How much does a small business website cost?

Two numbers to ask about

There are two numbers to ask about: what it costs to build, and what it costs every month after. Agencies commonly quote a few thousand dollars to build a small-business site (we looked at public pricing pages in September 2026, and the typical quote was roughly $1,500 to $5,000, with custom work well above that). Do-it-yourself builders are cheaper up front and cost you your own time.

At Richemont Solutions, a website is $400 to build. Hosting & Care is $50 a month, and you can skip it and host the site yourself. We're new, and those are founding rates.

What changes the price

Most of the spread between a cheap quote and an expensive one comes down to a handful of things:

• How many pages. A home page, a page per service, a page per area you serve, plus about, FAQ and contact is a normal small-business site. Dozens of location pages is a bigger job.
• Custom design or a template. Custom takes longer to build and looks less like everyone else's.
• Who writes the words and takes the photos. Writing for your trade, and fixing phone photos of real jobs, is real work.
• Extras like online booking, payments, or a store. These need their own quote.
• Who looks after it afterward. A site nobody updates gets slow, insecure, and out of date.

The monthly part people forget

A site has to live somewhere, stay patched, and be backed up. Some owners pay for hosting, a developer, and a security plugin separately and find out how much it adds up to a year later.

Our $50 a month covers hosting, security updates, backups, uptime checks, small edits, a monthly speed and SEO pass, and one blog post a month. Your domain name renews with whoever you registered it through, usually once a year, and that fee is separate from ours.

What the build price covers here

A full site like this one: home, a page per main service, service areas, about, FAQ, contact, and legal pages. Written for your trade, mobile first, launched on your domain.

Bigger builds, like an online store or a booking system, get a written quote before any work starts.

Questions to ask any web designer before you pay

These matter more than the price:

• Who owns the domain and the content? It should be you.
• How long is the contract, and how do you cancel?
• What exactly is in the monthly fee, and what costs extra?
• Can you take the site with you if you leave?
• Who will you actually talk to when something breaks?

What a website can and can't do

A good site makes it easy for a customer to see what you do, where you work, and how to reach you. It won't guarantee a Google ranking, and anyone who promises one is guessing. Your Google Business Profile matters as much as your site for local searches, which is why we look at both in the free audit.