We migrate your marketplace business to a fully owned custom commerce platform in as little as 1 to 4 weeks. The result, no marketplace fees, complete control over your customers, and a brand you actually own.
Every sale through eBay, Amazon, or Etsy quietly transfers value away from your business. The fees are visible. The bigger losses are not.
Marketplace Fees
Every sale costs you money. 10 to 18 percent of revenue goes straight to platform fees before you pay for shipping, packaging, or ads.
Customer Ownership
You do not own the customer relationship. Repeat buyers belong to the marketplace, not to you.
Platform Risk
One suspension can stop your business overnight. Algorithm changes, policy updates, or a single dispute can erase a decade of work.
Growth Limits
You are building someone else's platform. The brand equity, the SEO, the audience, all of it accrues to them, not to you.
Services
Your Business. Your Platform.
We build whatever you need. You choose the platform, the design, even a site you want us to match, and we migrate you onto it and hand it over fully owned. No lock-in to us, no lock-in to a marketplace, no recurring agency fees.
A clear, fixed path from the first call to launch. You see a working store within 48 hours, then shape it with us live inside your own client portal until it is ready to go live.
Discovery to launch
01
A 30 to 60 minute call
Discovery and plan
Show us your current store, your products, and the look you want, even a site you would like us to match. Our team and AI agents turn that into a fixed plan, a fixed price, and a delivery date on the same call.
02
Same day
Sign off
You get a simple agreement in your portal with the exact scope, the fixed price, and the delivery date. You sign it online. We do not start the build until it is signed.
03
Within 48 hours
First sample live
Our pre-built modules and agentic development put a real, working version of your store on a live preview URL. You see the real thing on a real link, not a mockup.
04
Day 2 onward
Build together in your portal
Upload your logos, photos, and brand files, grant the access we need, and leave comments with screenshots on any page. We review the queue daily and redeploy multiple times a day.
05
On your fixed date
Launch and hand over
You approve, we point your domain live, and hand over every login. The code, the repository, and the data are yours, with no lock-in to us or to a marketplace.
Simple 50 / 50 payment
Two milestones. No retainer. No surprises.
50% after first sample
Payable once your initial UI and UX is deployed live on a preview URL, typically Day 1 or Day 2. The codebase and repository transfer to your ownership the same day.
50% at final approval
Payable when you sign off and we cut over to your domain. Hosting credentials and any remaining accounts move over the same day.
Code ownership
You own the code from Day 1.
Most agencies hold your code hostage until final payment. We do not. The moment your first 50% clears, the full codebase, the GitHub repository, and the build credentials transfer to your ownership. Not at handover. Not at final approval. Day 1.
Prices below are indications, not fixed quotes — every build is scoped on your strategy call, then set as one flat fee (50% after the first sample, 50% at final approval). Most sellers recover the build cost from saved marketplace fees inside a year.
Build, one-time
Every figure here is an indication — your exact quote is scoped and agreed on the call before any work begins.
Custom Website
Fully bespoke, fully owned
Custom
No fixed price: a custom build is scoped to your needs and quoted on your strategy call.
Custom timeline
90 days of Care + dedicated architect
Multi-brand groups, manufacturers, custom commerce Custom ROI model built in discovery
Built on any modern stack you want, fully owned
Custom checkout, payments, and tax logic
Multi-brand, multi-region, multi-currency
Bespoke integrations (ERP, PIM, 3PL, CRM)
AI Support Admin included, daily request loop with next-day updates
Comment on your live site and our team ships reviewed updates the next business day. Included on Marketplace Scale.
from $500 / mo
AI Customer Support
An AI agent built into your store that answers customer questions, replies to messages across your channels around the clock, and escalates the tricky ones to you, so buyers get instant answers and you keep your evenings. The premium automation tier, priced for the heavy lifting it removes.
from $2,000 / mo
Automated Listing Management
Hands-off product listings: AI drafts titles, descriptions, and tags, keeps stock and pricing in sync across every channel, and flags what needs a human eye, so your catalog stays current without the manual grind.
from $1,500 / mo
Custom Documentation
A branded GitBook documentation site for your store, team, or API, kept in sync as your build evolves.
from $1,500
SEO Migration Pack
301 redirect mapping, structured data, and a re-indexing plan so you keep your hard-won marketplace rankings after the move.
from $1,200
Email and Automation
Klaviyo or Mailchimp setup with welcome, abandoned cart, and post-purchase flows live from day one.
from $1,500
Catalog Enrichment
AI-written product descriptions, cleaned-up imagery, and consistent metadata across your entire catalog.
from $2,000
Multi-Currency and International
Geo-aware pricing, multi-currency checkout, and localized storefronts for selling across borders.
from $1,800
Custom Integrations
Connect your ERP, POS, 3PL, or CRM with a bespoke sync built and maintained by our team.
from $2,500
Logistics and Operations Management
Done-for-you store operations: we set up carrier pickup and dispatch, wire order notifications to your couriers, and run the day-to-day client and customer admin from your dashboard, so you keep selling while we handle the logistics.
from $2,500
Invoicing and Billing
Branded invoices generated automatically on every order, with VAT or sales tax handled correctly, downloadable receipts for customers, and gentle reminders chasing anything unpaid, all from your own dashboard.
from $1,200
Financial Management and Reporting
A clear financial picture of your store: revenue and payout tracking, fees and refunds reconciled, and one-click exports your accountant can drop straight into Xero, QuickBooks, or a VAT return.
from $1,500
Inventory and Stock Management
Live stock levels kept in sync across every channel you sell on, low-stock and out-of-stock alerts before you oversell, and simple purchase orders so you restock your best sellers on time.
from $1,800
Analytics and Dashboards
GA4, server-side tracking, and a live KPI dashboard so you can watch revenue, traffic, and conversion at a glance.
from $1,500
and after launch
Hosting and service contracts, monthly
Optional. Continue with us after launch for managed hosting, monitoring, and ongoing development. Cancel any month.
Prices shown in other currencies are approximate; every project is quoted and billed in USD. International billing in EUR or GBP available on request. VAT or local sales tax added where applicable.
After migration
What Changes After Migration?
The math changes overnight. The strategic picture changes for good.
Keep More Revenue
Marketplace fees vanish. The 10 to 18 percent you used to forfeit flows back into your margin from the first order.
Own Customer Data
Every email, every order, every behavioral signal lives in your store. Yours to query, yours to market to, yours to keep.
Better Conversion Rates
Optimized checkout, branded trust signals, and a clean catalog beat a marketplace listing every time.
Unlimited Customization
Bundles, subscriptions, gated wholesale, custom configurators. Anything you can imagine, you can ship.
Stronger Branding
Your domain, your story, your design language across every customer touchpoint.
Faster Growth
SEO, paid media, email, SMS, and affiliate channels stack. None of them work on a marketplace listing.
Marketing Freedom
Retarget, segment, A/B test, and personalize without asking permission from a platform.
Long-term Asset Ownership
Your store becomes an enterprise asset, not a marketplace presence. Acquirers value it. Lenders value it. You should too.
Recent builds
Real platforms, shipped fast
A few platforms we designed, built, and handed over fully owned. Each went live on a fixed date we set in week one.
Custom marketplace platform
Trust Agent
A marketplace for verified AI agents, each given a trust score after 70 security checks. Custom catalog, enterprise workspaces, and tiered subscriptions.
The site you are on now, plus a full client portal with online agreements, asset uploads, and a daily request loop. Built start to finish in three days.
Want a closer look, or to speak with a client? Just ask on a call.
Case study
eBay Seller Saves $48,000 Annually
A UK-based vintage audio reseller running $620k a year on eBay moved to a custom Shopify Plus store. Three weeks of work. A different business at the end of it.
Industry
Vintage and pro audio equipment
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Within 90 days post-launch, the seller had recovered the entire project cost from saved fees alone. Conversion rate climbed, average order value climbed, and the customer file (zero contactable buyers on eBay) reached 4,200 verified emails.
“We had spent a decade renting our customers from eBay. Three weeks of work and they were ours. The savings paid the project off in the first quarter.”
18%
Conversion rate improvement
$48,000
Annual fee savings
100%
Customer ownership
3 weeks
Total migration time
Testimonials
What clients say after handover
“I had spent six months and serious money on AI website builders and outsourced developers, and none of it delivered. Platform Direct built the marketplace I had been dreaming of in just one week, at a fraction of what I had already spent, and it has run exceptionally well ever since.”
“We needed a marketplace that does not exist off the shelf: AI agents scored for trust, enterprise workspaces, and tiered billing. Platform Direct scoped it in week one and handed over the finished platform, fully owned, in three weeks. No lock-in, no licence back to them.”
Most migrations finish inside 1 to 2 weeks. Headless and custom builds run 3 to 4. Discovery in week one sets a fixed delivery date, and we have not missed one in six months.
Yes. Products, variants, images, inventory, customer accounts, order history, reviews, and metadata move across with mapping you can verify before launch. We have migrated catalogs as small as 80 SKUs and as large as 240,000.
Yes. We map every marketplace listing URL to its new store equivalent, deploy 301 redirects, and rebuild the sitemap and schema. Most stores recover or exceed their organic traffic baseline inside 90 days.
Honestly: a brand-new domain does not outrank eBay overnight, because eBay has 25 years of authority. What we do is protect what you have and give you the levers eBay never did. We redirect your existing traffic and links to the new store, and you start ranking quickly for your brand name and specific product terms. Over the following months you out-rank your own eBay listing for those terms, because now you control the page titles, structured data, page speed, and content (a blog, guides, category pages) that marketplaces never let you touch. Our SEO Migration Pack add-on accelerates this. We will give you a realistic timeline in discovery rather than promise overnight number-one rankings.
This is the most important question, so here is the honest answer. The biggest shift is that you stop renting customers and start owning them. On eBay every buyer belongs to eBay; on your own store you keep their email and order history, so your existing buyers become a list you can market to directly with email, SMS, and repeat offers instead of being one-time strangers. That owned audience is traffic eBay never let you keep. On top of that we set the store up to win new traffic: SEO and Google Shopping so you rank for what you sell, plus retargeting and paid ads that finally pay off once you are not handing 12 to 15 percent to the marketplace on every order. And you do not flip a switch and abandon eBay. You keep selling there through the migration and beyond, pointing those buyers to your own store over time, so traffic never drops while your owned channel compounds. Most sellers run both for a while, then watch more and more orders come straight to them at full margin.
Yes. Shipping (ShipStation, Shippo, Royal Mail, USPS), accounting (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite), ERPs, 3PLs, PIMs, CRMs, email and SMS platforms. If it has an API or a webhook, we can connect it.
Yes. Code, repository, domain, customer data, hosting accounts, and every credential transfer to you on day one. There is no retainer, no ongoing license to us, and no lock-in.
That is what our enterprise track is for. We architect bespoke commerce platforms on Next.js with the database, payment rails, and integrations your business actually needs. Delivery runs 3 to 6 weeks depending on scope.
Fixed price, set after discovery. Shopify starts around $10,000. Headless and Plus builds run $25,000 to $60,000. Custom enterprise platforms scale from there. The fees you save in year one typically cover the build.
Yes. Your marketplace store stays live throughout. We cut over to your domain only when the new store is verified, tested, and approved by you.
Start your migration
Stop Building Someone Else's Business
Move from marketplace dependency to complete ownership in as little as four weeks. We deliver a custom migration roadmap on the first call.
