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There is no flat rate for online shops: two that look alike can differ considerably behind the scenes. The main drivers are your catalogue's size and structure; the platform (an established system such as Shopify or Shopware, or a headless build); integrations with ERP, accounting, till systems and couriers; the number of languages and currencies; and the migration of products, customer accounts and old URLs. As a guide, our websites start at €3,000, custom software and web apps at €15,000. A compact shop on an established platform sits closer to a website project; B2B pricing logic or deep ERP integration moves it towards software. After a first conversation, you receive a fixed price in euro, with third-party costs such as platform subscriptions and payment fees shown separately.

We start with discovery: your products and variants, how orders are fulfilled today, and which systems hold stock, prices and customer data. From there, we design the key templates – category page, product page, basket and checkout – on a test environment you can click through on your phone. Development and integrations follow in stages; product data and old URLs are then migrated, with 301 redirects so existing rankings and links carry over. Before launch, we place test orders with every payment method and delivery option. The timeline depends mainly on the integrations and your data quality, and we agree it in writing, with milestones, once discovery is complete. If your sales peak before Christmas, we launch well ahead of the peak, not in the middle of it.

MDEPARTMENT has no office in Ireland; we work remotely and say so from the outset. The project language is English, or German if you prefer, and one named contact stays with your project throughout. Germany is one hour ahead of Irish time, so working days overlap almost completely. You follow progress on a test environment and a shared project board, alongside regular video calls. For a kick-off or workshop with your warehouse or customer-service team, we travel to Ireland on request, with costs agreed in advance. Invoices are issued in euro by KRUPKA Concept GmbH, the company behind MDEPARTMENT. For B2B clients with an Irish VAT number, we invoice without German VAT under the EU reverse-charge procedure, and you account for VAT in your Irish return.

Yes, provided the rules are built in from the start, not bolted on later. We set up delivery zones, rates and carrier services per region, and prices in euro and sterling if needed. Under the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland largely follows EU rules for goods, while parcels to Great Britain need customs declarations, so the shop must pass data such as commodity codes and country of origin to your carrier. For sales to consumers in other EU countries, VAT is often handled through the One-Stop Shop scheme; your accountant decides the tax treatment, and we build it into the shop. Product data, legal pages and order emails can also be properly translated, so a German or French version works as a real shop, not a machine-translated copy.