Ecommerce website design · custom stores from A$279 Your own online store, without the platform fees

There are three fixed-price packages, paid once: Store Launch is A$279 for up to 10 products, Store Growth is A$549 for up to 30 products with variants, discounts and customer accounts, and Store Scale is A$849 for up to 50 products with bulk import, staff roles, reports and one integration. Your domain, hosting and card processing fees are separate running costs.

In October 2026, Australian cost guides put a theme-based Shopify store at about A$2,000–8,000 to build plus A$56 a month for the Basic plan, a standard WooCommerce store at about A$3,000–10,000 plus hosting, and custom agency builds from about A$10,000. A SIX9 custom store is A$279, A$549 or A$849 paid once, with no platform fee; you pay hosting, a domain and your card provider’s fees. The Melbourne cost table on this page lists the sources.

Yes. SIX9 Design is a Melbourne studio and builds online stores for small businesses in Melbourne and across Australia, including makers, cafés and local retailers. Everything runs online, and you can meet us in person if you prefer. Prices are in Australian dollars, with GST and shipping planned into the store from the start.

Shopify and similar platforms charge a monthly plan, and often paid apps and transaction fees on top, so the cost keeps running. A SIX9 store is a one-off fixed price, with only hosting, your domain and card processing fees afterwards. Which works out cheaper depends on your catalogue and sales, so we compare both with your numbers in the free review; see our monthly versus one-off comparison for the method.

No. We design and code every store ourselves, with its own admin for products and orders. There is no store platform underneath, so there is no monthly platform subscription and the design is not limited by a theme.

Not to SIX9 or a store platform. Your store needs hosting and a domain, and your payment provider charges its card processing fees on each sale. We list these running costs in your quote so you know them before you start.

Customers pay through your own payment account (Stripe or Square; bKash or SSLCommerz in Bangladesh), and the money is paid out to your bank by the provider. Card details are entered on the provider’s secure checkout, so they are never stored on your website, and the whole site runs over HTTPS.

Yes. Every package includes a custom admin where you add products, change prices and photos, and see and update orders. Store Growth adds stock levels and discount codes; Store Scale adds staff logins, reports and CSV import.

The product count is how many products we add for you before launch. You can add as many more as you like in your admin afterwards. If you want us to load a larger catalogue, tell us in your brief and we’ll include it in your scope.

Usually, yes. Most platforms export products as a CSV file, and Store Scale includes bulk import. We keep your important URLs with redirects where we can. Customer passwords can’t be moved between systems, so returning customers set a new one.

If you sell hundreds or thousands of products, sell across many marketplaces and social channels, need a point-of-sale system in a shop, or want to install new features yourself every week, a platform is often the better fit. We’ll tell you honestly after your free review.

Once the project is fully paid, the store built for you and its data are yours, subject to third-party licences. You can host it where you like and ask any developer to work on it.

It depends on the size of your catalogue and how quickly your products, photos and payment account are ready. We confirm a timeline with your scope before work starts, and Store Launch projects are the quickest.

No. Choosing a package opens a short brief. No payment is taken; we confirm the scope, total and timing before any work starts.

All package prices are listed in Australian dollars (AUD). We take on clients anywhere in Australia, the United States and Canada.