Saleor ecommerce development: what the platform allows

TL;DR: Saleor ecommerce development gives a Florida shop one product list serving several markets, in English and Spanish, with no fee taken from an order. Planning is one week at $2,500, the build starts at $8,000, and the storefront is built around how you already sell.

Saleor is the platform, not the practice: what it allows is a shop where the catalogue is written once and every market reads it, where a Spanish page and an English page sell the same stock, and where nothing is taken from an order on the way out. This page sets out what the platform makes possible for a business like yours, what our part of the work costs, how long it takes, and what we can prove from work already delivered. Most pages on this subject are written for the person who will run the code; this one is written for the person who signs for it.

What this includes

• One catalogue behind every market you sell in: a price, a description or a photograph is changed once, and every storefront follows.
• English and Spanish served from that same list, so stock, delivery promise and price cannot disagree between the two.
• Each market keeping its own currency, its own delivery and payment settings and its own wording, while the catalogue and the stock stay shared.
• Stock counted across every place you keep it, shop and warehouse together, so a sale in one market cannot promise what another market has already sold.
• No licence fee and no share taken from an order: you pay for hosting, for the work, and for whatever else you choose to run around it.
• A storefront built to your design rather than assembled from a theme, so what your customers see is a decision and not a default.
• Prices, stock and orders your own team can read and change without us, from the first day after launch.

Where the ownership of the engine is the question that matters to you, that discussion has a page of its own: when the engine has to sit in your own account. Where the rules of the business cannot be held by any off the shelf platform, rules no platform will hold is the road. And if the platform has not been chosen yet, that is a week of work in itself: the week that decides the platform.

How it works

1. Discovery, one week, $2,500. We buy from your shop the way a customer does, in both languages if you sell in both, and write down every step that costs you a fee, an hour or an order. The document is yours whether or not you carry on with us.
2. Architecture, the same week, $2,500, credited to the build. What the platform will hold and what stays with the tools you already run, the order of the work, and a price for each stage. We write down the option we rejected and why, so the decision can be reviewed later by somebody who was not in the room.
3. The build, two to ten weeks depending on scope, from $8,000. Your catalogue, your customers and their past orders are loaded onto a test address only we can see. Every order total is compared against your live shop before anything moves, so a rounding difference or a missing delivery rule is found in a test rather than by a customer.
4. The move, about a week, included. We agree a date outside your busiest weeks and change over on it. Every address that brings you buyers is written beside the address it becomes, then opened after the switch to confirm it landed. That list is not ours to invent: it follows Google's own guide to moving a site, and how a move off an existing shop is planned is set out on its own page.
5. The fortnight after the switch. Orders are compared with the old shop, the speed is measured on the phones your customers actually use, and the short list of faults that always appears in the first weeks is worked through.
6. Care, from $1,500 a month, optional. Small changes, monitoring, and the fixes that follow a platform update, with a month of notice on either side.

What the platform permits is worth being concrete about, because it is where most of the value sits for a shop selling out of South Florida. Each market can carry its own currency, its own delivery and payment settings and its own language, while the product list, the warehouse network and the stock figures stay in one place with nothing to synchronise between them. How the platform describes selling into several markets from one catalogue is the plain version of that, and it is the reason a shop selling to Florida and to Latin America does not have to run two shops or keep two sets of prices. The second thing the platform permits is the absence of a toll: what the platform itself says it is built for is a shop whose code stays yours and can be taken with you, and the platform's own published hosting terms apply only to the version it hosts for you, which you are free not to use.

What it costs

Prices below are where each phase starts; your scoped quote fixes the exact scope, the price and the timeline.

Discovery is $2,500 for one week, and its document is yours either way. Architecture is $2,500 and is credited against the build. The build starts at $8,000 and is billed one stage at a time, so each payment follows finished work. The move and the launch are included. Care starts at $1,500 a month and stops with a month of notice. Nothing is taken from your sales, on our side or on the platform's, unless you choose to buy the hosting the platform sells itself.

Two things decide where a shop lands inside those spans, and both can be weighed before you call. The first is how many markets you really sell into: one language and one currency is a shorter build than two languages, two currencies, and a different delivery promise for each country. The second is how much of the catalogue is already usable: products with real photographs and real descriptions go live at the short end, while a catalogue that lives in a spreadsheet pushes the other way. We name which one you have during Architecture, not halfway through the build.

The comparison worth making is not one we can make for you: every phase and its published price is set out in full, and a year of the care plan is a figure you can put beside a year of platform fees and app subscriptions before you decide anything. If the shop you already own comes out cheaper, we say so in the first week, and the document is allowed to end there.

Proof

Food By Box ran 2,500 products on a shop that had stopped keeping up. Google measures its speed at 95 on desktop, monthly visits went from 20,000 to 500,000 over 24 months, and every address that brought buyers was kept. The measured results behind these stores are published, with the work that produced them.

Tatiana Miath sells her own work. Her pages opened in just under five seconds on a phone before we started and in a little over one second after, on mobile, and she kept every position she ranked for.

The plan for a project like yours is written by Michael Agnassia, 15 years in ecommerce, who also reads the work before it goes out. From 78 SW 7th Street in Brickell, we work on site across South Florida, in English and Spanish. Neither of those projects runs Saleor today, and no page about this work should promise you a position or a revenue figure. What we do put in writing is the measurement: what the platform has to hold, what each stage costs, and the number the project has to move.

Questions

What is saleor ecommerce development, in plain words?

A shop where your product list lives in one place, several markets read it, and no fee is taken from an order. What is built around it, the pages your customers see, is written for you rather than assembled from a theme somebody else designed.

What does saleor ecommerce development cost us, all in?

Discovery is $2,500 for one week, Architecture is $2,500 and comes off the build, the build starts at $8,000 and is billed stage by stage, and Care starts at $1,500 a month. Hosting is a separate bill you can read and compare.

Do we get a saleor storefront, or does one come with the shop?

It is built for you and reads from your own product list, so the layout can follow the way you sell rather than the way a theme was written. Nothing extra is rented per month for it, and it can keep the look your regulars already recognise.

Which work does a saleor development agency like ours actually do?

The planning week, the architecture, the build, the loading of your catalogue and order history, the move and its address list, and the measurement afterwards. The parts we do not do well, we name in Architecture rather than quote for.

Does moving to this platform put our search traffic at risk?

Every address that earns you visitors is matched to its twin and opened after the switch. That is the step most moves get wrong, so we list them twice, once from your live shop and once after the change, and nothing is signed off until both lists agree.

Can we keep selling while the new shop is prepared?

Yes. You keep selling until the date you pick, both shops run side by side beforehand, and you compare real orders rather than screenshots. If the date needs to move, it moves.

Would our own team be able to run it after launch?

Yes, that is the point of the handover. The plans, the files and the accounts sit with you, changes to prices and products happen without us, and the care plan is a choice rather than a condition.

Next

The rest of the headless practice carries the other roads, from the engine you host yourself to the shop built around rules no platform holds. Book the scoping week: one week at $2,500, ending in a written answer either way, including the answer that the shop you already run only needs repairing.