Premier is one of the two highest of Shopify's five partner tiers, granted for a sustained record of complex enterprise launches.
The ladder runs Registered, Select, Plus, Premier, Platinum. Shopify reviews tiers quarterly; agencies cannot buy them. Makro holds it for the work documented across this site: replatforms, B2B storefronts, and ERP integrations in production. What follows is what the tier requires and why it should factor into an agency decision. See the tier or the record.
Shopify's partner tiers are its own read on who delivers. Premier sits above Plus partner status and is held by a small group of agencies globally.
Not one launch: a pattern of complex builds shipped and still running. Migrations, B2B operations, and integration-heavy stacks reviewed against merchant outcomes.
Checkout extensibility, Functions, B2B primitives, and API discipline. The tier follows demonstrated engineering, which is why it cannot be bought.
Premier Partners operate with dedicated partner managers and earlier platform visibility. Merchants inherit that line when a build hits a platform-level question.
Shopify does not publish a public league table, so we maintain one here, competitors included. Tiers below are compiled from agencies' own listings in the official partner directory and published tier rankings, July 2026: the tier is Shopify's judgment, not ours. Ours is verifiable here.
Above Premier sits one tier: Platinum, explained here. Tier list compiled July 2026. Hold a tier we should list? Tell us and we will add you.
The tier is third-party evidence of delivery. You are not taking the agency's word for its own record.
Hard questions about checkout, B2B, or APIs route through a dedicated partner manager instead of a public queue.
Earlier sight of platform changes means your build tracks where Shopify is going, not where it was.
Premier work is complex commerce. If the project is a template store, we will say so and point you to a better-fit option.
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Clarius sells regulated hardware through Shopify with commerce, CRM, and ERP unified behind the storefront: the class of build the Premier tier exists to vouch for.
Premier is one of the two highest tiers of Shopify's five-tier partner program (Registered, Select, Plus, Premier, Platinum). Shopify grants it for a sustained record of complex enterprise launches and merchant outcomes, reviewed quarterly. Roughly 45 US agencies hold it. It is earned through delivered work, not purchased.
The tier is Shopify's own read on an agency's delivery record. It filters for teams that have shipped complex work repeatedly: migrations, B2B, and integrations, and it comes with direct lines into Shopify's partner organization when a build needs platform-level answers.
Premier Partners work with dedicated Shopify partner managers and get earlier visibility into platform changes. For a merchant, that shortens the path between a hard platform question and an authoritative answer during a build.
Yes. Makro holds the Premier tier and works with Shopify's partner organization on enterprise deals. The tier reflects the delivered record documented on the Shopify Plus agency page and across the work index.
Work where commerce is complex: enterprise replatforms, B2B and wholesale operations, multi-system integration, and storefronts that have to carry the business. Simple template projects are not where the tier, or Makro, adds value.
Replatforms, B2B operations, integration-heavy stacks. Book a discovery call and we will tell you, candidly, whether the project is Premier-tier work.
