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E-commerce agencies in Hamburg compared
Whether it's Shopware, Shopify, or a fully custom build, your choice of platform shapes your revenue, your maintenance costs, and how locked in you end up with a vendor. These agencies build and migrate online shops. Compare them by platform, minimum budget, and verified credentials.
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Guide
Which platform fits your business?
Shopify gets you live fastest, works well for smaller to mid-sized catalogs, and has a broad app ecosystem, but comes with monthly fees and limits on deep customization. Shopware is widely used in Germany, allows for extensive customization, and fits B2B requirements like tiered pricing or customer groups well. Magento, now Adobe Commerce, suits very large, complex catalogs but is more demanding to operate. Custom builds, often on commercetools or fully bespoke code, only pay off once your requirements genuinely exceed what any standard platform, even extended, can cover.
What to look for in an agency
Official partner status with the platform, such as Shopware Partner or Shopify Partner, is a verifiable sign of experience, but it doesn't replace looking at concrete references. Ask for shops of a similar size and in your industry, not the biggest logo in their portfolio.
Performance is directly business-critical for a shop: every extra second of load time provably costs revenue. Ask to see real numbers from existing projects, not just promises.
When migrating from one platform to another, data migration makes or breaks the project: order history, customer accounts, the SEO rankings of your existing URLs. A migration without a solid redirect plan can cost you your organic visibility.
And finally, payment integration and legal requirements: payment methods, the right of withdrawal, tax logic for international sales. It sounds like a detail, but it quickly becomes the biggest point of contention if the proposal doesn't account for it from the start.
What a shop costs
A Shopify shop with standard features and custom design runs €8,000 to €25,000. A customized Shopware shop with B2B features and inventory system integration costs €30,000 to €100,000. Large, fully custom platforms start at €100,000. Agencies charge €90 to €160 per hour. Ongoing costs for hosting, licenses, and maintenance range from a few hundred to several thousand euros a month, depending on the platform.
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Frequently asked questions
E-commerce agencies: questions and answers
What does an online shop cost?
A Shopify shop with custom design costs €8,000 to €25,000, a customized Shopware shop with B2B features €30,000 to €100,000, and large custom platforms start at €100,000. Agencies charge €90 to €160 per hour.
Shopify, Shopware, or custom: what's right for me?
Shopify fits smaller to mid-sized catalogs and a fast launch. Shopware suits more customized requirements and B2B business, especially in German-speaking markets. A custom build only pays off once your requirements genuinely go beyond what standard platforms can cover with extensions.
How do you migrate a shop without losing SEO rankings?
Through a complete redirect map from old URLs to new ones, keeping the page structure unchanged where possible, and a testing phase before the final switch. An experienced agency actively monitors search visibility in the weeks after the migration and reacts to drops immediately, rather than noticing them months later.
How long does building an online shop take?
A standard shop goes live in six to ten weeks, a customized shop with system integration takes three to five months. Migrating an existing shop often takes longer than building one from scratch, because legacy data and years of accumulated edge cases need to be accounted for.