In October 2026 Shopify awarded Perfection Media the Shopify Select Partner status. It is the first time an agency from Latvia has been listed in the official Shopify Partners directory with this tier. For the two of us it closes a loop that opened in 2021 with one store, two laptops and a great many late evenings.
What Shopify Select Partner means
Shopify's partner programme has three tiers: Select, Plus and Premier. A tier is not something an agency applies for or pays for. Shopify assigns it from the measurable results of the stores a partner has built and launched, the merchants it has brought to the platform, and how those merchants perform after launch. The status is reviewed on an ongoing basis, so it has to be kept, not just earned once.
In practice the badge answers a question every merchant should ask before hiring an agency: has Shopify itself looked at this team's work and the results behind it? For Perfection Media the answer is now a public one, visible on our listing in the Shopify Partners directory, next to a badge that only Shopify can grant.
Why this matters if you run a store in Latvia or the Baltics
- Verified, not self-declared. Anyone can write "Shopify experts" on a website. A tier badge is granted by Shopify on the basis of launched stores and their performance, and it can be checked in one click.
- A shorter line to Shopify. Partner tiers come with access to Shopify's partner resources, training and support channels. When checkout, tax or shipping behaviour changes on the platform, we usually hear about it before it reaches your admin.
- Local knowledge stays local. A global badge does not replace knowing how MakeCommerce, Montonio, Omniva, DPD, Norgate or Moneo behave in a real Latvian store. That is the part we have been doing for five years, and it is documented on our Shopify integrations page.
- Nothing changes in how we work. The same two founders answer your email, write the code and sit on the call. No account managers, no outsourcing.
How we got here
Since 2021 we have built more than 200 Shopify stores for brands in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Finland. Some of them you can open right now on our client examples page. Most started the same way: a founder with a product that deserved a better store, a free consultation, and a plan written down before any design work began. That process is described step by step on our online store development page and, for Shopify specifically, on the Shopify store development page.
The work that we think earned the tier is not the pretty part. It is the engineering underneath:
- An import service that connects a closed point-of-sale system on a Firebird database to Shopify: 969 products, eleven physical stores, stock synchronised every ten minutes.
- A WooCommerce migration that kept 389 product reviews, gift card balances and customer accounts intact, in four languages.
- A Shopify Function that stopped a store from charging shipping twice on multi-warehouse orders, which affected 27 percent of its orders, without adding another paid app.
- A conversion rebuild that took a store from a 0.24 percent conversion rate to 1.41 percent in one month, written up in our case study.
If you want the long version of how we think about store building, it is in our complete guide to e-commerce store development.
What our clients say
Shopify's review looks at numbers. Our clients look at how it felt to work together. Both matter to us. These are verbatim reviews from Google and Facebook, where we hold a 5.0 rating; all of them, in Latvian and English, are collected on our reviews page.
"Perfection Media just made it perfect: my new website looks stunning, and I love every detail, every text, and every picture. If you want to take your business to the next level, their team definitely knows how to make it happen. I really enjoyed working together with them! They are friendly and kind people with huge knowledge in e-commerce and marketing. The guys are very professional, and with their help, my shop is now growing into a real brand. Thank you so much, Anna, Uvis, and the team! ❤️"
Karolina Cekanavica, Google review
"I worked with the Perfection Media team on one project and it went really well. I really appreciated how they paid attention to every detail and made sure everything was finished properly. They also gave a lot of helpful suggestions along the way. There were some issues with apps not working as expected, but they fixed them or found better solutions, and in the end we got exactly the result we wanted. I am planning to do my next project with them as well."
Olga LiveLove, Facebook review
"We are excited about our new website store and deeply grateful to Perfection Media for their excellent service and presentation skills. Would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for quality website development solution."
Igors Č., Founder, Running Wheel
"Thanks to Perfection Media for the amazingly thorough and detailed approach to my wishes and explaining what to do, which resulted in an enjoyable presentation of information on the website about traveling in Morocco!"
Dace Antuza, Co-founder, Atlas Inspire
What we will do with the status
A badge is a responsibility more than a trophy. Three things we commit to:
- Keep building the hard integrations. ERP, accounting, warehouse and payment connections are where Latvian stores lose the most time and money. We will keep publishing what we learn on the integrations page.
- Look after stores, not just launch them. Our monthly maintenance service, Shopify Care, exists because a store is never finished. Updates, tracking, speed and small changes, handled by people who already know your store.
- Keep sharing what works. Our guides on setting up a Shopify store, the apps worth installing, the e-commerce campaign calendar, why sales stagnate and how to handle negative reviews are free and will stay that way. More tools are on our resources page.
Thank you
To every founder who trusted two people from Riga with something personal: a brand, a store, a first sale. To the clients who sent the next client. To the ones who told us when something was not good enough. This status is yours as much as ours.
Anna and Uvis
Talk to a Shopify Select Partner
If you are planning a new store, moving from another platform, or your current store is not selling the way it should, start with a free 20-minute consultation. You will leave with an honest verdict and a next step, whether or not that step involves us. You can also write to us directly, or read how we approach email marketing and Meta advertising for Shopify brands.
