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Projects where the store is yours top to bottom: which theme holds it up, which integrations make it sell and who answers when the campaign arrives. Shakers connects you with stores that already sell or are about to launch, with a contract and protected payments on every engagement.
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Join ShakersWhat this profile does and the projects it runs at Shakers
A Shopify Expert works per project building and growing stores on Shopify: they develop custom Liquid themes, migrate catalogues from WooCommerce or PrestaShop without losing SEO, integrate payments, shipping and ERP, and scale the operation to Shopify Plus when volume asks for it. Their value is measured in live stores that sell and evolve, not in platform certificates.
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Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
Frequently asked questions
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How do I find Shopify projects as a freelance?
By certifying your skills and letting the projects reach your profile: clients post store engagements on Shopify and verified profiles receive them aligned by stack. Your part is the craft; the prospecting is done by the platform.
What does a client ask of a Shopify Expert?
A track record with live stores and real command of the stack: Liquid development, payment and shipping integrations, checkout performance and, in the engagements arriving now, migration experience without losing SEO. The platform certificate helps open doors; the track record keeps them open.
How much can a Shopify Expert bill per project?
It depends on the scope (custom theme, migration, integrations) and on your verified level, as with any development engagement: the budget closes per project before starting, with payment protected by milestones. Shopify Plus engagements and complex migrations are the ones that separate one bracket from another.
Do I need the official Shopify certification?
Platform certification helps, but what opens projects is the verifiable track record: live stores to keep. At Shakers the practical skills tests play that role in front of clients: they show what you can build, not what you can answer in an exam.
What is the difference between a Shopify Expert and an Ecommerce Developer?
The Ecommerce Developer decides and builds across several platforms (Shopify, PrestaShop, WooCommerce); the Shopify Expert is the specialist of that house: Liquid theme, apps, checkout and Plus in depth. Large projects cross both pages; the boundary is agreed on each engagement.
Can I make a living from Shopify projects alone?
Yes, if your specialisation runs deep: the ecosystem ranges from small stores to Plus operations that need teams. The healthy combination is a main stack in Shopify with a secondary platform for migration engagements, which are among the best paid.
The day to day of the craft
Your week splits between the theme (Liquid on the brand's design, no generic template), the integrations (payments, shipping, ERP, email) and performance (Core Web Vitals and checkout, which Shopify optimises differently). When the engagement is a migration, the work starts with the redirect map: keeping Google from noticing the change of home is half the success.
How you arrive at the craft
Almost nobody is born in Shopify: people arrive from web development, from their own store or from the agency that used to assemble stores with plugins. What opens projects is not the platform certificate, it is the track record: live stores with sales to keep. At Shakers that track record is verified with practical tests and becomes your way into the engagements.
What this role is not
It is not graphic design (the identity comes from the designer) and it is not store marketing (ads and email are another engagement): you build and maintain the machine everyone else accelerates. And when the client has not chosen a platform yet, that full decision lives on the Ecommerce Developer's page, not yours.
Who you share a Shopify store project with
A store does not live alone: whoever decides the platform, whoever designs it and whoever connects the data cross your path as a Shopify Expert.
Ecommerce Developer
When the client has not chosen a platform yet or the store mixes channels, the full stack decision lives on their page.
WordPress Developer
Stores that coexist with content in WordPress: when WooCommerce rules, the project goes through their page.
Product Designer
The identity and purchase flows your theme executes: design is decided before the Liquid.
Frontend Developer
Performance and Core Web Vitals when the store grows in traffic and personalisation.
The boundaries between these roles are agreed on each project: the title does not set them.
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