Guide
What does a website cost for a small business?
There is no flat number -- but there are clear factors that determine the price. This overview shows what matters, without invented industry averages.
Price factors
What actually determines the price.
Scope
A single landing page with a clear goal is quicker to build than a website with several subpages and growing content.
Functionality
A simple contact form is a different thing than a custom calculator, an appointment booking, or an in-house data overview.
Content
If text and images already exist, that reduces the effort. If content still needs to be created, that takes extra coordination.
Technical requirements
A pure information page is simpler than a website with connections to existing services or specific requirements around speed and structure.
Types of cost
Telling one-off and ongoing costs apart.
Building a website is usually a one-off cost. At SHMT, it starts from €249 for websites and landing pages, and from €299 for modernizing an existing site. The actual price depends on the factors above and is put together as an individual offer before the project starts.
Separately, there are costs for domain and hosting. They are not part of the development price, since they recur with the respective provider, usually billed yearly. Domain and hosting can run directly in your own name.
If the website should be adjusted or expanded later, that can be billed by effort, at SHMT from €20 per hour. A permanent care package is not required for that.
Site builder or custom build
Why the cheapest option isn't always a site builder.
A site builder looks inexpensive at first glance, but usually runs on a monthly fee to the provider -- over several years, that can exceed the one-off cost of a custom-built website.
A custom-built website, by contrast, is shaped exactly around the business, isn't limited by someone else's platform, and belongs entirely to the client, including domain and hosting.
Next step
How a realistic estimate comes together.
General price ranges say little about a specific project. A short conversation about scope, functionality, and existing content is enough to put together an offer that fits. An overview of all services is available here.
Next step
Want concrete numbers instead of ranges?
An individual offer says more than any general price range. Describe your project briefly, and you'll get an estimate matched to what you actually need.
- info@myshmt.de
- Starting from
- Websites & landing pages from €249.