Contact person: Business Client

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Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Budget: Recommended by industry experts

Time to start: As soon as possible

Project description:
"I’m ready to launch a bright, colorful online store and want every piece—design, build, products, payments, and marketing feeds—handled in one seamless project outside of Shopify.

Scope
• Design & UX: Craft a vivid, energetic interface that reflects our brand personality while staying conversion–focused and fully responsive.
• Platform: Develop a custom-built solution rather than WooCommerce or Magento. Feel free to propose the stack you’re most confident with (Laravel, Node, React, etc.) as long as it is secure, scalable, and easy for my team to manage post-launch.
• Catalog setup: Enter and QA over 200 SKUs (images, descriptions, variants, meta data). I will supply raw product data; you organise, optimise, and upload it.
• Payments: Integrate Stripe end-to-end, including test transactions, webhooks, and fraud-prevention settings. If you can keep the door open for PayPal or Square later, even better.
• Google Merchant Center: Generate the feed, submit it, troubleshoot any disapprovals, and stay on the job until the account is fully approved and ready for Shopping ads.
• Launch & hand-over: Final cross-browser testing, speed optimisation, basic on-page SEO, and clear documentation so we can maintain the site ourselves.

What I need from you
1. A fixed total cost broken down by major milestones (design, development, data entry, integrations, launch).
2. A realistic timeline with key checkpoints.
3. Your step-by-step process, highlighting the tools you’ll use, how you’ll keep me updated, and any access you’ll need.
4. Links to 2–3 live custom e-commerce builds you’ve completed that demonstrate similar complexity.

Acceptance criteria
• Site loads in under 3 s on mobile (Google PageSpeed).
• All 200+ SKUs display correctly in both the catalog and Merchant Center.
• Successful live Stripe transaction before hand-over.
• No critical issues reported in Search Console within the first week.

If this sounds like the type of project you excel at, please send your proposal with the details above so we can get moving." (client-provided description)