Pixel Union Theme Experts for Shopify

Pixel Union is a Vancouver theme studio that makes premium Shopify themes, including Empire, Atlantic, Tailor, Grid, Editions and Startup. Its support team will explain theme settings and fix bugs in the original code. It won’t touch customised themes, third-party apps or theme upgrades. That gap is exactly where a Pixel Union theme expert earns their fee. Merchants hire them for CSS and Liquid customisation, upgrades that carry custom code onto a new version, and getting other apps to sit properly inside one of its themes. There are 6 experts with the Pixel Union badge on shopexperts as of October 2026, 2 agencies and 4 freelancers based in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Nepal and the US. Four list Spanish on their profiles. Before you contact anyone, find your theme name and version number. Every useful conversation starts there, and a developer who doesn’t ask for them is guessing.

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Top-rated Pixel Union themes experts

Matias Lopez

PRO

Front-End DeveloperBuenos Aires, ArgentinaFrom $70

4.97(163 reviews)

shopexpertsscore

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.

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Klaviyo

Archetype Themes

Eight Themes

Judge.me

Shop Pay Installments

Shopify Flow

PageFly

Recharge

FoxSell Bundle Builder

Out of the Sandbox Themes

Inveterate Memberships

Moon Bundles Upsell Cart AOV+

Brickspace Lab

Truly Fine Pixels

We Are Underground Themes

Kitenzo

Zendrop

Bold Subscriptions

Bold Upsell

Skio

TikTok

GSC Email Marketing + Pop ups

GSC Product Labels & Badges

Sparklayer

Rubik Variant Images & Swatch

ShipMagic

eBay Integration ‑ DPL

DiscountRay

OrderRules

FieldsRaven

Woolman themes

Simple WordPress Blog Feed

Alpha: Loyalty Program, Points

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Sumit Chakradhar

PRO

Shopify Plus EngineerKathmandu, NepalFrom $100

4.97(130 reviews)

shopexpertsscore

100

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.

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Archetype Themes

Clean Canvas Themes

Judge.me

Klaviyo

Infinite Product Options

Gameball: Loyalty Points Games

Eight Themes

Horizon Theme

Omnisend

PageFly

Recharge

Shop Pay Installments

Smile

FoxSell Bundle Builder

MESA

Dynamatic Cart & Upsell Engine

Candy Rack

Instant Section & Page Builder

Theme Updater & Backups | OOTS

Surge Themes

Gigit.ai

Rivyo : Reviews & Loyalty App

Troop themes

Fluorescent Design Inc.

Brickspace Lab

We Are Underground Themes

Kitenzo

Printify

Bold Upsell

Skio

Okendo

Getsitecontrol

GSC Email Marketing + Pop ups

Rubik Variant Images & Swatch

MultiVariants

Alpha: Loyalty Program, Points

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Lautaro Climent

PRO

Front-End DeveloperBuenos Aires, ArgentinaFrom $65

4.91(58 reviews)

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I’m a seasoned web developer and Shopify specialist with over 5 years of experience delivering high-converting, beautifully designed online stores for clients worldwide. As a core member of the ShopExperts team, I’ve led and contributed to projects ranging from complete Shopify migrations to advanced customizations, always focusing on UX/UI best practices and modern e-commerce strategies. My approach blends technical excellence with creative vision: I believe that every brand deserves a digital presence as unique and inspiring as its mission. Whether you’re a startup seeking rapid growth or an established business looking to refresh your online store, I’ll help you unlock your site’s full potential. I specialize in all aspects of modern web development and optimization: From designing and building engaging websites, to customizing user experiences, integrating third-party tools, and ensuring your online presence performs at its best. My clients value my clarity, reliability, and my commitment to going the extra mile to achieve outstanding results. I’m passionate about staying ahead of e-commerce trends and turning challenges into growth opportunities. Let’s build the future of your brand, together.

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Klaviyo

Infinite Product Options

Judge.me

Omnisend

PageFly

Recharge

Shop Pay Installments

Shopify Checkout Blocks

Shopify Flow

Smile

Horizon Theme

Eight Themes

Archetype Themes

FoxSell Bundle Builder

MESA

Dynamatic Cart & Upsell Engine

Candy Rack

Love Loyalty Points & Rewards

Referral Candy & Affiliate

Rivo: Loyalty Program, Rewards

Replo Landing Page Builder

Arc: llms.txt

Surge Themes

Tapcart ‑ Mobile App Builder

Mobile App Builder ‑ Appbrew

Gigit.ai

Subi: Subscriptions & Loyalty

Truly Fine Pixels

We Are Underground Themes

DSers

Bold Subscriptions

Bold Upsell

TikTok

Mechanic

Getsitecontrol

Rubik Variant Images & Swatch

ShipMagic

MultiVariants

FieldsRaven

Woolman themes

Simple WordPress Blog Feed

Vela

Kernvel AI Auctions

Alpha Sale

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Michael Trang - Shopify & CRO Expert

PRO

CRO SpecialistWashington, United StatesFrom $125

5.00(5 reviews)

shopexpertsscore

Logging in from Austin, TX, I'm a seasoned eCommerce and Conversion Rate Optimization(CRO) expert with over 20 years of experience in the online space, with 12 of those years in ecommerce, helping brands scale and maximize profitability. As the founder of MHT Media, I've led hundreds projects, leveraging data-driven strategies to optimize customer journeys generating real revenue. Here are some brands I've worked with. • Giantmouse (Shopify Plus) • Mad Viking Beard (Shopify Plus) • BlackMask Products (Shopify Plus) • ClaimSimple (WooCommerce) • Pastest (Shopify Plus) • Spaze (Shopify Plus) • And Arlen (Shopify)...and many others!

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Shoplift – Split & A/B Testing

Visually – A/B Testing & CRO

Klaviyo

Tapcart ‑ Mobile App Builder

Aftersell Post Purchase Upsell

Consentmo GDPR Compliance

Infinite Product Options

Judge.me

Loox ‑ Visual Product Reviews

Loop Subscriptions

Gorgias

Shop Pay Installments

Shopify Flow

Smile

Privy

Attentive

Bold Subscriptions

Bold Upsell

Loop Returns

Matrixify

Okendo

Triple Whale

Wishlist Plus

Yotpo

Archetype Themes

Out of the Sandbox Themes

We Are Underground Themes

Eight Themes

Horizon Theme

Buy Button channel

Judge.me Email Marketing

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heycarson

AgencyOttawa, CanadaFrom $125

5.00(60 reviews)

shopexpertsscore

We connect eCommerce brands and agencies with top freelance Shopify developers and designers. Hire for single projects or ongoing needs. No hiring fees or recurring charges.

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Klaviyo

Archetype Themes

Clean Canvas Themes

Eight Themes

FoxSell Bundle Builder

Gameball: Loyalty Points Games

Horizon Theme

Infinite Product Options

Judge.me

Kickflip

MESA

Shop Pay Installments

Shopify Checkout Blocks

Shopify Point of Sale

Dynamatic Cart & Upsell Engine

Candy Rack

Shoplift – Split & A/B Testing

Love Loyalty Points & Rewards

Referral Candy & Affiliate

Rivo: Loyalty Program, Rewards

Visually – A/B Testing & CRO

Krown Themes

Out of the Sandbox Themes

Replo Landing Page Builder

Instant Section & Page Builder

Theme Updater & Backups | OOTS

Aftersell Post Purchase Upsell

Flits Loyalty Rewards Program

Reactiv ‑ Mobile App Builder

Arc: llms.txt

Surge Themes

Tapcart ‑ Mobile App Builder

Mobile App Builder ‑ Appbrew

Gigit.ai

Macalytics SEO

Videowise

Orbe Geolocation

OrderEditing.com

Whiley Mai

Flare: Delivery Date Picker

Checkout | Flow

Consentmo GDPR Compliance

Multi Vendor ‑ Puppet Vendors

Onboard B2B: Company Profiles

UpPromote Affiliate Marketing

ShopOS

Loop Subscriptions

Rivyo : Reviews & Loyalty App

Pandectes GDPR Compliance

CP: Order Editing & Upsell

Growave

Gempages

Kim

Inveterate Memberships

Subi: Subscriptions & Loyalty

Troop themes

ECA: Easy Subscriptions App

Mobile App Builder ‑ Vegacart

Moon Bundles Upsell Cart AOV+

Kaching Bundles & Upsells

Fluorescent Design Inc.

Brickspace Lab

Truly Fine Pixels

Preorder, Back In Stock ‑ STOQ

We Are Underground Themes

Presidio Themes

Red Plug Design Co

Safe As Milk

Switch Themes

Zigpoll Customer Surveys

AppMaker

Yotpo

Gorgias

AfterShip

Rebuy

Privy

Kitenzo

DSers

Zendrop

Printful

Printify

Stamped.io

Bold Subscriptions

Bold Upsell

ReConvert

Zipify Pages

OneClickUpsell

Skio

TikTok

Google & YouTube

Facebook & Instagram

Mechanic

Matrixify

ShipStation

ShipBob

Loop Returns

Okendo

Attentive

Triple Whale

Lifetimely

Getsitecontrol

GSC Email Marketing + Pop ups

GSC Countdown Timer Bar

GSC Instagram Feed, Instafeed

GSC Product Labels & Badges

Prediko

Stay ai

Sparklayer

Kno Commerce

Commslayer

Onward

Prisync

Attribuly

Social Snowball

Rubik Variant Images & Swatch

Zipchat AI Chatbot & Live Chat

ShipMagic

eBay Integration ‑ DPL

Kark: Multi Location Inventory

Report Pundit: Custom Reports

EmailWish

Shopify Audiences

Shopify Bundles

Shopify Fulfillment Network

Shopify Forms

Shopify Combined Listings

Quotway

PushBundle

MultiVariants

DiscountRay

Giftnote

OrderRules

Judge.me Email Marketing

FieldsRaven

Kartuu ‑ Printable Gift Cards

Simple WordPress Blog Feed

Vela

Blox: Block Customer Blacklist

Kernvel AI Auctions

Alpha Sale

Alpha: Loyalty Program, Points

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YourStoreMatters

AgencyBrussels, BelgiumFrom $500

4.97(17 reviews)

shopexpertsscore

YourStoreMatters: The Shopify Growth Agency for Ambitious Brands. We help established brands scale their revenue on Shopify and Shopify Plus. We don't just build stores; we build systems that sell. Our focus is simple: High-Converting Design + Automated Customer Retention. How We Help You Grow: Shopify Store Builds: We design fast, premium stores that are easy for your team to manage. No messy code, just a stable foundation for growth. Email & SMS Marketing: As Klaviyo Master Silver Partners, we turn your email list into a consistent revenue engine (usually 30%+ of total sales) using automated flows and segmentation. Subscriptions & Loyalty: We implement Recharge and Love Loyalty to turn one-time buyers into recurring subscribers. Pain-Free Migrations: We handle the complex move from Magento, WooCommerce, or older Shopify themes so you don't lose data or rankings. Why Merchants Trust Us: We operate as your long-term partner, not a one-off freelancer. We are obsessed with your ROI, your site speed, and your customer's experience. Our Certified Tech Stack: We are official experts in the tools that power modern ecommerce: Growth: Klaviyo, Omnisend Apps: Recharge, Judge.me, Loox, Shopify Flow Themes: Specialized in customizing premium themes like Horizon, Archetype & Out of the Sandbox Themes. VERIFIED PARTNER PROFILE: Shopify · Klaviyo Master Silver · Rebuy Bronze · Recharge · Trustpilot · Judgeme · LoyaltyLion · TextYess Elite

Theme & App Skills

Pixel Union

Recharge

Klaviyo

Horizon Theme

Love Loyalty Points & Rewards

Videowise

Visually – A/B Testing & CRO

Shopify Checkout Blocks

Judge.me

Shopify Flow

Archetype Themes

We Are Underground Themes

Printful

Printify

Privy

Kark: Multi Location Inventory

Social Snowball

Shopify Fulfillment Network

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What Pixel Union theme work covers

CSS and Liquid changes. Pixel Union’s support policy is blunt: customisations using CSS, Liquid and other technical work are the developer’s responsibility. Layout changes the theme editor can’t make, new sections, product page logic. All of that is expert territory.

Upgrades that keep your edits. The studio doesn’t support theme upgrades, customised or not. Empire alone had reached version 13.0.1 by August 2026. An expert moves your edits onto the new release, tests them on a duplicate, and tells you which customisations the new version has made unnecessary.

Third-party apps inside the theme. Theme support sends app questions to the app developer. An expert who knows the theme’s sections can place a reviews widget or upsell block properly, so you aren’t left bouncing between two support desks.

Preset changes on a customised store. The themes ship with several presets. Empire has four: Empire, Circuit, Depot and Forma. On an untouched store, changing the look is quick. On a customised one, ask a developer how your edits carry over before you switch.

Reviewing AI-generated blocks. The support policy now lists AI-generated theme blocks alongside apps and template edits as customisations it won’t troubleshoot. If your team has been generating blocks, have someone check them, because a problem they cause is one the studio’s support won’t look at.

New store setup. Five of the six experts here also list store setup and management, so a fresh Empire or Tailor build, configured properly before launch, is a sensible first project to ask about.

How to choose a Pixel Union expert

Ask which Pixel Union themes they’ve shipped. Empire, Atlantic and Tailor are separate themes with their own code. Ask for a live store on your theme, ideally a recent version, and ask what they changed on it.

Ask how they keep edits upgrade-friendly. The answer you want: changes kept in their own snippets and sections, documented, with a list of every core file touched. Each edit buried in a core file slows the next upgrade, and vendor support won’t help with that upgrade.

Ask about the updater. The studio points customers to an updater app for update notifications, theme registration, a diff checker and language-file transfer, with some of that on a PRO tier. A developer who uses the diff view can show you exactly what changed between your copy and the new release.

Watch for red flags. Editing the live theme instead of a duplicate. Quoting an upgrade without asking your version. Promising that the theme’s own support will cover their work afterwards. It won’t, because support excludes customised themes.

Start with a small paid task. Give a new developer one contained job first, such as a section change or an app block placement on a duplicate theme. You’ll see how they test, document and communicate before you hand over an upgrade. For typical scopes, see our guide to Shopify theme customisation cost.

Support limits and version rules to check first

What support covers. Guidance on theme features and settings, compatibility on a standard install, and bugs in the original theme. The team aims to reply within 24 hours and asks you to allow 1–3 business days. For a settings question, start there.

What it doesn’t. Errors caused by customisations, whether from third-party plugins, apps, template edits or AI-generated theme blocks. Installing, configuring or troubleshooting third-party apps. Theme upgrades, customised or not. Once your theme has any of those, problems in that area are a developer’s job.

Version floors. Support only applies from certain versions: Empire 6.0.0+, Atlantic 15.0.0+, Grid 5.0.0+, Startup 11.0.0+, Editions 11.0.0+, and every version of Tailor. Below the floor, an experienced expert prices the upgrade before any other work, because the studio’s support won’t help on that version until it’s done.

Older themes. Pacific (5.0.0+) and Launch (7.0.0+) are still on the supported-versions list but don’t appear on the studio’s current Theme Store designer page. If your store runs one of them, ask an expert what a move to a current theme from the studio would involve before you spend more on customising it.

Check who actually made your theme. Pixel Union’s website links to sister theme studios in the same group. Their themes are made by those studios, so the support policy and version rules above don’t apply to them. Confirm who made your theme before you brief anyone.

Typical Pixel Union Shopify projects

Five of the 6 list Shopify development and five list store setup and management, which makes this a build-and-fix group. The theme jobs they’re suited to:

Liquid and CSS customisation

New sections and layout changes beyond the theme editor

Version upgrades

Custom code moved onto the latest Empire, Atlantic or Tailor release

App placement

Third-party blocks rendering properly inside the theme

Preset switches

A new look, such as Empire to Depot, on an already customised build

AI block review

Generated theme blocks checked before they cause support issues

New store setup

A fresh Empire, Tailor or Grid install configured for launch

Questions about Pixel Union themes and support

Will Pixel Union support fix my customised theme?

Not the customised parts. The support policy excludes errors from customisations, including template edits, apps and AI-generated theme blocks. If the bug sits in the original theme code on a supported version, support will help. If you can’t tell which it is, a developer can compare your copy with a clean install of the same version and show you where the difference lies.

Does Pixel Union do theme customisation itself?

No. The studio says customisations using CSS, Liquid and other technical work are the developer’s responsibility, and it refers customisation work to outside Shopify experts rather than doing it in-house. Its support team still answers questions about settings and features, so use it for those and hire for anything that changes code.

Can I upgrade my Pixel Union theme without losing my changes?

Usually, if the changes were made cleanly. The studio doesn’t support upgrades, so this is developer work. The updater app it recommends handles update notifications and offers a diff checker and language-file transfer, some of it on a PRO tier. Someone still has to merge code edits by hand wherever the new version changed the same files.

Which Pixel Union themes are on the Theme Store now?

Its Theme Store designer page lists Empire, Atlantic, Tailor, Grid, Editions and Startup. Pacific and Launch still appear on its supported-versions list but not on that page. If you run one of those two, get an expert’s view on moving to a current theme before you pay for more customisation.

Are Depot, Circuit and Forma separate themes?

No. They’re presets of Empire, alongside the Empire preset itself, and they change the starting look rather than the theme underneath. Pick the one closest to your catalogue and brand, then customise. If your Empire copy already carries custom code, ask a developer how those edits carry over before you change preset.

How quickly does theme support reply?

The support team aims to reply within 24 hours and asks customers to allow 1–3 business days. That’s fine for a settings question. If a product page breaks the week of a sale, and the theme is customised, support may not cover the problem at all. Brief a developer at the same time rather than waiting.