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How much does a small business website cost?
Short answer: it depends on scope, and anyone who gives you a firm price without asking about your business is guessing. A one-page landing site and a store with booking and ordering are different projects, and their prices should be different.
What drives the price
- Number and type of pages: a few pages cost less than a full site with services, locations, galleries and FAQs.
- Features: booking, online ordering, an online store, a chatbot or automation each add build and testing time.
- Content: writing, photos and a menu or product list take time whether you supply them or the studio creates them.
- Design: a custom design costs more than a template, and looks less like everyone else's site.
- Ongoing care: updates, backups and small changes after launch are usually a separate, optional plan — not a lock-in.
Typical ranges, in general terms
As a rough guide for US small businesses, simple sites commonly fall in the hundreds to low thousands of dollars, while sites with booking, ordering or ecommerce commonly fall in the low-to-mid thousands and up. These are market ranges, not a Tech Orbit price list: your project gets a fixed quote after a short conversation about scope, so you know the exact price before work starts.
Questions to ask before you pay
- Do I own the site, the domain and all the content at launch?
- Is the quote fixed, or hourly with room to grow?
- What happens after launch — who updates it, and what does that cost?
- Can I see a working sample of the kind of site you mean, not just screenshots?
Red flags
Monthly lock-in with no ownership, a price with no scope attached, and a portfolio of screenshots with no working sites to open. If you cannot open and use the sample, you cannot judge the work.
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