monkeyman.agency
monkeyman.agency
Phase 03 · Scale

Shopify CRO Agency.

Your store has all the right pieces, it just isn't converting. A monthly Shopify CRO retainer focused on conversion rate, AOV, and revenue for DTC brands. We hypothesize, test, ship, measure, every two weeks.

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Stage
03
Engagement
Monthly retainer
Timeline
Monthly · 3-mo minimum
Phase
Scale
The problem

The conversion plateau.

  • You've optimised for traffic. Now you need optimisation for revenue.
  • Your conversion rate has been flat for 6 months.
  • You suspect there are wins in checkout, PDPs, and email, but you don't have time to find them.
What you get

A Shopify CRO retainer with us includes.

  • 01 A/B test roadmap based on your funnel data
  • 02 2-4 tests live each month
  • 03 Heatmap and session replay analysis
  • 04 Checkout optimisation experiments
  • 05 PDP variant testing
  • 06 Email and SMS capture optimisation
  • 07 Monthly report, what we tested, what won, what's next
Pricing
Monthly retainer
3-month minimum · 2-4 tests live each month

What's included

  • A/B test roadmap based on your funnel data
  • 2-4 tests live each month
  • Heatmap and session replay analysis
  • Checkout optimisation experiments
  • PDP variant testing
  • Email and SMS capture optimisation
  • Monthly report: what we tested, what won, what's next

What costs extra

  • Major build work (new sections, new templates): quoted per scope
  • Heavy traffic that needs more than 4 concurrent tests: tier up to the higher-volume band

Not included

  • Paid media spend
  • Email/SMS platform subscriptions (Klaviyo, Postscript, etc.)
Where we deliver this work

Remote-first Shopify studio. Active engagements right now in US (NY · CA · TX) · UK (London · Manchester) · UAE (Dubai) · Spain · Brazil · Switzerland · Australia.

Time zone overlap on every working day.

What Shopify CRO includes

Conversion rate optimisation on Shopify is a system, not a bag of tricks. A serious Shopify CRO agency engagement covers five layers, and we run all of them inside the retainer.

CRO audit. Every engagement starts with a teardown of your funnel: where sessions enter, where they stall, where they leave. We read your analytics the way an accountant reads a ledger, looking for the line items that don’t add up.

A/B testing. Structured experiments on the pages that carry revenue weight: home, collection, PDP, cart, checkout. Each test has a written hypothesis, a minimum sample size, and a kill date. No peeking, no calling winners early.

PDP and checkout optimisation. The two highest-leverage surfaces on any Shopify store. We test price anchoring, shipping-cost disclosure, payment method visibility, trust placement, and mobile form friction, the things that move checkout completion, not button colours.

Heatmaps and session replay. Quantitative data tells you where visitors leave. Watching real sessions tells you why. We review replays weekly and turn recurring frustration patterns into the next test.

Email and SMS capture. List growth is a conversion problem too. We test capture timing, offer framing, and form placement so your retention channels grow while the store converts.

Our CRO process

  1. Hypothesise. Every test starts with a written statement: what we believe, why we believe it, and what data made us believe it.
  2. Test. We ship the variant behind a proper split, sized to reach significance with your traffic. 2-4 tests run concurrently each month.
  3. Measure. Tests run until the numbers are real, not until someone gets impatient. Winners ship to 100% of traffic; losers get documented so we never retest a dead idea.
  4. Iterate. Each result feeds the next hypothesis. This loop is why CRO compounds, and why the retainer format beats one-off audits.

Shopify CRO clients we've shipped

Questions

Shopify CRO FAQs.

How do you decide what to test?

We start with funnel data plus session replay analysis to find the highest-friction moments, then prioritise tests by impact × confidence × ease.

Do I need a specific testing tool?

We default to Shopify's native A/B framework or Convert/VWO depending on your scale. Tooling is included in the retainer.

What happens after 3 months?

Most clients stay on for at least a year, CRO compounds. You can pause or end any time after the 3-month minimum.

How much does Shopify CRO cost?

Our Shopify CRO retainer is a fixed monthly fee, custom-quoted by traffic tier after a free CRO teardown of your store. Send your store URL through the form and we come back inside 48 hours with what we'd test first and what the retainer would cost. The 3-month minimum exists because testing needs sample size, not because we like lock-ins.

How long until I see results?

The first tests go live inside 2 weeks, and most stores see their first statistically significant win inside the first 6-8 weeks. CRO compounds from there. Anyone promising a conversion jump in week one is guessing, statistical significance takes traffic and time.

Do I need a minimum traffic level?

Roughly 10,000 sessions per month is where A/B testing gets reliable. Below that we still run the retainer, but we lean on session replay analysis, heuristic audits, and sequential testing instead of split tests, the wins are real, the measurement is just different.

What does a Shopify CRO agency actually do that I can't do myself?

Volume and pattern recognition. We run tests across dozens of Shopify stores, so we know which checkout patterns, PDP layouts, and offer structures tend to win per niche before we test them on yours. You could run the same experiments solo, it would just take years to build the same prior.

Pairs with Scale

What buyers usually pick alongside shopify cro.

Most engagements stack two or three of these. Send everything in one audit and we'll scope across.

Start a CRO sprint

Send us your store. We'll send back conversion opportunities.

Free CRO teardown within 48 hours, what's leaking revenue, prioritised by impact. If shopify cro is the right sprint, we'll quote it.

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