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E-commerce Development for Small Business
A store that belongs to you: your checkout, your data, your margins. Built to fit the way you already handle stock, shipping and invoicing.
1. Conversation
Send what you have by form or WhatsApp: an idea, documents, specs or Figma files. An engineer replies the same day.
2. Proposal
We talk the project through wherever suits you: WhatsApp, email or a call. Scope, timeline and a fixed price get agreed in writing, and then the build starts.
3. Build
Delivery in phases against the proposal, with a named engineer and working hours that overlap yours.
If you are reading this, it is probably one of these:
- The platform charges a monthly fee plus a cut of every sale, and you still cannot change the one screen that loses you customers.
- Checkout hands your buyer to a third-party page with someone else's branding, and a share of them never come back.
- Orders, stock and invoices sit in three systems that do not talk, so every sale ends as manual data entry.
What you get
A storefront built for your catalog
Product pages, search, filters and category logic shaped around what you actually sell, whether that is twelve products or twelve thousand.
A checkout you control
One page, your branding, no redirect to a stranger's domain. We measure the step where buyers drop out and fix that step, instead of guessing at the theme.
Payments and fraud handling
Cards, wallets and instant methods like Pix when you sell into Latin America, with the retry and reconciliation logic that keeps an approved payment from turning into a lost order.
Stock, shipping and invoicing connected
Your ERP, warehouse, carriers and accounting wired to the store, so an order updates inventory and produces an invoice without anyone retyping it.
Speed and search visibility
Fast pages, clean URLs and product markup search engines can read. A store nobody finds is an expensive brochure.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- Pix
- Node.js
- Vercel
Why work with VTA
- We are online while your store is. A checkout problem at nine in the morning gets picked up at nine, and you hear back before your afternoon.
- One senior team from start to finish. The people who design the checkout are the ones who wire the payments and the ones you talk to after launch.
- Senior engineers at Brazilian rates. Before you commit, put our written quote next to what you pay every year in platform fees, transaction cuts and apps, and decide with real numbers.
Straight questions, straight answers
Should I just use a hosted platform instead?
If your catalog is simple and the standard checkout works, yes, and we will tell you that rather than sell you a build you do not need. Custom pays off when fees on your volume have grown into a real cost, when your checkout needs steps the platform will not allow, or when the store has to stay in sync with an ERP the platform's apps handle badly.
What does e-commerce development for a small business cost?
Catalog size and the number of systems that have to talk to each other drive the number. As a market reference, custom e-commerce builds in the US are commonly quoted from the low tens of thousands of dollars. Ours start at US$ 25,000, and once we have gone through your catalog and integrations, the proposal gives you a fixed price and a delivery date. It is a fixed-scope contract, not time and materials, so the deliverables and the price are in writing before we start.
Can you migrate our current store without losing traffic?
Yes, and we plan the search side before the design. Product URLs get mapped one to one, redirects go live with the store, and we watch rankings and traffic through the first weeks to catch anything that slipped. Catalog, customers and order history come across too.
How long does it take?
How much of your current store has to come with you moves the date more than anything else. A store with your catalog, checkout and payments live takes weeks. Migrating years of orders, ERP sync, complex shipping rules and multi-country tax add to that, so we scope them up front instead of finding them later.
Can we sell internationally?
Yes, and the payment method decides more than the translation does. Cards convert well in the US and poorly in several markets where bank transfers and wallets carry the volume. If Brazil is on your list, Pix belongs in your checkout. Currency, tax and shipping rules get built alongside the payment methods, in the same pass.
Who runs the store after launch?
We do, when you want that: hosting, monitoring, fixes and the seasonal changes a store needs. Everything runs in English, and Brazil is one to two hours ahead of New York, so our support hours cover your selling day.
Tell us what you are building.
An engineer replies the same day. Development projects start at US$ 25,000.
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