Shopify stores built the way I built my own.

Roughly: a simpler store lands in the low thousands of euros, a complex custom build in the low tens of thousands. I won’t pretend to be precise before I know what I’m building – send me a few sentences about what you sell and you’ll have a written estimate within 24 hours. Free, no call, no strings.

One person, and I would rather say so upfront. You talk to the developer who writes the code, so nothing gets lost between an account manager and a contractor. For larger brand and marketing work I bring in specialists I’ve worked with for years, and I tell you when that happens.

I work from Central Europe, which puts me in CET – the same working day as most of Europe and a morning overlap with the US East Coast. Everything runs remotely and in writing, so you keep a record of every decision. Invoicing is B2B and cross-border; see the terms for the details.

Yes, and it’s the part most builds get wrong. Multiple currencies and languages through Shopify Markets, VAT and the OSS scheme, local carriers and local payment methods that people actually trust – iDEAL in the Netherlands, Klarna in the Nordics, BLIK in Poland. A store that only works in one country is easy; one that survives a border is the real job.

That’s a large part of what I do – WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Shopware, Magento. The part that decides whether a migration succeeds isn’t the product data, it’s the URL mapping and the redirects. Done properly, rankings hold. Done as an afterthought, you lose traffic you spent years earning.

A focused store build is usually six to ten weeks from kickoff to launch; a migration depends far more on how your current platform lets data out than on the build itself. You get a schedule with milestones in the offer, not a vague promise.

Shopify itself starts at €32 a month on Basic, or €24 if you pay annually. On top of that come the apps a European store needs – carriers and parcel lockers, marketplace feeds, invoicing – which land in the tens of euros. Realistically, budget €60–250 a month depending on the mix. Card processing is separate: from 2% + €0.25 through Shopify Payments, lower on the higher plans.

Only Shopify, and that’s deliberate. Years in one platform mean I know where its limits actually are instead of guessing – and that I can tell you when it’s the wrong choice. If your business runs on WordPress content, or you need the kind of control only a self-hosted platform gives you, I’ll say so rather than sell you a migration.