Your Own Online Store for Retailers in Tulcea
Tulcea is the last large town before the Delta. From here on, some places connect to the rest of the country by water, not by road — Sulina is reached by boat — and towards the other big cities the route runs through Dobrogea or across the Danube. For a Tulcea retailer this means a market with clear edges: the town, the villages around it, and a few Delta communities that come shopping when the boat brings them.
To sell beyond those edges, many have put their goods on the big platforms, where you meet buyers from all over the country and leave a share of every sale behind. An online store of your own is the other road to the same people, one where you don't pay a percentage on every order. MPO Web Studio first shows you, at no cost, what yours would look like.
Professional website from €290 · delivered in 3–7 days
How it works
- 1We build you a free demo of your site
- 2You tell us what to change
- 3You pay only if you love it
Why Tulcea's retailers ended up on platforms
In Tulcea, the edges of the market are drawn by the Danube and the Delta: few people pass through town on their way somewhere else unless they're heading into the Delta itself. So when a retailer here wanted to sell beyond the town as well, the handy shortcut was a big platform, where buyers from all over the country were already gathered. It worked: the platform brought orders you would never have seen otherwise. Only it came with a rule you don't get to choose — a percentage of every sale, even when the buyer was looking specifically for you, not for the platform. For a shop that lives on goods with a provenance, not on the lowest price, that percentage is felt on every parcel.
The Delta is on everyone's label; Tulcea is only on yours
On the big platforms, “from the Delta” is one label among many, next to listings that look alike, from sellers the buyer can't tell apart. There, your goods get lost among them, and nothing on the page shows that they leave from a shop with a street door in Tulcea. In a store of your own, that shows from the start: the address, the photos taken at your place, the name of the person who prepared the product, perhaps a Niculițel wine chosen by someone who knows the vineyard. If you sell something else — clothes, tools, fishing gear — the buyer in town gains the same thing: they know there's a counter in Tulcea, with a person behind it, where they can come with a question or a return. Provenance doesn't fit into a search filter, but it fits on a page that belongs to you.
The money from the sale stays in Tulcea
On a platform you pay on every order: the sales commission and, sometimes, something extra for promotion. In your own store nobody takes a percentage of what you sell, us included. You pay for the build once, then the domain and hosting each year, and, if you accept cards, the payment processor's fee. The difference shows above all with the returning customer: the second and third order no longer pass through anyone, and if the customer has agreed to hear from you, you tell them yourself when new stock arrives. We build the demo for free, with your name and a few of your products, so you can put side by side what's left to you from a sale on the platform and what would be left from the same sale in your own store; you do the maths, with your own figures. If it convinces you, there's a single round of revisions, then the launch and a 7-day guarantee. You know the amount in writing from the start, a store with few products is working within a few days, and we work from Cluj-Napoca, only remotely, over WhatsApp.
Frequently asked questions
I also sell products that don't keep long, like fish or cheese. Can I put them in the store?+
Yes, with delivery rules of their own. We mark them “pickup in Tulcea only” or “same-day delivery in town”, while the rest of the catalogue ships by courier; the customer sees the rule on the product page, not after paying. For food, the ingredients and allergens on the label have to be visible on the page before the order is placed, so we put them there from the start.
I have customers in Sulina and other places in the Delta that you reach by boat. How do I send them goods?+
The store doesn't change how the goods get there; it just writes it down clearly. We add a separate delivery method for the Delta, with the arrangement you already use — pickup when the customer comes to Tulcea, or sending it the way you do now — with the timing and cost you set. If your courier company covers a locality there, you check the conditions with them and we enter them exactly.
Doesn't the bank also take a percentage when the customer pays by card?+
It does, wherever you accept cards, including the terminal in your shop. It's the processor's fee, paid for collecting the money, not for bringing you the customer; before launch we show you the options so you can choose. With cash on delivery there's no card fee, but couriers usually charge a fee for collecting the cash. Our part doesn't depend in any way on how much you sell.
How will customers find out I have a store of my own, not just an account on a marketplace?+
Through what you control. Read the platform's rules first: many forbid sending buyers elsewhere from messages inside it, and that's worth respecting. Beyond that, your online store's address goes on the bag and the business card in your physical shop, on your social media page, in your WhatsApp status and in the Google profile you manage yourself.
Want to see what your business's website could look like?
Message us on WhatsApp and we'll build you a free demo website with your business name on it. See it first, then decide — no strings attached.