Webshop
For a bookshop or single-category retailer with a real catalogue
Built for: Independent retailers with a real catalogue and no shop online
Built for when the catalogue is the hard part: hundreds of items, metadata from a wholesaler CSV, stock in a till system. The smallest tier is deliberately checkout-free — a browsable catalogue with click-and-collect enquiries, at half the price of a full shop. Move up to real checkout when the orders justify it.
Catalogue and enquiries
Up to 200 titles, browsable and searchable. Click-and-collect enquiry form, no checkout.
- Estimated hours
- 30 h
- Rate
- €50/h
- Delivered in
- 3 weeks
- Starting
- October 2026
- Catalogue and product pages generated from your CSV or ISBN list
- Search and filter that works on a phone
- Click-and-collect enquiry form to your inbox
- Design pass in your own brand
- Static build: fast, cheap to host, nothing to patch
Full webshop
As S, plus real checkout on Shopify, shipping and pickup options.
- Estimated hours
- 48 h
- Rate
- €50/h
- Delivered in
- 4 weeks
- Starting
- October 2026
- Everything in S, unlimited catalogue size
- Checkout on Shopify — they handle cards, EU VAT and stock
- Shipping and in-store pickup options
- Order and dispatch emails
- Storefront stays yours; only the checkout is theirs
Wired to the shop floor
As M, plus till/POS stock sync, metadata enrichment and collection slots.
- Estimated hours
- 72 h
- Rate
- €50/h
- Delivered in
- 5 weeks
- Starting
- October 2026
- Everything in M
- Stock synced from your POS, so online matches the shelf
- ISBN metadata enrichment: covers, blurbs, authors, editions
- Collection-slot booking, so pickups don't all land at once
- Staff-facing view of what's been ordered and what to pull
- Shopify subscription and payment fees
- Product photography, cover scans and written copy
- Brand identity from scratch
- Warehouse, courier or fulfilment operations
- Your catalogue as a CSV, or the wholesaler feed you already receive
- API access to the till system for the L tier
- One person who can decide on design and copy
Things I've already shipped that this leans on.
No public retail build yet, and I'd rather say that than dress up an adjacent project. This is exactly what the Spec Sprint is for: judge the plan and the hour estimates before committing to the build.
LinguaPop
Mobile appA library and a newsstand over hundreds of imported items: search, filter chips, per-item metadata and shelves — the same browse-and-narrow problem a catalogue has.
Read the case study →Sole Ledger
Mobile appData-heavy offline-first app where records arrive by import and OCR rather than typing — the same ingest-and-normalise problem a catalogue has.
Read the case study →Not sure this is the right one?
Then don't order it yet. A €300 Spec Sprint gets you a written, fixed-scope plan with the hours in it, and the whole €300 comes off whichever package we land on. That's the honest order to do this in.
40% deposit, 40% at the agreed midpoint, 20% on handover. All prices ex. VAT. Dutch customers pay 21%; EU businesses with a valid VAT number are invoiced at 0% under the reverse-charge rule.