What a website costs in Ireland, in short
A website in Ireland costs anything from a DIY builder’s monthly subscription to more than €100,000 for a portal or platform, and website projects at Loco start from €10,000 ex VAT. Few Irish web firms publish prices. In September 2026 we reviewed the service pages of the eighteen firms ranking for Dublin and Ireland web terms, and five published a number. Every Loco project starts with a short consult that ends in a scoped, costed plan, so the price is agreed before anything is built. Our web design service in Dublin covers how we work.
The five website price bands in Ireland
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| Band | What it costs | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DIY builder | Tens of euro a month for a business plan, plus your time | Squarespace pricing, Wix plans |
| Themed brochure site | No published figure | None of the eighteen Irish firms we reviewed |
| Engineered marketing site | From €10,000 ex VAT | Loco Digital |
| Ecommerce | From €8,000 for complex ecommerce | RedStudio’s Dublin ecommerce page (checked September 2026) |
| Portal or platform | €10,000 to €25,000 for a simple app, past €100,000 for a complex one; from €25,000 per platform | Square Root, Tapadoo |
1. Template and DIY builders
Wix and Squarespace give you a hosted theme and a site live in a weekend, on a platform you rent, before premium templates and your own hours. That suits a short campaign or an idea being tested.
2. Freelancer and small-studio brochure sites
A themed WordPress build with your colours, logo and pages. Most brochure-site quotes land here, and this is the band where the scope is described least. These quotes most often leave out content, performance, accessibility, structured data, and moving your existing pages and rankings across intact.
3. Engineered marketing sites
This is the band Loco’s starting price buys. The site is designed around how your business sells, on WordPress or custom code, and a Loco build sets performance, accessibility and structured data in the brief. It suits a business whose website is a sales channel. Recent examples are Palmer Shore, a first website designed from a blank page, and ProfitPays, a consultancy site with a content system the client extends themselves.
4. Ecommerce
The price of an online store follows its complexity: the catalogue, the payment and shipping rules, VAT across EU markets, and whether the store must talk to stock, accounting or a CRM. Choosing between Shopify, WooCommerce and custom changes the running cost as much as the build cost. Booking is ecommerce too. For ERP HEADtoHEAD we built a custom Stripe and WooCommerce booking engine, set up to bill each event from its own company in its own currency. Our ecommerce development page covers the options.
5. Portals, booking systems and platforms
At the top of the range the website is the front door to a workflow: members logging in, customers booking, staff managing accounts. This is software pricing, and Ireland’s published figures come from app developers. We break them down in what app development costs in Ireland and on our app development in Dublin page. Our own work here includes the ESMA International Network membership platform, with a public site, a member dashboard, and iOS and Android apps in both stores.
What drives the cost of a website?
The gap between two quotes for the same brief is almost always one of six things.
- Design depth. A configured theme costs less than a design made for your business, and only the second is built to a hierarchy that sells.
- Content. Someone writes the pages, sources the photography and structures the messaging. If the quote assumes you supply it, that is your time.
- Integrations. Payments, bookings and stock are each an engineering job, and so are CRM integration and accounting automation, the links that keep your customer records and your ledger in step with the site. Feasibility should be checked before any of them is priced.
- Accessibility. Building to WCAG standards takes deliberate work in design and code. A quote that never mentions it has not priced it.
- Performance. Fast sites are engineered for speed: image pipelines, lean code and hosting that fits the build.
- Migration. Existing pages, URLs and rankings need a redirect map, or the new site loses the old one’s traffic. Our page on website redesign in Dublin explains what we keep, and the steps are in our website redesign SEO checklist.
What does a website from Loco cost, and what do you get?
Website projects at Loco start from €10,000 ex VAT. Ecommerce and portals sit above that, and the consult that opens every project fixes the price and the timeline. You get:
- Work led by Mark and Adam from strategy to launch, and you deal with them directly.
- Core Web Vitals, clean structured data, local search and WCAG-aligned accessibility built in.
- WordPress for content-led sites, Shopify or headless for stores, custom code when the workflow demands it.
- Room to grow into a portal or a store without starting over.
Our web development service in Dublin sets out the full scope.
What does a website cost to run after launch?
Budget for three costs beyond the build.
- Hosting and domain. Managed hosting suited to the build, plus the annual domain renewal. Cheap shared hosting can make a fast site slow.
- Platform and licence fees. Shopify charges a monthly subscription; premium WordPress plugins usually carry an annual licence. Ask for the list before you sign.
- Care and changes. New pages and offers, security updates, integrations that break when a supplier changes its API, and the content that keeps the site ranking.
At Loco, an optional retainer from €2,000 a month covers design and development hours, priority fixes, hosting, monitoring and backups, with a senior contact who knows your stack.
How to compare website quotes in Ireland
Test every quote on five things.
- Ownership. Do you own the code, the content and the data, and can you take them elsewhere? If the answer involves a licence or “hosting is included as long as you stay”, the low price is a rental.
- Who does the work. Who designs it, who builds it, is any of it subcontracted, and who do you call when something breaks?
- What is excluded. Content, photography, SEO set-up, accessibility, performance testing, URL migration, training and launch support. Ask who pays for each.
- What “SEO-friendly” means. Ask for measured Core Web Vitals, structured data and a redirect map.
- Hosting terms and the exit. Where it is hosted, what it costs per year, who holds the accounts, and what happens if you move on.
Can the Grow Digital Voucher reduce the cost?
Only for off-the-shelf tools, and only if you already qualify. The voucher excludes bespoke website development, so a Loco build is not grant-funded; an ecommerce subscription or a CRM around it can be. Our Grow Digital Voucher guide has the eligibility rules, and our guide to website grants in Ireland covers the schemes open in 2026.
