00 / Start here

Build the whole thing before you pay anything.

Claim a free EMPIRE address and your site is live in about a minute. Design it, fill it in, publish it, show it to people — no card needed for the first 14 days. Keep it after that by subscribing, whether or not you want your own domain name on it.

A real, live site — not a preview. Anyone can visit it the moment you publish.
The full drag-and-drop builder, not a cut-down version, plus theme and site import.
Up to 10 products and 3 pages — enough to launch properly and find out if this works.
Everything transfers when you upgrade. Your design, products and stats move to your new domain untouched.

See how importing a theme works → Every one opens as a real working site. No signup to look.

A seller at a desk filming her clothing rail on a phone tripod — **Start where you are**A phone, a table, and something to sell is the whole setup.

A shop owner taking an order on the phone beside stacked parcels — **Take the order**Cart, checkout and payouts to your bank, built in.

A seller holding a wrapped parcel in front of a shelf of stock — **Ship it yourself, or don't**Print on demand handles making and posting if you'd rather not.

01 / Pricing

One price. Everything running.

Every plan includes managed hosting, SSL, and support from a real human at CryptCode. Domain registration is billed separately at cost — typically $10–15/yr for a .com. Cancel anytime — your empire, your call.

Foundation

$9/mo

Your domain, registered instantly (registration fee billed separately at cost)
Full drag-and-drop builder, plus Shopify theme import
Custom CSS, head code, and DNS control included
Managed SSL, DNS, and edge hosting — the boring parts, automated
No online store — this plan is for a website, not a shop

Start Foundation

Commerce

$14/mo

Everything in Foundation
Full online store with secure checkout
Sell anything — your own products, services, or digital goods
Dropshipping — import from suppliers and route orders automatically
You keep the margin on every sale

Start Commerce

Dynasty

$25/mo

Everything in Commerce
Print-on-demand — upload a design, we make it and ship it
Backend API access — build on your EMPIRE data, granted by CryptCode
Direct line to the owner of EMPIRE — not a queue, a person you know
Priority everything: features, fixes, requests

Start Dynasty

Ultimate

$65/mo

Everything in Dynasty, with nothing held back
One written post about your business on this site every month
Your banner in rotation on the main EMPIRE site while you subscribe
First call on anything new we build

Start Ultimate

02 / Objections

You know you need this. Here's why you don't have it yet.

"Tech isn't my thing."

It doesn't need to be — but if it is, even better. Building here is drag-and-drop simple, and every technical layer underneath sets itself up automatically. You pick a look and type your info — the same way you'd fill out a form. Hosting, security, SSL, DNS: handled before you know those words exist.

"I don't have time."

Your site is live the day you sign up. Editing takes minutes from your phone. Compare that to the website you've been "getting around to" for two years.

"It's too expensive."

$9/month. Less than one lost customer who Googled you, found nothing, and called your competitor instead.

"I'll get trapped in a contract."

Month to month, cancel anytime, and your domain is legally yours — if you ever leave, we hand over the keys within 5 business days. It's in writing on this page.

02b / Empire Assist

Meet Empire Assist

Built into every page here and every screen of your dashboard. Ask it anything about EMPIRE — or tell it where you want to go and it takes you. It runs in your browser, not on a server.

Not an AI, on purpose

Every answer was written by a person and stored in advance. Ask the same question twice, get the same answer twice. For questions about money that is not a limitation — it is the requirement.

It admits what it doesn't know

No guessing at something close. If there is no written answer it says so and gives you 402‑206‑4827, where a person picks up.

“Take me to my orders”

Say where you want to go and it opens the page instead of describing where it is. Every destination is a real one.

Nothing is sent anywhere

It answers on your own device. Your questions never reach a server, so there is no transcript, no training data, and nothing to leak.

How Empire Assist works → • Or just tap the mark in the top-right corner and ask it something.

04 / The math

The math against the big guys.

Same core toolkit — domain, drag-and-drop builder, real checkout — without the add-on maze or the robot support line. At $14/month, for under half what the others charge before apps.

A customer browsing an online shop on a phone

Your customer is on a phone, in a queue, deciding in about eight seconds. What they meet is a real storefront on your own domain, not a social profile with a link in the bio.

What you get	EMPIRE Commerce	Shopify Basic	Wix Business
Monthly price	$14	$39 + apps you'll need	$36 + upsells
Domain handled for you	✓ registered & managed, billed at cost	Extra, self-managed	Free 1st year, then theirs to bill
Drag-and-drop sections & theme import	✓	✓	✓
Sell products with cart, discounts, tax	✓ built in	✓	✓
Print-on-demand, zero inventory	✓ built in on Dynasty ($25) — no app maze	Separate app	Separate app
Support	✓ call/text a real person: 402-206-4827	Chat queue	Ticket queue
Build it yourself	✓ everything self-serve — infrastructure automates itself	✓	✓
Custom code & DNS control	✓ CSS, head scripts, DNS records	✓ themes/liquid	Limited

Competitor prices as of mid-2026, annual-billing rates; their features are excellent — the difference is who does the work and who answers the phone.

05 / The system

The system behind the throne.

You click subscribe. The machine does the rest — in order, every time.

Stage 01

Payment

Your subscription activates through secure checkout. This is the only thing you do.

Stage 02

Domain

Your chosen domain is registered instantly and locked to your account.

Stage 03

Deploy

Your site is built from your template and pushed to the global edge network.

Stage 04

Secure

SSL certificate issued, DNS wired, DDoS shield raised. You're live.

A worker checking stock on a tablet in a warehouse aisle — **Stock that adds up**Inventory, purchase orders and transfers, counted properly.

A worker in a hi-vis vest taping a box at a packing bench — **Orders you can work**Fulfil, ship and refund without leaving the dashboard.

A customer unwrapping a shoe from a box at home — **Ends at someone's door**Which is the only part of this that was ever the point.

06 / The builder

Your site. Your way.

You build it. That was always the point. The machines handle domains, hosting, SSL, and security the moment you sign up — everything you see is yours to shape. Start from a blank canvas or a theme you already own, and go as deep as you want: drag-and-drop sections on the surface, custom CSS and DNS underneath — colors, pages, images, content — or start from a blank canvas and build exactly what you see in your head. Change anything, any time, from your dashboard. It's your site; we just keep it fast, secure, and online.

Your way

Start Fast

A blank canvas and the section builder, or import a theme you already own.

Blank Canvas

Drag & Drop

Build from scratch with drag-and-drop sections — full control over pages, layout, and content for a site that's completely yours.

Commerce

Sell Anything

Physical products, services, digital goods — secure checkout built in on Commerce plans.

Zero Inventory

Print On Demand

Optional: upload a design, we put it on real products and ship every order for you.

Start Building

The same shop rendered on a laptop, tablet, monitor and phone — **One site, every screen**Built responsive from the start, so it looks right wherever it is opened.

Two people packing folded denim and accessories into boxes, seen from above — **Yours to arrange**Drag sections into the order that suits what you actually sell.

07 / Infrastructure

The boring parts, done properly.

Your site doesn't run on a server in someone's closet. It runs on an enterprise global edge network — and your payments run through the same processor the largest stores on earth use.

Served at the edge

Your pages are cached in data centres around the world, so they load fast whether your customer is across town or across an ocean.

Encrypted by default

SSL is issued, renewed, and managed automatically on every plan. No certificates to buy, install, or forget to renew.

Money goes straight to you

Stripe handles card data and pays out directly to your bank. We never hold your funds and never touch card numbers.

< 5 minAverage spin-up

SSLIssued & renewed for you

24/7DDoS mitigation

402-206-4827A person answers

Parcels moving along a conveyor in a distribution centre — **Built for the day it gets busy**The same edge network and payment processor the largest stores on earth run on.

09 / Questions

Asked constantly.

I'm not technical at all. Really — at all.

Perfect, you're who we built this for. If you can fill out a form and attach a photo to a text message, you can run your EMPIRE site. And when you get stuck, you call 402-206-4827 and a person fixes it with you on the line.

What happens the day I sign up?

You search your domain, pick a plan, pay. Within minutes your domain is registered, your site is live with a starter design, and your dashboard login lands in your email. Most people have their real content up the same evening.

Do I actually own my domain?

Yes — registered in your name with privacy protection, renewed automatically, billed to you at our cost with zero markup. If you leave EMPIRE, the domain goes with you. We put this in writing because other companies play games with it.

How do I get paid when I sell things?

Money from your sales goes directly to your bank through Stripe — the same payment company powering Amazon and Shopify. We never touch or hold your money. EMPIRE keeps a small platform fee per sale (shown before you activate selling), and that's it.

What's the catch with print-on-demand?

Honestly: margins are modest — a shirt costs ~$10-14 to produce, so price at $25+ to make it worth it. Connect your designs to products right from your dashboard — and if you want a sanity check on the math before you launch, call us. No inventory, no shipping runs, no garage full of boxes.

What if I want to cancel?

Cancel from your dashboard or one phone call. Your site pauses, your domain stays yours, and there's no exit fee, no retention script, no "are you sure" maze. We'd rather you leave happy and tell people we were straight with you.

Who is behind this?

EMPIRE is built and run by CryptCode LLC, a registered U.S. company. The phone number on this page rings the people who actually built the platform — that's the entire support department, and that's the point.

Own your corner of the internet.
Tonight.

Build the whole thing before you pay anything.

One price. Everything running.