Shopify Plus is one of the leading eCommerce platforms available and comes with many options to give merchants everything they want in building an online store. To get the most out of Shopify Plus, you need the help of a preferred Shopify Plus partner who knows the ins and outs of the platform.
By using the assistance of a partner, you get the help of experts on the platform, who also work closely with the Shopify team to get you the most benefits. 1Digital Agency is a preferred Shopify Plus partner and can get your web store to where you want it to be with effective design, development, and marketing.
What are the benefits of using a Shopify Plus partner? Shopify partners have insider knowledge of the resources and updates within the platform. Taking that knowledge, partners work closely with Shopify’s team of managers to obtain the most customization possible to achieve success.
At 1Digital Agency, we work closely with Shopify and meet regularly to keep up with the latest changes and updates to the platform. Our focus is on eCommerce stores, so we keep working to provide clients with the best tools, resources, and knowledge of the platform while trying to get them ranking higher to achieve more success.
Here are just a few things you can get with the Shopify Plus platform with the help of 1Digital Agency.
Design – A quality design allows customers to connect with products. People are visual, so you want a visual and pleasing website for viewers. A good design in Shopify promotes brand awareness, trust and has a strong user interface that makes the user experience better. Our designers know how to make your Shopify store stand out from the crowd.
Development – Development goes hand in hand with design. Having a good user experience and user interface is very important. Functionality can make a difference between a conversion and a visitor bouncing, so you want your website to work well and encourage people to stay. At 1Digital, you can get the development work you need from API integration to responsive development to mobile app integration and more.
SEO – To get your website ranking among your competition, SEO is essential to your eCommerce website. Good SEO will build trust within the search engines using backlinks and information to Google. As you establish your website as a trusted source of keywords, an aggressive SEO campaign will establish your place in the rankings and lead to increased numbers of visits, users and more completed conversions.
Marketing – In addition to SEO, there are many other marketing efforts you can choose with the help of 1Digital. Reach your audience with email marketing, social media marketing, and PPC to help build up visibility and become a leader in the industry.
Migration – If you have already achieved success and need an upgrade to an enterprise level platform, a migration may be needed. 1Digital Agency can help you all the way through the process with past hands-on experience and great expertise and insight on the platform; migration can be seamless with 1Digital energy.
Are you considering making the move to Shopify Plus? Let 1Digital Agency be your guide!
At 1Digital Agency, we’ll help every step of the way from design to development to marketing, you will get the help of a team that has hands-on experience and a valuable and strong relationship with Shopify as a partner. Contact us today to learn more about the Shopify platform and how 1Digital Agency can be the perfect partner for you.
What a Shopify Plus partner actually does that a freelancer cannot
The post lists design, development, SEO, marketing, and migration. Here is the concrete reason the partner relationship matters on each, beyond "we know the platform":
- Plus-only capabilities. Shopify Plus opens up tooling that the standard plan does not: scriptable checkout customization, the Plus checkout extensibility model, multi-store management, B2B catalogs and price lists, and higher API limits. A partner builds against these correctly instead of forcing standard-plan workarounds that break at scale.
- Migration without losing equity. The risky part of a replatform is not moving products — it is preserving SEO. A competent migration maps every old URL to its new one with 301 redirects, preserves metadata and structured data, and validates indexation after launch so years of ranking equity do not evaporate on go-live day.
- Theme architecture, not just theme looks. Conversion lives in Core Web Vitals, clean information architecture, and a checkout that does not fight the buyer. A partner builds the theme for performance and merchandising, not just visual polish.
- One accountable team. Design, development, and marketing collide constantly — a redirect breaks a campaign, a theme change tanks page speed. A single partner that owns all three removes the finger-pointing that stalls projects.
How to evaluate a Shopify Plus partner before you commit
- Ask for Plus-specific work samples, not just "Shopify stores" — checkout customizations, B2B builds, or multi-store setups.
- Ask how they handle a migration's redirect map and post-launch indexation monitoring. A vague answer here is a red flag.
- Ask who owns the code and content if you part ways.
- Ask how design, dev, and marketing coordinate — one roadmap and one point of contact, or three vendors emailing each other?
Frequently asked questions
Do I need Shopify Plus, or is standard Shopify enough? Most stores should stay on standard Shopify until they hit a real ceiling: checkout customization needs, B2B/wholesale, multi-storefront, high order volume, or API limits. Plus is an upgrade you grow into for specific capabilities, not a default. A good partner tells you when you do not need it yet.
Will migrating to Plus hurt my SEO? Only if the redirects and metadata are mishandled. Done properly — full URL mapping, preserved structured data, post-launch crawl validation — a migration is SEO-neutral to positive. Done carelessly it is the single most expensive mistake a store can make.
The migration to Plus, step by step
Because the riskiest moment with Shopify Plus is the migration itself, here is the sequence a competent partner follows so the move is SEO-neutral and downtime-free:
- Crawl and inventory the current site. Capture every indexed URL, its rankings, and its traffic before anything changes. This is the baseline you will validate against.
- Build the redirect map. Every old URL is mapped to its new equivalent with a 301. Unmapped URLs are where ranking equity dies on launch day — this step is non-negotiable.
- Migrate data with structure intact. Products, variants, customers, and orders, plus metadata, structured data, and canonical tags. The data is the easy part; the SEO scaffolding around it is what gets dropped.
- Stage and QA. A full pre-launch copy where checkout, payment, tax, shipping, and edge-case carts are tested end to end before any traffic sees it.
- Launch and immediately validate indexation. Submit the new sitemap, monitor Search Console for crawl errors and coverage, and watch rankings daily for the first weeks so any regression is caught and fixed fast.
Skipping any of these is how a replatform turns into a traffic loss that takes months to recover. Done in order, it is routine.
If you are weighing a move to Shopify Plus, see our Shopify design and development services or talk to us about whether the upgrade is actually right for your stage.