Cost, timeline, and your credentials (supplements DTC builds shipped)?

Cost ranges for a supplements brand at $500k, $10M GMV:

• Audit (fixed-fee, 5 business days): $499 (~20h @ $25/hr). Subscription health, DSHEA gap, COA workflow review, Amazon listing audit, written report.
• Build / migration (fixed-fee, 6 weeks): $4,999 (~200h @ $25/hr). Catalog + subscription provider + Octane quiz + COA module + Klaviyo + 1 sales channel. 30-day post-launch retainer included.
• Custom enterprise: quoted, multi-brand, multi-channel, in-house lab COA, full FDA cGMP audit prep, custom subs engine. Typically $25k, $120k depending on scope.

Hosting + ongoing: $400, $1,500/mo on Cloudways / dedicated. Subscription billing needs failover-redundant servers because a 30-minute outage during the renewal cycle costs you 2-5% of monthly revenue. CDN (Cloudflare) mandatory. Klaviyo $150, $2k/mo by list size. ReCharge / Skio / Bold 1-1.5% of sub GMV. Octane AI $50, $500/mo.

Timeline: 6-10 weeks for typical mid-market supplements build. Faster (5 weeks) if greenfield + single SKU + Shopify-pattern subs. Longer (14-20 weeks) for multi-brand + B2B / practitioner-channel + custom subscription engine.

My credentials:

• Adobe-Certified Magento + Hyvä developer.
• 7+ years specifically in supplements / nutrition DTC builds, single-SKU starters at $50k/mo all the way to multi-brand houses at $5M+/mo.
• Shipped on every major sub provider (ReCharge, Bold, Skio, Smartrr, plus custom-built engines for two enterprises).
• Hands-on with DSHEA copy review pipelines, COA + lot-traceability schemas, NSF / Informed Sport / USP Verified per-SKU display, Octane AI quiz funnels (15+ supplements brands), Amazon + Walmart + TikTok Shop channel feeds.
• References available on request, I’ll connect you with 2 supplements-brand founders who have shipped with me, on a 15-min reference call.