The AI ecommerce website builder that ships a real store
Describe your shop and the AI builds the whole thing — storefront, database, stock, orders and an admin panel you log into. Checkout runs on your own Stripe keys, we take no cut, and the price is £19/month flat.
Free plan publishes a demo shop on a subdomain — going live with checkout and the full database needs Business. 30-day money-back guarantee.
What you actually get
A 12-table commerce backend, not a picture of one
AI mockup tools draw a storefront and stop. Our shop blueprint creates a working commerce system in your site’s own PostgreSQL database — twelve related tables covering products, variants, stock, collections, discounts, orders and customers — plus the storefront and the back office to run it all.
Product variants
Sizes, colours, weights — each variant with its own price, SKU and stock level.
Stock tracking
Inventory counts down as orders come in, so you never sell what you don’t have.
Collections
Group products into ranges and categories the storefront renders automatically.
Discount codes
Create percentage or fixed-amount codes and apply them at checkout.
Order lifecycle
Orders move through paid, shipped and refunded — managed from your admin panel.
Customer records
Every buyer and their order history, stored in your database — not ours.
Image uploads
Upload product photography straight into the admin panel — no third-party host.
An admin panel you log into
A real back office for daily shop-keeping. No code needed after launch.
Payments
Your Stripe keys. Your money. We take no cut.
Your shop’s checkout connects to your Stripe account with your own API keys. Every payment settles directly with you — we never sit in the money flow, and we never charge a percentage of your sales. Your bill is the plan price. That’s it.
Illustration of the fee model, not exact figures — platform and card fees vary by provider, plan and card type. The point: G7Cloud adds no per-sale fee, ever.
The maths
Looking for the cheapest ecommerce website builder?
Cheap page builders sell you a picture of a shop. A real store needs a checkout, stock and a back office — and that’s where the pricing models really differ.
Shopify Basic
as of July 2026
- Transaction fees on top unless you use Shopify Payments
- Common needs (reviews, subscriptions, advanced fields) usually mean paid apps
- Rented platform — the shop exists inside Shopify; you can’t export the code
- Mature ecosystem and app store
G7Cloud Business
flat — fixed GBP price, no usage billing
- Zero transaction fees from us — checkout on your own Stripe keys
- Variants, stock, collections, discounts, orders — built in, no app store needed
- You own the code and the data — browse it, export it, leave with it
- Plus 3 hosted sites, email hosting, daily restore-tested backups
Want the full head-to-head? Read our Shopify alternative comparison — or if you’d rather run open-source commerce, see WooCommerce hosting and ecommerce hosting. Speed matters for shops too — here’s how slow websites kill conversions.
How it works
From one sentence to taking orders
No theme hunting, no plugin stack, no developer. A conversation.
Describe your shop
"An online store for my candle business — warm, minimal, about twenty products in three ranges." The AI builds the storefront, the database and the admin panel from that sentence.
Stock it and shape it
Add products and photos in the admin panel. Ask the AI for changes — a bestsellers row, a gift-wrap option, a new colour scheme. Click any element to edit it. Every turn is checkpointed, so you can undo anything.
Connect Stripe and go live
Paste in your own Stripe keys, publish, and you’re taking orders — automatic HTTPS, your own domain, daily backups and ScaleShield protection included.
FAQ
Honest answers before you build
Do you take a cut of my sales?
No. Checkout runs on your own Stripe keys, so payments land directly in your Stripe account and we never touch the money. You pay the flat plan price and nothing per transaction. To be completely clear: Stripe charges its own standard card-processing fees on every payment — those go to Stripe, not to us, and you would pay them on any platform.
Is this really the cheapest ecommerce website builder?
For a real store — checkout, stock, orders, a back office — it is among the cheapest options we know of: £19/month flat with no transaction fees from us. As of July 2026, Shopify Basic is £25/month before transaction fees and app subscriptions. Cheaper page builders exist, but they typically sell static pages without a real database or order management. And you can start free and publish a demo shop before paying anything.
What do I get on the free plan?
You can build a shop with the AI and publish a demo to yoursite.sites.g7cloud.com without entering a card. Publishing the full-stack shop — the live database, admin panel and Stripe checkout that let you take real orders — needs the Business plan at £19/month.
Do I actually own the shop?
Yes. The AI writes real code you can browse in the built-in code browser and export at any time, and your products, orders and customers live in your site’s own PostgreSQL database. If you ever leave, you take the code and the data with you — unlike rented builders, where the site only exists inside their platform.
What is included beyond the shop itself?
Production hosting in a dedicated container, free SSL, ScaleShield WAF and bot protection, daily backups that are automatically restore-tested every night, per-minute uptime monitoring with alerts, and a custom domain on paid plans. The Business plan also includes 3 hosted sites and managed PostgreSQL and Redis add-ons.
What if I would rather run WooCommerce or Magento?
We host those too. The Business plan includes 3 hosted sites of any type — WooCommerce, Magento, custom PHP, git-deployed apps and more — and our team does free assisted migrations: we move the site with you, you preview it, and you approve the cutover.
Describe your shop. Start selling.
A real storefront, a real database and a back office you log into — for £19/month flat, with no cut of your sales. Or try it free and publish a demo shop first.
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