$30000 Website Quotation

Wow! Yes they are surely quoting you higher than normal. This may include the fact that they might be well known website development experts. Still, the quote is way too much to charge.

Anyways, the first 4 configurations are pretty easy:

Mobile Responsive Basic Site
CMS on all pages
Customized E-Commerce
Customized Forum

By installing WordPress and doing simple Google searches, you can do all of this by yourself.

The tasks below need further research (if you are willing to do) or you can hire a warrior here to work on your website and get them done:

Integrated Membership login on both homepage and forum
Online Cart Enquiry
Product Catalogue
Multiple Language Site
1 Year SEO service (this is hard to measure i know)


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Sana.

I think it is sound amount to developed by a single person because he really get benefited with it..You need to hard work and their reward is $30000...All the best!

This is a massive site, e-comm, forum, membership, etc.. and once you start getting into things with the word "Customized" that's when things start going up. It's not going to be like any other site. The man hours to customize something to what you want is huge. They could make something and you want it tweaked here and there, then you want it tweak a little more after 1st revision. These are the kind of things they usually account for. Customizing a site this big is a lot of trail and error and headaches before it gets where the client wants, from my experience.

You have to take into account the SEO for a year. Some SEO services are thousands per month, so it varies based on the company. I think 30k is a reasonable quote for a site with these custom features.

It sounds a lot yes but it can cost that much and even more. This depends on the amount of time and customization. A few to think about:

1. Functional codes - there's a lot in E-commerce, forums and admin login - if they're not simply frameworks but bottom up coded then it could even cost up to six figures. Benefit: performance on websites, security, so on. Real programming is involved not just a regular HTML/CSS/and some JavaScript guy.
2. Creatives - all these graphics can really cost a lot if customized. The benefit is you have a "unique" branded specific to your company and business image
3. SEO expertise can really get into "marketing", "branding experts" not just any regular SEO guy. The benefit is real result in a long run.
4. Contents - your website must have a very good copywriter to really convey your products as well as propagate keywords that Search Engines can see. Search engines love "contents". Such as blog, forum so on.

As an example, our company back then paid $30K for a well thought of brand with experts on color and branding of companies, marketing to our target markets, copywriters and the rests are graphics. We have ton's of contents. And our ranking really did go up. The words and sentences show on our websites are well thought of so that there are consistency all through out conveying our products even the brand (the image we project).

That was back then, it's not even responsive website... we are slowly upgrading to a responsive website.

Would need more specs and details for the scope of work but judging by your description, it most likely is not out of line.

I was going to say the same thing, really hard to say if it's a good price with limited details.

But as others have mentioned, with all the customization, it might be a good deal. Of course with a lot of customization it's going to take time and knowledge.

Yes there are some things you "might" be able to do yourself, but if you have a custom theme, things like mobile won't be done automatically.

And don't forget, as for the SEO, get exact details on what it covers.

First thought is, way too much.

But then I think, I already spend over 200.000$ on my project and it is still not 100% running after almost 4 years of developing.
Building a website cost between a 100$ and unlimited amount of money.

But 95% can be built under 5000$, 99% can be built under 15.000$, so ask yourself, what makes your project so special that it has to cost 30.000$? If you are really honest to yourself, then you would probably see that your project is overpriced.

You can get that on Fiverr, sounds like they are want to pay their employees for something you can learn free on YouTube, I, we all can do amazing WordPress sites for a pittance!

$30k is not unheard of. Was just working on a $25k project six months ago. My first big ticket charge was $10k for a real estate website a decade ago.

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“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”

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Well I guess its hard to judge, but well let me at least breakdown a little more detail on the task for that S$30000.

Well so far he quoted me 12k on the web design creation and stuff for 2 language. While on e-commerce part itself caused about 12k, SEO 6k for a year on 10 keywords. I believe its pretty standard for the branding site alone at 12k but the ecommerce and SEO i felt somehow a little over charge.

So I am just asking is it justifiable for that 12k on e-commerce without ERP or CRM system or any of it. It only comes with membership login, online catalog module, online cart to enquiry, and some customization.

The SEO is not overpriced. It's normal if you want white hat, you can't expect to get a taste of heaven by trying to pay for hell.

12 k on e commerce without ERP or CRM is slightly above average even for developers in first world countries. I would say that 8 to 10k would be more reasonable for that... but if you include the different languages etc, then it's reasonable.

It all matters on their past portfolio and quality of their services, most companies charge higher if their quality is truly better. The prices you stated are reasonable if their past portfolio and results speak for themselves. The only danger is if their past work is crap then you need to be VERY WORRIED. Otherwise, it's fine

what level of customizations are you going to do for ecommerce and forums? No of working hrs? one year?? just wondering and man power, maybe you surprised him with your requirement!

This list item pokes my eye.
Either you're using a CMS or NOT. I think you can't use a CMS on certain pages and not on the others. Even static pages are incorporated as a function in most of the modern CMS.

Be careful with this offer.