A WooCommerce shop charges no commission per sale and the data stays with you. In exchange you carry updates and hosting yourself. Whether that trade works for you comes down to a single number.
Hosted systems charge a monthly fee and on many plans a share of every order on top. WooCommerce costs hosting and maintenance regardless of how much you sell. Above a certain revenue the comparison flips.
With WooCommerce customer data, orders and the whole shop sit on a server you choose. That is not an end in itself, it decides whether you can move when a provider changes its pricing.
The price is responsibility. Updates, backups and security are nobody else’s job. Anyone not wanting to do that needs someone who does, and that item belongs in the calculation from day one.
AUFBAU // OHNE BALLAST
Built on your existing WordPress or from scratch, with the payment methods and shipping rules you actually need. No demo shop with thirty features of which you use two.
ZAHLUNG // LOKAL
Bank transfer, invoice and Klarna often matter more here than a credit card. Which you need depends on your audience, and the answer differs between a wine merchant and a fashion shop.
BETRIEB // MITGEPLANT
A shop without updates is a payment process without supervision. We plan upkeep together with the project and state the monthly amount up front so it is not a surprise.
If you sell ten products and take twenty orders a month. A hosted system is then cheaper and carries the responsibility for you. We say so even though we earn more on a WooCommerce project.
If nobody at your company will ever look into the system. WooCommerce rewards businesses that want their shop in their own hands and punishes those who do not touch it for a year.
And if you mainly sell through a marketplace. Your own shop is then a secondary channel and does not need to do everything. A small clean shop beats a large half maintained one.
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We work through both options before you decide. If the hosted system is cheaper, that is what our offer says.
From 3.500€ for a shop with a manageable range. On top come running costs for hosting, maintenance and payment providers. Unlike hosted systems there is no commission per sale, and that is what decides from which revenue it pays off.
Shopify takes the responsibility off you and charges monthly and, depending on the plan, per sale. WooCommerce costs hosting and maintenance regardless of revenue. We work out both with your numbers before you decide.
Usually bank transfer, invoice and Klarna, often more important than cards. Exactly which depends on your audience. Every additional method costs fees, so we set up what is needed and leave out the rest.
With a shop, yes. A shop processes payments and customer data, and an installation without updates is a risk that does not pay off. We plan upkeep together with the project and state the monthly amount up front.
Yes, and that is one of the reasons for WooCommerce. Data, orders and customers sit with you, not with a provider. Moving to another host is work but always possible and needs no negotiation.