--- title: "E-Commerce Add-On — TechTailors" description: "Headless e-commerce from $250/mo.: a T0 micro-store entry at 5x your plan's page rate (25 products) scaling through Starter ($500–$2,000) to enterprise Pro with custom checkout, multi-currency, and a PCI DSS Level 1 platform." canonical: https://techtailors.agency/services/ecommerce/ --- # E-Commerce Add-On Sell from a store built into your own site, on accounts in your name. Start with the T0 micro-store and move up to Starter or Pro as you grow. [Price Your Build](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/) From $250 a month ## Three rungs. One stack. We run BigCommerce (E-commerce platform that handles products, orders and payments separately from the frontend) as a *headless* backend for your full catalog, cart, checkout and order sync, and render the store as fast static pages on Cloudflare’s edge. 1. [T0 micro-store](https://techtailors.agency/services/ecommerce/#t0) From $250 a month A real store: five commerce pages and your first 25 products. - Five times your plan’s page rate - Under $25K in annual revenue - Any plan 2. [Starter](https://techtailors.agency/services/ecommerce/#starter) From $500 a month A lean store with promotions, cart recovery and a fast checkout. - Four tiers, $500 to $2,000 - Up to 250 products or $250K a year - Any plan 3. [Pro](https://techtailors.agency/services/ecommerce/#pro) From $3,000 a month Custom checkout, real-time inventory and a compliance-ready setup. - $250K to $1.2M+ in annual revenue - Black Tie plan and up - Premium Hosting included Moving up is a plan change: we build on the store you have, and *you pay more only as you grow*. Pair it with [Digital Advertising](https://techtailors.agency/services/digital-advertising/), [SEO Pro](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/#pro), [Analytics & Tracking](https://techtailors.agency/services/analytics/), [CRO & A/B Testing](https://techtailors.agency/services/cro-testing/), [ROI Reporting](https://techtailors.agency/services/roi-strategy/) or [Search Integration](https://techtailors.agency/services/search/) to drive traffic and measure what’s working. **Vendor configuration required** E-Commerce needs a **BigCommerce** account in your name, a Mandatory Minimum Vendor Configuration (Mandatory Minimum Vendor Configuration: the minimum vendor plan required for TechTailors to deliver the advertised SLA and feature set. SLA guarantees are conditional on maintaining this configuration.): Core (BigCommerce renamed its plans in June 2026: Standard is now Core, Plus is Growth, Pro is Scale and Enterprise is Performance.) or above for T0 and Starter (about $29 a month, billed annually) and **Growth or above** for Pro’s API rate limits, B2B catalog and price lists. Stripe is an embedded provider, so BigCommerce’s Open Payment Provider Fee is $0 on our builds. Find your rung in ten seconds [Fine-tune it in the pricing calculator](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/) A guide to fit, not a quote. For your exact price, use the calculator: both read the same price list. *Starter and Pro at a glance, one row per decision factor* | Factor | Starter | Pro | | --- | --- | --- | | Monthly price | $500 to $2,000 (T1 to T4) | $3,000 to $10,000 by revenue | | Built for | Up to 250 products or $250K annual revenue | $250K to $1.2M+ annual revenue | | The stack | Lean storefront, promotion engine, cart recovery | Headless: custom checkout, real-time inventory, multi-currency | | Website plan | Any plan | Black Tie and above | | Checkout and security | One-page checkout, abandoned-cart recovery | Custom checkout, GDPR-ready data handling; Premium Hosting included | | | | | Website plans ## Every plan can sell online. From T0 to Starter T4, the store runs on any plan. Pro’s revenue rungs need Black Tie or above. 1. Smart Casual, Minimum plan $50 per page, per month Best fit when you run a small business or a brick-and-mortar store with simple needs. - From $250/mo - 48-hour support 2. Professional $75 per page, per month Best fit when your site handles sensitive data or your profession holds you to strict regulations. - From $375/mo - 24-hour support 3. Black Tie $100 per page, per month Suits online businesses or ones that serve a whole region or country. - From $500/mo - 16-hour support 4. White Tie Typically from $125 + per page, per month Best fit when your project needs go beyond our standard plans and add-ons. - Custom scope - 16-hour support 1. Smart Casual, Minimum plan $50 per page, per month Best fit when you run a small business or a brick-and-mortar store with simple needs. - From $250/mo - 48-hour support 2. Professional $75 per page, per month Best fit when your site handles sensitive data or your profession holds you to strict regulations. - From $375/mo - 24-hour support 3. Black Tie $100 per page, per month Suits online businesses or ones that serve a whole region or country. - From $500/mo - 16-hour support 4. White Tie Typically from $125 + per page, per month Best fit when your project needs go beyond our standard plans and add-ons. - Custom scope - 16-hour support 1. Smart Casual $50 per page, per month Best fit when you run a small business or a brick-and-mortar store with simple needs. Requires Black Tie or above. Adding it moves your plan up and leaves your page count alone. - From $250/mo - 48-hour support 2. Professional $75 per page, per month Best fit when your site handles sensitive data or your profession holds you to strict regulations. Requires Black Tie or above. Adding it moves your plan up and leaves your page count alone. - From $375/mo - 24-hour support 3. Black Tie, Minimum plan $100 per page, per month Suits online businesses or ones that serve a whole region or country. - From $500/mo - 16-hour support 4. White Tie Typically from $125 + per page, per month Best fit when your project needs go beyond our standard plans and add-ons. - Custom scope - 16-hour support Smart Casual and up ## T0: a store for five times your page rate That’s $250 a month on Smart Casual, $375 on Professional and $500 on Black Tie, for five commerce pages: the products page-type plus four storefront pages (product overview, cart, checkout and confirmation). (Your first 25 product pages are included, and each one after that bills at your plan’s page rate. Starter T1’s flat $500 replaces the whole T0 line, covers up to 100 products with no per-product billing and adds abandoned-cart recovery. It pays for itself at 31 products on Smart Casual, 27 on Professional and 26 on Black Tie. Your plan stays where it is.) T0 is deliberately lean, with basic shipping only; Starter adds abandoned-cart recovery, the promotion engine and localized currency. T0 runs on the same BigCommerce and Stripe setup as every tier above it. Both accounts are in your name and come with you, data included. **Both** is the whole ladder: Starter T1 to T4 at $500 to $2,000 a month, beside Pro at $3,000 to $10,000 by revenue. **Starter** is the launch rung: any plan, T1 to T4 at $500 to $2,000 a month by catalog and revenue. ## Starter: launch fast, scale in $500 steps Starter is for merchants just below where boutique Shopify Plus agencies start taking clients. T1 to T4 run on any plan, priced by catalog size and revenue. ### What Starter ships #### Storefront - **A lean storefront:** Simplified versions of our full promotion engine, localized currency settings and a fast checkout, at a starter price. - **Built into your site:** The storefront is fully integrated with your site, with a cohesive UX (User Experience: how visitors interact with and perceive your website) that feels native, not bolted on. - **Abandoned-cart recovery:** Cart reminders win back lost sales, and basic cross-sell prompts help shoppers find complementary products. (Roughly 70% of shopping carts are abandoned before checkout. On a store doing $50K a month, even a single-digit recovery rate adds up to thousands in monthly revenue.) #### Orders and payments - **Product and order management:** Add, edit and remove products, track orders and handle basic fulfillment, all from one clean interface. - **Basic analytics and payments:** See your store KPIs (Key Performance Indicators: measurable values that track your store's success) in the platform dashboard. Major payment gateways and basic fraud prevention are included. #### Launch and care - **Live in about a month:** We aim to configure and launch your store in one month. The setup fee is $0. - **We handle the technical side:** Regular reviews, health monitoring and routine updates keep the store running, so you never need a separate team to babysit it. - **A downtime and deadline SLA (Service Level Agreement: a guaranteed commitment with compensation if missed):** If your store hits extended downtime or we miss a deadline, we credit you 10% of your monthly fee. ### Starter pricing Starting at $500 a month Past 250 products or $250K in annual revenue, you move to Pro T1 at $3,000, $1,000 more than T4. For a smaller catalog, the T0 micro-store starts at $250. - Starter T1: Up to 100 products or under $100K annual revenue $500 a month - Starter T2: Up to 150 products or $100K to $150K annual revenue $1,000 a month - Starter T3: Up to 200 products or $150K to $200K annual revenue $1,500 a month - Starter T4: Up to 250 products or $200K to $250K annual revenue $2,000 a month ### How Starter rolls out Step 1 #### Plan the store We map your product catalog, define your checkout requirements and set up the headless storefront’s architecture. Step 2 #### Connect BigCommerce We configure BigCommerce as your headless backend, integrate your payment gateways and build the storefront on Cloudflare’s edge. Step 3 #### Test and launch We test checkout flows, product pages and the cart end to end, and aim to have your store live within a month. Step 4 #### Keep it running We review the store regularly, monitor its health and apply essential updates. This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website: see [pricing FAQs](https://techtailors.agency/faqs/#pricing) for details on how billing and onboarding work. ### Headless Starter vs. monolithic platforms #### Headless Starter - Static pages cached on Cloudflare’s global edge network - Live in about a month, with no setup fee - A storefront built into your site, with a native UX - A customizable frontend, free of platform design limits - Every account in your name, and a clean upgrade path to Pro - Available on every plan, starting with the $250 T0 micro-store #### Monolithic platforms - One platform bundles everything, which limits flexibility and speed - An e-commerce website build runs $5,000 to $50,000 (GoodFirms 2026), before you sell anything - Vendor design limits make real customization hard - Transaction fees and revenue sharing eat into margins - Self-managed stores need a dedicated team to maintain #### Year one: Starter or a monolithic platform ##### TechTailors - Setup fee $0 - Monthly service (T1) From $500/mo - Setup, support & maintenance Included - When billing starts When we start setup work - Blueprint and build fee $0, store pages included - Hidden fees $0 Year 1 Total Starting at $6,000/yr ##### Traditional - E-commerce website build (GoodFirms 2026) $5K–$50K - Hosting & technology fees $500+/mo - Ongoing maintenance & team $1,000+/mo Year 1 Total $23,000–$68,000+/yr **Pro** is headless commerce on Black Tie and up: $3,000 to $10,000 a month by revenue, Premium Hosting included. ## Pro: headless commerce, priced by revenue Pro is for mid-market and enterprise merchants on Black Tie plans and up. It adds custom checkout flows, real-time inventory syncing, multi-currency support, advanced fraud prevention and a compliance-ready setup to everything in Starter. Pro doesn’t require [Search Integration](https://techtailors.agency/services/search/), but plan on it: a Pro store without site search makes sense only in special cases. ### What Pro adds #### Scale - **Thousands of checkouts at once:** Everything in Starter, on infrastructure that handles thousands of simultaneous checkouts without slowing down. - **[Premium Hosting](https://techtailors.agency/services/premium-hosting/), included:** $750 a month of value at every Pro tier, free, for a faster, more secure storefront. #### Storefront - **Custom storefront and checkout:** Custom checkout flows, the full promotion engine, multiple payment gateways, real-time inventory syncing with Amazon, eBay and Google, localized currency and tax, and global guest checkout. (A generic Shopify-style checkout puts every shopper through the same steps. One built around your products and customers skips what a shopper doesn’t need (say, address entry for someone who ordered last month). Headless gives us control of every step.) - **Recommendations and cart recovery:** Dynamic product recommendations based on shopper behavior, plus abandoned-cart tracking with automated email or SMS reminders. - **Real-time analytics and ROI (Return on Investment) insight:** Your store KPIs live in the platform dashboard. For deeper analysis, pair Pro with [Analytics & Tracking](https://techtailors.agency/services/analytics/) or [ROI Reporting & Strategy Consultation](https://techtailors.agency/services/roi-strategy/). #### Protection - **Built-in fraud prevention:** Advanced fraud and velocity checks with real-time risk assessment flag suspicious orders and reduce costly chargebacks. - **A compliance-ready setup:** Your store runs on BigCommerce, which holds PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: security rules for handling payment card data) Level 1 and SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2: an independent audit of how a service provider protects data) attestations, plus ISO 27001 (ISO/IEC 27001: the international standard for information security management) certification. We configure checkout and data handling for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation: EU privacy law protecting personal data), set up HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: US rules for protecting health information)-aligned handling where your vendors sign business associate agreements, and add advanced logging and auditing. (If you take card payments, handle health information, store EU customer data or sell into regulated industries, these rules apply to you. Card networks require PCI DSS, GDPR is law in the EU, and HIPAA governs health information in the US. Getting them wrong can mean fines, or losing the ability to take cards.) - **A risk-sharing SLA (Service-Level Agreement):** If our platform goes down, we credit your account 10% of your monthly base cost. We back our uptime and own the miss. ### Pro pricing Starting at $3,000 a month Black Tie plans and up. Your tier follows your annual revenue, and we place you in it automatically. Pro T1 nets $2,250 once the included $750 a month of Premium Hosting is counted. Coming from Starter, your store design, data and workflow carry over. - Pro T1: $250K to $375K annual revenue $3,000 a month - Pro T2: $375K to $500K annual revenue $3,750 a month - Pro T3: $500K to $625K annual revenue $4,500 a month - Pro T4: $625K to $750K annual revenue $5,500 a month - Pro T5: $750K to $875K annual revenue $6,500 a month - Pro T6: $875K to $1M annual revenue $7,500 a month - Pro T7: $1M to $1.2M annual revenue $8,750 a month - Pro T8: Over $1.2M annual revenue, plus 2.5% of gross monthly e-commerce sales above $100K ($1.2M annualized) $10,000 a month ### How Pro rolls out Step 1 #### Map the architecture We map your product catalog, checkout requirements, compliance needs and integration points, then design the headless storefront around them. Step 2 #### Build and integrate We configure the headless backend, custom checkout flows, payment gateways, real-time inventory syncing and multi-currency support. Step 3 #### Configure security and privacy We set up checkout on BigCommerce’s PCI DSS Level 1 platform, configure data handling for GDPR, and add fraud prevention, logging and audit trails. Step 4 #### Launch and optimize Your store goes live after full QA of checkout flows, cart recovery and product recommendations, and we keep monitoring its performance. This add-on, like every TechTailors add-on, begins billing once we start implementing this add-on into your website: see [pricing FAQs](https://techtailors.agency/faqs/#pricing) for details on how billing and onboarding work. ### Headless Pro vs. monolithic platforms #### Headless Pro - Static pages cached at the edge, with sub-second loads - Frontend design, UX and checkout flows you can fully customize - Stronger security from a separate frontend and backend, on a PCI DSS Level 1 platform - Scales easily to thousands of simultaneous checkouts - Premium Hosting (a $750/mo value) included at no extra cost - Revenue-based pricing: you pay more only as your business grows #### Monolithic platforms - One platform bundles everything, which limits flexibility - Server rendering and shared resources make them slower - You’re locked into the vendor’s design and features - Customizing means forking the platform or paying for add-ons - Transaction fees and revenue sharing eat into margins at scale #### Year one: Pro or a monolithic platform ##### TechTailors - Setup fee $0 - Monthly service From $3,000/mo - Premium Hosting management Included with Pro ($750/mo value) - Security and privacy setup (PCI DSS, GDPR) Included - When billing starts When we start setup work - Blueprint and build fee $0, store pages included - Hidden fees $0 Year 1 Total From $36,000/yr ##### Traditional - Boutique Shopify Plus retainer (Netalico) $2,700–$10,000/mo - Netalico typical client $4,500/mo avg - Project work for full builds (Netalico) $25K–$250K+ one-time - Hosting & tech fees (separate) $500–$1,000+/mo - Compliance & security audits $10,000+/yr Year 1 Total $48,400–$392,000+/yr For comparison ## What e-commerce costs elsewhere 1. $5,000–$50,000 Upfront for an e-commerce website build, before you sell a thing [*GoodFirms* 2026](https://www.goodfirms.co/resources/website-construction-cost-survey) 2. $2,700–$10,000 A month for a boutique Shopify Plus agency retainer [*Netalico* 2026](https://netalico.com/blogs/netalico-digest/the-top-list-of-shopify-partners-and-shopify-plus-partners-you-should-know-about) 3. $5K–$50K A month for a digital marketing agency retainer [*Clutch* 2026](https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing/pricing) Pro T1’s $2,250 net comes in under Netalico’s $2,700 entry retainer, and the higher Pro rungs sit well inside Clutch’s retainer band. There’s no setup fee or exit fee, and we don’t mark up BigCommerce, Stripe or any payment processor. Weighing Shopify or a website builder? See [what a website builder really costs](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/website-builder-cost/) once you count the platform’s cut, the hours you or your team spend on edits and an eventual rebuild. [Pricing sources and studies: the TechTailors citation library](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/benchmarks/) ## Explore more ### Related services - [**Premium Hosting Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/premium-hosting/) - [**Digital Advertising Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/digital-advertising/) - [**Search Integration Add-On** Smart Casual · Professional · Black Tie · White Tie](https://techtailors.agency/services/search/) ### From the blog Mar 10, 2026 2 min read #### [What Data Ownership Actually Means](https://techtailors.agency/blog/data-ownership/) Your data should leave when you do. Here's how TechTailors makes sure it can. Mar 5, 2026 2 min read #### [Edge-First Architecture Explained](https://techtailors.agency/blog/edge-first/) In Google's PageSpeed test, our server answers in about 10 ms and the page paints in under half a second on desktop. Here's how Cloudflare's edge network makes that possible. ## Price your store before you talk to anyone. See your exact monthly price, then talk to us when you’re ready. [Price Your Build](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/) [30-day guarantee on every new plan](https://techtailors.agency/policies/offboarding/#guarantee): an exit, not a refund. --- Prices as data: https://techtailors.agency/pricing.json · Site guide for agents: https://techtailors.agency/llms.txt