How Much Does a Website Cost in 2026?

What a website costs depends on what it has to do for the business. A site that tells people who you are and how to reach you is a smaller job than one that takes bookings, sells products, or runs part of the business. After launch, expect a monthly fee to keep it online, secure, and up to date.

We do not publish a price list: every engagement is scoped to the work and priced in writing before anything is paid. The rest of this post explains what moves a quote up or down, so you can tell a fair quote from a cheap one.

What moves the price?

What the site has to do. A site that tells people who you are and how to reach you is a smaller job than one that takes bookings, sells products, or sends quotes. Start every conversation with the job, not the page count.

Selling online. A store needs products, a cart, delivery rules, and a checkout that works with cards issued in Barbados. Local card payments are the part most first quotes get wrong, and the part that costs the most to fix after launch. See online stores.

Moving what you already have. If your current site has years of pages, posts, and products, moving them across (and pointing every old address at its new home, so search results and bookmarks keep working) is real work. Ask whether the quote includes it.

Editing it yourself. If your team wants to change prices, menus, or opening hours without calling anyone, the site needs to be built for that. It costs a little more up front and saves you every month after.

Being found. A site set up for search from day one (titles, descriptions, speed, a Google Business Profile that points at it) costs more than one that is not. A site nobody finds is the most expensive kind. See search.

What should the monthly fee cover?

At a minimum: hosting, the security certificate, software updates, backups, and someone watching for the site going down. On top of that, most businesses want a set amount of changes each month and a named person who answers.

Ask for the list in writing. Some monthly fees cover hosting and nothing else, and every text change becomes a new invoice. Ours are on the website care page.

How we price a build

Every build is a fixed price, scoped to the work and agreed in writing before work starts. After a 30-minute call you get a written scope and a quote with the exact payment schedule.

You pay a deposit on signing, the balance in two to four monthly instalments, and Digital Care after the last one. No hourly billing. The detail is on the pricing page.

Five questions to ask before you sign

What exactly is in the price? Every page, every feature, and the number of design rounds, in writing.

What does the monthly fee cover, and what costs extra?

Who owns the site and the domain? You should. Ask what happens if you leave.

Who will I actually deal with? The person who sells it, or someone you have not met?

How will people find it? If search has not come up, ask.

Is it worth it?

A site earns its cost when it brings in work you would not have had otherwise, or saves time you were spending on the phone. Before you settle on a budget, decide what the site has to do for the business. That answer sets the price more than anything else.