How much a business website costs and what it depends on

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A business website at Initace costs from €850 net for a simple brochure site, and the price rises with the number of pages, online bookings and the amount of content to prepare. Below we show three sample quotes and the six factors that most affect the final price — and what it costs to keep a website running in the following years.

What the price of a website depends on

The price of a website rarely comes from one thing — it is the sum of several decisions you make with the contractor at the quoting stage. The biggest influence comes from:

  • The number of pages. A brochure site with a few pages (about us, offer, prices, contact) is cheaper than an extensive site with a separate page for each service.
  • Bookings or a timetable. A contact form is standard at every price; a booking system without creating an account, a class timetable with free places or a reservation calendar is a separate feature that raises the price, because it needs its own logic and testing.
  • The amount of content to prepare. If the texts are ready, the work is limited to putting them on the site. If they have to be written from scratch with you, that is extra time — and time is a cost.
  • Photos. Good-quality photos of your own cost nothing except the time to choose them; photos from paid libraries or a photo shoot are an extra cost.
  • A blog and structured data. A site with a blog needs an additional article template, categories and preparation for search engines — that is more work than a static brochure site.
  • Integrations. A map, a booking calendar, payments or a connection to an external system each add their own piece of work.

The three scopes we work in

For the price to be comparable between offers, ask about the scope, not only the amount. We distinguish three scopes of a business website:

ScopeWho it is forPrice
Brochure sitea company that wants to be found and checked out — a few pages, prices, contactfrom €850 net
Site with featuresa company that also wants bookings, a timetable or a price list edited in the panelfrom €1,450 net
Individual quotea larger scope or a feature we do not yet have in the cataloguequote after a call

Three sample quotes

The cases below are examples showing how scope translates into price — they do not describe specific clients.

CaseScopePrice
A small practice: a few pages, prices, a contact form, a map“Brochure site”from €850 net
A gym: a weekly timetable with bookings and a waiting list“Site with features” with a class timetablefrom €1,450 net
A law firm with an extensive blog: several dozen pages, articles, a consultation price listindividual quotequote after a call

The smallest site takes us 5 weeks from the first conversation to launch. For a larger scope we give the exact date in the plan you receive after the analysis — together with the price.

What is included in the price and what is not

In every scope you get a graphic design prepared from scratch (not a ready-made template), the content put on the site, basic structured data for search engines and training in using the panel. Usually left outside the price are: hosting, the domain, licences for paid plugins (only if they are needed), photos from paid libraries and writing all the texts for you. You will see the full list in the price list.

How to compare two offers — five questions

Two offers for a “company website” can differ in price several times over, and both can be honest, because they describe different things. Before you compare amounts, ask each contractor the same questions:

  1. Net or gross? If your company does not recover VAT, you will pay the gross amount, which at the standard Polish rate of 23% is higher than the net. We quote our prices net.
  2. A design from scratch or a ready-made template? A ready-made theme is cheaper, but looks like hundreds of other sites and usually carries unnecessary extras that slow the site down.
  3. Who prepares the texts and photos? This is often the biggest hidden difference between offers.
  4. Whom the domain and hosting will be registered to and whether you will get administrator access — more in the article Who owns a website.
  5. What does the year after launch cost? Ask for the total: domain, hosting, licences and any care plan. A cheap build with an expensive subscription can, after two years, cost more than an honest price at the start.

What it costs to keep a website running each year

Apart from building the site itself, two costs return every year: the domain and the hosting. For the domain, compare the renewal price, not only the first year — registrars often give a cheap first year, and later years cost noticeably more. If you want to be sure that someone regularly updates WordPress, makes backups and reacts in case of a fault, you can additionally buy care — with us it starts at €85 net/month Without care the site is still fully yours — you do the updates yourself or order them one at a time. More in Aftercare.

In short: a business website costs from €850 net; online bookings, the amount of content and integrations raise the price. Price list current as of .

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