How we partner with agencies.
Forgify is the Shopify engineering line behind agencies that sell Shopify work. This page covers the relationship itself: who we partner with, how a partnership starts, and how work moves between your team and ours.
01 — Who we partner with
Agencies that sell Shopify, and the moment they call.
Partners rarely lack Shopify clients. They lack engineering at the point a brief turns technical.
- Branding and design agencies
- The design is signed off and the build needs custom sections, an app or an integration.
- CRO agencies
- Test findings need implementing in templates, the cart or the tracking layer.
- Paid media agencies
- Spend exposes tracking gaps, missing server-side events or slow landing pages.
- SEO agencies
- Recommendations run into platform limits: performance, structured data, redirects at scale.
- E-commerce consultancies
- The operating model needs ERP, CRM or fulfilment systems wired into Shopify.
- Generalist digital agencies
- A client moves to Shopify and the brief outgrows theme work.
- Shopify agencies
- Your developers are at capacity, or a brief needs Functions, Plus or integration depth.
02 — How it starts
From first call to first brief.
- 01
Intro call
How you sell Shopify work, your clients' typical stacks, and where technical scope tends to stall.
- 02
NDA and working terms
Your paper or ours. We agree attribution (none, by default), who speaks to the client and how invoicing runs.
- 03
A first brief
Usually a fixed-scope project or a paid discovery: a contained way to test the fit before committing to more.
- 04
Brief by brief, or reserved
If it works, we keep quoting per brief or reserve monthly capacity around your pipeline.
03 — Day to day
How work moves between our teams.
The commercial terms, from margin to attribution, are set out on the white-label Shopify development page. This is what the collaboration feels like.
- Your tools
- We work in your Slack, Teams or project tracker where possible, so the work sits where your team already looks.
- Written updates
- Progress notes your account lead can forward or adapt for the client, without rewriting engineering-speak.
- Client calls on request
- We stay off client calls unless you invite us, and then we join as part of your team.
- Scope changes go to you
- Blockers and change requests come to your team first, with options and their cost, never straight to the client.
- Handover to you
- Repository, documentation and runbook land with your agency, ready to pass on or keep.
The full white-label service
04 — Start a partnership
Tell us about your agency.
A live client brief, or simply the kind of Shopify work you'd like covered in future. Either is a good start.
Prefer to read first? How we handle access, credentials and handover is documented on our trust page, and representative builds are in the Demo Lab.