E-commerce · Guide & offer
An online shop is not a website-builder project but a piece of software that has to process revenue. Here we explain honestly what a professional shop costs, what the process looks like and how to recognise a good agency – and we're happy to make you a concrete offer at the end.
The range is absurd: the freelancer offers the shop for 3,000 euros, the agency quotes 80,000, and Shopify advertises 39 euros a month. All three are right for certain cases – and that is exactly what makes the decision so hard. What counts in the end: does the shop system fit your business model, does the shop carry your growth, and do you have a partner afterwards who keeps it running?
What matters for Get an online shop built
The shop system has to fit the business model, not the agency's portfolio. A D2C start with twenty products has different requirements than a B2B wholesaler with 50,000 SKUs, tiered pricing and ERP integration. Anyone recommending a system before understanding your business is optimising for their own revenue.
The interfaces decide the follow-up costs. Product data, stock, prices and orders flow between shop, merchandise management and shipping – manually maintained data is the most common reason shops become expensive to operate. A clean integration costs more in the project and saves from the first month.
A fixed price without discovery is a warning sign. Nobody can seriously estimate what a shop costs before requirements, data quality and interfaces are clarified. Serious vendors make the requirements phase part of the offer – and also tell you what the first version deliberately won't do.
Operations after launch belong in the offer. Updates, security, monitoring and further development cost predictable money – anyone hiding that is selling you a shop that will be outdated in eighteen months. Ask every vendor what maintenance and support cost per year before you sign.
What makes our work in Get an online shop built measurable
- 6,000+
- orders/day in our largest managed shop
- Silver
- Official Shopware partner
- 4 phases
- Clearly structured project process
- 1 team
- Concept, development & operations
How a shop project runs with us
1. Discovery & requirements
Assortment, target group, merchandise management, payment methods, shipping logic: we clarify what your shop has to do – and what deliberately doesn't belong in the first version.
2. Concept & design
Information architecture, category structure and a design that sells instead of just looking good. You see clickable prototypes before development starts.
3. Development & integration
Implementation on Shopware 6 including interfaces to ERP, merchandise management, payment providers and shipping carriers. Development in transparent sprints.
4. Launch & operations
Cutover with monitoring, then maintenance, updates and further development with fixed contacts. A shop is never finished – we stay on board.
Why an online shop from nextlevels
We build shops as a software agency, not a web design studio – with everything that belongs to revenue-grade software.
Shopware Silver Partner
Certified Shopware development for B2C, B2B and D2C – from standard setups to enterprise projects with multi-tenant architecture.
Integration competence
ERP, PIM, SAP, payment and shipping providers: we build integrations that run stably in production – not only in the demo.
Honest estimates
Transparent sprints, prioritised by revenue impact. We also tell you what the first version deliberately shouldn't do.
Operations included
Hosting, monitoring, updates and support with SLA after launch. Your shop still has a contact person in three years.
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