We set up your online business for you_

Brand, business email, socials, website, an Etsy or Shopify shop and payments. Fixed price. You get an itemised list before you pay, and every account is in your name.

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Our first 5 clients get founding prices: £395 / £695 / £1,195. Join the list and we'll email you when a build slot opens. Name and email only.

How every pack works

Intro call (20 min) and a short questionnaireWhat you sell, who it's for, names you like, colours, any photos.

Accounts opened in your nameYou do the ID, bank and phone checks. We do everything else.

We build to the checklistYou see a progress list as items are ticked off.

One review roundChanges to brand and wording before handover.

HandoverLogin sheet (kept in your password manager, not ours), a runbook and a walkthrough call.

The three packs

One-off price. Working days count from when we have your questionnaire and logins.

Founding price for our first 5 clients: Starter £395 · Shop £695 · Premium £1,195. Join the build list.

Starter

£495

Founding: £395

5 working days

Get set up properly. For an idea or side hustle that needs to look real online.

Name check (domain and social handles)
Logo (wordmark and icon), 2–3 colours, font pair, one-page brand sheet
Business email: Gmail, or Google Workspace on your domain, with signature
X account: name, bio, avatar, header, pinned post
Instagram Business: bio, avatar, 3 starter posts designed
Pinterest Business: profile, 2 boards, 5 pins designed
One-page website on Vercel with a contact or waitlist form
Help choosing, buying and connecting your domain
Handover: login sheet, 1-page runbook, 30-min call

Not included: any shop, payments, newsletter, SEO, content plan.

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Shop

£895

Founding: £695

10 working days

Ready to take orders. For a product you make, or a digital or printable one.

Everything in Starter, plus:
Etsy or Shopify shop set up in your brand (policies, sections, shipping, UK VAT settings)
10 listings written and designed: titles, tags, descriptions, up to 5 images each
Payments connected (Etsy Payments, or Shopify Payments / Stripe)
Shop linked from your site and social bios
30-day content plan for 2 platforms, with 12 designed graphics
Analytics set up and explained
Handover: fuller runbook, 45-min call

Not included: a second shop, multi-page site, newsletter, SEO work, ongoing posting.

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Premium

£1,495

Founding: £1,195

15 working days

The full set-up, done once, properly.

Everything in Shop, plus:
Both Etsy and Shopify, 20 listings in total
Website of up to 6 pages on your domain
3 starter guides or blog posts (800–1,000 words each)
SEO starter: titles, meta, sitemap, Search Console, Bing, 20-term keyword list
Newsletter sign-up and a welcome email, in your name
Fuller brand kit and editable Canva templates
30-day plan for 3 platforms, 20 designed graphics
Handover: full runbook, 60-min training call, 14 days of email support

Not included: ads, custom apps, moving from another platform, more than 20 listings (extra listings £15 each).

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Your part (every pack)

Pass the ID, bank and tax checks on Etsy, Shopify, Stripe, Google and Meta. Platforms don't let anyone else do these.
Pay platform fees directly: domain (about £10–£20 a year), Google Workspace if wanted (about £6–£7 per user a month), Shopify plan (from about £19 a month), Etsy listing and sale fees, Stripe fees, any paid theme or app.
Provide or approve product details and photos.
Be around for a few verification codes during the build.
Sell legal products allowed on each platform.

Never included

Promised sales, followers or rankings
Ad spend
Product sourcing, stock, fulfilment or photo shoots
Legal or accounting advice, trademark filing
Custom software
Order handling or customer service
Bought reviews or followers (never)

Platform limits we tell you up front: Etsy can hold new shops for review, new social accounts can ask for phone checks, Stripe payouts start once Stripe verifies you, and SEO takes months. Read the full list.

Optional: we run it for you each month

Starts after handover. Rolling monthly, cancel with 30 days' notice. You keep owning every account; we work through access you give us.

Managed

£299 / month

12 posts a month written, designed and scheduled on 2 platforms
8 Pinterest pins a month
4 new or refreshed listings a month
Monthly shop and website health check
Plain-English monthly report: what we did, what each platform shows, next month's plan
Email support, reply within 1 working day

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Managed Plus

£499 / month

Everything in Managed, plus:
3 platforms, 20 posts a month
10 new or refreshed listings a month
1 new website guide a month and a Search Console check
1 newsletter email a month written and sent to your list
Monthly 30-min review call

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Not in monthly: order handling or customer service, ad spend, promised growth.

What we've built

Two of our own brands, set up with the same checklist. This is what was built, nothing more.

Best Man Backup

Wedding speech help, digital products

Website with a guides hub of 20+ long-form guides (bestmanbackup.com)
Etsy shop with 4 designed digital listings
Pinterest business profile with pins live
Branded Instagram account
Logo, imagery and colours used across all of it

Read the case study →

The Quiz Tin

Printable Christmas quizzes

Website on its own domain with 10 quiz-night guides (thequiztin.com)
Brand kit: logo, colours and type, five concepts explored
Shopify store set up with products staged
4 Etsy listings prepared: titles, tags, 20 images each, every answer fact-checked
Pinterest and Instagram business accounts

Questions first?

Email signal@operator-systems.com, or reply BUILD to any of our posts on X.

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