You manage the merchants.
Command the portfolio.
For Shopify agencies, freelancers and in-house teams running stores they do not own. Audit any client or prospect store today with the free scan. The multi-store command layer is being built on one rule: access comes from the merchant, never from the agency.
Who this is for.
Straight answers.
The agency lane in five definitions: what it is, what works today, and what is still being built.
- What is a Rank Sniper agency partner?
- An agency, freelancer or in-house team that operates Shopify stores on behalf of the people who own them. The relationship is “I manage this merchant”: you work on a client’s store with the owner’s explicit authorisation, and the store stays theirs.
- Who is it for?
- Shopify agencies carrying a book of client stores; freelance Shopify developers and SEO consultants; in-house teams running several brands, markets or expansion stores as separate Shopify storefronts.
- What can an agency use today?
- The public free scan Available. Point it at any Shopify storefront, whether a client’s, a prospect’s or a competitor’s, and get a composite score and four pillar scores without an install or a client login.
- Is the agency workspace live?
- Not yet. The multi-store portfolio view is In development. Organisations and team permissions Planned, client reporting Planned and white-label reports Planned are not built. Every capability on this page carries its real state.
- Does agency status create referral commission?
- Agency status does not create referral commissions. Agencies that also want to promote Rank Sniper may separately apply to the affiliate programme; affiliate attribution and commissions are governed independently from agency client access. Applications are reviewed, and approval is not automatic.
Every client store
drifts on its own.
A portfolio of Shopify stores does not lose visibility all at once. It leaks store by store, in places nobody on the account is watching.
A theme update drops the product structured data on one client. An app installed for a promotion injects a second, conflicting Product schema on another. Someone tightens robots.txt on a third and blocks the AI crawlers along with the scrapers they meant to stop. A bulk import on a fourth leaves hundreds of variants without a SKU. None of it throws an error in the Shopify admin, and none of it shows in a monthly traffic report until the damage is weeks old.
Search engines, answer engines, generative engines and shopping agents each read a store differently, so a client can look healthy in a rank tracker and still be missing from the answers AI systems give. An agency managing twenty stores needs to know which store, which pillar and which fix, not one blended number and not twenty separate logins to find out.
That is what the agency lane is for. Where Rank Sniper can see it today, it shows you. Where it can’t yet, this page tells you.
Audit any store.
No install required.
The free scan reads a storefront from the outside, the way a crawler or an agent does. So it works on stores you have no access to yet, which is most of a sales pipeline.
Prospect audits
Scan a prospect before the first call and walk in with a composite score and four pillar scores for their actual store, not a generic deck.
AI-crawler policy
See which AI crawlers a client’s robots.txt allows or blocks (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended). That one setting can remove a store from generative answers outright.
Full report by email
The complete scan report arrives through an emailed sign-in link. It is in beta: end-to-end link redemption is still being verified.
The command layer.
Labelled as it stands.
What the agency surface is being built to do, and the state each part is in today. Nothing here is sold as working before it works.
Multi-store portfolio
Every store you are authorised on, side by side: composite and pillar scores, catalogue size and last scan, so client health reads at a glance. A read-only roll-up exists in the dashboard, but no production path grants the store access it relies on, and the dashboard shows seed data until app ingestion lands.
Store intelligence
Client stores measured on live data from the Shopify app, not public pages alone. This depends on the path from the app into the Command Center, which is still being built.
Cross-client monitoring
Recurring re-scans across the portfolio, drift detection when a theme or app change breaks a client, and alerts before the client notices.
Client reporting
Per-client reports and exports built from the same scores you see. The monthly client conversation, backed by the record.
White-label reports
Client reports under your agency’s own mark. Not built yet, and it will not be sold until it is.
Team and permissions
Agency organisations, team members and per-client permissions, so each operator sees the stores they are assigned and nothing else.
You operate the store.
The merchant owns it.
Agency access is designed around five objects. Each is planned; together they make access explicit, scoped and revocable.
- ORG-01Planned
Organisation
Your agency as its own entity in Rank Sniper, not a merchant account with extra stores bolted on.
- ORG-02Planned
Members
The people on your team, each a member of the organisation with their own sign-in. When someone leaves, their access leaves with their membership.
- ORG-03Planned
Client relationship
An explicit link between your organisation and a merchant, “I manage this merchant”, which the merchant has agreed to.
- ORG-04Planned
Store access grant
Given per store, authorised by the merchant and revocable by them. No grant, no access, whatever the relationship says.
- ORG-05Planned
Permissions and scopes
What each member can see and do on each granted store. The exact scopes will be published before the feature ships.
Four pillars.
Every client, in order.
Rank Sniper scores every store against the same four pillars, always in this order: SEO, AEO, GEO, AIO. The definitions are Rank Sniper’s own, published verbatim. The line under each is what it means across a portfolio.
SEO
Whether conventional search engines can crawl, parse, and rank the catalogue.
Across a portfolio: which clients have products no index can place, because of missing product types, thin tags, duplicate URLs or an invalid sitemap.
Engage →AEO
Whether the catalogue can be lifted as a direct answer to a shopper's question.
Across a portfolio: which clients’ product pages an answer engine can quote, and which it will paraphrase without credit.
Engage →GEO
Whether generative engines will cite this store when composing a recommendation.
Across a portfolio: which clients block an AI crawler in robots.txt: one edit stops that agent reading the store, and the score carries a capped penalty for it.
Engage →AIO
Whether an AI system can correctly parse and act on the record without guessing. Includes transactability as a named sub-score.
Across a portfolio: which clients’ records an agent can act on: a SKU per variant, price with currency, availability, and no conflicting markup.
Engage →Managing is not referring.
Two programmes.
Agency status does not create referral commissions. Agencies that also want to promote Rank Sniper may separately apply to the affiliate programme; affiliate attribution and commissions are governed independently from agency client access.
| Aspect | Agency / partner | Affiliate |
|---|---|---|
| The relationship | “I manage this merchant.” | “I referred this merchant.” |
| Who it is for | Shopify agencies, freelancers and in-house teams operating stores they do not own. | Creators, publishers, educators, media buyers and advertisers whose audience runs Shopify. |
| Access to the store | Only through an explicit relationship and a store access grant the merchant authorises. The agency never owns the store. | None. Referring a merchant grants no operational access to their store. |
| Commission | None from agency status. An agency may separately apply to the affiliate programme; any commission then comes from that affiliate identity and its attribution, never from client access. | 20% of collected revenue for 12 months, under the published terms. |
| State today | Portfolio view In development | Referral links Private Beta |
| How to start | Agency enquiry | Affiliate application |
Bring us your book.
See the gaps first.
Tell us how many Shopify stores you manage and what you report to clients today. The enquiry is tagged Agency and read by a person.
There is no agency price on this page because there is no agency price yet. The agency tier is contact-only, and published pricing says the same. The fastest way to make the conversation specific is to scan two or three client stores first and send the results with your enquiry.
