Ecommerce website development
Shopify stores for brands that ship products, set up to sell from day one. Custom stores and marketplaces when Shopify is not enough.
Quote · Shopify store (example)
Sample briefWe sell handmade candles at markets and want to sell online across the US, with local pickup in Tempe.
Shopify store for a candle brand
- Store designed for the brandincluded
- Products and paymentsincluded
- Shipping and local pickupincluded
Fixed price$7,900
Prices
Every quote is fixed and in writing before work starts.
- Store on Shopifyabout 1 week · designed for your brand; products, payments and shipping set up; analytics and SEO basicsfrom $7,900
- Custom storeyour own catalog, checkout and admin · after a one-week scoping sprintfrom $14,900
- Marketplace MVPmany sellers, listings, payouts · after a one-week scoping sprintfrom $24,900
- Care after launchstore updates, backups and hours of changesfrom $149/mo
Stores we built
Two custom builds. Both are live, so open them and click around before you read our version.
A custom streetwear store
- Client
- SixZeros
- Type
- Online store
Tours across cities and countries
- Client
- Vizitour
- Type
- Web app
- SixZeros
- A streetwear label from Ukraine; the store is live at six000000.com. They arrived with the design already finished and wanted it built exactly that way, on Laravel. So that's what we did. What you'll find there today: a catalog you can filter by size, variants, a cart, checkout, delivery options and a back office for products and orders. Not every piece of that is ours. Some was added after our part of the work, and another team runs the store now. We didn't design the brand or the pages. One more thing: the site is in Ukrainian, so the screenshots are too.
- Vizitour
- A booking site for tours, in English and Spanish. New York came first; these days it sells tours in a handful of cities and a few countries. Pick a destination. Narrow it down by category, price, length, start time. Choose the date, a slot, how many of you are going. Pay, through Stripe's hosted checkout. Under the hood it's Next.js in front of Laravel, with an admin panel we shaped around how the client works (packages, transfers, that sort of thing). Strictly speaking it's a booking platform, not a shop with a cart. But the parts are the same ones any online store needs. Catalog, filters, checkout, back office.
What the Shopify quote covers
Yes, "from $7,900" is a starting price. The difference is that your quote spells out what's behind it, so the number you sign is the number you pay.
- Your catalog
- How many products, and who types them in. Thirty products and eight hundred are different jobs, and a migration from the platform you're leaving is a job of its own. So the quote says the number, and whether we enter the data, move it over from your old store, or import the spreadsheet you send us.
- Theme and design
- We start from a Shopify theme that suits what you sell and bend it toward your brand, meaning your colors and type, the homepage sections, the product and collection pages. If a paid theme is the better choice, it goes in the quote by name, with its price and who buys it.
- Payments and shipping
- Shopify Payments, unless you'd rather use someone else. Taxes. Shipping zones and their rates, and local pickup if that's something you offer. Two things are not in our price: the Shopify subscription itself and the card fees. The quote says so up front, not in a footnote.
- Apps and integrations
- Reviews, email, a shipping-label app, maybe a hook into your accounting tool. Each one goes in the quote with its monthly cost, or it doesn't go in at all. Nothing you didn't see on the quote ends up installed.
- Analytics and search basics
- Google Analytics 4 connected. Page titles and descriptions written for your main pages. Sitemap submitted to Search Console. Groundwork, in other words. Nobody should sell you that as an SEO campaign, and we don't.
- Time
- Roughly a week, and the clock starts the day your products, logo and shipping rules land with us. A big catalog or a migration takes longer, and your quote will say how much longer, for your store specifically.
Shopify or a custom store?
We build both. We'll also tell you which one you need, even when it's the cheaper one.
Start on Shopify when
- You sell physical things and ship them, or people come and pick up.
- Your checkout is ordinary. A cart, a discount code, maybe a subscription.
- You'd like to add products and handle orders yourself, without a developer on speed dial.
- You'd rather pay a monthly subscription than own and host software.
Most stores that sell and ship products fit here. It's cheaper to build, it's live in about a week, and Shopify takes care of hosting, security and card compliance so you don't have to.
Go custom when
- Other people sell through your site and you pay them out. Which makes it a marketplace.
- Your pricing or checkout has rules no theme can bend to. Quotes instead of prices, bookings, a configurator, different tiers for trade buyers.
- The shop is only one corner of a bigger product that also has accounts, dashboards, maybe an app.
- You already have finished designs a theme can't match. SixZeros was that case.
Custom starts with the scoping sprint: one week, $1,900, and at the end you hold a feature list, user flows, sketches of the screens and a fixed price. The build itself starts at $14,900 for a store and $24,900 for a marketplace. How the sprint works.
How a store build runs
Same steps for a Shopify store and a custom one; the custom one has the planning week in front.
You send a brief; a fixed written quote comes back within 1 business day. You pay 30% to start and send over the first products, the logo and your shipping rules. We design the homepage and one product page first and you sign them off (two rounds of changes are included) before we build the rest. From then on there's a preview link and a short written update every week. The last payment is due at launch, and once you've paid in full the design work and content we made are yours. Anything in our work that breaks in the first 30 days, we fix for free. How we work.
Questions about stores
Shopify or a custom store?
Most shops should start on Shopify: it handles payments, stock and shipping well and costs less to run. A custom build makes sense for marketplaces with many sellers or unusual checkout rules.
What is included in the quoted store setup?
Your quote names the catalog size, any data entry or migration, theme, payments, shipping and integrations. Shopify subscriptions, payment fees and paid themes or apps are separate; we list the ones your project needs.
Can you move my existing products over?
Yes. Moving your catalog from another platform is scoped in the written quote.
How do payments for the build work?
Usually 30% to start, a milestone payment in the middle, and the rest when the store is live.
Who looks after the store after launch?
Shopify hosts the store under your Shopify subscription. We can maintain it on a Care plan from $149 a month, with an hour of changes, or hand over to you after full payment. The quote lists paid themes, apps and other provider charges separately.
Do I need to have my products ready before you start?
Not all of them. The first few products, your logo and the shipping rules are enough to start the design. The rest can trickle in while we build, or we enter it for you if data entry is in the quote.