Ecommerce website development
Custom ecommerce sites for small businesses with real product catalogs and real margins. Stripe payments, fast page loads, no $300/month subscription tax.
When custom beats Shopify for small ecommerce
Shopify is great if you're selling 50+ SKUs with a standard checkout flow. For most small businesses, it's overkill. You're paying Shopify $29/month for a checkout you could host yourself for free, plus 2.9% transaction fees you can cut by going direct with Stripe.
Custom ecommerce makes sense when your product catalog is small (under 50 SKUs), when your customers expect a clean buying experience that doesn't look like every other Shopify store, or when you sell something that doesn't fit the standard product/variant/cart model. Booking-based services, tiered pricing, custom builds, recurring subscriptions with custom logic.
What we include in an ecommerce build
A custom ecommerce site from us includes everything you need to actually sell:
- Product pages with rich photography, variant selection (size, color, etc.), and inventory tracking.
- Stripe-powered checkout. Direct integration, no third-party processor, 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.
- Cart and order management. Abandoned-cart emails, order confirmation, customer order history.
- Inventory and product admin. A simple back-end where you add/edit products, mark items out of stock, and see daily sales.
- Email automation. Order receipts, shipping notifications, basic post-purchase sequences.
- Analytics. Google Analytics 4 + Stripe revenue dashboards out of the box.
Pricing
Ecommerce builds add $1,500 to our base custom-website price for the cart, checkout, and product admin. So a typical small business ecommerce site runs $2,000–$3,000 one-time + $15/month hosting + Stripe's 2.9% on transactions.
Compare that to Shopify Basic at $29/month + 2.9% + $0.30 + $30/month for a decent theme + $20/month for required apps = ~$1,000/year forever, with no ownership.
Migrating from Shopify, WooCommerce, or BigCommerce
We handle migrations from any of the big platforms. We export your product catalog, customer database, and order history; rebuild the front-end as custom code; preserve your URLs so SEO doesn't break; and switch the DNS over once the new site passes a smoke test.
Shopify lock-in is real. They don't make it easy to leave. We've done it before and we'll handle the headaches for you.
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FAQ
Custom ecommerce builds typically run $2,000–$3,000 one-time, plus $15/month hosting and Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. Bigger catalogs and custom checkout flows are quoted higher.
Yes. We export products, customers, and orders; rebuild as custom code; preserve URLs so search rankings don't break; and migrate your domain. No customer-facing downtime.
We integrate Stripe directly. Stripe charges you 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction with no monthly fee. Funds settle to your bank account every 1–7 days depending on Stripe's policy for your account.
Yes. Stripe has first-class subscription support, and we wire it up directly. Same with one-time and recurring billing for membership sites or SaaS-style products.
Roughly: custom = $2,500 once + $780/yr hosting + Stripe fees. Shopify Basic = $0 upfront + $1,000+/yr platform + apps + Stripe fees. From day one, custom is cheaper than the subscription tax. Plus you own everything.