A redesigned dicorepharma.com built to present roughly 40 SKUs with the clarity, speed and trust of the D2C wellness sites you shared with us — designed as an original identity for Dicore, not a copy of theirs.
Dicore Pharma wants its website rebuilt from a static, informational site into a proper product-selling storefront — modern, fast, and easy for your own team to run day to day, without depending on a developer for every update.
You pointed us to Frido, Simba Sleep, Wakefit and The Sleep Company as a benchmark for tone: confident product photography, clear pricing, simple navigation between categories, and a checkout that doesn't feel like an afterthought. We've treated these as a reference for standard, not a template to trace — Dicore's design will carry its own palette, type and layout, built around a pharma brand's specific needs: composition and dosage details, certifications, and the trust signals a health product buyer looks for before adding to cart.
At 40 SKUs, the site doesn't need marketplace-scale complexity — it needs a tight, well-organised catalogue that makes finding and trusting a product effortless.
Both are proven, production-grade routes to the same outcome. The right one depends on how much you value owning the full stack outright versus offloading infrastructure and updates to a managed platform. As requested, here is our honest read on both.
| Aspect | PHP — Custom Development | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership | Full source code, database and hosting are yours outright — nothing runs on a third-party platform. | Store runs on Shopify's infrastructure. You own your content and data, but the platform itself is licensed, not owned. |
| Upfront cost | Slightly higher build cost — everything (checkout, catalogue, admin) is custom-built or configured from open-source parts. | Lower build cost — checkout, cart and payments come ready-made; we focus the budget on design and catalogue setup. |
| Recurring cost | Only hosting + Domain. No per-order platform fee. | Monthly subscription regardless of sales, plus app subscriptions if you add advanced features. |
| Speed to launch | Longer — more is built from scratch or configured. | Faster — core commerce features are pre-built and battle-tested. |
| Security & uptime | Your responsibility (or ours, under AMC) — server patching, backups, uptime monitoring. | Handled by Shopify — PCI compliance, uptime and platform security are built in. |
| Content management | Custom admin portal for non-technical teams; very flexible for blog/SEO content. | Shopify's admin is simpler still, purpose-built for product and order management. |
| Customisation ceiling | Effectively unlimited — anything can be built. | High, but unusual requirements sometimes need paid apps or workarounds. |
| Best suited when… | You want zero platform lock-in and full backend control long-term. Full control | You want to launch fast and hand day-to-day running to a stable, managed platform. Fast but high-maintenance |
For Dicore, we'd recommend custom PHP development. At 40 SKUs with room to grow, a codebase built specifically around your catalogue gives you full ownership of the stack, no recurring platform subscription, and no ceiling on customisation as your product range or pharma-specific requirements (dosage schedules, prescription flags, regulatory disclosures) evolve. It asks a little more upfront in build time, but it avoids tying a pharma brand's storefront to a third-party platform's roadmap, fees and app-store dependencies long-term. Shopify remains a sound, faster-to-launch alternative if speed ever outweighs that control, and we're equally set up to deliver either. Both quotes below are fixed and ready to go.
An indicative schedule from project confirmation. Exact dates depend on how quickly product content and approvals come back to us.
Indicative fixed pricing for a ~40-SKU catalogue at the scope listed above. These firm up into a signed quote after a short discovery call, but nothing below is a placeholder — it's what we'd expect to invoice.
Figures are indicative fixed-fee ranges for the scope on this page; the final number is confirmed in writing before work begins and won't move once signed off, barring scope changes you request.
Full ownership. Domain, hosting, CMS/admin panel, source code, database, design files and analytics accounts are registered in Dicore Pharma's name or handed over in full at launch — nothing stays tied to us.
In-house delivery. Design and development are handled by our own team; we'll flag clearly if any specialised piece (e.g. a payment gateway integration) needs a named third-party specialist, and confirm with you first.
Warranty. 60 days of free bug-fixing after launch, covering anything that doesn't match the agreed scope.
Support response time. Critical issues (site down, checkout broken) acknowledged within 4 business hours; non-critical requests within 1 business day.
Confidentiality. We sign an NDA on request before any product or pricing data is shared with us.
These sections need Dicore-specific or APT-specific facts we don't want to guess at — happy to drop them in as soon as you confirm.