Costs & pricing
What does a webshop cost?
A webshop on SitePack costs from 25 euro per month, billed annually, with hosting, your domain name, business email and SSL all included, and payments handled through SitePack Payments at a transparent rate per transaction. That single price is the whole point: instead of paying a platform, a host, a registrar, an email provider and a payment company separately, you pay one plan and one clear transaction rate. This guide breaks down exactly what goes into the cost of a webshop, which parts people tend to forget, and what a realistic monthly total looks like.
In short
- A webshop on SitePack starts at 25 euro per month, billed annually, with everything to run a shop included.
- Hosting, your domain, business email, SSL and daily backups are part of the plan, not add-ons.
- Payments run through SitePack Payments (Wero, iDEAL, Bancontact and cards) at a transparent rate per transaction.
- There is no free plan, but you can try the whole thing with a 14-day free trial.
- The Grow plan at 75 euro per month adds more room and features as your shop scales.
What is included in the price
The price of a webshop usually looks small until you add up everything it takes to actually run one. With SitePack, one plan covers the parts that normally arrive as separate bills: the store software itself, European hosting, your domain name, business email on that domain, an SSL certificate and daily backups. You are not quoted a low headline price and then charged extra for the essentials.
That matters because those essentials are not optional. A shop needs somewhere to live, a secure connection, a professional email address and a backup if something goes wrong. When they are bundled, you know your monthly cost up front and it does not creep as you switch things on. Payments are the one usage-based part, and they run through SitePack Payments at a clear rate per transaction, so the only number that moves with your success is the one tied to sales you have actually made.
What one plan covers
- Online store builder with professional templates
- EU hosting, SSL and daily backups
- Your own domain name and business email
- SitePack Payments: Wero, iDEAL, Bancontact and cards
- Product, stock, variant and discount management
- Free and paid apps to add features when you need them
- European support in your language
One plan versus piecing it together
The common alternative is to assemble a shop from separate services. You pick a store platform, sign up with a hosting company, register a domain somewhere else, add an email provider, buy or configure an SSL certificate and then arrange a payment provider on top. Each of those has its own monthly fee, its own login, its own support desk and its own renewal date.
The problem is rarely any single price. It is that the pieces have to be kept working together, and the moment one of them changes a setting, raises a fee or has an outage, it becomes your job to sort out. You also pay in time: connecting a payment provider to a platform, pointing a domain at a host and keeping certificates valid are all small tasks that add up.
SitePack replaces that stack with one plan and one invoice, plus a transparent rate per transaction. You still get every capability, but you manage one relationship instead of five or six, and the total is predictable from the first month.
What you would otherwise pay for separately
To match what a single SitePack plan includes, most shops end up paying for the following services independently. Prices vary by provider, but the pattern is consistent: several small monthly amounts that together are usually more than one bundled plan, before anyone has sold a thing. On SitePack, each line below is part of the plan.
- Shop platform: a monthly subscription of its own
- Hosting: a separate host, often priced by traffic or resources
- Domain name: an annual fee at a registrar
- Business email: a per-mailbox monthly charge
- SSL certificate: separate, or an add-on to hosting
- Payments: a payment provider with its own account and pricing
Good to know
A low platform price with everything sold as an add-on can end up costing more than an all-in plan. When you compare, add every line above before you compare totals.
How transaction fees work
Every webshop pays to accept payments. That is true everywhere, on every platform, because the payment networks and banks charge for moving money. The honest question is not whether you pay a transaction fee, but whether the rate is clear and whether you have to run a separate payment company to get it.
On SitePack, payments run through SitePack Payments, built into your shop. You pay a transparent rate per transaction on top of your plan, you see that rate up front, and it covers Wero, iDEAL, Bancontact and card payments. There is no separate payment provider to apply to, integrate and reconcile, and no surprise blend of fees from a third party.
Because iDEAL is moving to Wero across Europe, having these methods built in also means you are ready for that shift without changing anything yourself.
Good to know
SitePack does charge a per-transaction rate through SitePack Payments. Any platform that implies payments are free is hiding the cost somewhere else.
Starter or Grow: which plan fits
The Webshop Starter plan is 25 euro per month, billed annually. It includes payments, hosting, your domain, business email and the full store builder, and it is the right starting point for most new shops and for businesses moving a modest catalogue online.
As your shop grows, the Grow plan at 75 euro per month adds more room and more advanced features for higher volumes and larger catalogues. You do not have to guess up front: you can start on Starter, see how the shop performs and move up when the extra capacity earns its place. Nothing you built is lost when you change plan.
The costs people forget
When people budget for a webshop, they usually price the platform and stop there. The costs that catch them out come later. Maintenance is the big one: software updates, security patches and keeping separate tools compatible take time or money every month, and skipping them is how shops get hacked or go down.
There is also the cost of your own hours. Every service you run separately is time spent configuring, logging in and troubleshooting instead of selling. And there is the cost of switching: if you outgrow a patched-together setup, moving to something better is a project in itself.
A managed, all-in platform folds most of these into the plan. Updates, security and backups are handled for you, there is one place to manage everything, and support is one team rather than several. That is part of the real price of a webshop, even though it rarely appears on a pricing page.
A realistic monthly picture
Imagine a small shop selling a few dozen products. On SitePack it starts at 25 euro per month for the Webshop Starter plan, which already includes hosting, the domain, business email, SSL and backups. On top of that it pays a transparent rate per transaction on the orders it takes through SitePack Payments, so the payment cost scales only with actual sales.
The equivalent built from separate tools might be a platform subscription, a hosting plan, a domain renewal, an email mailbox or two, an SSL add-on and a payment provider, each billed on its own. Even when each line looks cheap, the total is usually higher, and it comes with far more to manage. The value of the all-in price is not just the euros, it is that you can predict the number and spend your time on the shop instead of the plumbing.
Try it before you commit
You do not have to decide on price alone. Start a 14-day free trial, build your shop, add a handful of products and take a test payment. You will see exactly what your plan covers, how the builder works and what the checkout looks like for your customers before you choose a plan.
There is no free-forever tier, so when the trial ends you pick a plan to keep the shop online. Everything you built during the trial carries straight over, so the time you spend trying it is never wasted.
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