Affordable websites for Irish small businesses

Affordable should mean efficient, not stripped out. Every package gets a bespoke design for your business, a mobile-first layout, working enquiry forms, and the technical foundations search engines need — unique page titles and descriptions, canonical URLs, a sitemap, structured data, fast loading and a secure connection.

Starter (€337) covers up to five custom pages: typically home, about, services, a gallery or portfolio, and contact. It includes on-page SEO basics, Google Maps, WhatsApp click-to-chat, social links and one revision round.

Growth (€497) is for a business that intends to compete. Up to ten pages, premium bespoke design, advanced SEO setup, blog integration, Google Analytics, Search Console, performance optimisation, a booking or contact system, enhanced forms and two revision rounds.

Premium (€997) is for businesses that want the lot: unlimited pages, fully bespoke UI/UX, copywriting assistance, CRM integration, Meta Pixel and Google Ads conversion tracking, automations, lead funnels, an analytics dashboard, a training session and 90 days of priority support.

If you are unsure which tier fits, tell us what you need and we will recommend the lower one when it will do the job. Upgrading later costs more than getting it right first.

• No forced monthly retainer. You pay for the build once. Hosting and your domain are ordinary costs that stay in your name.
• A small studio, not a hierarchy. No account managers, sales team or city-centre office to fund. The person quoting is the person building.
• Fixed scope, fixed price. We agree what is included before starting, so "scope creep" does not quietly turn into extra invoices.
• Proven build patterns. The foundations — forms, metadata, sitemaps, responsive layouts — are already solved. Your budget goes on design and content for your business, not reinventing basics.
• No unnecessary tools. We do not bundle software subscriptions you will never use. If a tool earns its cost, we will explain why before adding it.

Quotes vary wildly between providers because the scope behind them varies wildly. These are the factors that genuinely move a website from a few hundred euro to several thousand.

We would rather be explicit now than surprise you later. The package price covers design, build, testing and handover. The following are separate:

• Domain registration — usually a modest annual fee, registered in your own name so you keep control.
• Hosting — required for any website. We can arrange fast, secure hosting for you, or work with a host you already use.
• Advertising spend — money paid to Google or Meta. It goes to them, not to us, and is separate from managing a campaign.
• Third-party subscriptions — booking tools, payment processing fees, paid plugins or premium stock photography where you want it.
• Ongoing SEO or content work — quoted after an audit, never bundled silently into the build.

Not sure which service you need? Website design in Ireland explains the full service, while websites for trades covers the most common starting point for sole traders.

Sometimes. A genuinely cheap website is usually cheap for a reason: a stock template, content dropped in without structure, no metadata, no sitemap, unusable forms, or a slow site that fails on mobile. Those problems cost you more in lost enquiries than you saved on the build.

Low cost and low quality are not the same thing. What keeps our pricing down is a tight, repeatable process and a small team — not cutting the parts that make a site work. Every site we launch has working forms, real page structure, mobile layouts and a sitemap.

Before you buy a cheap website anywhere, ask who will own the domain, whether you can take your content with you, what happens when something breaks, and whether SEO fundamentals are included or extra. The answers tell you far more than the headline price.