Sell online without .
Subscription platforms charge you every month plus a cut of every sale, forever. Your own store is paid once — and the catalogue is yours.
First decide whether you really need a cart.
Many businesses in Costa Rica do not need a cart: they need their catalogue to look good, be findable on Google, and end in a WhatsApp conversation, which is where the sale actually closes. Building a cart nobody uses is paying for complexity that does not sell.
So the first thing we do is look at your catalogue and how you take payment. If a cart helps, we build it fully with local payments. If not, we build a catalogue that ranks and converts over WhatsApp — and we tell you even when it means charging you less.
8 piecesof a store that actually sells.
A catalogue Google understands
Every product with its own page, price and structured data, so it can appear with photo and price in search results.
Local payments
Connection to the gateways people already use in Costa Rica, plus bank transfer and SINPE Móvil if that is how your customers pay.
Connected inventory
If you already track stock in a system, the store reads from it. No keeping two lists that always end up different.
Closing over WhatsApp
The cart assembles the order and hands it to WhatsApp fully written out. In Costa Rica many sales close there, and it is not worth fighting that habit.
Real search and filters
Products findable by what people actually type. In a large catalogue, search is the difference between a sale and a lost visitor.
Fast on mobile
Most people buy from a phone on mobile data. Images are served at the size they display and the page does not jump while loading.
Funnel measurement
See how many look, how many add, and how many buy. Without that you cannot know where the sale is falling apart.
A panel for day-to-day
Prices, stock and photos editable without touching code and without learning an entire platform.
We review your catalogue before quoting.
Catalogue and payment
How many products, how many variants, and how you take payment today. That decides cart versus catalogue.
Closed price
A fixed number, agreed before we start. If the catalogue grows later, that is quoted separately.
Build and load
We build the store and load the catalogue from your data, not by hand — so it maintains itself when things change.
Real purchase tests
We run a purchase end to end, with a real payment, before opening. A button existing does not prove the sale goes through.
Paid once. No cut of your sales.
Paid once. We charge no commission per sale and no monthly platform subscription — only the $40/month maintenance if you want it. Payment gateway fees are theirs and they charge them, not us.
Common questions.
What we get asked most before building a store.
Should I just use Shopify?
For some businesses Shopify is the right answer and we will say so. The difference is long-term cost: a monthly subscription plus a cut of every sale, forever. If you sell a lot, that cut ends up paying for a custom store several times over; if you sell little and irregularly, the subscription leaves every month whether you sell or not.
Can I take SINPE Móvil or bank transfer?
Yes, and in Costa Rica it is worth having. It combines with cards: whoever wants to pay by card does it on the site, and whoever prefers transfer gets the details while the order is still recorded.
How many products can it hold?
No practical limit. Alpine Parts has 3,840 part pages published, each its own indexable page. What matters is where the data comes from: if it lives in a sheet or a system, the pages generate themselves.
Do I need professional photos?
They help enormously, and they are what lifts a store's sales most. If you do not have them all, you can start with what exists and improve in batches — but we are not going to pretend it does not matter: the photo is the first thing that decides the purchase.
Who loads the products?
The initial load is included when the data comes in a file. After that you maintain it from the panel, or if your stock lives in another system, the store reads from it and you load nothing.
Does this work if I sell services, not products?
Yes, though a different shape usually suits better: instead of a cart, booking that reserves and charges. That is covered on the development page, and we already have it running in two medical practices.
Show us your catalogue. what suits you.
Seeing what you sell and how you take payment is enough for us to tell you whether you need a cart — and what each path costs.