E-commerce websites for small shops with big personality.

Big store templates are built for big catalogs. If you sell a handful of things you care about, a custom site can tell their story better, and load faster doing it. Our e-commerce builds are a good fit if:

Think a band selling shirts and vinyl, a local maker selling candles or ceramics, a studio selling class spots, or a restaurant selling its hot sauce by the bottle.

We design the pages: product photos, descriptions, sizes and the story behind each piece. When a customer clicks "Buy," checkout is handled by a hosted checkout from a platform built for payments, such as Shopify's Buy Button or Stripe Checkout and Payment Links.

• Card data never touches your site. The payment happens on the platform's secure checkout, not on our pages.
• You run the store from the platform's dashboard. Products, prices and orders live there, and Shopify also tracks inventory.
• Receipts and payouts come from the platform. Customers get their confirmation from Shopify or Stripe, and money goes to your account with them.

The site itself has no database, customer accounts or admin login. There's less to break, and less to keep patched.

This setup isn't for everyone, and we'd rather say so at the consult than after the build. A full Shopify store is probably the better choice if:

• You have hundreds of products, or plan to soon.
• Your products come in lots of combinations, like five sizes, eight colors and three materials.
• You need customer accounts, subscriptions or wholesale pricing.
• You add or remove products every week and want new product pages to appear on their own.

If that's you, we'll point you in that direction. If you'd like a custom-built site for the rest of your business alongside it, we can talk about that too.

A small shop wins online by being specific. Someone searching for "handmade ceramic mugs" should land on your mugs. Every build includes the basics that help Google and AI search tools understand what you sell:

• A fast site. Ours are custom-built with no page builder, so pages load quickly on any device, even on a slow mobile connection.
• A real page for each product or collection, with a clear title, description and photos.
• Structured data that tells search engines what each product is.
• Google Search Console setup and a sitemap at launch, plus permanent redirects from your old site.

One honest note: rankings take time, and Google decides them. Your competition, your Google Business Profile, your reviews and how long you've been in business all play a part, so we won't promise you page one. Be wary of anyone who does. Google's own advice is that no one can guarantee a #1 ranking. What we can promise is that your website won't be what's holding you back.

E-commerce isn't one of our fixed-price packages. It's quoted after a free 20-minute consult, because the work depends on how many products you sell, how many options they have and which checkout platform fits. You get a fixed, itemized quote before any work starts.

• The build: quoted in your proposal before any work starts. You pay 50% to start and the balance at launch.
• E-commerce Care, $200/month: everything in our Hosting & Care plan (hosting, SSL, security updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring and a monthly report), plus a monthly test purchase, checks that checkout and buy buttons still work after platform changes, and up to two small product updates a month: adding or removing a product using your existing layout, with photos and text you supply. Content changes aren't included and are quoted separately.
• Platform fees: your Shopify plan, Stripe's processing fees and similar costs are paid by you directly to that platform.

You own your domain and site files. Your products, orders and customer records stay in your own Shopify or Stripe account. See our standard website packages.