How much does
a website cost?

A professional website starts at €690 and an online shop at €1,490, excl. VAT. These are starting prices: what keeps a project there or pushes it up is how many pages you need, whether the design is an adapted template or bespoke to your brand, whether you'll be selling online, how many languages it handles, who writes the copy, and whether bookings, invoicing or a CRM need to be integrated. Two projects with the same number of sections can cost very different amounts if one has integrations and the other doesn't. That's why, from that starting price, we'd rather hear what you need, tell you which items are involved and agree a quote with no surprises before we begin. That conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If you're clear about which pages you want and what each one has to do, the answer comes much faster than you'd think: ask us for a quote and we'll talk it through on a call.

An online shop involves more work than an informational website because showing information isn't enough: you need a product catalogue, a payment gateway, shipping costs calculated by destination and weight, the right taxes applied, and everything tested before it goes live. On top of that comes training, so you can add products, manage orders and change prices without relying on us for every little thing. The more product variants, payment methods or shipping zones you have, the more items go into the quote. That's why a shop starts at €1,490, excl. VAT, and the final price is agreed case by case, once we know how many products you'll sell and how. Tell us what you sell and how you sell it today, and we'll tell you exactly which items your shop needs and what it will cost.

No, and it's worth keeping them separate from the start. Development is a one-off payment: it's the work of designing, building and publishing the website, with training and a settling-in period included. Maintenance is something else: an optional monthly service covering updates to the content management system and its components, regular backups and checks that everything still works — the form, the speed, the security certificate. You can hire us just for development and leave the site running without maintenance, but then keeping an eye on it falls to you, and a website nobody watches ends up piling up security warnings and components that fall out of date. We recommend it because it usually costs less than fixing a problem once it appears, not because it's compulsory. When you ask for a quote, tell us whether you want both items or just development and we'll break them down separately.

The timescale depends on the same variables as the price: a simple site with a few pages takes less time than a bespoke one with several sections and a blog, and a shop with a catalogue and payments takes longer still. But in practice, what moves the calendar most isn't the size of the project, it's whether the content is ready: if the copy and photos are ready on day one, development moves along without pauses; if we have to wait for you to send them or write them ourselves, the timescale stretches by the same amount. The same goes for rounds of revisions: the more times the design goes back and forth before sign-off, the later it goes live. We give you a specific timescale when we agree the quote, once we know exactly what your project involves and what you already have ready.

Because a fixed rate per number of pages only works if every project with the same number of pages costs the same, and that isn't the case. A multi-page website with the copy already written, a template design and no integrations might be a week's work; another with the same number of pages but a bespoke brand design, copy still to be written and bookings connected to an external system can easily be several times that. Publishing a fixed price per number of pages would force us to round up to cover ourselves in the second case, and then the client in the first case pays more than they need to. That's why we publish an honest floor — €690 for a website, €1,490 for a shop, excl. VAT — and from there we look at your specific project, explain which items are involved and why, and give you a fixed figure that holds up with no surprises halfway through. The diagnosis and the quote cost nothing: tell us about your case and we'll look at it together.

You do, always. The domain is registered in your company's name from day one — not ours, nor any middleman's — and the same goes for access to the hosting, the website's control panel and the associated email. The fact that we handle the day-to-day doesn't change who owns it: it's your asset, not your provider's, and you can ask for those logins at any time. This matters more than it seems, because there are offers on the market where the domain is registered in the agency's name, and the day you want to switch provider or stop working with them, negotiating ownership becomes a problem on top of the switch itself. Before accepting any quote, ours or anyone else's, ask explicitly whose name the domain will be in and get it in writing.

It isn't compulsory, but it's the decision that moves the price and timescale most. If you write the copy yourself, the project is cheaper and moves faster, because nobody knows your business, your services and your customers better than you, and that work doesn't need to be quoted separately. If you'd rather we wrote it, that's no problem: it goes in as another item in the quote, just like design or development, and we spell it out so you know exactly what it covers. What's best avoided is the in-between situation, where nobody is quite sure who's writing it and the project stalls waiting for copy that never arrives. That's why, when you ask for a quote, we ask from the outset who's providing the copy and photos, so it's in writing and doesn't come as a surprise halfway through. Tell us what you prefer and we'll settle it from day one.

Before touching anything, we map every address on your current website and every address the new one will have, and set up a redirect from each old page to the one that replaces it. It's work that doesn't show in the finished result: visitors and Google arrive at an address that no longer exists and land straight on the right content, without hitting an error. Without that map, a new website can make you vanish from search results for months, because Google has to rediscover and trust each address from scratch, and in the meantime you lose the traffic you'd already earned. You don't notice the effect on launch day; you notice it weeks later, when it's too late to fix calmly. If you're redoing a website that already has traffic or Google rankings, ask specifically how the redirects will be handled before accepting the quote.

Yes, even though it's optional in the quote. A website is software, and software that isn't updated doesn't stop all at once: it deteriorates bit by bit. First, security warnings appear in out-of-date components; then a form stops sending emails without anyone noticing until a customer complains they never heard back; and over time a plugin stops being compatible with the rest and breaks part of the page. None of this happens in the first month; it happens months later, when nobody remembers the site went live with nobody watching it. Maintenance covers exactly that: regular updates, backups in case something fails, and checks that the form, the speed and the certificate are still in order. Neglecting it doesn't save money in the medium term, it just postpones the cost; fixing a problem once it's set in usually costs more than preventing it with regular checks.

Partly. Development includes technical SEO: a fast-loading site, a page structure and internal linking that make sense, proper titles and descriptions on every page, structured data so search engines understand what each section is, and your Google profile properly connected. That's done once, when the website is built, and is part of the development quote. What isn't included there is ongoing SEO work: publishing new content every month, earning links from other websites, reviewing which keywords are working and adjusting the strategy as search results change. That's a separate service, SEO and Google Ads, because it isn't a job you finish once and walk away from; it needs month-by-month follow-up to deliver results. If you want to know what your case needs, ask us and we'll tell you which part each service covers.