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# What does an online shop cost?

An online shop costs more than a normal website because product data, payments, shipping, legal texts, performance and ongoing operation are added.

## What does an online shop cost?

A professional online shop often starts at around 10,000 to 15,000 euros, and considerably more for individual WooCommerce shops, interfaces or larger assortments. On top come running costs for hosting, licenses, maintenance and transactions.

A professional online shop often starts at around 10,000 to 15,000 euros, and considerably more for individual WooCommerce shops, interfaces or larger assortments. On top come running costs for hosting, licenses, maintenance and transactions.

A shop is not just a website with a shopping cart. It processes product data, customer data, payments, shipping rules, taxes, emails, withdrawals and often warehouse or inventory data too. That is why, with shop costs, you should always look at the total cost: build, operation, fees, upkeep and optimisation.

## One-time costs for building the shop

A launch typically includes:

- shop concept, assortment structure and user guidance
- design for category, product, cart and checkout pages
- WooCommerce setup or another shop system
- product import, variants, attributes and images
- payment methods, shipping methods, tax logic and email templates
- mandatory legal building blocks such as withdrawal policy, privacy and imprint
- tests for mobile devices, speed, orders and emails

With [WooCommerce](/en/services/woocommerce/), the effort depends heavily on how close the shop stays to the standard. A lean shop with few products is calculated differently from a shop with many variants, interfaces and individual checkout rules. The figures named in this article are common market ranges for orientation and not a fixed offer.

## Running and transaction-based costs

A shop creates costs after launch. These include hosting, maintenance, backups, monitoring, license renewals, payment providers and shipping services. Payment providers often charge percentage fees plus a fixed amount per transaction. Shipping and inventory interfaces can carry additional monthly costs or license fees.

These fees are not a side note. As revenue rises, they act directly on margin and pricing. A shop project should therefore not only ask: what does the build cost? But also: what does each order cost in operation?

## What pushes the shop price up

An online shop becomes more expensive mainly through:

- many products, variants and filters
- complex shipping rules, countries, tax rates or customer groups
- connections to inventory, CRM, accounting or marketplaces
- individual product configurators
- multilingual or international shops
- high demands on performance, security and accessibility

If an existing shop has visitors but generates little revenue, a complete rebuild is not always needed. In that case, targeted optimisation via [increase shop revenue](/en/services/increase-shop-revenue/) can make more sense.

## Mandatory building blocks that cost money

Legal texts, data protection, consent, withdrawal, price information, order confirmation and secure payment processing are not decoration. They protect the company, build trust and prevent drop-offs. Many of these points need coordination with legal advice or specialised legal-text providers.

General website costs are explained in the hub [What does a professional website cost?](/en/faq/what-does-a-professional-website-cost/). With a shop, the trade-specific processes are added on top.