Shopify Premier Announcement
MTN Haus: A Premier Shopify Enterprise Partner
Industry: Creative Strategy and Enterprise Development
Services: Growth, Strategy, Shopify Development, Migration
MTN Haus Joins Shopify’s Premier Partner Program.
When Kris Warner founded MTN Haus, he did so without fanfare. No press releases. No conference booths. No hashtags or self-congratulation. The quiet conviction was that excellence doesn’t need a megaphone , it needs consistency, craftsmanship, and character.
He believed that the next great eCommerce agency wouldn’t be built on personality or sponsorships, but on performance. That you could build an elite digital firm without the usual theater of personal brand building. Without the stage lights, trade show panels, or Instagram vignettes of founders “networking.” He bet that an agency could ascend on the strength of its work alone.
That bet is slowly paying off.
The Summit Moment
MTN Haus has officially been recognized as a Shopify Premier Partner, one of fewer than fifty agencies in the world to hold the distinction. It’s a title that is earned, not applied for; verified, not bought.
For a company that has spent years quietly building complex systems for some of the most respected brands in retail, from the agency’s heritage beginning at Rogue Fitness to some of our current work: Leupold Optics to Bandit Running to Georgetown Cupcake to LMNT, this moment represents more than a badge. It’s validation of a philosophy: that rigor and restraint can outlast hype.
Premier Partner status acknowledges agencies that have demonstrated exceptional technical capability, design execution, and client satisfaction at scale. It’s Shopify’s way of saying: these are the people you can trust with your most ambitious ecommerce challenges.
For Kris, it’s a milestone. But not the summit.
The Small Giant Strategy
MTN Haus has never aimed to be the largest agency in the room. Its strategy is to become one of the smallest agencies ever to reach Shopify Platinum status, the program’s highest possible tier, currently held by only a handful of global firms.
Why aim to be the smallest? Because scale can often dilute what matters: craftsmanship, accountability, and a sense of ownership. The Haus is structured as a network of senior engineers, architects, and strategists who each have direct responsibility for outcomes — not layers of management or distant account executives.
Kris designed the agency to operate more like a special operations team than a traditional agency. Every person has a clear role. Everyone understands the mission. And the mission, right now, is precision growth — becoming leaner, sharper, and more valuable with each engagement.
The formula is simple: excellence + cost savings = enduring trust.
By cutting the excess, the event sponsorships, the trade show banners, the marketing fluff, MTN Haus directs those resources toward what actually matters: code quality, process innovation, and client outcomes. The result is that brands get the experience and performance of a global Platinum agency, at a fraction of the typical cost structure.
It’s a disciplined way to grow — not viral, but vital.
How We'll Get There
The path to Platinum isn’t about growth at any cost. It’s about growth with purpose. MTN Haus is focusing on three specific segments where our model delivers the most measurable advantage:
Under-the-Radar Enterprise Retailers
These are the operators who do nine figures in revenue without the spotlight. They’ve grown through operational excellence, not marketing noise. For them, MTN Haus is the perfect fit, a partner who shares their ethos of quiet performance.
Shopify is increasingly the home for these retailers: enterprise merchants who demand stability, flexibility, and speed without paying enterprise software premiums. MTN Haus is where they turn when they’re ready to modernize their infrastructure, improve uptime, and build conversion-optimized experiences that perform under pressure.
Business-to-Business Legacy Brands
The future of B2B commerce is indistinguishable from the future of DTC. The same buyer expectations, the same UX principles, the same demand for data visibility and reliability.
MTN Haus helps legacy manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers adopt modern commerce infrastructure, often for the first time. These are multi-generational businesses seeking a path forward without abandoning the systems and trust that built them.
Our role is to bridge the old and the new: complex ERP systems, multi-location inventory, configurable pricing, and multi-tiered customer access — all translated into the elegance and efficiency of a Shopify experience.
BigCommerce Migrations to Shopify
This is the next great wave of opportunity. We wrote the “book” on it; in 2025, we co-published the migration guide that countless CTOs will rely upon to make their decision on Shopify.
In 2025, Shopify’s dominance in mid-market and enterprise has become undeniable. Meanwhile, BigCommerce, once positioned as the “open SaaS” alternative, has struggled to define itself. One founder said it best: “BigCommerce doesn’t know what it wants to be.”
MTN Haus is seeing this up close. Each month, more merchants explore migration options after realizing that Shopify’s ecosystem, tooling, and developer velocity are outpacing BigCommerce by orders of magnitude.
We estimate that a few dozen of BigCommerce employees and contractors have already migrated their careers toward Shopify-focused work over the past two years, a silent exodus that signals where the market’s confidence lies. And as those defections continue, we expect hundreds of migrations of more brands to follow.
For those merchants, MTN Haus represents not just a lifeboat but an upgrade: stability, community, and innovation on a platform with a clear vision for the future.
Why Growth Will Come From Shopify
Every platform cycle creates its own ecosystem. Shopify’s Premier and Platinum tiers are less about hierarchy and more about shared alignment: growth for one equals growth for all.
MTN Haus is betting on Shopify’s trajectory. The platform’s investment in enterprise features, from integrated B2B to improved data orchestration and composability, signals a long-term strategy that will reshape commerce globally.
Shopify is no longer just for DTC brands or startups; it’s for complex, scaled operators seeking resilience and speed. And that’s where MTN Haus thrives.
Each migration, each optimization, each custom integration becomes part of Shopify’s broader momentum. The more Shopify grows, the more MTN Haus grows. This alignment is intentional; by building deeper within one ecosystem, we avoid the diffusion of attention that kills so many agencies.
Our goal is not to be everywhere. It’s to be indispensable somewhere.
The Culture of The Haus
MTN Haus isn’t an office. It’s a network: distributed across time zones, unified by process. The team includes architects, developers, and strategists who have built for Shopify since its earliest API versions.
There are no middlemen, no contractors halfway around the world pretending to be full-time staff. Everyone who touches a project is vetted, senior, and accountable.
The agency’s internal motto is “The mountain earns you.” You don’t just join MTN Haus; you prove your craft against its standards. It’s a meritocratic system built on trust and technical ability, not proximity or charisma.
The Path Ahead
The next ascent is clear.
MTN Haus will continue scaling its Premier Partner responsibilities while deepening its presence among the three verticals that define its focus. Each engagement is a step toward Platinum status, a reflection not of size, but of sustained excellence.
And as the industry recalibrates around efficiency, authenticity, and measurable results, Kris’s model (quiet, disciplined, lean) looks less contrarian and more prescient.
The eCommerce industry doesn’t need more agencies chasing awards or clout. It needs more partners who build things that work, who deliver value that lasts.
