Pricing

What a website for a small business really costs

· 3 min read ·

Nobody publishes prices, so everyone imagines the worst. Here are ours, and the sum worth doing before you look at them.

A code-built website for a small business runs from €1,200 for one page done properly to €3,900 for a multilingual system with bookings. In between, €2,400 for a site of up to eight pages, which is what most businesses need. VAT excluded, and fixed before we start.

The sum almost nobody does

Before looking at what a website costs, look at what you already pay. Booking software runs from €150 to €400 a month. TheFork takes €1 to €3 per cover, which at normal volume is €400 to €1,500 a month. That is every month, forever, and the day you stop paying nothing is left.

A €2,400 website is three to six months of those commissions. Spread over three years, €2.19 a day. And you pay it once.

Why a cheap site turns out expensive

A €300 template usually comes with a monthly platform fee, the domain in somebody else's name, and a build that neither Google nor AI assistants can read properly. The entry price is low; the exit cost is that you can't take anything with you.

The useful question isn't "what does it cost" but "whose is it when I stop paying".

What any quote should include

  • The domain in your name, not the agency's
  • The code and your customer data, yours
  • Structured data, so you can be read and cited
  • A written number of rounds of changes
  • A fixed delivery date

If a quote doesn't state those five things, ask before signing. Anyone who does this properly knows the answers.

Source: Booking-software and commission ranges: the providers' own public rates, 2026.

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