Are you a marketer tasked with a new website development project but has no idea how much it will cost? We hear this concern almost daily!
The uncertainty and lack of transparency around website design and website development costs are major headaches. It's frustrating not to know what you're getting into and even more frustrating when hidden costs start popping up throughout the project.
Many web design and development agencies in Hong Kong are notorious for not being transparent with their costs.
They lure you in with a low initial quote, only to tack on additional charges as the project progresses. It's a classic case of bait and switch. And it's enough to make even the most seasoned marketer feel wary.
But there's a better way.
At Digital Butter, we believe in being upfront and transparent with our costs from the start. Trust is crucial in any business relationship, so we lay out all costs and fees upfront.
Our web design services for Hong Kong brands have led the market for 13+ years. Over 400+ web design and web development projects. Building everything from marketing websites to global multi-site infrastructures for corporates (see more of our recent work).
We want our clients to feel confident in their investment and know exactly what they're getting for their money.
A ‘template-free’ way to avoid having a generic and underperforming website. We don’t use website builders (WIX, Squarespace, etc). We build for you and your business.
For businesses that want to drive significant return-on-investment from their digital strategy and invest in a long-term web asset.
Website projects in this pricing range, have delivered:
Our recent projects that have fallen near to this price range:
Website design and development prices in Hong Kong typically range from HKD$200,000 to HKD$650,000 or more, depending on the project's complexity and the business's specific needs.
Disclaimer:
These costs are not ‘packages.’ They are estimations of cost and scope based on our history of 400+ successful projects.
Our budgeting approach tackles pricing for every brief and project uniquely based on the agreed scope. Contact us to get your custom website project proposal - built from the ground up.
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For businesses looking for more complexity, integrations, and design deliverables, our second pricing band ranges from HKD$350,000 to HKD$650,000.
Additional scope items to the above, adding more complexity, scale and requirements. Generally we see this coming from:
Our recent projects that have fallen near to this price range:
Sovereign Group
Truflation Website + Dashboard
For larger businesses with more complex needs, our third pricing band starting from HKD$650,000+ is designed to provide comprehensive website design and development services with a range of advanced features and integrations.
Adding even more complexity to the above pricing bands, usually catering to a multinational brand.
Includes everything mentioned above as well as:
Multi-site: Advanced backend CMS setup can allow multiple websites to be managed centrally. Works for companies with multiple brands with a centralised marketing function, like Tai Ping Carpets & Edward Fields Carpetmakers.
Multi-market: One website backend for multiple market instances. A brand can localise website content and effectively run individual market-based websites - without the complexity of managing multiple CMSs.
Advanced CMS infrastructure: Implement more technical solutions to manage content and websites through a headless architecture. This approach is typically performance-oriented and manages multiple 'presentation layers' with a single backend. Website content can be delivered to a website, in an app, or in another presentation format.
Our recent projects that have fallen near to this price range:
CCW Global
Tai Ping Carpets
They may be hidden now, but through our approach at Butter - we make them clear so you can budget for your project effectively.
Web development projects generally have 4 cost components.
And one major, usually unplanned cost: Your resource.
In our 13+ years of experience, we’ve worked with clients from different types, organisations, and industries.
A commonality between them is that they are all busy - and a website project is usually ‘on top’ of their day job. Our approach at Butter is to make the process as smooth, transparent and informed as possible - so you can focus on your business and the important projects.
With this approach, our clients need to contribute resources throughout the project.
Workshops, strategy sessions, web design feedback and approvals, and time for testing while preparing the website to go live.
As an illustration, a large website project that fell into bucket 3 above (HKD$350k-$650k) required:
Over 1,000 hours or 125 full work days of resource!
For our client, 250 hours was across 4 months (roughly 16 weeks / 80 work days) - That is just over 3 hours every work day spread across a client project team of 3.
These ‘costs’ aren’t hidden but are usually not recognised and planned by our clients.
Ask us for a free consultation to help you estimate these and ensure your business has the bandwidth to tackle a project. And how we can make it easier for you to do so! Speak to us if you want a website design Hong Kong price!
Guides like the one above are helpful to roughly ballpark your website project cost. But to know the price of website design in Hong Kong, you’ll need to speak with an agency (us!) that specialises in the design and development of websites.
And it pays to do your homework. Researching your agency partners and preparing a list of questions or topics you want to understand. Here are our recommended 10 questions you should be asking your web design agency.
We give you a website design hong kong price estimate, and more importantly, we map out your website strategy in our framework called - Website Stack.
It covers all key aspects and decisions of a project - that take your web presence from generic to memorable. Covering insights from our 400+ successful projects to ensure your new website is one that not only increases your brand's visibility but drives tangible business results.
Speak with us and discover what your website can do!
Michael leads the Butter team and has had a career within industry leadership roles partnering with clients to drive digital transformation, performance marketing, and building business intelligence practices through marketing analytics. Michael focuses on providing digital & ecommerce consultancy for clients, aiming to improve business and commercial operations. Michael has an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and NYU Stern Business School.
