Eastside Co

Shopify agency for design, build and growth

Working on the Shopify platform, including Shopify Plus, is the focus of Eastside Co, a UK ecommerce agency. It says it was among the earliest UK agencies to gain Shopify Plus partner accreditation. The agency describes itself as an award winning Shopify agency for global brands, with design, development and ecommerce marketing under one roof. The agency says it has worked for fifteen years and has a team of more than fifty specialists.

Designing and building stores

The agency's Shopify designers create store designs that bring a client's vision to life on the platform. Its developers build everything from themes to bespoke builds on standard Shopify or Shopify Plus, and they say they build stores that are designed to convert visitors into customers.

Migration is a separate service in which the agency manages the move to Shopify, including migrations from Magento. The agency says a migration can be carried out without disrupting a client's existing sales. Priority support gives a store design and development help on flexible hours that can be tracked, so that a client can use them as needed.

The agency also builds Shopify apps that add features to a store and improve its performance. Its discovery audit reviews every aspect of a business and produces practical findings that help it grow.

Marketing that follows the build

The agency offers ecommerce marketing built on a results-driven framework, covering SEO, social media advertising, email marketing, pay-per-click, organic social media and conversion rate optimisation. It says the aim is to drive traffic to a Shopify store and help the store turn more visitors into sales.

Case studies the agency highlights

The agency's case studies include a relaunch on Shopify for Condor, which it says aligned the store's online presence with the brand's premium image and made the site leaner and faster. For Origin Coffee, a sustainable coffee brand founded in 2004, it built a bespoke Shopify website and added subscription integrations, which it says lifted sales by 23 per cent in the first month after launch.

Other work includes a migration from Magento to Shopify Plus for Oliver Sweeney, and a subscription store for Wild Deodorant, built with the Recharge subscription app, which the agency says helped the brand grow internationally. For Gold Collagen it describes a Magento to Shopify Plus migration that brought together more than fifteen international markets. Its SEO work for DJI, the official UK retailer for DJI Hasselblad products, turned organic search into a main revenue channel.

Who the agency is for

The agency describes itself as a full service ecommerce partner that works with businesses over the long term, from concept through to conversion and beyond. It says it works with ambitious global brands as well as new businesses that want to launch an online store, and with established businesses ready to take their online sales further.