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How much does a website cost in Kenya?
A one-page site with WhatsApp ordering costs between KES 22,000 and 32,000. A full searchable catalogue on your own domain costs between KES 48,000 and 78,000. A complete multi-branch site with bookings runs KES 120,000 to 195,000, and a business system with an admin dashboard starts at KES 310,000.
Those are my prices and they are published, which means you can decide whether you can afford this before you talk to anybody. The rest of the page is what moves the number, so you can work out roughly where you land.
What I charge, and for what.
| Tier | KES | TZS | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page One | 22,000 – 32,000 | 450,000 – 650,000 | 3 days |
| Order Website | 48,000 – 78,000 | 1,000,000 – 1,600,000 | 1 week |
| The Complete Site | 120,000 – 195,000 | 2,500,000 – 4,000,000 | 2 weeks |
| Full Stack Business Solution | 310,000+ | 6,500,000+ | 4 weeks, training included |
Hosting and your domain are included for the first year, in your name. Half up front, half when it goes live and works. Anything not on a tier's list is a named module from KES 12,000, quoted before you agree to it.
What actually moves the price.
The size of your stock list.
A salon with six services and a boutique with four hundred SKUs aren't the same job. The moment a customer needs to filter by size, colour or what's actually on the shelf today, you're paying for a catalogue rather than a page, and the number moves.
Whether the site has to hold a calendar.
A barber in Kilimani, a physio, a padel court: sell an hour instead of an object and the site has to know which hours are gone. Double-booking a Saturday costs you more than the feature does, so this is one place I don't cut corners.
How many addresses you run.
CBD, Westlands and Karen are three sets of opening hours, three stock positions and three delivery zones. Each one is content somebody has to write, plus a structure that keeps them from bleeding into each other.
Whether you want to see the numbers yourself.
Opening a screen to check today's orders and this week's bookings means an admin surface, and that's the largest single step in this table. It's also the only one that changes how you spend your day rather than how customers see you.
What the delivery apps are taking.
Glovo, Uber Eats, Jumia and the WhatsApp thread all move orders for you, and the first three keep a percentage of every one. A channel you own costs less than most Nairobi owners assume, and it's where the commission stops.
Paying for it from Nairobi.
- M-Pesa, or a bank transfer if the amount is over the daily limit.
- Priced in KES, so nobody is doing exchange-rate arithmetic on a phone.
- A
.co.keor.comdomain, registered in your name, not mine. - Half up front. The other half only once it's live and doing its job.
Most of my Nairobi work is done without a meeting. You see the site while it's being built, not after. If that's a problem, say so early and we won't waste each other's time.
The rest of the questions.
- How long does it take?
- Faster than anywhere else you will ask. A single page is days rather than weeks, a full order website is under a week, a complete site is a couple of weeks, and a full business system is about a month. While somebody else is still sending you a proposal, yours is live.
- Do I own the website and the domain?
- You own both. The domain is registered in your name, not mine, and the first year is included in the price. I will not put your site on my subdomain and call it yours.
- Can you make it cheaper?
- The price does not move, but the scope does. I will remove a named module and tell you exactly what you lose, or drop you a tier. That way you're never paying for something that doesn't solve your problem.
- How do I pay?
- M-Pesa for most of it, or a bank transfer when the amount is over your daily M-Pesa limit. Half to start, half when it goes live. I do not start without the first half, and that applies to everybody without exception.
Also: website design in Nairobi, the full price list, and the same guide for Tanzania.