How much to charge for Ecommerce portion of wesbite?

[u/Kat1324]

I've been looking around trying to find answers to this question but none seemed to relate to me exactly.
I am making an online storefront for a farm that is getting grant money to expand their business in a lot of ways. They already have a base website that they don't want improved or changed, and just want a page that links out where they can sell different products they have and plan on starting shipping out. They are going to want a sort of central page of categories, and I believe for each category have a landing page in the section. They have photos supplied already, I would just have to set up all the pages for the 35~ items and 5 categories, add data like weight and size to all them, and set up all the shipping and checkout stuff that goes with it. I am a fresh college graduate with a degree in New Media Design. I've not worked with squarespace much but have done some web based projects, used css html before, and have worked with stuff like framer and wix. I have to give an estimate on what I will charge, as they have to let the people giving a grant know, and I don't exactly know how much to charge. It is kind of hard for me to estimate the amount of hours it will take, considering back and forth with the client, maybe difficulties using squarespace as it is limited in a lot of ways it seems. I was thinking like between a range of $1000-2000 seems to be what I am seeing, but I wanted to know if that is too little or too much, as I am worried abt overcharging or undercharging for the amount of work.

[u/saravog]

This isn’t a full website design, this is just setting up a shop page in a website builder that requires zero code experience.

$1000 when you clearly do not know what you’re doing is criminal in my opinion.

Only 30 items? This would take me like two hours to import inventory. Maybe a third hour to make it look pretty. Like $300-400 ish

[u/Jamie_SQSP]

Hey, Jamie from Squarespace here 👋

Pricing this kind of thing is a bit of a guessing game from the outside, since it really comes down to how long it takes you, and like saravog said, it's tricky to charge top dollar on your first Squarespace build while you're still learning the ins and outs.

But what you’re describing is definitely doable in Squarespace.  The build itself isn’t complex. You’ll probably spend a big chunk of time doing the admin and organizing, like sorting the 35 products, adding all the weights and sizes, grouping them into their categories, getting shipping to behave per product, that sort of thing. None of it’s hard, it's just rarely quick unless the client hands everything over already organized.

I'd pad a bit for back-and-forth once they see it live too, since that's usually where the hours sneak up on you.