Custom Headless E-Commerce Build
Configure the build you actually need. Pick your server, your monthly support hours, and how you'd like to pay. No bundled platform fees and no per-transaction cut, just the real cost of running your own store.
Configure for your market
If you're running a UK store, you get a processing rate as low as 0.75%, well under Shopify's blended 3.5%, thanks to interchange fee caps the UK kept from the EU after Brexit (0.2% on consumer debit, 0.3% on credit).
Expected revenue
Server (as priced on Hetzner)
Billed directly by Hetzner to your own account, in EUR, at cost. We don't mark this line up.
Support & maintenance
6 hrs/month
≈ 1.4 hrs/week of ongoing patching, deploys, monitoring, and support, at £30/hr.
Payment processing
At mid (default) revenue, an Interchange-Plus rate of 0.75% of GMV works out to £305/mo by month 24, versus Shopify's blended 3.62% (£1,473/mo).
How you'd like to pay for the build
Hosting, billed by Hetzner
€16/mo
Payment processing
£67/mo
Build, one time
£6,720
Then, ongoing support
£180/mo
This configuration vs Shopify
Your ongoing monthly cost above, including payment processing at your region's Interchange-Plus rate, plotted against a Shopify Advanced store with the same GMV. Excludes the one-time build price on both sides, for a like-for-like comparison of what it costs to keep the store running.
Hetzner + Medusa Build, over 2 years
£9,122
Shopify, over 2 years
£27,922
Saved over 2 years
£18,799
67% lower than Shopify
Open source, no lock-in
Medusa, PostgreSQL, and Next.js. You own the code and the infrastructure outright, and can take it to any developer or host at any time.
Real Hetzner pricing
Your server is billed directly by Hetzner to your own account, at cost. We don't mark up infrastructure.
Support that scales with you
Pick the hours you need each month, and adjust anytime as your store grows or quiets down.