Our Shopify Retainers

A great Shopify store is never really “finished.” It evolves. Our Shopify retainers give brands ongoing access to our design, development, and strategy team, so you can continuously improve your store, launch new features, fix issues quickly, and keep things moving forward.

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We've got the answers, to your questions.

  • A Shopify retainer is an ongoing partnership where you have dedicated access to a team of Shopify experts each month. Instead of commissioning individual projects, brands work with us continuously to improve, optimise, and grow their store. This can include design updates, new features, integrations, performance improvements, and technical support.

  • Most retainer partnerships involve regular check-ins, shared task planning, and ongoing collaboration. Clients submit requests or ideas, and we prioritise them together based on impact and urgency. This approach keeps work organised while allowing flexibility as new opportunities or challenges arise.

  • A retainer can cover a wide range of work depending on your priorities. Common tasks include UX improvements, new page builds, Shopify app integrations, conversion rate optimisation, performance enhancements, troubleshooting, and launching new features. It’s designed to give brands flexible access to design, development, and strategic expertise whenever they need it.

  • Our retainers are designed to be flexible. Most brands start with a six-month partnership, which gives enough time to properly understand your store, prioritise improvements, and deliver meaningful results. From there, many clients continue working with us long term as their store evolves.

  • Retainers can scale depending on your needs. Some brands work with us for just a few hours each month, while others have the equivalent of a full-time team member dedicated to their store. The goal is to give you the right level of support without committing to more than you need.

  • Absolutely. Many brands start with a smaller number of hours and increase their retainer as their store grows or new opportunities arise. Because our team already understands your platform and goals, scaling the level of support is straightforward.

  • Most successful ecommerce brands are constantly evolving their stores. A retainer allows you to make continuous improvements without starting a new project every time. It also means your agency partner develops a deep understanding of your business, making work faster, more strategic, and more effective over time.

What does working with us look like?

01

Discovery

We always kick off with a deep dive into you, your brand, tech stack and all the basic 'need to knows'.

Once we know where we stand, we jump deep into the data, current standings in site speed, SEO, accessibility, AI visibility and site performance - we set the baselines.

02

CRO Strategy

Now we know where we stand, our CRO experts put together a deck of optimisations, from tiny button changes to big new conversion driving features. We're talking hover states to state of the art bundle builders.

It's like a shopping list, some things we know we need to buy now, some can be popped on the Christmas list.

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What are the priorities?

Next step is to work together to prioritise. Low effort, high impact always comes first.

We will kick off A/B testing, track the data like we're trying to win Olympic gold, and keeping one step ahead at all times.

Once we see the ROI rolling in, we regroup and check about on priorities. Things change, tech moves forward at lightening speed, but we're ready to move with it.

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