Makro is an ecommerce agency in Vancouver, designing, building, and growing Shopify Plus stores that hold up as the brand scales.
We are a Shopify Plus Premier Partner and work only in ecommerce. For Vancouver brands that means the full build: storefront design and conversion, ERP integration, and cross-border growth into the US, run by one senior remote-first team from discovery to launch. See what we build or our work.
Navigation, the design system, and the templates a real catalog needs: size and fit on a technical apparel PDP, seasonal collection logic, and a cart that holds up on a drop day. One team owns the drawing and the build, so what gets specced is what ships.
Custom development where the platform stops, plus the data path between the storefront and the systems running the business: ERP, OMS, PIM, 3PL. Vancouver brands often source through Asia-Pacific suppliers, which puts lead times, landed cost, and inbound purchase orders inside that same path. Integration is what stretches an enterprise e-commerce timeline, so we scope it in week one.
Measurement precedes opinion. We baseline the funnel, then test UX and merchandising against revenue per session rather than click-through. Conversion work compounds only on a stable build, which is why it follows the development instead of substituting for it.
After launch the store is a product, not a project. Release cadence, roadmap, merchandising support, and new markets, handled by the same senior team that shipped it. Most of our Vancouver engagements are measured in years.
Vancouver commerce spans activewear and lifestyle DTC, cross-border US expansion, and retail-rooted brands. These are the three patterns we staff for.
Vancouver is an activewear and lifestyle hub. Deep catalogs, a loyal community, and a high brand bar. We build storefronts that carry the brand and still measure: fast pages, clear merchandising, and a checkout that converts.
Selling into the US means multi-currency, multi-region, and tax and shipping that hold up. We build Shopify Plus storefronts for cross-border growth, with the B2B accounts and ERP connections behind them.
Legacy platforms get expensive and brittle. We run staged migrations onto Shopify Plus with products, accounts, order history, and subscription state reconciled before the switch, so nothing is lost at launch.
Roadmaps, merchandising, and conversion rate optimization grounded in your data, not a generic playbook.
Storefronts that carry the brand and still convert, from the homepage to the checkout edge cases.
The storefront connected to ERP, OMS, and the systems that run the business, built to stay in sync.
Staged cutovers off Magento, WooCommerce, and custom stacks onto Shopify Plus, with orders, accounts, and subscription state reconciled before the switch.
Wholesale portals, company accounts, customer pricing, and the custom logic your operation needs where the platform stops.
Vancouver is not one audience. Select a district to see the kind of brand it grows and the Shopify Plus work it tends to need. These are local archetypes we are equipped for, not a client roster.
Vancouver’s brand-building core. Activewear, outdoor, and lifestyle brands with deep catalogs and a loyal base. We build storefronts that carry the brand and still convert.
Theme architecture, custom sections, Shopify Functions for discount and shipping rules, and checkout extensibility through UI extensions. Development is scoped against your data model rather than a feature list, because the data model is what decides the timeline.
A well-architected theme serves most brands better than a headless build. Headless earns its place when content and commerce come from separate systems, or a native app shares the same API surface. We name which case you are in before the build starts, not after.
Tokens, components, and documented PDP and collection patterns. That system means your merchandising team launches a seasonal collection without a ticket for every layout change.
ERP, OMS, PIM, and 3PL integrations built as private Shopify apps with retries, idempotent writes, and observable failures. Enterprise integration is judged by what happens when a sync fails at 2am on a Saturday, not by the happy path in a demo.
Every designer and developer on a Vancouver project is senior and in house. No farmed-out development, no junior team learning enterprise commerce on your storefront.
We build for brands where commerce is complex. The work is staffed for that complexity, not a template applied to everyone.
Replatforms, integrations, and app builds run on methods we have run before, which is what keeps a launch from becoming a gamble.
Subscriptions, filtering, and POS integration are largely built. You inherit them instead of paying to invent them.
We invest in the relationship beyond go-live. The team that builds your store is the team that helps it grow.
Growth claims are cheap to make and expensive to verify. The boundary here is stated plainly: Makro engineers and builds commerce, and does not buy media.
We baseline the funnel, size each opportunity by revenue per session, ship in order of expected value, and hold a test through a full purchase cycle before calling it. For an outdoor brand carrying a six-week consideration window, that is a longer wait than most teams want. It is also the only way the number means anything.
Server-side events, attribution that survives the next browser privacy release, and Shopify reporting that reconciles with the finance numbers. Most e-commerce marketing decisions run on data nobody has audited. We audit it first.
Search and filtering, collection logic, bundles, subscriptions, and lifecycle triggers wired into the platform. Your marketing team gets surfaces to work with instead of a development backlog.
We do not buy media. Paid search, paid social, and creator programs stay with your in-house marketing team or a specialist media partner, and we build the tracking and storefront surfaces they need. Ecommerce marketing agencies and build agencies are separate disciplines. Naming that in week one costs less than discovering it in month three.
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We migrated a global fashion brand off Magento onto Shopify Plus and wired real-time inventory across the stack, so what the storefront shows is what the warehouse holds.
An agency advertising six e-commerce platforms is thin on all six. Ask which partner tier they hold, how many enterprise builds shipped on it in the last twelve months, and whether someone in the room can answer a checkout extensibility question without taking it away.
Vancouver DTC brands live on launch days and Black Friday. Ask what the largest traffic event an agency has carried was, what broke, and what they changed afterward. An enterprise build is defined by its worst hour, not its average one.
Get names and seniority for the people writing the code and drawing the interface, and ask what share of the build is subcontracted. At Makro the team that pitches is the team that delivers. Verify that everywhere else you are looking.
Migrations off Magento or WooCommerce are where an agency's method shows. Ask for launched replatforms at comparable catalog size, the cutover plan they used, and what they would change now. Ecommerce agencies that have run one will tell you where it hurt.
Yes. Makro is an ecommerce agency and Shopify Plus Premier Partner working with Vancouver brands. We design, build, and grow ecommerce stores on Shopify Plus, from the storefront through ERP integration and conversion work, with one senior remote-first team from discovery to launch.
Yes. Makro builds both direct-to-consumer and B2B commerce on Shopify Plus. DTC work covers subscriptions, merchandising, and conversion. B2B work covers wholesale portals, company accounts, customer-specific pricing, and quote-to-order flows, often connected to an ERP or OMS. See our services.
Yes. Migrating to Shopify Plus is core work for Makro. We run staged replatforms off Magento, WooCommerce, and custom stacks, reconciling products, customer accounts, order history, and subscription state before the cutover so nothing is lost at launch.
Cost and timeline depend on scope: catalog size, the systems being integrated, B2B requirements, and whether it is a migration or a net-new build. A focused replatform is smaller and faster than a complex B2B build with ERP integration. We scope each project in a paid discovery before quoting, so the number reflects the real work rather than a template price. Book a discovery call to get a scoped estimate.
Yes. Makro holds Shopify's Premier Partner tier, the highest level in the Shopify Plus partner program, reserved for agencies with a proven track record on complex enterprise commerce.
Cost tracks scope, not postal code. Four variables move the price of an e-commerce build: catalog complexity, how many systems get integrated, B2B and cross-border requirements, and whether the work is a replatform or a net-new build. Makro quotes after a paid discovery rather than off a rate card. Ongoing development, design, and conversion work is scoped separately as a retainer against a named senior team.
No. Ecommerce marketing agencies buy and manage demand: paid media, email, affiliate, and creator programs. An ecommerce agency of the kind Makro runs engineers the asset that demand lands on, covering design, UX, development, integration, and replatforming. Vancouver brands at enterprise scale usually retain both. The failure mode is asking either discipline to cover the other.
Our senior, in-house team focuses on one industry and one platform: enterprise commerce on Shopify Plus. No farmed-out development, no junior team learning on your store. The people you meet are the people who build it.
Replatform plans, B2B builds, ERP integrations, conversion work. Book a discovery call and we will tell you what the build actually takes.
