What changes when you bring us in.
- ✕Turning down builds you can't staff, or subcontracting to whoever's free
- ✕Explaining to a client why their Shopify Plus migration is three months behind
- ✕Managing a rotating cast of freelance Shopify developers with no continuity
- ✕Losing the technical narrative in client meetings because nobody on your team can answer platform questions
- ✓One senior Shopify engineering team behind every brand you grow
- ✓Custom storefronts, headless builds, and integrations delivered under your name
- ✓A technical partner who can join the client call when the questions get specific
- ✓Growth and engineering finally moving on the same timeline
Where d2c agencies actually need us.
Shopify & Shopify Plus development
Custom themes, Plus migrations, and builds engineered for the catalogue complexity your D2C clients actually have.
Custom storefronts & headless commerce
Hydrogen and headless builds when a brand has outgrown what a theme can do.
Payment & subscription systems
Shopify Payments, third-party gateways, and subscription infrastructure (Recharge and native Shopify subscriptions) built to actually retain.
ERP & CRM integrations
Inventory, fulfillment, and customer-data systems wired into Shopify without brittle manual syncs.
Marketing automation & analytics
Klaviyo flows, GA4, and server-side tracking that gives your growth team numbers worth trusting.
Conversion-focused landing pages
Campaign and product-launch pages engineered for speed and conversion, not just a pretty template.
Ongoing development & Care & Support
A retained engineering bench for the maintenance, fixes, and iteration that never stops after launch.
What you can sell with Carryup.
Add real technical delivery to your service catalogue without hiring for it.
- Growth strategy
- Paid media
- Brand positioning
- CRO consulting
- Shopify Plus builds
- Headless storefronts
- Integrations & automation
- Ongoing engineering
- Full-funnel D2C offering
- Bigger retainers
- Brands that stay longer
D2C Agencies — answered.
Do you only work with Shopify, or other platforms too?
Shopify and Shopify Plus exclusively — that focus is what lets us go deep instead of spreading thin across every platform. If a client's brief specifically requires a different platform, we'll tell you honestly rather than take the work anyway.
Can you join client calls as our technical team?
Yes, when you want that — under your brand, on your domain, introduced as your engineering team. Most partners keep us invisible and relay technical answers themselves; some prefer us on the call for complex builds. Either way works.
What if a client already has a Shopify store that needs fixing, not rebuilding?
Common, and usually the better starting point — a diagnostic on the existing store to find what's actually broken (speed, tracking, checkout, app bloat) before recommending a rebuild nobody asked for.
How fast can you scope a Shopify Plus migration?
Typically within a week of NDA signature — enough time to review the current platform, catalogue size, and integrations properly rather than guess at a number.
Will our clients know Carryup is involved?
Only if you want them to — white-label is the default. We work under your brand, in your tools, with an NDA signed before any scoping conversation.
How does pricing work?
Fixed-scope quotes per project, or a monthly rate for embedded capacity — either way, a clean number you can price into your own proposal.
The Shopify development partner behind D2C growth agencies
D2C growth agencies win mandates on strategy, media, and CRO — and increasingly get asked for the Shopify engineering to match. Building that in-house means hiring senior Shopify developers, carrying them through gaps in the pipeline, and still not covering Plus migrations or headless builds when they come up. Carryup exists to close that gap: white-label Shopify engineering under your brand, scoped and delivered the way an in-house team would be, without the hiring.
This is the version of the partnership written for agency owners deciding whether to hire, subcontract, or pass on Shopify work — what a real engagement covers, how pricing works, and where the line sits between what your team should own and what we should.
Why D2C agencies specifically need a Shopify-only partner
Generalist development shops split attention across WordPress, WooCommerce, and half a dozen other platforms. A D2C growth agency's Shopify work doesn't benefit from that breadth — it benefits from a partner who has seen the same catalogue-complexity, checkout, and integration problems repeatedly and has a working answer, not a first attempt. Shopify-only focus is a genuine constraint we've chosen deliberately, not a limitation to work around.
What a typical D2C agency partnership actually covers
Most engagements start with either a new brand launch (theme setup or custom design, catalogue structure, checkout, tracking) or a migration for a brand outgrowing its current platform. From there it extends into whatever the brand's growth stage needs: subscription infrastructure, ERP or 3PL integration, a headless storefront once traffic and conversion complexity justify it, and an ongoing retainer for maintenance once the site is live — the same lifecycle a strong in-house engineering team would own.
White-label by default, named when it helps
Your agency owns the client relationship, the contract, and the margin. We build inside your repos and tools, under an NDA signed before scoping begins, and stay invisible unless a specific engagement benefits from us joining a technical call directly. That flexibility matters most on complex Plus migrations, where relaying architecture questions through a third party slows a project down noticeably.
Let's build for your d2c agencies.
Build and scale e-commerce stores, custom storefronts, integrations, subscriptions, and digital experiences. Tell us about your pipeline and we'll come back with how a partnership would run, within 4 hours.