HAS MERIT is a studio crafting conversion-driven Shopify storefronts and building brands for ambitious companies. We design and develop polished sites that feel like real brands (not quick templates) and back them with brand identity systems that create lasting recognition. From strategy to branding to design to development, everything’s done in-house for a seamless process. We’re a great fit for brands seeking personalized brand design paired with thoughtful conversion strategy, without the agency fluff or freelance hit-or-miss. Building Digital Storefronts: Personalised Design - tailored layouts built to sell, not just look good. Custom Development - beyond just templates, crafted solutions for your brand. Conversion Optimisation - auditing and smarter UI/UX so you don’t leave money on the table. Brand & Identity Design - constructing a brand that stands out and connects. Seamless Integrations - payments, shipping, and tools connected without friction. We just helped an FMCG brand increase conversions by 56% and increased net sale by 86% within 30 days by tweaking their existing page. Female-founded by a designer/developer with experience across brands of all sizes, partnered with a commercial lead from top global CPGs and agencies, we blend design, strategy, and business insight to help brands stand out and scale. Our clients have been featured in Forbes, Vogue, Allure, mindbodygreen, Whole Foods and more
Find the Best Shopify Experts in Austria
Six. As of October 2026, that's how many Shopify experts in Austria are listed on shopexperts: one freelancer and five agencies, all working in German and English, with Vienna ahead of the other cities on their profiles.
A small bench has an upside. Every one of them lists Shopify development, store set-up, consulting and marketing, so you're choosing between full-service teams rather than sorting specialists from generalists. The trade-off is depth: if none of the six fits your budget or timing, the experts from other countries listed after them are the next stop.
For an Austrian store, local knowledge counts most in two places: EPS at checkout and sourcing POS hardware. Read the six profiles with those in mind, then request a quote from the one or two that have built stores like yours.
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ADTLANTIS is an Austrian Shopify Partner agency with 10+ years of e-commerce experience and 300+ completed projects and 200+ Reviews. We specialize in Shopify builds, relaunches, and migrations, with a strong focus on conversion rate optimization and measurable growth.
SIWA Online GmbH bietet umfassende E-Commerce-Dienstleistungen wie Beratung, Shop-Implementierung (z.B. Shopify), SEO-Optimierung, Design und Individualisierung. Wir unterstützen Unternehmen bei Planung, technischen Umsetzung und laufenden Optimierung ihrer Online-Shops
Klickstarke Werbeanzeigen gepaart mit verkaufsstarken Shops. Das zeichnet uns aus! Wir optimieren die Conversionrate mithilfe von Verkaufspsychologie und senden im Anschluss hochqualitativen Traffic auf deinen Shop. Dein eCommerce Wachstumspartner aus Vorarlberg.
Shopprofi (DACH & LU) mit Standort Salzburg. E-Commerce endlich verständlich. Kostenlose Erstberatung. Konzeption, Shopdesign & -aufbau, App-Entwicklung, Marketingbegleitung. Ihr Vorhaben klappt - wir bauen Umsätze aus.
I have over five years of experience in web development using technologies such as Shopify, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, React, Vue, MongoDB, MySQL, and PHP. My journey with Shopify started when I joined Hey Carson, now known as 'Shop Experts', successfully completing their trial period. I have gained significant experience in Shopify development. I've worked in complex tasks such as integrating Shopify apps, Shopify Admin API, custom design development, apps extensions development, theme development and much more. Over the past few years, I've acquired what I believe is a solid understanding of Shopify development, which helps me deliver high-quality solutions to the clients I've worked with.
Shopify Performance & Front-end Developer | 10+ Years Building Fast, Custom Stores I’ve spent over 10 years building, customizing, and speeding up Shopify stores for brands of all sizes. I build custom themes and apps, fix slow pages, improve how a store looks and works on desktop and mobile, and handle Shopify Plus checkout customization with Functions. I care about work that is reliable on launch day and still holds up months later, so I stay available after delivery. Proud father of Radost. What I do Custom themes, apps, and front-end features, built to fit your store Shopify Plus Functions and checkout customization CRO & Speed optimization and Core Web Vitals, including advanced CLS fixes UX improvements that make your products easier to find and buy, on desktop and mobile What sets me apart Reliability. Good development doesn’t end at launch, so I stay available for support, improvements, and fast problem-solving. Clients get one person who knows their store and answers quickly, before and after delivery. Free Store Quick Look Send me your store link and within 3 business days I’ll send a one-page summary covering: Your biggest speed problem, explained in plain language A first look at your apps: how many are installed, what looks wrong, and which ones could be replaced with custom theme code Three things on your mobile shopping path that I would fix first, each with a screenshot It’s free, there’s no commitment, and I change nothing on your store. If you’d like the issues fixed, we go ahead step by step: I confirm the scope, and you approve each step. I take a limited number each week, for established stores. Canvas services (new Shopify feature) Canvas store-build sprint For new launches and smaller merchants who want a custom store fast. Kickoff call to define your brand, products, audience, and goals AI-assisted design direction: I write the brief and guide Sidekick in Canvas, then refine the result with direct edits and QA Responsive QA on mobile, tablet, and desktop, covering product, collection, cart, and checkout flows Core Web Vitals and layout shift check before launch Launch, walkthrough, and a post-launch support window of 14 days Working with me Whether it’s a full store build, advanced customization, a Canvas build, or performance tuning, you get clear communication, consistent quality, and dependable support. Not sure where to start? Send me your store link for a free Quick Look.
Shopify speed and ad tracking fixes: for stores where the ads bring visitors but not sales I help Shopify stores sell more to the visitors you already pay to bring in. I find the spots where shoppers give up, and then I fix them. One example. A clothing brand's product pages took 15.4 seconds to load. Five weeks before Black Friday, I got them to 7.4 seconds. That is the job: I find what slows your store down, and I fix it. The same work keeps finding a second problem: numbers you cannot trust. The code that tells Meta or Google about a sale fires twice, so sales count double. Ads run across every product, with no check on which ones earn. Apps bill every month for work nobody has measured. So I also check what your money is really doing, instead of trusting what Google, Meta and the apps say. Then I fix what I find. I work with established stores run by their founders. To me, speed and ad spend are sales problems, not technical boxes to tick. What I work on, eight ways in: Speed check. I measure how fast your pages load for real shoppers on a phone. I find what makes them wait, and I fix it. Accessibility check. I test your store the way a keyboard user or a screen reader meets it. I check whether a widget sits on top of problems it does not fix. You get the findings in the order a complaint would reach them. Shopify deadline check. Shopify changes its rules on set dates. Scripts ended on 30 June. Order status script tags ended on 26 August. I find what has already stopped working on your store and what is dated ahead, and I make the repairs. Tracking and attribution fix. Meta Pixel, GA4 (Google Analytics) and server-side tracking. I remove the double counting and prove it in your own dashboards. Ad spend by product and the app bill get read in the same pass. Google and Meta recovery. Your products stopped showing on Google or Meta. I find where the connection broke and get them showing again. Sale price check. AI shopping tools, like ChatGPT, now get your "was" prices from Shopify. I check that yours reach them right. Builds and theme upgrades. New sections and modern themes, with your custom work and your tracking still running. Every change to the live site has a way back. Partner Seat. 25 hours a month. I watch speed, the pages customers see, broken links, tracking and app bills. Your work goes first in the queue. Each check is $285. If you go ahead, I take the fee off the fix price. Key results: Product page load time cut from 15.4 seconds to 7.4 seconds, 52% faster. Mobile PageSpeed on product pages from 18 to 28. The apps the client chose stayed in place, at their call. Two apps were billing to track what the store's own Google channel already did. I removed them, checked the tracking was clean, and took $199 a year off the app bill. Repeat clients going back to 2018. One store has come back for 14 projects over four years. How I work: A paid check first. It measures the real problem, no guessing. If you go ahead, I take the fee off the fix price. Work in stages. You approve each one. Every delivery ends with before and after numbers, and a short list of the next things I found. 80+ projects done. Clients in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Denmark. Send me your store address. I will tell you what slows it down, whether your numbers add up, and what a complaint would find first. No commitment.
10+ years, 500+ Shopify store owners, and countless successful projects—I'm a top-rated Shopify expert dedicated to helping brands improve their store's conversion, speed, functionality, and aesthetics. As the longest-serving developer at Shopexperts (formerly HeyCarson), I've built my reputation on meticulous attention to detail, reliability, and unwavering commitment to client success. My work speaks for itself —check out reviews from past clients who can attest to my dedication and results-driven approach.
Who is based in Austria, and how to read a six-name list
Five agencies and one freelancer. If you want a single person on your project, there is exactly one freelancer based in Austria on shopexperts. Everyone else is an agency, which suits a full build or a replatform better than a quick fix.
Vienna, mostly. More Austrian profiles name Vienna than anywhere else, so meeting in person is easy if you're there too. For a store elsewhere in the country it changes little: set-up, theme work and training mostly happen over screen shares anyway.
German and English on every profile. All six list both, and one adds Spanish. Language won't be the deciding factor whichever you pick.
Full-service by default. All six, the freelancer included, cover development, set-up, consulting and marketing. Five add design. The gaps show further down: three list Copywriting & Content and only two list Finance, Taxes & Compliance. If your brief leans on product copy or tax configuration, those smaller groups are where to look first.
What a six-strong pool means for you. You can read every Austrian profile in one sitting. Because the categories barely differ, shortlist on the stores each one has actually built: catalogue size, sector and whether any sell in a physical shop as well as online.
What sits below the Austrian profiles. The listing starts with the six experts based in Austria, then moves on to experts based outside Austria who work with European merchants. With six local options, expect to read both parts.
When to look past the six Austrian profiles
Stay local when the work touches the shop floor. If you run a physical shop in Austria, someone nearby can visit, check your POS set-up on site and train staff in person. That matters far more for retail than for an online-only store.
Look wider when you need a specialist. All six Austrian profiles list the same four core categories, and only two list tax work. For a complex VAT project or a migration with years of order history, pairing a local agency with a specialist based abroad is a sensible split.
German-speaking doesn't have to mean Austrian. If your storefront is in German, the language bar is easy to clear from next door, and the Shopify experts in Germany page is the obvious second pool. The language carries over; the payment and hardware set-up doesn't.
Run the same brief past both groups. Send one Austrian agency and one expert from the wider list the same brief, then compare how each scopes it. Their answers to "what would you leave out?" tell you more than the totals.
What an Austrian Shopify set-up needs from your expert
Payments and EPS. Austrian stores can use Shopify Payments, with payouts in euros. Shopify's documentation lists EPS (Electronic Payment Standard) as a local payment method available through it. A good expert switches EPS on during set-up and checks it at checkout, rather than leaving it as a post-launch task.
POS hardware takes planning. Shopify's hardware store is off the table for Austrian addresses, since it doesn't deliver here. Shopify tells Austrian merchants to buy compatible kit from outside retailers, which puts the onus on your expert to check every device against Shopify's supported list before you order. Buy the wrong model and you find out at the till.
Tax under the EU set-up. Austria uses Shopify's EU VAT configuration. You can run Shopify Tax or fall back on Manual Tax, while Basic Tax belongs only to stores set up for EU tax collection before the 13 May 2026 cut-off. Selling into Germany or other EU countries and reporting through the Union One-Stop Shop? Shopify supports OSS only with Shopify Tax or Basic Tax. A new store on Manual Tax can't use it.
The return is still yours. Shopify doesn't submit or pay EU VAT on your behalf. Your expert configures the settings; your tax adviser files.
German throughout. Both the Shopify admin and the checkout support German, so staff and customers can work in it end to end.
What all six Austrian experts offer, and what only some do
With six profiles the counts are small but telling: the core is universal, the specialisms are not.
Shopify Development
All six list it, agencies and freelancer alike
Store Setup & Management
Six of six, from first launch to upkeep
Consulting & Strategy
All six; ask who leads it day to day
Marketing & Growth
All six; find out what they handle in-house
Design, UX & Branding
Five of the six list design work
Finance, Taxes & Compliance
Two of six; the pair to call about VAT and OSS
Shopify experts in Austria: questions before you hire
It depends how many skills your project needs at once. A freelancer suits a defined job: a theme adjustment, a payment set-up, a speed fix. A new store with design, build, copy and launch marketing needs several people, which is what the five agencies offer. Austria's one freelancer can't take every job, so freelancers based in other countries appear further down the listing.
You can, as long as they build it as an Austrian store rather than a copy of a German one. Two things differ straight away. EPS is the local payment method Shopify lists for Austria, and Shopify's hardware store, which sells to German merchants, doesn't deliver here. Ask whether they've launched a store for Austrian customers and how they handled both. Vague answers are your signal to keep looking.
Pay for a small, contained job first: an audit of your current store, or setting up EPS and tax settings on a development store. It shows you how they communicate, how they estimate and how they handle deadlines. A good agency will quote a scoped first task without pushing you into a retainer.
Not with Tap to Pay. As of October 2026, Shopify's Tap to Pay pages list Germany and Switzerland but not Austria, so an Austrian counter needs a supported card reader. Shopify's hardware store doesn't deliver here either, which means buying from a third-party retailer. Ask your expert to confirm the exact model works with Shopify POS before you order, and to run a test sale before opening day.
Not necessarily. The label tells you a profile offers development, not who does it. Ask whether code is written in-house or subcontracted, who your developer will be, and to see something they built that goes beyond theme settings. For a store that only needs configuration, it matters less; for custom sections or integrations, it decides the outcome.