An online store you own, with no transaction fees or app subscriptions.
Everything a Managed Website includes, plus the commerce: catalog, cart, checkout, orders, shipping and tax.
From $595 / month, build included.
Most ecommerce platforms rent you a storefront.
This is the other arrangement. We build the store, we host and maintain it, and the software we write for you belongs to you.
Same store on both plans.
You choose how fast.
Both plans include the build and run on a 12-month term.
Included either way
- Catalog and departments. Products, brands and departments, structured the way your business sorts them.
- Cart and checkout. Built for your products, not bent around a template that expects t-shirts.
- Orders and fulfillment. Order status and shipping labels from the same admin you run the site in.
- Payments. Card payments through your own merchant account. We take nothing per order.
- Shipping and tax. Configured for what you sell and where you sell it.
- Customer accounts. Accounts, order history and password flows, without a plugin subscription.
- Hosting, security and backups. Monitored hosting on your own environment, kept patched, backed up daily.
- Found in search. SEO, plus the structure search engines and answer engines need to recommend your products.
- Monthly reporting. Uptime, traffic, orders and what we changed, in plain language.
- A real person to call. One point of contact who knows your store.
Choose how we work with you
$595per month
Managed Store
- Next-business-day response.
- Content changes quoted and billed when you want them.
$895per month
Managed Store Plus
- Same-business-day response.
- We collect your changes, including product text, images and prices, and ship them every month.
- A quarterly check-in call.
- Access to AI add-ons.
Content changes cover your pages, copy, product descriptions, images and prices. Building out a new catalog, bulk product imports, ongoing product data entry, custom development, new integrations and new payment or shipping wiring are quoted separately.
Selling something the list above does not cover? That is a conversation, not a blocker. Tell us what you sell →
What a rented storefront actually costs.
The monthly plan is the smallest number on a hosted platform's bill. The two that matter are the percentage taken from every order, and the stack of app subscriptions that quietly accumulates once you need search, or bundles, or subscriptions, or a field the theme did not anticipate.
A transaction fee is the one that compounds. It scales with your success, it never stops, and it buys you nothing you did not already have on the day you launched.
Where the math turns over
Past roughly $250,000 a year in sales, a typical hosted stack costs more than $595/month once its transaction fees and apps are counted.
Below it, this is not the cheapest way to sell online and we will say so. What you are buying at that size is control and permanence, and whether that is worth it is a fair question to ask us directly.
No transaction fee
Your payment processor charges what it charges, and that is the end of the list.
No app tax
Search, reviews, bundles, custom fields. On a rented platform these are monthly subscriptions. Here they are build decisions.
No theme ceiling
Customization is bounded by what you need, not by what a theme system permits. This is the wall most stores hit in year two.
Cannot be deplatformed
Your environment, your data, your store. Nobody can change the terms underneath you or decide your category is no longer welcome.
Two stores. Five years. Twenty-two hours of maintenance.
Two stores we built have taken orders continuously since 2020 on the platform we are describing here, with no migration, no re-platforming, and no rebuild.
A Managed Website that sells.
If you do not sell online, the Managed Website is the same arrangement without the commerce, from $495/month.
Common questions.
Something we did not cover? Ask us. A senior engineer reads every message and replies within one business day.
Ask us a question →No. Card payments go through your own merchant account. Your payment processor charges what it charges, and we take nothing per order.
Past roughly $250,000 a year in sales, usually yes, once transaction fees and app subscriptions are counted. Below that, it is not the cheapest way to sell online. What you are buying at that size is control and permanence.
Your pages and copy, plus product descriptions, images and prices on your existing catalog. Building a new catalog, bulk product imports and ongoing product data entry are quoted separately.
Because the build is included. The term is how the build gets paid for, so there is no large fee up front. If you leave early, the remaining build balance is due, and the agreement states that figure in dollars when you sign.
Tell us what you sell.
We will tell you what we would build, what it costs to build, and whether owning it makes sense at your volume.
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