Small Business Website Cost in India (2026)

The three price bands, and what each one buys

A basic site is a few pages: what you do, your work, how to reach you, and a WhatsApp or call button. Market guides put it at roughly ₹10,000 to ₹25,000. A business site you can update yourself, built on a CMS with more pages, a blog or a booking form, runs about ₹30,000 to ₹75,000. An online store with a cart, payments and stock starts near ₹15,000 on a template and goes past ₹3 lakh once the design and integrations are custom. These are ranges published by hosting companies and agencies, not one firm's rate card, and the spread is wide because "a website" covers all three.

What actually moves the price

Three things, in this order. The number of distinct page types, not pages: ten product pages from one template cost less than three pages that are each designed differently. The features that do work for the customer, such as a quote cart, a booking form, a product builder or payments, because each one has to be built and tested. And who writes the words and takes the photographs. The same exporter catalogue can be a small job or a large one depending on whether those three are settled before the build starts.

The costs left out of most quotes

Hosting and domain renewal, which is often free for the first year and then is not. Payment gateway fees, typically 2 to 3 percent per transaction plus GST, paid to the gateway rather than to the developer. And content: the product list, the photographs and the text, which is where most projects actually stall. Ask for all three in writing before you compare two quotes, or you are comparing different things.

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Where a small business should start

With the smallest site that lets a customer do the one thing you want them to do: ask for a quote, book, order or call. For an exporter that is a product list with a quote cart; for a shop it is a catalogue with WhatsApp ordering; for a service business it is clear pages and a booking link. Everything else can be added later without rebuilding. Paying for a large site before you know which pages bring enquiries is the most common way small businesses overspend.