Shopify Agency in Miami, FL: A Local Team for Brands Selling Across the Americas

Solo Media Group is an overall top Shopify agency for Miami brands, and the reason is that we build for how South Florida actually sells: in Spanish and English, into Latin America with local payment methods, and to wholesale buyers. Fort Lauderdale's Time4Learning and Paw.com are clients, and our Edgewater office means kickoffs happen in person.

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Population figures: US Census Bureau QuickFacts, Miami-Dade County (population estimates, July 1, 2025, and American Community Survey, 2020–2024). Languages: American Community Survey language tables.

How do Miami brands sell into Latin America on Shopify?

Selling into Latin America from Miami takes more than currency conversion. Shoppers expect local payment methods, prices set for their market, and duties shown before they pay. Shopify Markets handles currencies, regional pricing and duties, while local methods such as PIX in Brazil, OXXO in Mexico and Mercado Pago are added through payment apps.

Cards alone leave a large share of Latin American shoppers unable to check out. Availability of each method depends on your business location and payment provider, so we confirm it during planning.

Should a Miami store launch in Spanish, English or both?

Both, in most cases. In Miami-Dade, 75.3% of residents speak a language other than English at home, and 70.6% are Hispanic or Latino. A Spanish storefront here is part of selling locally, not an international expansion, and it needs translated product data, separate language versions Google can index, and Spanish emails and checkout.

Done properly, that means:

• Translated product data and metafields, not a translation widget that search engines ignore.
• Spanish pages under your own domain, such as /es, tagged so each version ranks for searches in its own language.
• Spanish checkout text and emails, so the whole journey matches the language a customer chose.
• A look at Haitian Creole or Portuguese for brands whose customers speak them. Both are among Miami's most common languages after English and Spanish.

How do Miami importers and distributors sell wholesale on Shopify?

Native Shopify B2B, on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans since April 2, 2026, gives Miami's importers and distributors company accounts, account-level pricing, net terms, purchase orders, order minimums and quantity steps. Shopify Plus adds more pricing catalogs and checkout customization for larger operations. Most wholesalers connect it to the ERP and 3PL already running the business.

• Gated catalogs so trade prices stay hidden from retail shoppers.
• Case-pack ordering with minimums and quantity steps.
• Net terms for approved accounts.
• ERP and 3PL integration so stock and orders flow without manual entry.

For many South Florida distributors, this replaces an older B2B platform at a lower total cost. See our Shopify B2B development services.

Why work with a Shopify agency you can meet in person?

Because some decisions go faster in a room. Most agencies ranking for Shopify experts in Miami are remote teams or marketplaces that connect you with a freelancer elsewhere. We hold kickoffs, workshops and milestone reviews in person at our Edgewater office, and run day-to-day delivery through shared tools.

"Miami brands aren't building for Miami. They're building for two continents, in two languages, out of one warehouse. That's a different problem than most agencies are used to solving."

Johnathan Solorzano, Founder

Day to day, you work with one senior team: a solution engineer, developers, a designer, a Klaviyo specialist and a project lead, through your project tool, a shared Slack channel and weekly syncs.

South Florida brands we've built for

Time4Learning, the online PreK–12 curriculum with an office in Fort Lauderdale. We migrated it to Shopify Plus with SEO preserved, and built separate parent and student logins and parental control over subscriptions.

OFRA Cosmetics, the beauty brand headquartered in Pompano Beach.

Paw.com, the Fort Lauderdale pet lifestyle brand. We optimized two of its Shopify stores, and its Board Member and Lead Investor, Ricky Pollack, wrote in a verified Clutch review: "Solo Media Group stands at the top of the list in terms of talent, knowledge, and execution."

We're a Shopify Platinum Partner, the top of Shopify's five tiers, and have served 500+ merchants since 2018.

Is "Shopify Expert" still a real designation?

Not officially. Shopify replaced its Experts Marketplace with the Shopify Partner Directory, where agencies are listed as Shopify Partners in performance tiers. Merchants still search for "Shopify experts in Miami," but the useful check is a partner's tier on the directory and named client work you can verify.

When you compare agencies, ask what they've built beyond theme setup: custom checkout logic, app integrations, complex migrations, or ERP connections. Design and technical depth are different skills.

Hurricane season, sales tax and other South Florida basics

Hurricane season runs June to November. Prepare delay banners, paused delivery promises and, where it makes sense, a backup fulfillment location outside the region. Our Cape Coral page has a full storm-mode checklist.

Sales tax: Miami-Dade orders are taxed at 7%, Florida's 6% plus a 1% county surtax. Florida also permanently exempts many safety items, from life jackets to sunscreen, covered on the same Cape Coral page.

What does a Shopify build cost in Miami?

Builds start from $20,000 and typically take 8 to 12 weeks, quoted as line items. Retainers start from $3,000 a month for ongoing development and optimization. If a targeted fix will serve you better than a rebuild, we'll say so.