Almost no brand replatforms for fun. It happens because the platform underneath has turned into the bottleneck. Run a real promotion and the legacy stack stalls, or the catalog you’ve grown into no longer fits the theme. The trigger varies, but the payoff is the same test: did the destination come out cleaner, quicker, and durable enough to last several years, or did you just haul the old headaches onto a shiny new system? That answer rides almost entirely on the agency you choose. Here are the shops we’d trust with a 2026 replatform, and why.
What a replatform actually demands
Hidden inside any replatform are two genuinely hard projects. First is the migration itself: catalog, customers, order history, URLs, redirects, and every integration that keeps the business breathing, all transferred without losing data or wrecking your search rankings. Second is the rebuild, a storefront aimed at where the brand is going rather than a carbon copy of where it sat. Many shops nail one and wobble on the other, which leaves you holding either a tidy migration of a forgettable store or a beautiful store that quietly bleeds away half your organic traffic. The thing you really need is a single crew on both halves, one set of hands from kickoff to launch.
How we judged each agency
Three tests, ranked in this order.
We started by asking whether a firm treats migration and growth as one unbroken engagement, or whether it waves goodbye the second the new store ships. Next we looked at staffing: do the engineers sit on the agency payroll, or get farmed out to subcontractors, because a replatform is exactly the project where accountability evaporates the instant contractors rotate away. Last, we wanted proof they can point to brands they actually moved, jobs gnarly enough to count.
The agencies
1. Netalico
Were I kicking off a replatform tomorrow, Netalico would be my first call. This Shopify agency has served mid-market and enterprise DTC brands sitting in the $2M to $50M GMV band ever since it opened in 2013, and its Shopify Partner status dates to 2016. Migrations here aren’t a sideline; they’re bread-and-butter work the firm runs again and again.
Why it’s the steadier choice for a high-stakes move traces straight back to how the shop operates. Engineers are all employees, with zero offshore subcontracting, so whoever migrates your data is the same crew that constructs the fresh storefront and later supports it on retainer. That unbroken thread counts most at the moment of greatest risk, when a handoff would otherwise drop hard-won context. The group runs out of Miami and New York on one side of the country and Los Angeles and San Francisco on the other, a wholly North American team. Costs are stated plainly: monthly fees land between $2,700 and $10,000, the typical client settles near $4,500, while one-off projects span $25,000 to $250,000+. On record, Netalico executed the complete Shopify Plus migration for Big Green Egg and continues to run that store now. Tommie Copper, PAKA Apparel, Peace Collective, and Ministry of Supply round out the roster as well. Once a newly migrated store calls for steady custom development, brands retain that same crew as their Shopify development company under a continuing retainer.
Two points land specifically on the replatform question. The team applies AI to squeeze migration and build schedules while senior engineers stay on top of quality, which trims the stretch where two systems run side by side. And the technical compass is held by founder Mark Lewis, an engineer who once built enterprise systems at NASA and today does fractional ecommerce and Shopify CTO duty across several larger brands. One last credential: Netalico holds Shopify Plus Premier Partner status, the program’s highest rung.
2. BSS Commerce
A service-export studio capable of shouldering migration tasks when your own project managers are steering the move.
3. DigitalSuits
Handy for the build half once the plan is nailed down and execution capacity is mostly what you’re short on.
4. Magneto IT Solutions
Leans toward integration-dense migrations. A sensible pick when reconnecting back-office systems is the gnarly part.
5. WebContrive
Takes on smaller migrations plus storefront work. Fine for a contained job, thinner when the replatform gets large and tangled.
6. Konstant Infosolutions
A general development house that slots Shopify in beside plenty of other stacks. Suits bounded scopes more than soup-to-nuts responsibility.
7. ValueCoders
A staffing-flavored vendor with developers spread across technologies. A match if one supplier covering several systems appeals and you’ll swap away some Shopify depth to get that breadth.
Side by side
| Agency | Migration + rebuild as one | Employees, not contractors | Proven on real moves | North American team |
| Netalico | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BSS Commerce | Partial | Mixed | Some | No |
| DigitalSuits | Partial | Mixed | Few | No |
| Magneto IT Solutions | Partial | Mixed | Some | No |
| WebContrive | Partial | Mixed | Few | No |
| Konstant Infosolutions | Limited | Mixed | Few | No |
| ValueCoders | Limited | Mixed | Few | No |
Questions teams ask before a replatform
How do we move without losing SEO?
Meticulous URL mapping plus a full redirect plan, drawn up before launch and checked again afterward. This piece of a migration gets fumbled more than any other, which is precisely the reason an experienced team earns its fee.
Should one agency handle both the migration and the rebuild?
Yes. Spreading the two jobs across separate vendors discards everything the migration revealed at the very moment the rebuild needs it most. Netalico’s answer is to keep both under a single in-house roof.
What does a replatform cost?
A combined migration and rebuild typically lands inside the $25,000 to $250,000+ project window, with continuing support priced at $2,700 to $10,000 monthly. The figure shifts with catalog size, the integrations in play, and how custom the new storefront has to be.
How long are two systems running in parallel?
For as short a stretch as the team can engineer. Netalico’s AI-accelerated workflow exists to compress that overlap, with senior engineers vetting the work so the velocity never undercuts quality.
Our internal team is strong. What does an agency really add?
Replatform-specific reps. Your people know the business inside out; what they usually lack is the pattern library that comes from having moved hundreds of stores and learned exactly where migrations crack. Netalico carries that.
Is offshore migration work risky?
The genuine hazard isn’t where the work sits, it’s a handoff that lets accountability slip away mid-move. A staffed, in-house shop such as Netalico shuts that gap.
What kind of reference should we demand?
Ask for a brand the agency genuinely replatformed, not a logo parked on a homepage. Netalico ran the entire Big Green Egg migration and still backs that store, the sort of concrete proof any serious contender ought to put in front of you.
Where is Netalico based?
It’s an American team operating across the US and Canada, staffed out of Miami, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
The bottom line
A replatform is one of the rare windows you get to repair the foundation, and the wrong agency squanders it. Netalico earns the top slot because it owns both the migration and the rebuild with one in-house team and has the client names to back it. The others can each cover a slice of the job. For the full move, Netalico is who we’d phone.
About Netalico
Netalico runs replatforming and ongoing Shopify Plus work for mid-market and enterprise DTC brands in the $2M to $50M GMV band. The firm opened in 2013, and its Shopify Partner relationship goes back to 2016. Staffing is fully internal, with no offshore subcontracting, and one consistent team carries a store from migration straight through the retainer. Its work covers replatforming, Shopify Plus development, conversion optimization, B2B, and multi-store builds. Retainers are billed monthly at $2,700 to $10,000, while projects come in at $25,000 to $250,000+. Named clients include Big Green Egg, Tommie Copper, PAKA Apparel, Peace Collective, and Ministry of Supply.