Shopify managed services

Your Shopify store, managed by a team that gets marketing.

Bug fixes, speed optimization, app management, theme updates, and conversion work, handled under one retainer by a team that has spent its careers on the revenue side of the business. We know what breaks conversions because we have spent years fixing them, and measuring what each fix returned.

A real audit of your speed, app stack, and theme health. No call required to start.

30 yrs building businesses 18 yrs in digital marketing 55+ industries 4 ecommerce brands, $0 to 7 figures
The bottleneck

Your store is running. Nobody is driving.

Shopify handles hosting, security patches, and uptime. That is about 20% of what a revenue-generating store needs. The other 80%, the speed optimization, the design updates, the app conflicts, the broken checkout flows, the mobile rendering, the technical SEO, falls on you, or on whoever picks up your support ticket two days from now.

A 300ms slowdown after a theme change does not register to a code-only dev. To a team that has measured the revenue impact of site speed for years, it triggers an immediate fix.
What is covered

Everything your store needs. One retainer, one team.

Every plan is backed by a team that has spent its careers on the revenue side of the business, scaling four ecommerce brands from zero to seven figures along the way. We know what matters because we have measured the revenue impact of every type of fix, update, and optimization.

Dev retainers and bug fixes

Broken layouts, checkout errors, theme conflicts, mobile rendering. Dedicated developer hours every month, with same-day triage on critical issues.

Speed and Core Web Vitals

CWV audits, image compression, lazy loading, app bloat cleanup, render-blocking script removal, and CDN tuning. Faster stores rank higher and convert more.

App and theme management

Evaluation, installation, configuration, and monitoring of your app stack, plus product page layouts, collection redesigns, and custom Liquid when the editor hits its limits.

Conversion rate optimization

Checkout flow testing end to end, A/B test setup and QA, and the conversion work that turns existing traffic into more revenue without buying a single extra visit.

Ongoing optimization and reporting

Monthly reports on traffic, conversions, page speed, and revenue attribution, with backups before every deployment and a rollback in minutes if a Shopify update breaks something.

One accountable contact

A named account contact triages your requests, confirms scope and hours, and queues the work. Critical issues, a down site, a broken checkout, a payment error, jump the queue regardless of tier.

The ROI.LIVE difference

Your dev team should know what a broken checkout costs.

Most Shopify support shops hire developers who are excellent at Liquid, CSS, and JavaScript. What they lack, through no fault of their own, is context for how the work affects the metrics that keep your store profitable. ROI.LIVE was built on performance marketing. The Shopify team operates inside that culture.

Typical agency

Devs who write code. Period.

  • A developer who has never seen your store picks up the ticket 48 hours later.
  • They do exactly what the ticket said and close it.
  • Nobody flags that the image you uploaded is 4MB and will tank mobile load speed.
  • The task is done, but nobody connected it to the revenue.

ROI.LIVE

Devs who understand revenue.

  • When we push a theme update, we benchmark page speed before and after. That is how we catch a change that quietly adds 300ms to LCP the same day it ships, not when a customer complains.
  • When we install an app, we monitor its impact on Core Web Vitals.
  • When we fix a bug, we verify the checkout flow end to end on real devices.
  • Same code, same Liquid, same CSS. The difference is we flag the 4MB image before it ships, because we have watched one tank mobile conversions before.

This is the same model that runs every ROI.LIVE engagement. A senior fractional CMO and growth architect owns your strategy and the team that runs it, under founder Jason Spencer's standard. On a Shopify retainer that means the people touching your store think about page speed as a conversion metric, not only a technical benchmark. That awareness does not cost you extra. It is baked into every hour of work.

The track record

Built by operators who have scaled real ecommerce.

ROI.LIVE has taken four ecommerce brands from zero to seven figures and worked across 55+ industries, startup to eight figures. The Shopify management team carries that revenue experience into the technical work on your store.

30years building businesses
18years in digital and performance marketing
55+industries served, startup to eight figures
4ecommerce brands taken zero to seven figures
Founded and overseen by Jason Spencer, Founder of ROI.LIVE, in Asheville, NC. He runs Constellation Capital and ROI.Contractors alongside the agency, so he is signing payroll and carrying margin this quarter, not quoting a book. Every developer on your store works under the standard he built.
The cross-industry library is the unfair part. A checkout-friction fix proven on a DTC ecommerce brand has lifted conversion rate from 0.82% to 2.43% on the kind of store this team manages. The positioning logic from an oracle deck brand later rebuilt a pool company's funnel. Different verticals, same buying psychology, applied to your Shopify store.
Jason Spencer built and sold a 12-technician IT services company between 2004 and 2008, then founded ROI.LIVE. So the people touching your store have carried payroll and margin, not just managed campaigns. A slow page costs money, a broken mobile checkout kills conversions, and app bloat compounds. They knew that before you had to tell them. How we think about a Shopify retainer
Getting started

Four steps. Zero guesswork.

01

Free store audit

We review your store's speed, app stack, theme health, and technical SEO. You get a written report with findings and a recommended scope. No call required.

02

Scope your retainer

We size the dedicated developer hours to your store's volume and complexity, then give you a fixed quote tied to the revenue we are trying to move.

03

Onboarding

Collaborator access, a staging environment, monitoring tools, and your named account contact, set up in under a day.

04

Ongoing support

Submit requests, we triage, execute, QA, and deploy. Monthly reports show what was done, what improved, and what is queued next.

Questions

What owners ask before they hand it off.

What does Shopify management include?

It covers bug fixes and technical troubleshooting, speed and Core Web Vitals optimization, app stack evaluation and cleanup, theme and design changes, conversion rate work, and ongoing optimization, all under one monthly retainer. Every plan includes a named account contact, performance monitoring, and a backup before every deployment. You pay for hands-on-keyboard work, not for reporting and check-ins.

How much does Shopify management cost?

Engagements start at $5,000 a month and scale with the size of your store and the work it needs. You get a fixed quote on the call, tied to the revenue we are trying to move. One team, one fee, no surprise invoices. If you are not sure what scope fits, request the free store audit and we will recommend the right level based on your store's complexity.

How is a Shopify management retainer different from hiring a freelancer?

Continuity and context. A freelancer works on one task and moves on. Our team knows your store's history, your app stack, your theme architecture, and the quirks in your custom code, so there is no re-onboarding every time you need something done. Monitoring, backups, and reporting are built into the retainer, services a freelancer will not provide.

Do you work with Shopify Plus stores?

Yes. Higher tiers include Shopify Plus work: checkout customization, Shopify Scripts, Flow automation, multi-store management, and B2B wholesale. If you are considering migrating to Plus, that migration is part of the scope, handled by the same team that already knows your store.

Ready to hand it off

Stop managing your store on top of running your business.

Get a free store audit. We will review your speed, app stack, and theme health, then tell you what we would prioritize first and what a retainer would cost. No obligation, no pitch.

Book your free store audit

A written plan, yours to keep either way.