Business Foundations · eCommerce

Web Starter Store:
start selling online, properly.

A Shopify store set up and styled for your brand — theme, core pages, products, payments and shipping — so you're not piecing an online store together yourself at midnight. We build it and support it. You own it.

Web Starter Store build
$1,299
One-off. Shopify setup, theme styling, core pages, products, payments and shipping.
Hosting Basic
$59/ month
Up to 2 website updates per month. Ideal for a stable site that only needs occasional content changes.
Hosting Plus
$109/ month
Up to 10 website updates per month. Ideal if you run seasonal promotions, change services often or add products regularly.
All pricing inc GST. One hosting and support plan is required. Your Shopify subscription is purchased separately in your name — so the store, the products and the customer data are yours.
Why businesses choose Web Starter Store

Selling online is easy to start and hard to finish.

Signing up to Shopify takes five minutes. Getting to a store you'd actually send a customer to — branded properly, products structured sensibly, payments working, shipping rules that don't lose you money — is where most businesses stall out.

Half-finished stores are everywhere. Not because the owners aren't capable, but because setting one up properly is a project, and running the business is already a full-time job.

Web Starter Store is that project, done for you, at a price you know before you start.

You'll recognise the moment
  • You're taking orders through DMs, email or a spreadsheet
  • You started a Shopify trial and never finished the setup
  • Your products deserve a better shopfront than a social media page
  • You want the store built properly the first time, not rebuilt in a year
  • You need someone on call when payments or shipping misbehave
What's included

Everything in the $1,299 build.

Your store

  • Shopify store setup and configuration
  • Theme setup and branded styling
  • Up to five core pages (Home, Products, About Us, Contact and one more)
  • Product and collection setup
  • Payment and shipping configuration assistance
  • Store structure ready for launch
  • Standard launch support

In practice

Instead of trying to piece an online store together alone, you get a properly structured starting point: branded pages, products loaded, collections organised and the core store functions configured and tested for launch.

Business outcome

A faster path to selling online, far less setup friction, and a more professional and better-supported launch.

Built for small businesses that need a professionally set up online store with EduCom IT handling the build and integration, while you keep and maintain your own Shopify subscription and product catalogue.

Hosting & support

Someone to call when the store needs changing.

Stores change constantly — new products, seasonal promotions, price adjustments, banner swaps. Both plans include a monthly allowance of updates handled by our team, so those changes actually happen.

Hosting Basic$59/month

Ideal for a stable site that only needs occasional content changes.

  • Hosting and ongoing support
  • Up to 2 website updates per month
  • Local Australian team, not an offshore ticket queue

Hosting Plus$109/month

Ideal if you run seasonal promotions, change services often or add products regularly.

  • Hosting and ongoing support
  • Up to 10 website updates per month
  • Local Australian team, not an offshore ticket queue
Running regular promotions or adding products often? Most store owners choose Hosting Plus for the larger monthly update allowance.
How onboarding works

From conversation to open for business.

1

Discovery conversation

What you sell, how you ship it and what the store needs to do on day one.

2

Confirm the package

Web Starter Store plus the hosting and support plan that matches your update rhythm.

3

Gather content

Branding, product images, descriptions, pricing and your business details.

4

Build & configure

Shopify set up, theme styled, core pages built, products and collections loaded.

5

Payments & shipping

We help configure payment methods and shipping rules so checkout actually works.

6

Review & refine

You test the store and we adjust before anything goes live.

7

Launch

The store opens — and stays supported rather than being handed over and forgotten.

Pricing & scope

$1,299 to build, from $59 a month to run.

Plus your own Shopify subscription, paid directly to Shopify in your name. All EduCom IT pricing inc GST.

Optional add-ons

Extend the store as the business grows.

  • Customised contact and enquiry forms
  • Bookings integrations (Fresha)
  • Web analytics
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Google Search Console claim
  • Social media and sales channel integrations
  • Custom web apps

What's not included

Scoped separately so the package price stays honest.

  • Shopify subscription costs
  • Large product catalogue entry beyond the agreed scope
  • Advanced third-party integrations
  • Large custom web application development
  • Extensive custom copywriting
  • Professional photography or video production
  • Complex SEO campaigns
  • Ongoing marketing campaign management

Selling in person too? See our Shopify POS page.

FAQ

Web Starter Store — your questions answered.

What is Web Starter Store?

Web Starter Store is a fixed-price Shopify store setup for small businesses that want to start selling online. For $1,299 inc GST we configure your Shopify store, set up and style a theme to match your brand, build up to five core pages, load your products and collections, and help configure payments and shipping so the store is genuinely ready to launch.

Is the Shopify subscription included?

No, and that's deliberate. The Shopify subscription is purchased and held in your name, so you own your store, your products, your orders and your customer data outright. We build and configure it — you own it. The same applies to any paid Shopify apps you choose to add.

What does it cost all up?

$1,299 inc GST for the store build, plus a hosting and support plan from $59 per month, plus your own Shopify subscription paid directly to Shopify. Hosting Basic includes up to two updates a month; Hosting Plus includes up to ten, which suits businesses running regular promotions or adding products often.

How many products can you load?

We set up your products and collections as part of the build, to an agreed scope. Very large catalogue entry sits outside the fixed price — if you've got hundreds of SKUs, tell us and we'll quote the data work separately rather than surprise you later.

Do you set up payments and shipping?

We provide configuration assistance for both. Payment gateways and shipping rules involve your own business decisions — which methods you accept, what you charge for freight — so we work through it with you rather than guessing.

Why Shopify rather than something else?

For small businesses starting out, Shopify gets the fundamentals right: reliable hosting, secure checkout, payments, inventory and a huge app ecosystem, without needing a developer on call. We're also happy to talk through other options — see our point-of-sale and eCommerce platform pages for the wider picture.

Can I sell in-store as well as online?

Yes. Shopify's point-of-sale connects your in-store sales to the same inventory as your online store. We work with Shopify POS alongside other systems like Square and Lightspeed, so tell us how you sell and we'll advise.

What if I just need a website, not a store?

Then Web Starter is the package you want — a five-page professional business website for $799 inc GST plus hosting, with no eCommerce complexity to manage.

Can you add products or run promotions for me afterwards?

Yes. That's what the update allowance in your hosting plan covers. Businesses running seasonal promotions or changing products regularly usually pick Hosting Plus for the larger monthly allowance.

Ready to open the doors?

Every engagement starts with a short discovery conversation about what you sell, how you ship it and what the store needs to do on day one.