Celium Studio designs and builds your online shop, then runs the whole commerce engine behind it: checkout, payments, hosting, and payouts. You focus on your products; we look after the technical side.
Already have a website, blog, or landing page you like? We can wire our system into it headlessly instead, so your site stays yours while we power the checkout and orders behind it.
However you start, the commerce engine underneath is the same. We host it, run checkout and payments, reconcile orders, and pay you out.
Celium Studio designs and builds your entire online shop and hosts it for you. We can design a brand-new look from scratch, or closely rebuild the site you already have — it's your call. Best for new shops, or for moving across from a Wix, WooCommerce, or Shopify store.
Happy with your current website, blog, or landing page? We connect Celium's checkout and commerce into it headlessly, so your site stays yours while we power the checkout behind it.
Whatever you run today, you're already paying to sell — a fixed monthly bill, a separate cut to your payment processor on every sale, and you still pack and ship each order yourself or pay a fulfillment service on top. Celium Storefront rolls all of that into one fee on the orders we fulfill: the first 5% replaces your subscription, payment processing, payouts, and hosting, and the second 5% covers running and fulfilling the order — no subscription, no separate processor, no plugin or hosting bills, no courier run.
A monthly subscription whether you sell or not, with card processing on top — and you still ship every order yourself.
Hosting from around R300/month, plus plugin fees and developer time to keep it running — and fulfillment is still on you.
A monthly plan from around R400, plus roughly 2% in Shopify fees and card processing on top — and fulfillment is still on you.
And on all three, card payments cost extra. Whichever platform you're on, your payment processor still takes a cut of every sale — PayFast around 3.2%, Yoco around 2.5–3% — on top of the monthly plan above. Celium's 5% store fee already includes payment processing, payouts, hosting, and the subscription, so there's nothing else stacked underneath.
1. We only charge for layout and design changes to your website. Adding products, monitoring sales, billing, payouts, and the day-to-day running are all handled by you in the Celium dashboard — no developer needed.
Figures are typical illustrative costs and vary by plan, region, card type, and how custom your store is. The point is simple: instead of a monthly bill plus plugins, hosting, and your own packing, Celium is one 10% fee on the orders we fulfill — and we do the fulfilling.
You get a working ecommerce site without having to set up Wix, WooCommerce, Shopify, payment gateways, or merchant accounts. We host the store layer, run checkout and payments, reconcile orders, and pay you out.
Your site lives on our infrastructure. No separate hosting plan, no server admin, no plugins to keep updated.
A secure checkout built on our Shopify-powered backend, accepting credit, debit, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and more.
We collect on each order, reconcile it, and pay you out. You can launch without your own merchant account first.
Orders flow into one place where you can see what's paid, what needs fulfilling, and what's already shipped.
Your products, variants, pricing, and collections are carried over and kept manageable as your range grows.
A fresh design built from scratch, or a close rebuild of your current site — whichever fits your brand best.
These steps cover a full build, where we rebuild your store on our backend, move your content across, and only flip the switch once everything is tested. A Headless Connect is lighter: we keep your existing site and wire our checkout and commerce into it instead.
We look at your existing Wix, WooCommerce, or Shopify site, your products, and how you take payment today, then quote the build up front at R500/hr.
We build your site on the Celium backend — either a fresh design from scratch, or a close rebuild of what you have now with the same pages and branding. Whichever you prefer.
Products, variants, prices, collections, and key pages are carried over and checked, so your catalog lands intact rather than starting from scratch.
Checkout, payment methods, reconciliation, and payouts are wired up on our side, so you don't need to set up your own gateway or merchant account.
Once everything is tested, we point your existing domain at the new store and launch. Your customers keep the same address and a smooth checkout.
Your old platform subscription can be cancelled. From there you only pay 10% on the orders we fulfill — 5% for your store and 5% for running and fulfillment — with processing and hosting already included.
A note on platforms: we can work directly with Shopify and custom-built stores, and we rebuild Wix and WooCommerce stores onto our backend. Exports from Wix and WooCommerce are usually more manual, so those migrations can take a little longer, which we factor into the estimate before we start.
Charged only on the orders we fulfill — no monthly fees, ever.
Build work is billed separately at R500/hr, quoted up front.*
The 10% covers running and fulfilling your store. The one-off work that Celium Studio does to build, migrate, or wire it in is charged separately at R500 per hour. We scope the likely range and quote it up front, so you know what to expect before any work begins.
* The honest asterisk: websites sometimes take longer than expected. We keep you updated on the hours as we go and let you know how the build is tracking against the quote, so there are no surprises at the end. If a project looks like it may go beyond the estimate, we tell you before we carry on.
Yes. With Headless Connect we keep your current website, blog, or landing page and wire our checkout and commerce into it, so your site stays yours while we run the orders and payments behind it.
The build is R500/hr, quoted up front. After that you pay 10% on the orders we fulfill: 5% for your store (checkout, card processing, and hosting) and 5% for running and fulfilling the order. There's no monthly subscription.
For a full build we rebuild it on our backend first and only switch over once it's tested. Once you're live on Celium, you can cancel your old Wix, WooCommerce, or Shopify subscription.
Either way. We can design a brand-new look from scratch, or closely rebuild what you have now on the same domain so the experience stays familiar. The commerce engine underneath is the same in both cases, and we run it for you.
You own your brand-facing site and content. Because it runs on the Celium backend, some functionality is designed to work on our ecosystem and may need redevelopment to run elsewhere.
We collect on each order, reconcile it, and pay you out. We'll confirm the payout schedule with you as part of setting your store up.
Tell us what you're running today and we'll review it, quote the build up front, and show you whether a full build or a headless connect fits you best.