01
The recurring rent
$50–70k a year in licence fees, a stack of ten-plus paid apps, and agency spend on patches and workarounds. Normal at $2M GMV — recurring forever, with nothing owned at the end of it.
For GCC brands past $300k online
You're paying rent on every order. Own your store instead.
In the Gulf, every Shopify order carries a surcharge you can't remove — on top of licence and app fees that never buy you anything. We audit what you're really paying, then replace the platform with a checkout and storefront you own for good.
Platform Statement
Licence & plan
$4,800
Shopify Advanced plan at ~$400/month × 12 = $4,800 a year, before a single feature.
Gateway surcharge · 0.6%/order
$12,000
0.6% of $2M in orders. Shopify Payments isn't available in the GCC, so this is charged on every order just to use a third-party gateway.
Paid apps · 12 subscriptions
$14,000
~12 apps averaging ~$97/month — reviews, subscriptions, bundles, B2B, page builders — that you rent indefinitely.
Agency workarounds & patches
$9,000
Developer and agency retainer for theme patches and the features the platform won't let you build itself.
Total annual rent
~$40,000
$4,800 + $12,000 + $14,000 + $9,000 = $39,800 a year. Recurring forever, and none of it buys an asset.
Recurring forever. $0 owned at the end of it.
The problem you feel
Past $300k, your platform stops being a tool and becomes a landlord.
02 · the gcc multiplier
The surcharge on every order
Shopify Payments doesn't operate in the Gulf. So every GCC merchant pays a 0.6–2% surcharge on every single order — just for permission to use their own gateway. $12k–40k a year, gone. No US or UK competitor even has this line.
03
The capability ceiling
Your highest-revenue page — checkout — is the one you're least allowed to change. Custom bundles, quote pricing, B2B net terms, local rails: “not possible on this plan,” or Plus plus a stack of apps.
04
Data on their terms
Your customers, orders, and payment rails live on the platform's schema, in the platform's infrastructure, by the platform's rules. Tabby, Tamara, and local acquirers stay second-class citizens.
The reframe
You don't have a technology problem. You have a lease — and a landlord who bills you to touch your own checkout.
The Platform Statement
First we show you the receipt. Then we make it stop.
We reconstruct your annual rent from real invoices, then set it against what you get back by owning the machine instead. Same brand, $2M GMV.
Keep renting
Licence eliminated$4,800
Gateway surcharge$12,000
App stack$14,000
Agency workarounds$9,000
~$40,000 / year
Forever. $0 owned.
Own it with Deedbase
Platform rentgone
Per-order surchargegone
App-stack subscriptionsfolded in
Checkout, B2B, local railsunblocked
Pays for itself,
then you own it.
then you own it.
Exact numbers land in your audit — from your invoices.
3×
The guarantee. If the audit doesn't find recurring savings or recoverable revenue worth at least three times its fee, it's free. You keep the report either way.
How it works
Three stages. No leap of faith. Each one earns the next.
You never buy “a rebuild” on trust. You buy a receipt first — and only move when the numbers make the decision for you.
01 · entry
2 weeks
The Commerce Audit
We reconstruct your Platform Statement, map every revenue-blocking limit, and hand you the 3-year math of staying vs. owning.
If staying is right, we say so — in writing.
02 · engine
8–12 weeks
The Rebuild
A checkout with no limits, a sub-1-second storefront, native B2B pricing, and regional payment rails — infrastructure you own outright.
Old store stays live until switch day. Rollback to day 14.
03 · moat
monthly
Run & Grow
Hosting, monitoring, security, backups, plus 2–3 dev-days a month of improvements. Priced to sit below your current app bill.
Month-to-month. Cancel any time.
The honesty rule
What we won't tell you.
Card processing doesn't automatically get cheaper off Shopify — Shopify Payments on Advanced beats off-the-shelf Stripe, and when that's your situation, we'll say so. The savings case rests on the surcharge, the eliminated rent, and unblocked revenue — never on processing rates we can't actually beat.
Roughly 30–40% of our audits end in a written “stay where you are.” That refusal is exactly why the rest are believed.
Mohammed Manssour
Founder & Principal Engineer · Deedbase
own · rent · receipt · surcharge — the only four words that matter
Book the audit
Bring your invoices. We'll show you the receipt.
Two weeks. A reconstructed Platform Statement, a constraints map, and the three-year math — guaranteed to find 3× its fee or it's free.
Book the audit — bring your invoices →2 weeks · guaranteed 3× or free