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Riccardo Bano
5 min readHow much an ecommerce site costs: Shopify, WooCommerce or customIn Italy a small or mid-sized online shop usually costs €2,500–6,000 with a freelancer and €6,000–15,000 with an agency. Then there are the monthly costs: subscription or hosting, apps, fees and maintenance.
Davide Trevisan
4 min readUpgrading to PrestaShop 9: what changes and what drives the costPrestaShop 9 changes the technical foundations: Symfony 6.4, PHP 8.1 or later, new APIs. The shop won’t get better on its own, but staying on 1.7 means modules and servers that get harder and harder to keep going.- Davide Trevisan
4 min readPayload CMS: what it is and when to choose it over WordPressPayload is an open-source CMS written in TypeScript that lives inside a Next.js app. It pays off when content has a precise structure and the site has to grow like software; for a simple site WordPress is still a good choice. - Riccardo Bano
4 min readWordPress support: what it covers, what it costs, when you need itA WordPress support plan covers updates tested first, backups, security and small fixes. In Italy it usually costs €200–1,000 a year with a freelancer and €600–3,600 with an agency. - Riccardo Bano
6 min readHow much does a website cost: freelancer and agency pricesThe price ranges you find in Italy today, split between freelancers and agencies: brochure site, company site, online shop, web app and maintenance. And what makes them change.
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