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SLA Help Desk for stores that need technology certainty.

Technical support and an availability guarantee for online stores, sold separately so you pay only for what you need. The help desk is a pool of hours for changes in your store. SLA is the watch over whether the store runs at all, with a guaranteed response as short as 30 minutes. We support WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Shopify, Shoper and Sylius; Gorilla Panel comes with every package.

4–24h
Availability monitoring under SLA
3
Premium response on business days
From $250
/month, Basic package

Dedicated platform available to every SLA client.

Gorilla Panel is our strongest competitive differentiator. The client has constant visibility into hour consumption, task status, monthly reports, invoices and satisfaction surveys — without having to ask for anything by email.

Gorilla Panel — 90 seconds

Recording from a real SLA client account (data anonymised).

What you see in the panel 24/7

Current package hour usage with a forecast through the end of the month, plus a six-month history with trend indicators.

The status of every task currently in progress — who's handling it, how many hours are allocated, and the deadline.

A dedicated blog with the latest industry content on e-commerce, SEO, security, and platforms.

Full transparency, not marketing — a deciding factor for clients who've already lived through an agency burying invoices in unreadable PDF reports.

What you get concretely each month

Monthly report with the list of all completed tasks, hours worked and their business priority.

Posts on our industry blog covering new security threats, platform updates, and e-commerce trends.

A monthly invoice in the panel with a downloadable PDF — three years of history always at hand.

A quarterly satisfaction survey — not to pat ourselves on the back, but to know what to improve in how we serve you.

Three technical support packages, the difference is the number of hours.

How much does technical support for an online store cost? As much as the work it takes each month. You pick a package by the number of changes you plan, not by revenue: a store mid rebuild burns more hours than a bigger but stable one. In every package an hour costs $25, and $40 outside it. That is the whole difference from project billing.

Stable store

Basic

$250 net / month
  • 10 h pool per month
  • Response time up to 24 business hours
  • Emergency hours outside the pool: 1 h
  • Emergency window: Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00
  • Tickets: Gorilla Panel, GP Connect, e-mail
  • Monthly report: tickets and pool usage
Choose Basic
Rebuild or high traffic

Premium

$1,000 net / month
  • 40 h pool per month
  • Response time up to 4 business hours
  • Emergency hours outside the pool: 4 h
  • Emergency window: Mon-Fri 7:00-22:00, weekend 9:00-18:00
  • Consulting outside the pool: 4 h per month
  • Quarterly technical review: 8 h
  • Dedicated project manager
Choose Premium

Package and hour pool in detail

Package scope Basic Advanced Premium
Store profile stable store growing store store in rebuild or with high traffic
Net monthly fee $250 $500 $1,000
Monthly hour pool 10 h 20 h 40 h
In package hourly rate $25 $25 $25
Hourly rate above the pool $40 $40 $40
Response time 24 business hours 8 business hours 4 business hours
Emergency hours outside the pool 1 h 2 h 4 h
Emergency window Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00 Mon-Fri 7:00-20:00, Sat 9:00-15:00 Mon-Fri 7:00-22:00, Sat and Sun 9:00-18:00
Ticket channels Gorilla Panel, GP Connect, e-mail as in Basic plus phone as in Basic plus phone
Availability monitoring check every 5 minutes check every 5 minutes check every 5 minutes
Monthly report tickets and pool usage as in Basic plus performance and visibility review as in Advanced
Consulting outside the pool no 2 h per month 4 h per month
Quarterly technical review no no 8 h once per quarter
Dedicated project manager no no yes

Your store runs even when nobody is watching it.

Support answers what you want to change in your store. If you need certainty that the store runs even when nobody is watching it, add SLA. If you are looking for a team that develops the store against a shared plan instead of waiting for tickets, that is the Growth Retainer.

Monitoring during business hours

Standard

$240 net / month
Service window
Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00
P1 response
4 business hours
Interventions included
2 h per month
Check frequency
every 60 seconds
Choose Standard
Monitoring 6 days a week

Extended

$650 net / month
Service window
Mon-Sat 7:00-21:00
P1 response
2 h
Interventions included
4 h per month
Check frequency
every 60 seconds
Choose Extended

Monitoring scope in detail

Monitoring item Standard Extended Continuous 24/7
Site availability and 5xx response codes
Check frequency 60 s 60 s 30 s
SSL certificate expiry and validity
Key paths: cart, checkout, login
Performance and Core Web Vitals
Server resource usage and log rotation
Alert sent to the Client in parallel
Backup and restore test every 7 days every 7 days every 24 h
Security updates
Monthly availability report

SLA questions we hear most often.

How long is the SLA contract's notice period?

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Three months as standard in the Basic and Advanced help desk packages, one month in Premium. SLA packages have a one month notice period from day one, except Continuous 24/7, where the term is set in the contract. After the first year of cooperation every package has a one month notice period. We do not push anyone into long commitments: the relationship lasts as long as it brings value to both sides. Our average client relationship runs 3.4 years.

What if we use up all our package hours halfway through the month?

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You can buy extra hours as you go: an hour above the pool costs $40 net, the same in every package. Inside the package an hour costs $25, so going over the pool is more expensive, but it is never a surprise. Alternatively you can switch packages mid month and the fee is prorated. Gorilla Panel shows a usage forecast ahead of time, so the decision is made knowingly, not after the fact.

How does SLA differ from Growth Retainer?

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SLA packages are reactive — we wait for tickets and resolve them within a guaranteed time. Growth Retainer is proactive — a dedicated team works continuously on growing your store against a shared roadmap, without waiting for tickets to come in. SLA suits stores with annual revenue up to roughly $1.3 million. Growth Retainer is for stores above $2.7 million a year with an expansion plan.

Do you support stores on platforms you didn't originally build?

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Yes, we take over projects from other agencies. The standard handover process is a two-week technical audit included in the package price, during which we assess code quality, technical debt, security risks, and any critical fixes needed. After the audit, we move into normal package operations.

What exactly counts as an hour of work under the package?

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Every hour of work by a consultant, developer, designer, or DevOps engineer billed to your account. Full transparency in Gorilla Panel — you see who worked, when, how many hours, and on which task. We don't bill for "time spent on email" or "internal coordination" — only real work on your project.

Choose the right SLA package for your store.

A free initial diagnosis is a one-hour conversation about your current store, where we assess its technical condition, recurring issues, and match you to the right SLA package. After the call, you'll get a package recommendation with clear reasoning behind it — no sales pressure.