How Much Does It Cost To Run An eCommerce Website?

Generally, the cost of running an eCommerce website ranges between $10,000 to $500,000 or more. The final cost will be determined by the project's complexity, the platform you choose (WordPress, Shopify, Magento, etc.), the features you require, and the sort of eCommerce website company you choose to run (whether the U.S. or overseas, in-house or outsourced).

Factors Affecting Your eCommerce Website Basic Functionality Costs 

• Domain nameThe address of a website, crucial for branding and SEO. — starting from $8 per year
• Hosting — starting from $100 per year
• Paid tools — starting from $20 - $5000 per year
• Website design — starting from $2000 - $8000 per year
• Frontend development — starting from $1000 - $10000 per year
• Backend development — starting from $5000 - $20000 per year
• Website testing — starting from $2000 - $5000 per year

Factors Affecting Your eCommerce Website Promotion Costs 

• SEO — starting from $300–$1500 per month
• Content marketingA strategic approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content... — starting from $50–$200 per article
• Advertising — Paying for advertisements on various networks is another strategy to promote your online product. We cannot accurately predict the price in this case because it is entirely dependent on the following factors:
  • Advertisements of various types, including social network advertisements, pay-per-click (PPC)An online advertising model where advertisers pay a fee each time their ad is clicked. advertisements, Gmail and Quora advertisements, and others; 
  • The advertising channels you utilize (your own e-commerce website, your company's profile on FacebookA social networking site where users can post comments, share photographs, and links to news or othe... or InstagramA photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook., local magazines’ publications, television appearances, etc. ); and
  • The number of people who arrive at your website as a result of clicking on an advertisement, etc.
• Maintenance stage — starting from $600–$12,000 per year

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