- How much does it cost to have an online shop built?
- We bill by effort. How many hours it takes depends on the rules: a Shopify shop with its own theme is less work than one that calculates tonnes, delivery zone and date. Intro call and cost estimate: €0. You can work out a first range yourself beforehand on the contact page, in four questions and without contact details.
- What are the running costs of an online shop?
- With Shopify you pay the monthly fee to Shopify and, per order, the payment provider’s fee. With a shop of your own you pay for hosting and maintenance, plus the payment provider’s fee as well. We take care of hosting and maintenance if you want.
- Shopify, WooCommerce or a shop of my own?
- Shopify, as long as the price is fixed per product. We build a shop of your own when price, delivery and date depend on each other. That was the case at Baustoff Express: shipping, delivery days, tonnes and the right truck couldn’t be handled in Shopify or WooCommerce.
- Build an online shop yourself or have it built?
- A product range with fixed prices is something you can set up yourself on Shopify with a ready-made theme. You need us when the theme is to be built from scratch, when the shop is tied to a POS or inventory system, or when the price comes from quantity, size or distance. You talk to the developers who write the code.
- How long does it take to build an online shop?
- That depends on the scope. We built the Baustoff Express shop, with quantity calculator, delivery zones and slot booking, from May to July 2026. For your shop, we give you the timeline with the cost estimate.
- Can the shop be connected to my POS or inventory system?
- Yes, even without an API, as long as the POS system exports its items as a file. At Turkish Home our program fetches that file every morning and carries changed prices over to the shop. New items only go live once a person has approved them. For the same store we built an inventory system that reads supplier lists from the inbox and enters items and prices into the POS system.
- Which payment methods can the shop offer?
- That depends on the payment provider. Baustoff Express takes payments through Mollie. At Turkish Home customers pay with PayPal or through Klarna, by credit card, instant bank transfer or in installments. If the flow should end with an inquiry instead of a payment, we build it that way.
- Who owns the shop?
- You do. With a shop we build from scratch, the source code sits in your repository and the logins in your accounts. Whatever has been signed off and paid for is yours, even if you leave afterwards.
- Do you also build ordering systems for restaurants?
- For that there’s SnackUp, our own ordering system. Guests order on a page under the restaurant’s domain, a device in the kitchen prints the ticket, and instead of commission the restaurant pays a fixed amount per order. Everything about it is on our page about ordering systems for restaurants.
- Do you only work for retailers from Duisburg?
- No. Our office is in Duisburg, our clients come from all over Germany. Baustoff Express, for example, is based in Dinslaken. Calls happen by phone. If you are in Duisburg or the Ruhr area, you can also come to our office.