Industry — E-Commerce
A store you own, that loads in under a second.
Shopify Basic costs about $56 a month, forever, and the average template store still takes 4+ seconds to load. A hand-coded store loads in under one — and the code is yours.
A typical build
$7,700Signature + commerce engine · one-time build fee
Signature $4,800 plus the Stripe commerce engine $2,900 — a store you own outright.
- Stripe checkout with Afterpay, Zip, Apple Pay
- Product catalogue with variants and search
- GST and Australia Post / Sendle shipping logic
- Abandoned-cart recovery and order emails
- CMS — manage products and stock yourself
All prices AUD, ex GST.
Template stores look the same, load slowly, and tax you monthly for the privilege. Every second of load time costs conversion; every monthly fee is rent on a business you thought you owned.
A custom store flips that: sub-second product pages, a checkout tuned for Australian buyers, no platform fees, and a codebase you can take anywhere. You stop renting your own shopfront.
Built to sell
What an online store has to get right
Speed at the shelf edge
Every millisecond of load time costs revenue. Hand-coded product pages load in under a second — template stores rarely manage four.
Payments Australians expect
Stripe with Afterpay, Zip, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay. AUD pricing, GST handled, shipping through Australia Post or Sendle.
A catalogue that scales
Categories, filters, search and variants — sensible from 10 products to 10,000.
Checkout without friction
Guest checkout, clear progress, trust signals at every step. Cart recovery emails bring back the ones who hesitated.
Ownership of the whole stack
No platform fees, no app-store upsells, no lock-in. Source code, customer data, everything — provably yours.
Product SEO that ranks
Product schema, review markup and fast pages. Stores Google can read are stores Google ranks.
The numbers
The terms, in plain English.
Nothing upfront. Ever.
Nothing upfront. You see the design first. On approval, a 50% deposit begins the build; the balance is due at launch — the site goes live when the final payment lands. Walk away before approval owing nothing.
Hosting is free for most sites on our edge network. Large builds — e-commerce, web apps, 12+ pages — move to managed hosting from $49/mo. Cancel anytime; you own everything either way.
Edits: 30/60/90 days of free fixes per tier — anything broken, off-brief or not performing as agreed is fixed free. New pages, new features, restyling and routine content updates bill at standard rates ($150/hr, or HEKAWEB Care at $99/mo: hosting, monitoring, priority queue, up to 2h/mo of content updates), cancel anytime.
Handover: Private Git repository, cloud archive, and a signed IP transfer deed. The code is legally, provably yours.
FAQ
E-commerce questions
We build custom stores on Stripe — no Shopify required, no platform fees. You own the code and the customer data. Larger catalogues and store backends run on managed hosting from $49/mo, cancel anytime.
Yes. Stripe supports Afterpay, Zip, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and every major card. Australian buyers expect these options at checkout, so they’re standard.
It means what it says: one client per industry, per council area. If I build the website for a online store in your niche in your council area, I won’t build one for a competing online store in your niche in the same LGA. Your slot is reserved for good.
A typical store build is Signature $4,800 plus the Stripe commerce engine at $2,900 — $7,700 all up for a store you own outright. Bigger builds — a site plus a web app — go to Empire $9,600. All prices AUD, ex GST. Nothing upfront. You see the design first. On approval, a 50% deposit begins the build; the balance is due at launch — the site goes live when the final payment lands. Walk away before approval owing nothing.
Hosting is free for most sites on our edge network. Large builds — e-commerce, web apps, 12+ pages — move to managed hosting from $49/mo. Cancel anytime; you own everything either way. Edits: 30/60/90 days of free fixes per tier — anything broken, off-brief or not performing as agreed is fixed free. New pages, new features, restyling and routine content updates bill at standard rates ($150/hr, or HEKAWEB Care at $99/mo: hosting, monitoring, priority queue, up to 2h/mo of content updates), cancel anytime.
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When you’re ready
Tell me what you sell. I’ll tell you what a store you own would look like.
You approve the finished design before you pay a cent. If you don’t love it, you don’t pay — and you owe nothing.
Answered personally, same business day. Prefer email? hello@hekaweb.com