Shopify and WooCommerce store setup, done for you
A working shop — products, payments, shipping, tax and a handover video — quoted in writing before anything starts, with the brand identity included if you need one. Three to four weeks. Built by the person you are emailing.
Three different situations, three different jobs
Most store pages treat these as one thing. They are not, and the difference decides both the quote and the risk.
1. Starting from nothing
You have products and no shop. This is the simplest case: the full package covers the store, up to thirty products entered, payments through Stripe or PayPal, shipping and tax configured, legal pages, and the brand identity to dress it. Three to four weeks, most of which is you photographing and describing your products.
2. Redesigning a shop that already sells
You have a store and it works, but it looks like 2019 or it converts badly. Here the danger is doing harm: a shop that takes money today can be made worse by a redesign that moves the buttons customers already know. This starts with the free audit call so that we change what is measurably costing you sales, not what offends me visually.
3. Moving from one platform to another
Etsy to your own shop, Wix to Shopify, Squarespace to WooCommerce. This is the least-served job on the market: the automated tools sit at around $99 and move the data but not the consequences, and agencies quote it from $8,000. There is very little in between, which is exactly where this lands.
What does not survive a migration, whatever anyone tells you: your Etsy reviews (they belong to Etsy), your marketplace search position, and — unless someone plans for it — your existing URLs. That last one is the expensive one: change the address of every product without redirecting the old ones, and you keep the catalogue while losing the rankings that brought people to it.
The redirect table is the migration
Everything else in a platform move is mechanical. The URLs are where money is lost, and there are two ways to get it wrong.
- Missing redirects give every old link a 404 — from Google, from customers' bookmarks, from the message someone forwarded to a friend last year.
- Stale redirects are worse than none. A rule written by hand and left in place can capture a product that later comes back into the catalogue: the item is live, and unreachable, because a 301 that browsers and search engines have both memorised sends visitors somewhere else. The fix is to generate the table from the actual product data and refuse to publish it if any rule points at a page that does not exist or swallows one that does.
Then every retired URL gets checked one at a time in production. Not a sample — a redirect rule is a pattern, and it fails on precisely the case nobody thought to write.
What is included
| Included | Detail |
|---|---|
| Platform setup | Shopify or WooCommerce, in your account, on your card |
| Design | Custom, working with the brand identity — not a stock theme recoloured |
| Up to 30 products | Entered with variants, images and descriptions you supply |
| Payments | Stripe or PayPal, tested with a real transaction before launch |
| Shipping & tax | Zones, rates and tax rules configured for where you actually sell |
| Legal pages | Terms, returns, privacy and shipping policy, drafted for a shop |
| Handover video | How to add a product, change a price, refund an order — recorded on your store |
A product grid is a data problem, not a layout problem. If your photos are shot at different sizes and crops, no theme setting will make the grid line up — every card takes the height of its own image. Consistent product photography is worth more than any design decision I can make afterwards, and I will say so before you pay rather than after.
Questions people actually ask
Shopify or WooCommerce — which should I pick?
Shopify if you want it to keep working without you thinking about it, and you accept a monthly fee plus a cut of every sale. WooCommerce if you want to own the whole thing and pay hosting instead of commission, accepting that updates are now your responsibility or mine. For most people under a few hundred orders a month, Shopify wins on time saved. I will give you a straight recommendation for your case rather than the one that suits me.
What happens beyond 30 products?
Product entry beyond thirty is charged as an extra, quoted per batch once I have seen your data. It is honest pricing rather than a penalty: entering 400 variants properly is days of work, and pretending otherwise would mean either a bad job or an argument.
Can you move my existing store to a new platform?
Yes, and it is the part of this page worth reading twice. Migration means products, variants, images, customers, orders and — critically — the URL structure. Get the last one wrong and you keep your catalogue but lose the search rankings you built up over years.
Will my Etsy reviews come across?
No. They are Etsy's, not yours, and no tool moves them. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. What you can do is start collecting reviews on your own store from day one, and keep the Etsy shop running while the new one builds up proof.
Do you do dropshipping stores?
No. Not on principle about the business model, but because turnkey dropshipping stores are bought by people who want a lottery ticket, not a shop — and they are gone in four months. I build stores for people who already have something to sell.
Who pays for the platform fees?
You do, directly to Shopify or your host — never through me. You keep the account in your name and the card in your control. I never want to be the reason your shop goes offline because an invoice of mine went unpaid.