Online Store Platform

Saitami's online store is yours: no monthly platform fee and no percentage of sales, with Econt and Speedy included in the order, warehouse integration and product SEO. Hosted platforms (Shopify Basic 19 € per month plus a 2% fee per order, CloudCart from 29 € per month) are paid monthly for as long as the store exists.

A custom store makes sense when the store needs to connect to a warehouse or ERP, you also sell to businesses at their own prices, the search is more complex than filtering (by VIN or compatibility), or the platform's fees and extensions already cost more than the one-time price. Then the store is yours, with no monthly platform fee.

The prices are taken from their websites, checked on 17 October 2026. Card payment fees charged by the bank or Stripe are added to each price.

Shopify Grow with annual billing costs 56 € for 36 months, or 2 016 €, and with 10 000 € in monthly sales through a third-party payment provider, the 1% fee adds another 3 600 € over three years, excluding apps. CloudCart CC Pro starts at 74 € per month, or 2 664 € for three years.

That is why we say it openly: for a small shop selling standard products, a hosted platform is cheaper. A custom-built shop costing 840-6 300 € is the better option when turnover grows, when the shop needs to connect to your warehouse or ERP, or when you need something the platform does not offer.

Akbari Perfume is a Bulgarian niche fragrance brand with five shops in Sofia and Plovdiv: a custom Next.js and Payload CMS shop where the owner manages products, stock, promotions and coupons herself, a second fragrance at -50% shown directly on the product page, live Econt and Speedy options at checkout, and server-side purchase tracking. We maintain it.

Pelikan DTM, the official representative of CITIZEN SYSTEMS JAPAN for Bulgaria, has a WooCommerce shop with a custom theme, 860 products, model-specific accessories, price enquiries and a connection to the company’s ERP system. Q-Parts sells car parts with VIN search and Econt delivery, Labimex is a B2B shop for laboratory supplies with offers for businesses, and Camélia Désir is a bilingual shop with card payments and Econt delivery.

These things are checked before launch, regardless of which platform the shop uses:

• The trader’s details under Article 4 of the Electronic Commerce Act: name, address, UIC and contact details, displayed in a clearly visible place.
• The right to withdraw within 14 days when buying remotely under the Consumer Protection Act, with a withdrawal form and clear return terms.
• Ordinance No. N-18: with cash on delivery via courier (postal money transfer) and payment by bank transfer, no receipt is issued and the store does not need to be reported to the NRA. If the store accepts card payments, the information under Appendix No. 33 to the ordinance must be submitted before launch, and each card payment must be documented with the document under Article 52o.
• Accessibility: from 28 June 2025, online shops operated by companies that are not micro-enterprises must meet the requirements of Directive (EU) 2019/882.
• GDPR and cookies: consent before advertising tracking, a privacy policy and hosting data in the EU.
• Prices in euros, including VAT, and the delivery cost shown before payment.

Whatever you choose, test it with your own products and one real order:

• How many clicks it takes to go from a product to a paid order on a phone.
• Whether Econt and Speedy show the price and office during checkout, and whether the shipping label is created from the order.
• How quickly stock levels and prices get from the warehouse to the shop.
• How much the apps or extensions you will need cost over three years.
• Who updates the platform and extensions, and what happens if you stop paying.
• How you export products, customers and orders if you change platforms.

An online shop costs 840-6 300 €, most often around 1 950 €, based on our quotes; with a warehouse or ERP connection and business pricing, it is at the upper end. Maintenance costs 100-350 € per month and is optional. It is paid once, with no percentage of sales.

We have not built a Shopify shop or migrated a shop from Shopify to a custom solution. We have not connected a shop to eMAG Marketplace. If you need this, we check what their API supports before quoting a price.