Wooden shelves in a small shop, with labelled bottles and bags of coffee

A serious brand deserves a store to match.

We build and manage online stores for independent brands that want a polished buying experience without handling the technical complexity themselves.

Let's talk about your store

Prefer email? Write to us at [email protected]

Built for independent brands across Transylvania

Whatever you make, we shape the store around your brand and the people you sell to — with the same close attention to every detail, every time.

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Products you buy with your eyes

When the photo does the selling, presentation is everything. We focus on photography, layout and a buying experience that does your product justice.

Hands paying by card at a terminal on a small shop counter

Real-world compliance, handled

Proper labelling, invoicing and EU-ready paperwork built in — e-Factura, taxes and shipping handled from day one, never sold as a separate add-on.

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Brands with a story and a place

Brands rooted in genuine quality and a sense of place, where provenance and authenticity are part of why people buy.

Whatever your setup, every brand gets the same hands-on care — from first call to launch and beyond.

How we work — and why it makes a difference

From Cluj — within 2–3 hours of any client

Being two hours away, we can meet in person when it matters — to understand your brand, or, if you order a photo session, to shoot the products on site. Everything else we handle remotely, properly.

e-Factura built in from the start

Your store is set up to work with ANAF's e-Factura system from day one, not as an add-on sold separately. When ANAF updates the requirements, we roll the change into your store as part of the service.

No Shopify or WooCommerce licences

You don't pay a Shopify, WooCommerce or other platform licence — our monthly fee covers building and running the store. Third-party services such as payment processing still bill their own fees directly. If you leave, we help you move your store elsewhere.

From first call to first customer in 30 days

  1. 01

    Discovery call (30 min)

    We learn what you sell, to whom, in which languages. No pitch — just concrete questions about your operation.

  2. 02

    We build in 21 days

    Design adapted to your vertical, product upload, payments and shipping setup. Weekly progress demos.

  3. 03

    Launch + handover

    We teach you how to add products, manage orders, read analytics. Docs in your language plus a training call.

  4. 04

    We manage and improve, ongoing

    Maintenance, backups, security, and e-Factura kept up to date with ANAF's requirements. Monthly tweaks are included — you focus on the brand.

Transparent pricing, no surprises

One base price for the shop, with one courier and one invoicing integration included, plus the extras you choose: more products or modules. Every price is published below, including what the price doesn't cover.

Worked example

Local brand

A local brand's catalogue, with courier shipping and an invoice generated from every order.

Setup, one-off

€1,390

Monthly fee

€149/month

or €1,639/year paid yearly (1 month free)

  • Base price: the complete site, with everything listed below
  • Products: up to 250
Start from here

Worked example

Growing shop

The same shop, plus automated marketing: campaigns, abandoned carts and coupons, so customers come back.

Setup, one-off

€1,780

Monthly fee

€159/month

or €1,749/year paid yearly (1 month free)

  • Base price: the complete site, with everything listed below
  • Products: up to 250
  • Marketing
Start from here

Worked example

Complete shop

A large catalogue with automated marketing, for a shop that already sells steadily.

Setup, one-off

€2,720

Monthly fee

€159/month

or €1,749/year paid yearly (1 month free)

  • Base price: the complete site, with everything listed below
  • Products: up to 1,000
  • Marketing
Start from here

These examples are calculated from the same price list as the calculator below. They are not packages: start from any of them and add or remove what you like.

For brands that already sell, not for a first product.

Anything blocking payments or orders goes to the front of the queue, whatever your setup.

Work out your price.

Pick the capacity and the modules you need. The total on the right is what you pay, not a “from”.

Products in the catalogue
Products: up to 250
Optional modules
Extra languages
Extra languages: 0

2 languages are included. Each extra language: €100 one-off.

We quote custom requests separately, so they're not in the total. We'll come back with a price after we read it.

Setup, one-off

€1,390

Monthly fee

€149/month

or €1,639/year paid yearly (1 month free)

Storage included: 20 GB

What the price is made of
ItemSetupMonthly
Base price: Online shop€1,390€149

Included in the base price:

  • A site built by us for you, on your own domain
  • Hosting with us, with 1 GB of RAM, SSL, daily backup and security updates
  • GDPR and cookie pages, professional email on your domain
  • 2 languages, your pick
  • Invoices in the format e-Factura asks for; submission to SPV stays with your invoicing provider, on your company
  • One courier integration, Sameday or FAN: the AWB is generated from the order, no copying details by hand
  • One invoicing integration, Smartbill or Oblio, wired to your orders and kept current by us
  • SEO at launch (titles, meta, structure, sitemap), Google Analytics and Meta Pixel
  • Email support, answered within 48h on business days
  • Content changes: 4 hours a month, not carried over; beyond that we work at €30/hour
  • 20 GB of storage
  • If you leave: everything we built for you stays yours, and we help you move

What the online shop does:

  • A custom online store, built on your brand
  • Online payments (one processor) + cash on delivery + bank transfer
  • Import of up to 250 products included — send us a CSV or a spreadsheet, we handle the formatting. A larger catalogue is loaded for a one-off fee; products you add yourself later cost nothing
  • A landing page on a proven structure
  • A custom brand page (unique design)
  • Photo optimisation with a manual check
  • 18+ age verification included

What the price does not include:

  • Payment processor fees
  • Courier rates and shipping costs
  • Advertising budgets for Google or Meta
  • Ongoing SEO after launch
  • Copy and photos, unless you add a content module
  • Storage beyond the 20 GB included: when it fills up, we recommend more, at an extra cost

Prices are final. We are not VAT registered, so nothing is added on top of the figures above.

A 12-month minimum, then rolling. Pay a year up front and you get 1 month free, on the whole monthly fee, modules included.

If you leave: everything we built for you stays yours, and we help you move.

We recommend hosting with us, because then speed, backups and security are on us. If you prefer your own server or provider, that's fine: we deploy the site there and tell you upfront what, if anything, that changes in the monthly fee. On your own hosting, uptime and backups sit with your provider unless we agree otherwise.

You get 4 hours a month of content changes. Beyond that, and for any work outside the monthly fee, our rate is €30/hour — the same for every kind of site.

Every site includes 2 languages, chosen by you. Each additional language costs €100, one-off.

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Straight answers to the questions we hear most

On Shopify you handle the setup, configuration, and day-to-day yourself — plus a monthly licence and per-sale fees on top. We build your store and we run it for you, month after month, with no platform licence and no transaction fees. You pay a one-off setup plus a flat monthly fee. That's it.

Ready for us to build your store?

30 minutes on Zoom. No pressure, no commitment — just concrete answers to your questions.

Or answer a few questions and find out which setup fits, and what it costs

Prefer email? Write to us at [email protected]