E-Commerce Website Design & Online Store
A store that takes orders while you run the shop.
Your website set up as a store: checkout, catalog, hosting and local search for $300 a month. No platform fee stacked on top.
What it solves
Real problems, plainly solved.
The problem
You sell in person but not online, and the customers who search for what you stock are buying it from somebody else.
What we do
We build an online store with your real catalog and pricing, connect secure checkout, and set up shipping or local pickup — then point local search at it.
Orders arrive while the shop is closed, from people who would otherwise never have found you.
The problem
You have a store on a big platform, but it is slow, generic, and the monthly bills for apps keep growing.
What we do
We migrate your products, customers, and orders into a fast custom store that does what the apps did, in one plan.
A faster store that looks like your business, and one predictable bill instead of five.
The problem
Keeping products, photos, and stock current online is a job nobody in the shop has time for.
What we do
Catalog updates are part of the plan, and stock and pricing can sync from the tools you already use.
The site stays accurate without anyone spending their evenings on it.
Who it's for
Built around how you sell.
Online brands
A product line that lives online first: your own domain, your own checkout, and a catalog you can change the night before a launch without filing a ticket with a platform.
How they search: Buyers find a brand through the product, not the company name: "best insulated growler", "made in michigan candles". Collection and product pages with real descriptions, product schema, and reviews are what rank; the homepage almost never does.
Apparel
Sizes, colorways, drops and restocks: an apparel store is a catalog problem before it is a design problem. We build the variant structure so a hoodie in six colors is one page, not six.
How they search: Apparel searches are visual and mobile. Fast image-led product pages, size and fit answers on the page, and a checkout that works with a thumb decide the sale; most of these orders arrive on a phone.
Marketplaces
Selling on Etsy, Amazon or eBay already? The marketplace owns the customer. Your own store sits beside it so repeat buyers, email and search traffic land on your own domain.
How they search: The marketplace outranks you for the generic product term. Your site wins the branded and long-tail searches ("<your shop name>", "custom <product> michigan") and the repeat visit, so the strategy is brand pages, policy pages and a catalog that matches your listings.
Subscriptions
Coffee, supplements, boxes, memberships: recurring billing, pause and skip, and a customer portal that stops the "how do I cancel" emails from eating a morning a week.
How they search: Subscription buyers search for comparisons and trust signals before committing: "<product> subscription review", "cancel anytime". A plain pricing page, a visible cancellation policy and real reviews are the ranking content, not a splash page.
What's included
Everything in an e-commerce website development engagement.
- Custom online store with your products and pricing
- Secure checkout: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- Shipping, local pickup, or both
- Catalog migration from Shopify, WooCommerce, or spreadsheets
- Managed hosting, security, and updates
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile for the store
Common questions
Online Store, answered.
- How much does an online store cost per month?
- $300 a month — the store build, secure payments, hosting, and local SEO are all in that number, with no upfront build fee. A comparable agency build is typically several thousand dollars up front plus a platform subscription and app fees on top.
- Should I just use Shopify?
- Sometimes, yes — if you have a handful of products and no special requirements, a platform store is fine and we will tell you so. Where a custom store earns its keep is when you have a large or unusual catalog, custom-artwork or made-to-order products, live pricing, local pickup rules, or you simply do not want your shop to look like a template. Two of the stores in our portfolio started as exactly those cases.
- Can you move my existing store and products over?
- Yes. We migrate catalogs, customer lists, and order history from Shopify, WooCommerce, Square, or a spreadsheet, and we keep your existing URLs working so you do not lose the search rankings you already have.
- How do payments work, and who holds the money?
- Checkout runs through a standard processor such as Stripe or Square — or the one you already use — so the money goes straight to your account; we never hold it. Cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are included; tax and shipping rates are configured for how you actually sell.
- We are a physical shop first. Does an online store still make sense?
- Usually, because it is not either/or. For a physical shop the typical case is the customer who searches at 9pm, reserves for pickup, and comes in the next day — the site brings the person to the counter. Local pickup, in-store inventory, and 'call to reserve' all fit.
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