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Self-hosted commerce, for people who'd rather own than rent.

Own the shop. Keep the money. Host it yourself.

£199 a yearthe whole package, no add-onsSee what everyone else pays↓

Build progress

Live60
In progress2
On the roadmap4

Eleven areas, from storefront to fulfilment, shipping, and secure digital delivery.

One platform for print-on-demand, your own stock, and digital downloads. You license it once and run it on your own server. No per-sale cut. No cut of your payment gateway. No plugin tax. No landlord.

Shopify

£1,656a year

Nano Commerce

£199a year
Product types
3
Print-on-demand vendors
3
Feature areas
11
Cut on your sales
0%

The whole system, on the record.

The features most platforms sell as add-ons, built in, and exactly where each part stands.

Live & in use Building now Planned

Storefront

the shopping experience12 features
Product catalogue
Grid or list view, remembered per shopper, with clean pagination.
Live
Categories
Tidy web addresses and a slide-out "all categories" menu.
Live
Product pages
Gallery with full-screen zoom, breadcrumbs, description, content tabs.
Live
Options & swatches
Colour and size variants; the picker switches the main image.
Live
Cart
Live-priced from the database, mobile-safe, never trusts the browser.
Live
Discount codes
Percent, fixed, or free-shipping, with limits and a date window.
Live
Reviews
Verified-purchase star ratings, moderated, on product and shop pages.
Live
Related products
Hand-picked, or automatic from the same category.
Live
Search & filter
By name, category and visibility, kept in the address to share.
Live
Responsive & accessible
Any screen, reduced-motion aware, keyboard-friendly.
Live
Cart upsell row
A cross-sell strip on the cart page, not just product pages.
Live
Menu & mega-menu
Full standalone navigation with a dropdown mega-menu for larger catalogues.
Planned

Products & fulfilment

sell anything, fulfil it your way8 features
Three product types
Print-on-demand, own physical stock, or digital, mixed freely.
Live
Printful
Full sync and fulfilment: catalogue, orders, tracking, webhooks.
Live
Printify
Print-on-demand across 100+ providers, synced and fulfilled.
Building
Teemill
UK-based sustainable print-on-demand, built in.
Building
Catalogue sync
Pulls products, prices, variants and availability on demand.
Live
Own-product editor
Options, prices, stock, weight, SKU and description by hand.
Live
Product images
Up to 12 per product; tag images to a colour or size.
Live
Admin rebuild
The back office, rebuilt page by page to a modern standard.
Building

Inventory

stock that keeps itself honest4 features
Stock per option
Track units per variant; POD and digital stay unlimited.
Live
Draws down on payment
Stock only drops on a paid order, abandoned carts never hold it.
Live
Sold-out handling
Not buyable, clearly shown; optional backorders.
Live
Low-stock warning
The admin flags items running low at your threshold.
Live

Digital products

sell downloads, safely5 features
File or cloud link
Upload it, or point to your own cloud storage (MEGA, Dropbox, S3).
Live
Secure, gated links
Every download is tied to a paid order and streamed, not exposed.
Live
Limit & expiry
Cap how many times, and how long, each link works.
Live
Private storage
Files sit outside the public web, optionally above the site root.
Live
Delivered everywhere
On the confirmation page, in the email, and on the tracking page.
Live

Shipping

charge postage properly5 features
Delivery zones
Group countries into zones, with a rest-of-world catch-all.
Live
Flat, free & by-weight
Per-zone methods: flat, free over a spend, or weight bands.
Live
Print-on-demand rate
A dedicated flat rate for POD items, which carry no weight.
Live
Mixed carts
POD, own stock and digital each charge the right way.
Live
Shipping & returns info
Editable per product type, shown on the product page.
Live

Checkout & payments

take money without touching cards4 features
Stripe checkout
Hosted and PCI-light. You never see or store a card number.
Live
Recomputed server-side
Totals rebuilt from the database and reconciled after payment.
Live
Local currency
Optional adaptive pricing lets shoppers pay in their own currency.
Live
Guest checkout
No account needed; orders found later by link or number + email.
Live

Orders & service

run the shop after the sale7 features
Orders dashboard
List, filter and open orders with clear statuses.
Live
Auto-fulfilment
Paid orders go to the vendor; tracking flows back automatically.
Live
Order tracking page
Customers follow their order from a private link.
Live
Customer portal
Look up by number + email to track, report, or re-download.
Live
Problem reports
Customers report an issue with a photo; you resolve it.
Live
Refunds
Handled in Stripe; a refund marks and closes the order.
Live
Order messaging
Two-way messages in the portal and by email.
Live

Marketing & SEO

get found and convert5 features
Full SEO suite
Titles, meta, Open Graph, cards and rich data on every page.
Live
Sitemap & robots
Generated live from your catalogue.
Live
Per-product SEO
Custom title, description, share image and address, with preview.
Live
Redirect manager
Slug changes redirect the old address automatically.
Live
Email & analytics
Your own SMTP, order emails, and a sales + traffic dashboard.
Live

Analytics

know what's working4 features
Sales dashboard
Revenue, average order, best sellers, refunds, repeat customers.
Live
Cookieless traffic
First-party visits, channels and devices, nothing to consent to.
Live
Live "right now"
A real-time panel of who's on the shop this moment.
Live
Country insight
Reliable per-country breakdown via a bundled lookup.
Planned

Platform & ownership

you own it, end to end6 features
Complete back office
Orders, products, discounts, shipping, downloads, SEO, settings.
Live
Guided install
Checks requirements and sets up your vendor and store.
Live
Licence activation
A signed key unlocks your store, verified locally, no phone-home.
Live
Security by default
Strict content policy, CSRF, login lockout, rate limiting.
Live
No per-sale fee
You keep 100% of every sale. No plugin tax.
Live
Abandoned-cart recovery
Email a reminder to shoppers who leave before paying.
Planned

The same shop, built on Shopify.

On Shopify you rent it one app at a time: a plan, a theme to buy, then a separate monthly bill for every single feature Nano Commerce already includes.

Shopify Basic plan the platform£25 / mo
Premium theme one-time purchase£280 once
Product reviews Judge.me£12 / mo
Upsells & cross-sells ReConvert£15 / mo
Secure digital downloads SendOwl£14 / mo
SEO & rich snippets TinyIMG£11 / mo
301 redirect manager Easy Redirects£8 / mo
Returns & exchanges AfterShip£9 / mo
Branded order tracking Parcel Panel£7 / mo
Customer support inbox Gorgias£8 / mo
Sales & traffic reports Lifetimely£16 / mo
Extra product options Globo£13 / mo
Total, every month plus the theme up front≈ £138 / mo

Representative popular apps at their entry price, converted to GBP (2026); many scale up as you grow, so this is the floor, not the ceiling. Premium Shopify themes are a one-time purchase (roughly £200 to £350). Shopify includes basic versions of one or two of these. Every shop also pays card-processing fees, and Nano Commerce runs on your own hosting.

A typical Shopify store costs:

£138/mo

That's around £1,656 per year, before premium themes and paid apps.

Nano Commerce is £199 per year. Everything's included. No paid add-ons. No monthly surprises.

We're a small independent studio, not a venture-backed company. We don't answer to investors or shareholders, so we can focus on building great software and keeping our pricing simple, fair, and affordable.