Meridian.
FROM
$3,175.

[Everything on this row]

1. [01]

   What you get

   • Up to 15 pages
   • catalog
   • payments
   • booking
   • customer accounts
   • multilingual
   • integrations

   A catalogue is stock with prices, options and availability, which means somebody has to be able to change it without calling the studio — so the screen that does that is part of what is built. Payments are taken on the site and reconciled against orders. Customer accounts mean a returning buyer sees their own history instead of starting again. Multilingual means a second language with its own addresses and its own written copy, not a translate button bolted to the corner. Integrations are the systems you already run — stock, accounting, delivery, whatever they are — talking to the site, and every one of them is named in the scope before a line of it is built.

2. [02]

   What it costs

   from $5,225from $3,175−39%from $2,875 with Switchboard (−45%)

   Offers do not stack. You always get the lowest eligible price.

   Double priority costs 30% on top — $953 on this row — and your build takes the next free slot ahead of standard work. Meridian publishes no cap, so its priority date is fixed in the brief instead. It buys a position in the queue, not corners cut: the page count, the revision rounds and the signed scope are exactly the ones you would have had at the standard price.

3. [03]

   How long it takes, and what the clock counts

   [Let's agree in chat :)][Scope fixed after paid discovery]

   Turnaround is counted from the moment we accept the brief, not from the moment you send it. Meridian publishes no cap, and this page states no duration for it. The date is fixed in the brief, after discovery, and it is written down there beside the scope it belongs to.

   Time the studio spends waiting on you — content, access, approvals, an answer to a question — does not count against it. The terms are in the offer, in the clause about the clock.

4. [04]

   What happens, day by day

   1. [01 · The brief]You describe the business and what the site has to do. What you mean by a catalogue, or by booking, is a conversation rather than a form: this is where it starts, not where it is settled.
   2. [02 · The quote]Discovery is paid, and it is the work. Your systems are looked at, every integration is named, and the scope comes out of it written down instead of assumed. The price is fixed against that scope, and the date is agreed in the same conversation.
   3. [03 · The first instalment]The instalment clears against the fixed scope, and the build starts.
   4. [04 · The build]It is built in pieces you can look at, and the piece with the most money moving through it is built first.
   5. [05 · The revision round]You review it in the open, with real data in it and real payments tested, before anything is switched over. This row publishes no number of rounds, so nobody invents one: the count is written into the quote before anything starts, and it is agreed there rather than assumed.
   6. [06 · Handover]The code, the domain, the hosting, the payment account and every integration credential are in your name. The studio keeps no key it could hold the business by.
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   What you have to give us

   Access to whatever the site has to talk to, and the person at your end who knows how those systems work. Your product data in whatever form it is currently in: a spreadsheet is fine, an export is better, a photograph of a printout is where projects like this go quiet. The account you take payments through. Copy in every language you intend to sell in, written by somebody who speaks it. And a decision-maker who answers: discovery produces questions only you can settle, and the build waits on each one. That waiting is not counted against the studio, and it is the reason this row is scoped in a conversation rather than sold with a stopwatch.

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   What is not included

   • Anything discovery did not write into the scope. New work is quoted the same way, in writing, before it starts.
   • Product photography and product copy, in any language.
   • Warehouse, courier or accounting software you do not already have.
   • Legal work: your terms, your returns policy and the tax treatment of what you sell.
   • Running the shop after launch. Stock, orders and customer service are yours, or a plan's.

   None of that is a refusal, and none of it is priced by surprise. Work beyond the scope on this row is new work, and it is quoted and agreed the same way before it begins — the offer says so in the clause about what you are buying.

7. [07]

   Atlas instead?

   Choose Meridian when the site takes the money, holds the stock, or has to agree with a system you already run.

   • Atlas — up to 8 pages, $1,530Choose Atlas when several services carry several prices, you want a deposit taken on the spot, and the enquiry has to land in whatever you already run the business from.
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   After launch

   A shop that quietly stops taking payments at midnight is a shop losing money while you sleep. This is the row where a monthly plan stops being maintenance and starts being the thing watching the till.

   Switchboard is also the plan that earns the member price above: while it is active, Meridian is from $2,875 against its from $5,225 list price, which is 45% off. What each plan covers and what each costs is on the monthly page.

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   The terms

   Payment is in two instalments: the first when the studio accepts your brief and the price and scope are fixed, the second on delivery, before the site is handed over. Work does not begin before the first one clears, and nothing is owed until the brief has been accepted. The split is printed in the offer, in the clause about payment.

   Your code, your domain, your accounts — yours from day one. The studio registers nothing in its own name: at handover the code, the domain, the hosting, the analytics and the ad accounts are in your name and under your control, whether or not you stay on a monthly plan afterwards.