If you want one freelancer for a French store, you have two to choose from. The other 36 Shopify experts in France listed on shopexperts as of October 2026 are agencies, with Paris named most often, then Bordeaux and Nantes.
All 38 work in French. Nearly all list store set-up and development, most add marketing, and about a third list finance, tax and compliance work, which matters once you sell beyond France and need VAT settings that hold up.
For a merchant, an agency-heavy market means proposals with a project lead and a phased plan more often than one person doing everything. Read the starting prices further down, then compare the profiles below and get quotes from two or three agencies on an identical brief.
Edition is a danish located Shopify partner only focusing on creating Shopify solutions for B2B and B2C stores. We design, develop and advise e-com companys wanting to grow their business.
We are a Shopify focused agency built on real world ecommerce experience. We have "been there, done that", launching, migrating and scaling stores across multiple sectors. From strategy and design to CRO and growth, we create Shopify sites that are built to perform.
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Shopify studio behind the Wonder Theme - top 10 in the official store. We build everything from small design-driven shops to high-volume Shopify Plus stores. Passion-led, fast, and flexible so you can launch, adapt, and grow without tech barriers
With over 20 years of digital experience, we specialize in building and optimizing Shopify stores that deliver results. From setting up new stores to customizing existing ones and improving performance, we provide solutions that add real value to your brand.
Strategy & Solutions Consultants specialising in high-scale migrations, B2B and checkout extensibility. Dotsquares helps ambitious brands scale faster by pairing Shopify’s powerful infrastructure with custom automation that cuts technical debt and speeds up delivery.
Venture Stream is an award-winning full service ecommerce agency specialising in Shopify, Shopify Plus, operations, warehousing and retail consultancy. We are specialists in design, development, paid search, SEO, creative and all aspects of digital marketing.
Radikal is a Shopify Plus agency that specializes in architecting High-End, Scalable E-commerce Platforms for Growth. With an in-house team of experienced e-commerce professionals, we offer a range of services to help businesses succeed on the Shopify platform.
Color and Code is a Shopify Agency for complex enterprise solutions and custom development. We design, develop, and integrate enterprise-level e-commerce stores. With over 20 years of experience, we can handle complexity so you can focus on what matters most: your customers.
Wir von der Latori GmbH, der ersten Shopify Plus Agentur in Deutschland, arbeiten seit 2012 tagtäglich mit Shopify. Mit Büros in Wuppertal & Stuttgart unterstützt unser Team Sie bei der Shopify-Einrichtung, Shop-Migration, App-Entwicklung und individuellen Lösungen.
Wir entwickeln und skalieren Shopify-Shops für ambitionierte Marken. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Migration von Shopware zu Shopify sowie der Integration bestehender Systeme wie ERP und Warenwirtschaft.
Mostly teams. Thirty-six of the 38 experts based in France are agencies. If you want a direct line to the person writing the code, the two freelancers are your local options.
Paris first, then Bordeaux and Nantes. Other profiles name a spread of cities and towns. Don't limit yourself to the nearest one; the work happens remotely either way, and the best fit for your catalogue may be at the other end of France.
French on every profile, English on most. All 38 list French and 33 list English, so five don't list English. That's no issue for a French founder and worth checking if your team or investors work in English. Five list Spanish; one lists Italian and one Turkish.
Marketing runs deep; tax is a real specialism. Store Setup & Management (38) and Shopify Development (33) lead, with Marketing & Growth close behind on 30. Consulting & Strategy (24), Design, UX & Branding (21) and Copywriting & Content (18) follow. Finance, Taxes & Compliance appears on 13 profiles: a workable shortlist if VAT and OSS settings are the hard part of your project.
Who appears after the French profiles. The listing puts experts based in France first; after them come experts located outside France who also take on European projects. Scroll there if neither French freelancer is free.
Of the 38 experts based in France, only 11 publish a starting price, so read these figures as a sample, not a rate card. Figures are USD, taken in October 2026, and leave out any profile showing zero. A starting price is where an expert's projects begin; what you pay depends on your scope.
Typical band
The middle half of the 11 French starting prices
Median
The midpoint starting price among French profiles
Top quarter of listed prices
The upper quarter of the 11 French prices
The middle half is narrow: three quarters of those 11 start at $450 or more, and half at $600 or more. Budget for a defined project rather than an hour's work.
French quotes move most with catalogue size, the number of languages and markets, custom design, and integrations with your accounting or warehouse tools. For a quote you can compare, send your product count, current platform, the countries you sell to, the languages you need and every system the store has to talk to.
Euro payouts through Shopify Payments. Shopify Payments covers stores based in France, paying out in euros, so card checkout doesn't need a third-party provider. Your expert should connect it before design sign-off, so test orders run through the real checkout.
Tax: decide before launch, not after. France follows Shopify's EU VAT set-up. Shopify Tax is on offer here, with Manual Tax as the fallback. The 13 May 2026 date matters too: only stores already collecting EU tax before then can use Basic Tax. If you plan to sell into other EU countries and declare through the Union One-Stop Shop, pick Shopify Tax from the start, since OSS doesn't work with Manual Tax in Shopify.
The declaration stays with you. Shopify does not handle EU VAT filing or payment. Agree with your accountant which reports they need from Shopify, and ask your expert to set the store up so those reports come out clean.
Boutiques and markets. Shopify sells POS hardware to French merchants through its own hardware store. For lighter set-ups, Shopify POS accepts Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android, provided Shopify Payments is switched on.
French throughout, plus funding. The admin and checkout both support French. Shopify Capital is available to eligible French businesses too.
Profiles can carry several categories. The useful reading is how far each one falls below the total of 38.
On all 38 French profiles
33 profiles; check who writes the code
30 profiles, a strength of the French pool
24 profiles; ask for a written plan
18 profiles; handy for French product copy
13 profiles; the shortlist for tax-heavy builds
Some will, some won't, and each sets its own starting price. Say up front that the job is small and ask for a fixed price. A good agency will either quote it or point you to someone better suited, such as one of the two freelancers based in France or an expert from outside France further down the listing.
Yes, if two things are covered. Someone fluent must write or review every customer-facing word, from product pages and emails to checkout messages and policies, because machine-translated French reads as exactly that. And the expert should have configured EU VAT settings for a French business before. Ask for a French store they've launched and read it as a customer would.
Three live stores close to yours in catalogue size, with the scope they delivered on each. A named lead for your project, not just a sales contact. A written handover plan covering who owns the code, the theme files and the app accounts when the project ends. If an agency can only show a parent group's portfolio rather than stores it built itself, keep looking.
Many French-based experts list marketing alongside development, and one team for build and campaigns means fewer handovers. Check that the marketing is done by people who run accounts every day rather than resold, and ask which channels they manage now and for which kinds of store. Keep the ad accounts in your own name either way.
Treat each as its own market with its own prices, shipping and tax settings. A French agency's language skills carry over; the payment and tax set-up for each country doesn't automatically. Ask whether they've launched in either before. For a bigger cross-border push, international expansion experts specialise in it, and the Belgium and Switzerland pages list experts based there.
