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Ecommerce Website Cost: What Is Included and How Long It Takes

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What a complete online shop includes, what drives the price, a realistic build timeline, and the list of things you should be handed on the day it goes live.

A complete online shop is a working storefront with payment and delivery connected, analytics running and the first products loaded. You receive something you can open to customers on the day it is handed over.

What is included in a complete ecommerce website?

Complete means no technical loose ends are left with you afterwards. The scope covers:

  • a catalogue with categories, filters and product search;
  • a product page with photographs, description, price and stock status;
  • a basket and checkout with field validation and errors written in plain language;
  • online payment connected and delivery costs calculated;
  • a customer account with order history;
  • an admin panel for the owner: products, prices, stock, orders;
  • migration or entry of the first batch of products;
  • analytics, sitemap and product markup for search engines;
  • the legal pages: terms of sale, privacy policy, returns policy.

Synchronisation with your accounting system is a separate line. If products and stock levels live in accounting software or a spreadsheet, the exchange is configured so prices and availability on the site update themselves.

How much does an online shop cost?

Guide figures for the Moscow market in 2026, quoted in roubles:

  • Shop on an existing platform — ₽150,000 to ₽350,000. Standard catalogue, conventional checkout, up to 200 products, four to six weeks.
  • Shop with a bespoke design — ₽400,000 to ₽900,000. Layouts drawn to your brand, non-standard filters, accounting integration, eight to twelve weeks.
  • Shop on a custom engine — from ₽1,000,000. Unusual logic around pricing, discounts, warehouses or subscriptions, several languages and currencies.
  • Ongoing support — from ₽15,000 per month: updates, backups, changes, help with the catalogue.

Three things drive the figure: how many screens are drawn from scratch, how complicated the checkout logic is, and how many external systems connect. A 50-product catalogue with one currency and one warehouse costs one thing; a catalogue with size grids, discount rules and two warehouses costs noticeably more.

How long does building an online shop take?

  1. Weeks 1–2. Understanding the product and the buyer, catalogue structure, the filters actually needed, the checkout flow.
  2. Weeks 3–5. Design of the homepage, catalogue, product page and basket. Revisions until approved.
  3. Weeks 6–9. Build, payment and delivery connected, products migrated, accounting integration.
  4. Week 10. Testing on phones and across browsers, live test orders with real payment, load speed.
  5. Week 11. Launch, staff training, the first week of monitoring.

The main source of delay is product content. If descriptions and photographs are prepared alongside development the schedule holds; if they begin after handover, launch slips by weeks.

Existing platform or a custom build?

An existing platform means a fast start, ready-made payment and delivery modules, and plenty of specialists on the market. The price you pay is somebody else's logic inside and surplus code that slows the site down.

A custom build earns its keep when your selling rules are unusual: layered discounts, rental, subscription, pricing calculated from parameters, several warehouses with different lead times. Fighting a platform's assumptions then costs more than building your own.

There is a middle route: an existing platform for catalogue and checkout, plus a separate service for the unusual part. The shop launches quickly and the complex rules live apart, where they do not break with every update.

What affects sales most?

How fast a product page opens, whether the price including delivery is clear before checkout, how many fields the order form demands, and how the shop behaves on a phone. Half of buyers leave a slow shop before they reach the catalogue, and no amount of advertising compensates for that.

Trust comes next: genuine photographs, delivery times stated as numbers, a returns policy written in human language, a phone number and company details in plain view. These cost less than any promotion and return more.

What should you be handed at launch?

  • access to the admin panel and hosting, registered to your company;
  • the domain registered to the business owner, not to the contractor;
  • the source code and instructions for deploying it;
  • daily backups configured, and a restore tested at least once;
  • analytics connected with goals set: order placed, payment made, call started;
  • a short instruction for staff: adding a product, changing a price, processing an order;
  • a warranty covering fixes after launch.

Where should you start?

With a description of the product and the buyer: how many lines you carry, how they differ, how someone chooses between them, how delivery is calculated. That is enough to produce a cost and a timeline, and to see which route — existing platform or custom build — works out cheaper for your particular catalogue.