You sell real things to real people. Maybe it’s handmade goods, specialty food, local art, or a curated product line. You don’t need a platform eating into every sale just so you can exist online. You need a fast, clean store that works — and doesn’t nickel-and-dime you monthly for the privilege.
That’s exactly what we build.
The Shopify Problem
Shopify is fine if you’re scaling to seven figures and need a logistics empire. For most small retailers, it’s overkill with a price tag to match. The Basic plan runs $39/month. Want stronger reporting? That’s the $105/month Grow plan. Transaction fees stack on top unless you use Shopify Payments, which isn’t available everywhere and locks you into their ecosystem.
Then there are the apps. Need subscription billing? Add-on. Need abandoned cart recovery? Add-on. Need better email notifications? Add-on. Before long, your “simple” store costs $150/month in platform fees before you’ve sold a single item.
We’ve seen retailers spend more on Shopify in a year than they would have spent building a permanent, owned website.
What We Do Instead
We build custom static HTML storefronts with Snipcart for checkout — a lean, modern e-commerce layer that charges 2% per transaction, or a $20/month flat fee if your monthly sales are under $1,000. No vendor lock-in. No app ecosystem dragging you down.
Your store is a fast, custom-built website. It doesn’t run on a platform — it’s static HTML on a global CDN. Pages load in under a second, compared to the 3–4 seconds typical of database-driven platforms. It can’t be hacked because there’s no database to breach and no admin panel to compromise. It’s just your products, your brand, and a smooth checkout experience.
We handle the full build: product pages, category layouts, cart integration, checkout flow, and order confirmation. If you want SEO baked in from day one — clean URLs, structured metadata, Google Shopping compatibility — we do that too.
The Real Numbers
Here’s what a typical small retail e-commerce build looks like with us:
- Site build: $400 on our Growth or Growth+ managed plans (or $500 standalone)
- E-commerce add-on: $800 one-time build + $20/month for cart management
- Managed hosting: $49/month on Growth (includes SSL, CDN, content updates, quarterly business reviews) — or $0/month on our Starter tier if you host it yourself
- Snipcart processing: 2% per transaction (or $20/month flat if sales are under $1,000/month)
A Growth client with e-commerce is looking at roughly $1,200 to get started and $69/month ongoing plus the per-transaction fee. Compare that to Shopify at $39–105/month plus apps plus transaction fees plus the hours you spend managing it — and you’re ahead before the first quarter is out, with a site that’s faster, more secure, and entirely yours.
No Contracts. Ever.
We don’t do annual commitments. We don’t lock you into anything. If you’re on managed hosting and want to cancel, you cancel. Your site files belong to you. We believe the work speaks for itself, and if it doesn’t, you shouldn’t be stuck.
What You Get
- A fast, custom online store built to your brand — not a template you fight with
- Secure checkout via Snipcart (Stripe-powered, no separate merchant account needed)
- Mobile-optimized product pages that load in under a second
- SEO fundamentals built in — not bolted on as an afterthought
- Optional add-ons: booking systems, AI customer support, blog content, social media management
- A real point of contact — not a support ticket queue
Ready to Sell?
If you’re running a retail business — brick-and-mortar or online-only — and you’re tired of paying platform fees just to stay online, we’d like to talk. We get stores live in days, not weeks.
Reach us at sales@chingz.tech or visit chingz.tech to see our full pricing and plans.