $99 an hour.

7. Charle Agency

Charle is a London Shopify Plus agency set up in 2018, with a New York address too. Its pitch is search-first, so SEO, AI search visibility, CRO and Klaviyo all sit next to the build team.

Key strengths

• Structured A/B testing programs
• Ecommerce SEO and AI search for Shopify stores

Best for

UK fashion, food and beauty brands that care about search and conversion as much as the build.

Case studies

Muc-Off reported a 38% higher conversion rate and 55% more revenue after a product page redesign and ongoing testing. 111SKIN lifted conversion 46% on a data-led A/B testing roadmap.

The Shopify directory profile has no reviews yet, and Clutch shows four, averaging 4.9.

Price

No public pricing. Clutch lists $100 to $149 an hour.

8. Grebban

Grebban won Best E-commerce Design at the Swedish Design Awards three years in a row, 2020 through 2022. The Stockholm agency has 100+ people and offices in Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen and London.

Key strengths

• Award-winning ecommerce design and brand identity
• Headless and native Shopify Plus builds
• International rollouts for Scandinavian brands

Best for

Premium fashion and lifestyle brands where storefront design does the selling.

Case studies

Its client list reads like a Nordic fashion lineup, J.Lindeberg and Hestra through to Asket and Djerf Avenue. J.Lindeberg moved from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify in four months. Kasthall launched in ten weeks with a separate B2B experience for architects.

Shopify is one of three platforms Grebban works on, with Centra and Norce being the others. It publishes neither pricing nor hard performance numbers for its Shopify work.

Price

Contact for pricing.

9. Bedford Lane

Bedford Lane is the APAC pick. The Melbourne agency has been a Shopify partner since April 2019 and was named Top Dev & Design Agency for APAC at Okendo's 2026 Partner Awards.

Key strengths

• Custom Shopify Plus themes for design-led DTC brands
• Retail and ERP integrations, Shopify POS and B2B
• Subscription builds on Recharge

Best for

Australian and New Zealand DTC brands after a senior design and engineering team on Shopify Plus.

Case studies

Tony Bianco swapped a custom headless stack for Shopify Plus with an Apparel21 retail integration, and the client list also runs through Calibre, Kit by MECCA and TYPEBEA. For TYPEBEA, Okendo reported a 9.7% conversion lift within 90 days of a product page redesign.

It is a small boutique. Four directory reviews, no Clutch profile.

Price

Contact for pricing. Its Recharge partner profile lists project budgets from $10,000 up past $50,000.

Which Shopify Premier Partner to choose

• Best overall: craftberry. One in-house team covers migration, design, development, CRO and long-term support, with Shopify subscriptions in the same scope.
• Replatforming to Shopify Plus? Shortlist craftberry, Netalico and Fyresite. Netalico has two official Shopify migration case studies, and Fyresite handles technical catalogs like automotive parts.
• For conversion work, Electric Eye and Charle publish the clearest CRO results. If the real gap is order value, try the app route before paying for a retainer. This guide to increasing Shopify conversion rate and this roundup of Shopify upsell apps cover what a merchant can set up alone.
• Want SEO and paid media running with the build? Coalition Technologies is set up for exactly that.
• For ongoing support without a big project, Minion has the longest review record and the lowest entry prices.
• If design is your edge, go to Grebban for Nordic and European fashion, or Bedford Lane for Australia and New Zealand.

Before you sign with any of them, open the agency's profile in the Shopify Partner Directory and check the tier badge, since Shopify reassesses tiers every quarter.