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Launch a Goop-tier shop
in a weekend.

The complete e-commerce infrastructure — Stripe-native, fully configurable, deploy-anywhere. From $19/mo to a $100K source license.

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~ /your-shop · shopbuilder init

$npx shopbuilder init my-shop

Spinning up your shop...

✓12-question setup wizard ready

✓Stripe Checkout adapter installed

✓Drizzle schema migrated

✓Tailwind 4 + React 19 scaffolded

✓Deployed to Cloudflare Pages

→https://my-shop.sparkstechlab.com is live

The Setup Wizard

Answer 12 questions.
Your shop is configured.

No code. No Shopify theme editor. No 3-week onboarding call. The wizard rewrites your shop.config.ts via AST and ships you a working store in under 30 minutes.

04 / 12 Payment

How do you take payment?

You can switch this later — every adapter is one config line.

Stripe Checkout recommended

Shopify (existing store)

Hybrid (Shopify catalog + Stripe checkout)

Affiliate links only (no checkout)

Twelve questions cover every shop decision worth making.

From brand identity to payment provider to which feature flags you want on. Same setup we used to spin up shop.sparkstechlab.com in 28 minutes.

What's your shop name + URL?

"Polymath Supplements" · polymath.supplements

Pick your color palette + typeface.

warm minimalism · Inter + Cardo

How do you take payment?

stripe (Checkout, recommended)

Which features do you want on?

cart, wishlist, subscriptions, newsletter

Architecture

Opinionated where it matters.
Pluggable where it counts.

One config file drives the whole stack. Three adapter layers swap behind the same interface. Frontend is React 19 + Tailwind 4 — deploy to Cloudflare, Vercel, Render, or your own metal.

{ }

Config layer

shop.config.ts

Brand + typography
Feature flags
Payment provider
Tenant binding

⇄

Adapter layer

PaymentAdapter

StripeAdapter (default)
ShopifyAdapter
HybridAdapter
PostgresCatalog

▣

Frontend

React 19 + Vite

Tailwind 4 design tokens
tRPC type-safe API
Drizzle ORM
14 prebuilt routes

▲

Deploy

any platform

Cloudflare Pages
Vercel
Render / Railway
Self-host (Docker)

TypeScript 5.5 React 19 Vite Tailwind 4 Drizzle ORM PostgreSQL Stripe Shopify Resend Cloudflare

"Same architecture used by Linear, Vercel, and Notion — opinionated, type-safe, deployable anywhere."

Feature flags

Every feature is a one-line config change.

Toggle subscriptions, affiliate links, members-only content, AI chat, and 7 other features without writing code. Add new toggles in 30 seconds.

▦

Cart + Checkout

cart: true

♻

Subscriptions

subscriptions: true

⇆

Affiliate links

affiliate: true

🔒

Members-only

membersOnly: false

✦

AI Chat

aiChat: true

⌂

View-in-Room

viewInRoom: false

♡

Wishlist

wishlist: true

✉

Newsletter

newsletter: true

💬

Comments

comments: false

Inquiry forms

inquiry: true

Multi-currency

multiCurrency: false

▤

B2B Wholesale

wholesale: false

// shop.config.ts
export const features = {
  cart: true, // 🛒 Stripe-native checkout flow
  subscriptions: true, // ♻ recurring billing
  aiChat: true, // ✦ embedded GPT product agent
  wholesale: false, // ▤ flip to true → B2B portal appears
};

Three deploy modes

Stripe-only, Shopify-native, or Hybrid.

Same codebase. Three checkout adapters. Pick the one that matches your existing stack — or swap mid-flight with a one-line config change.

Recommended · Default

Stripe-only

Fastest setup. Stripe Checkout, Customer Portal, and Webhooks. Goes live in under 30 minutes from initial signup.

// shop.config.ts export const payment = { provider: 'stripe', mode: 'checkout', currency: 'usd', };

Shopify-native

Use Shopify's catalog + checkout. Best if you already have a Shopify store and want better UX without migrating products.

// shop.config.ts export const payment = { provider: 'shopify', storeUrl: 'shop.myStore.com', mode: 'cart-permalink', };

Hybrid

Shopify catalog + Stripe checkout. Lets you keep Shopify inventory management while upgrading the checkout experience.

// shop.config.ts export const payment = { provider: 'hybrid', catalog: 'shopify', checkout: 'stripe', };

Pricing

Pay what fits where you are.

Three SaaS tiers for operators. Three license tiers for agencies, studios, and enterprises that want to own the source.

Starter

For solo operators

$19/mo

100 products, Stripe-only checkout, hosted on our infrastructure.

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Up to 100 products
Stripe Checkout
Subdomain + SSL
Email support
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How Shop Builder stacks up.

The honest comparison against Shopify Plus, WooCommerce, and a custom-built shop.

Capability

Shop Builder

Shopify Plus

WooCommerce

Setup time

30 minutes

2 – 6 weeks onboarding

3 – 10 days

Monthly cost

$19 – $149/mo

$2,300/mo minimum

$50 – $300/mo (host + plugins)

You own the code

● Yes (DIY tier+)

○ Never

● Yes (WordPress)

Type safety

● TypeScript + tRPC end-to-end

◐ Liquid templates

○ PHP + jQuery

White-label / resell

● Source license

○ No

◐ Plugin-dependent

Multi-tenant

● Row-level (Business+)

◐ Up to 10 expansion stores

○ Multisite (painful)

Built-in AI Chat

● Yes (feature flag)

○ Third-party app

○ Plugin required

Custom dev project

$24K Done-For-You

$2.3K/mo + custom dev

$80K – $200K custom build

For agencies + dev shops

White-label the platform.
Resell to your clients.

Stop reinventing the same Shopify-Plus-killer for every wellness brand that walks through your door. License Shop Builder once. Brand it as your own platform. Keep 100% of margin.

Source license includes architecture review with Sparks, 12 months of updates, and resell rights to ship as many client stores as you want.

~30minto provision a new client

100%margin on every store

12moof source updates

Inquire about source license

// Reseller economics — single client

License (amortized over 24 mo)$4,200

Your client charge (avg.)$22,000

Hosting + Stripe pass-through$600

Your delivery time~14 hrs

Margin per client$17,200

// At 6 clients / yr → $103K margin

// At 12 clients / yr → $206K margin

Live demo

See the platform live.

That's our own shop, running on Shop Builder. Same codebase you'd license.

shop.sparkstechlab.com

SHOP · STL

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Polymath line · Spring drop

Curated wellness, biohacker-tier.

39 products, hand-picked. Subscribe + save 15%.

NAD+ Patch

$74

Magnesium Complex

$32

Lions Mane 8:1

$48

Creatine Mono

$28

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FAQ

The questions operators ask.

Yes. The Pro tier ships with a one-click Shopify import script that pulls your products, variants, images, and customers into the Shop Builder catalog. You can run Shopify and Shop Builder side-by-side during transition, or do a hard cutover in a single weekend.

Yes — that's exactly what the DIY Install tier is for. You get the full source repo, a Loom walkthrough, and lifetime updates. Deploy to Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Render, Railway, or your own metal. Docker compose file included.

Stripe is the default — fastest setup, lowest fees, best dev experience. Shopify-native adapter is shipped if you want to keep an existing Shopify checkout. Hybrid mode pairs Shopify's catalog with Stripe's checkout. PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and ACH flow through Stripe natively.

Those are templates — pre-built designs you fill in. Shop Builder is infrastructure — the same engine that powers Linear, Vercel, Notion-tier products, applied to e-commerce. You get a type-safe, deployable-anywhere codebase, not a rented theme. The difference shows up when you want to do something custom: in templates, you can't. In Shop Builder, it's a config change.

Two paths. Path A: upgrade to Business tier ($149/mo) — multi-tenant routing, unlimited products, SLA-backed uptime. Path B: buy the source license ($100K – $200K), bring it in-house, host on your own infra, hire your own dev team. Both paths preserve all your data — no migration, no rewrite.

When you answer the 12 questions, the wizard uses an AST rewrite (Babel parser + traverse + generator) to mutate shop.config.ts in place. It saves a backup as shop.config.ts.bak for rollback. Hot module reload picks up the changes immediately. No "copy these values manually" friction wall.

Sparks Tech Lab — Paul Michael Sparks, full-stack dev (15+ years), based in Huntington Beach, CA. Shop Builder is the same infrastructure powering Sparks's own product line (Polymath Supplements, NAD Concierge, GLP-1 program, and a 39-product affiliate catalog at shop.sparkstechlab.com). You're not buying vapor — you're licensing what's already running.

Launch a Goop-tier shopin a weekend.

Answer 12 questions.Your shop is configured.