What will your project cost? The Project Calculator

Every project starts with a base effort – for a shop by project type, for an app by starting point, for software by type of application.

Each further answer adds effort. For shops, as in the Shopware Price Calculator, surcharges apply to particularly demanding combinations. We show you up to three of the biggest items as effort drivers; the base effort is not one of them.

We convert the effort into a euro range, and into weeks with a team velocity that grows with the scope: larger projects get a larger team. Amounts are rounded to €500 so they read as a range. All amounts are net.

It is a first guide based on your answers. The range is deliberately wide, because details such as exact requirements, data quality or approval paths only become clear in conversation. We prepare a binding quote after the initial call.

For shops, the calculator uses the model of our Shopware Price Calculator. For apps and software, we use fixed effort values per answer. All three share the same team velocity, which grows with the effort. The values are guide values from our effort model, not your individual case.

VAT, because all amounts are net. Also licenses, hosting and running costs for operations and maintenance. Apps add store fees; AI features add the API or token costs of the models used.

From the estimated effort and a team velocity that grows with the scope: we count the first 40 person-days at 4 person-days per week, the next 80 at 8 and everything above at 12, because larger projects get a larger team. The weeks show pure build time; alignment, approvals and waiting times add calendar time. It often pays to start with a focused first version.

The calculator assumes one app for iOS and Android from a shared codebase – the way we build apps with React Native.

The Shopware Price Calculator shows you the euro range right on the page; the Project Calculator sends it to you by email. The Project Calculator is the quick start with a few questions. The Shopware Price Calculator also asks about edition, further modules and support, and shows which combinations drive the effort. If you already know these points, it is the more precise choice.

While you answer, your answers stay in your browser, which keeps them until you close the tab. Only if you have the result emailed to you do they go to our server: it calculates the result, and we store your email address and answers to send you the result and handle your request. If you change answers after that, our server calculates the new figures.