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How much a website costs for your company (and what makes the price go up or down)
If you have asked for website quotes, you will have seen very different figures for what looked like the same thing. Here is what sits behind each price, which ranges are usual in Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and how to compare proposals without surprises.
What is normal to pay for a corporate website
A corporate website for a company in Bizkaia or Gipuzkoa is usually between 1,500 and 3,000 euros. That range covers a site with several pages, designed for your business, adapted to mobile, with a contact form, reviewed texts and a structure Google can understand.
An online store starts from about 3,000 euros, because on top of the pages there is a catalogue, a basket, a payment gateway, shipping and invoicing, and all of it has to work without failures. Custom software has no catalogue price: it is planned in phases, with written dates, and each phase is quoted with what you will receive at the end of it.
These ranges are indicative. What sets the final figure is what goes inside, and that is what is worth understanding before you compare.
What makes the price go up or down
The number of pages comes first. A site with a handful of pages is not the same as one with a page for every service, a blog and several landing pages for campaigns. Every page needs design, text and review.
Languages come second. A site in Basque and Spanish, or with English as well, multiplies the texts that have to be written, translated and maintained. If we translate with human review, it costs more than if you hand us the texts already translated, but the result is very different from machine translation.
Design matters too. A design from scratch, built around your brand, takes more hours than adapting a well-chosen template. Some studios work from templates and charge less for that reason; we draw and code every site from scratch, because that is what makes it look like you and stand apart from your competitors.
Then there are photos, texts and integrations. Professional photography, copywriting, a connection to your invoicing software, to a booking system or to a CRM: each piece adds to the total, and each piece can be decided separately.
What is usually not in the price (and worth asking about)
The domain, the hosting and the security certificate are yearly costs that someone has to pay and renew. Ask whether they are included, for how long and who owns the domain. It has to be your company, not the supplier.
Updates and backups do not happen on their own either. A website with no maintenance ends up outdated, slow or full of security holes. That is why monthly care plans exist: in our case from €49.99 a month, excluding VAT and with no lock-in, covering domain, hosting, backups, updates and a margin of hours for changes.
Ask as well about legal texts, about analytics and about who keeps access to the code and the content. They are details you cannot see in the design, but they surface the day you want to change supplier.
Why we ask for a call before giving a price
A price given without knowing what you need is a bet, and bets are paid for later in extras. So before quoting we have a twenty-minute call: what you sell, to whom, what the website has to do and what you already have (brand, photos, texts, domain).
With that we prepare a closed written quote, with what it includes, what it does not and the delivery dates. Closed means that if the work takes more hours than we estimated, you do not pay for them. What changes the price is a change in the brief, and that is agreed before it is done.
That document is also your tool for comparing. Two quotes with the same figure can include very different things; two with different figures may be describing the same work.
How to compare quotes without getting it wrong
Put the quotes side by side and check whether they answer the same questions: how many pages, which languages, own design or template, who writes the texts, who takes the photos, which integrations and what happens the day after delivery.
Be wary of a price that says nothing about maintenance or ownership, and also of one that promises everything for very little. A cheap website that has to be rebuilt after a year is expensive. So is an expensive website that brings no customers.
If you want to see how yours would look before asking for anything, you can try it in the configurator demo on the corporate website page: pick a sector, colours and layout, and get an idea of what you would receive. Then tell us your case through the form and we will tell you exactly what it would cost.
Frequently asked questions
Can you give me a price without a call?
We can give you the range your kind of project falls into, which is the one in this guide. The exact price, closed and in writing, comes out of the twenty-minute call, because it depends on pages, languages, texts, photos and integrations.
What if I want to extend the website later?
Each extension is quoted separately, with the same method: what is added, what it costs and when it is delivered. If you have a care plan, small changes come out of the plan's hours.
Is the website mine when the project ends?
Yes. The domain is in your company's name, the content is yours and you receive access to the code and the files. You can change supplier whenever you want.
Does this sound like your case?
Tell us about it through the form or at web@golkosystems.com and we will tell you where to start.