California is where direct-to-consumer brands are born — skincare lines out of Los Angeles, specialty coffee roasters in the Bay Area, surf and outdoor gear from San Diego to Santa Cruz, boutique fashion, craft food makers, and wellness products with national ambitions. If you make something people love, the next step is selling it straight to them instead of giving a cut to marketplaces.
Arsal Services builds custom ecommerce websites for California businesses at $500 flat — a complete online store: design, product setup, cart and checkout, payments, shipping, and your first year of domain and hosting included. No agency markup, no revenue-share plugins you don’t understand.
Why California makers outgrow marketplaces
Marketplaces take a slice of every sale and bury your brand under thousands of lookalikes. Your own store keeps the margin, owns the customer relationship, and tells your story the way you want it told. For California brands built on identity — surf culture, clean beauty, farm-to-shelf food — that story is half the product. A custom store turns followers into repeat buyers.
What’s included in every online store
- Custom store design matched to your brand — never a generic theme
- Product catalog with categories, variants, photos, and descriptions
- Shopping cart and secure checkout built for mobile buyers
- Payment gateway setup (cards, digital wallets) tested before launch
- Shipping options, rates, and zones configured for how you actually ship
- SEO-friendly product pages aimed at the searches your customers type
- Order emails, WhatsApp chat, and contact paths that reach you directly
- A walkthrough so you can add products and run sales yourself
Straightforward pricing
One complete ecommerce website: $500 flat — design, store build, payments, shipping setup, launch, plus your first year of domain and hosting. Not selling yet and just need a professional presence? A custom business site with no store is $350 flat. Anything beyond the standard package is a custom quote agreed in writing first.
From products to live store
Step 1 — Show us your products. Message us through our contact page or on WhatsApp at +1 (332) 275-4782 — tell us what you sell, how you ship, and who buys from you.
Step 2 — We build your store. Design, products, checkout, payments — assembled around your brand. You review real pages and request changes.
Step 3 — You start selling. Everything tested, payments live, and a walkthrough so adding products and offers is easy.
Frequently asked questions
I already sell on a marketplace. Why build my own store?
Because the marketplace owns your customer list and takes a cut forever. Your own store costs a flat $500 once, keeps your margins, and lets you market to buyers directly — email, repeat sales, bundles. Most sellers keep the marketplace as a channel and let their own store become the main one.
Can the store handle subscriptions or pre-orders?
Yes, depending on what you sell. Subscription billing and pre-order flows are common for consumables and limited runs — tell us what you need and we’ll confirm it during planning.
Do you write the product descriptions?
We organize and polish what you provide, and we can draft product copy from a conversation about what you make. You always approve the final wording before launch.
What about selling to customers outside California?
Your store ships wherever you ship — we configure zones and rates accordingly. And since we work fully online, many of our clients also sell to the UK, Europe, and the UAE.
Service area
We build ecommerce stores for businesses across California — Los Angeles, the Bay Area, San Diego, Sacramento, Orange County, and the Central Valley. We work fully online, so our clients also span the USA, UK, Europe, and the UAE.
Start selling direct: request a free quote or WhatsApp +1 (332) 275-4782. See affordable website design for pricing, or browse our full website design services.