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Shanghai

An overseas-facing website for your Shanghai business.

Built for the procurement teams, partners, and buyers who reach your Shanghai company from outside China — not for a domestic audience that already knows you.

Renminbi or USD billing · Stripe & PayPal · PIPL-aware · hosted globally

01Shanghai context

Why Shanghai's outward-facing sites underperform abroad.

Shanghai's exporters, free-trade-zone traders, and MNC subsidiaries already win business — the bottleneck is that their website was built for a domestic audience and a foreign buyer never sees it the way a Shanghainese colleague does.

A procurement manager in Rotterdam or a partner in São Paulo opens your site on a hotel Wi-Fi. If it's slow from outside the mainland, English-thin, or visibly templated, the deal stalls before the first email — regardless of how good the product is.

We build the version of your company a foreign buyer should see: fast on a global edge network, genuinely bilingual, and credible to a procurement team that's comparing you against suppliers in three other countries.

02Shanghai businesses we typically build for

Three Shanghai patterns we see often.

Trade & export

Trading and export firms

Waigaoqiao and Pudong traders whose buyers are abroad. A bilingual, RFQ-ready site that reads as a serious supplier — not a brochure that stops at the border.

Professional services

Advisory and professional services

Consultancies and law/finance practices in the FTZ serving foreign clients. A site that matches the seniority of the room you're actually in.

Consumer brands

Brands going direct overseas

Shanghai consumer brands selling DTC abroad. A clean brand home that earns trust before a first order — add the e-commerce module when you're ready to sell.

03What it costs in Shanghai

Renminbi-billed, PIPL-aware, fast from abroad.

Starter from

¥499/ month

Priced in renminbi (¥) — or pay in USD if your accounting prefers it. One flat monthly fee covers design, hosting, and upkeep. No setup fee; annual billing only.

Payment options

Stripe · PayPal

Stripe and PayPal — so the overseas customers and partners who land on your site pay the way they already do, without a mainland-only rail in the way.

Compliance handled

PIPL-aware data handling · GDPR for EU visitors · CCPA for California · WCAG 2.2 AA

Hosted on a global edge network so it loads fast for buyers abroad — and because it's an overseas-facing site, no ICP filing is required. Cookie consent and regional disclosures are wired in where the visitor's law asks for them.

04Shanghai questions

What Shanghai owners tend to ask.

Do we need an ICP filing or mainland hosting?
No. Because the site faces overseas customers and is served from a global edge network rather than mainland hosting, an ICP filing isn't required. If you later want a mainland-hosted .cn presence too, that's a separate conversation.
Which languages does the site ship in?
Starter is English; Growth adds Simplified Chinese; Studio adds up to three more. Most Shanghai exporters run English + Simplified Chinese so both the buyer and your own team work from the same site.
How do overseas customers pay if there's a shop?
Through Stripe or PayPal — the rails your foreign customers already use. Card payments from a mainland account aren't required on your side; the storefront is the optional e-commerce add-on.
Can you talk it through first?
Yes. You can sign up entirely online, or message us and we'll walk through it — no mandatory sales call either way.

A Shanghai site your overseas buyers respect — live in 2–3 weeks.

Sign up online in two minutes, or message us. Renminbi or USD. Cancel any time and keep your domain.

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