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Every article on this site that puts a number on ecommerce work: replatforming, audits, builds and running costs. Each one uses published figures and sources you can check, so you can budget before anybody quotes.

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Magento maintenance in the UK: what a retainer covers, and what it really costs

A £99 alert service and a £1,150 partner plan share one label. What actually separates them, set out provider by provider.

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WordPress maintenance in the UK: care plan or retainer, and what each really costs

Fifteen pounds buys an update service; fifteen hundred buys a team. Ten UK sites compared, and the staging step nearly all of them skip.

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SaaS MVP development cost in the UK, and what it buys

Published UK ranges for a SaaS MVP, the monthly running costs from the vendors’ own pricing, and how to cut scope without cutting the parts you’ll regret.

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What a fractional or interim CTO costs in the UK

Published UK day rates for fractional and interim CTOs, how retainers and day rates work, and the full cost of a permanent hire worked out from GOV.UK rates.

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What an ecommerce website costs in the UK

From about £2,500 for a starter Shopify store to £40,000-plus for a custom build, and the monthly running costs most quotes leave off. With worked sums.

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What Shopify Plus costs in the UK, and when it’s worth it

£1,800 to £1,950 a month, and a variable fee Shopify doesn’t publish. The sums that tell you when Plus pays for itself, and what it adds over Advanced.

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What an ecommerce audit costs, and what each price buys

UK audit prices run from a few hundred pounds to over £25,000. What pushes the price up, what a cheap audit misses, and my four audits priced in full.

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