"How much for a website?" has no single answer until you say what kind of business. A dental clinic and an online store both need a site, but they need different things from it — and paying for features your business type never uses is the most common way Pinoy small businesses overspend. Here's the real 2026 cost per business type, plus the short list of features each one should insist on.
Website cost by business type (2026)
| Business type | Freelancer / agency price | Features that actually matter |
|---|---|---|
| Dental / derma / vet clinic | ₱15,000–₱45,000 | Online booking, GCash deposit, service price list, practitioner bios, Google review funnel |
| Restaurant / café | ₱12,000–₱40,000 | Live mobile menu, food photos, reserve/call button, Maps directions, GrabFood/Foodpanda links |
| Salon / spa / barbershop | ₱12,000–₱38,000 | Online booking, service + price menu, before/after gallery, staff profiles |
| Auto / aircon / repair shop | ₱12,000–₱38,000 | Services + rates, quote request, call button, service-area map, trust badges |
| Online store (small catalog) | ₱40,000–₱150,000+ | Product catalog, cart or Messenger-order flow, GCash/Maya/card checkout, inventory |
Ranges are typical 2026 freelancer-to-small-agency prices for a finished site. A done-for-you service (Web by Lods.AI) is ₱0 to start regardless of type, with the layout and features tailored to your business.
Clinics: dental, derma, vet
High-trust, repeat-customer businesses. The website's job is to win the booking and build trust — so booking, a GCash deposit (cuts no-shows hard), a clear price list, practitioner credentials, and a Google review funnel matter far more than animation. A ₱40,000 "premium" clinic site with no online booking is worse than a ₱0-to-start one that books patients at 11 PM. We go deep on this in our dental clinic, dermatology clinic, and veterinary clinic pages.
Restaurants & cafés
The whole game is a live, mobile menu you can update yourself when prices change, food photos that look good on a phone, a call/reserve button, Maps directions, and links to GrabFood or Foodpanda. Eateries rarely need a custom CMS or heavy build — they need fast loading and an always-current menu. Overpaying here usually means buying features diners never touch.
Salons, spas & service shops
Salons, barbershops, aircon and auto-repair shops all live or die on bookings and a clear price list. Online booking, a service menu with rates, a before/after or work gallery, and a quote-request button do the heavy lifting. See our auto shop and aircon/HVAC pages for the service-business playbook.
Online stores
This is the priciest category because of the moving parts: catalog, cart, payment gateway, inventory. A full custom store is ₱40,000–₱150,000+; a Shopify or WooCommerce subscription is ₱1,500–₱5,000/month plus transaction fees. But here's the Pinoy-specific shortcut: if you sell a handful of products, a clean catalog site with a Messenger or GCash "order now" flow converts just as well as a full cart for a fraction of the cost. Don't buy Shopify-scale infrastructure to sell twelve SKUs.
The same honest price, tailored to your type
Whatever you run, we build your site from your real Facebook and Google content — booking for clinics, a live menu for restaurants, a catalog for sellers — and the price stays the same: ₱0 to start, ₱1,699/month year 1, then ₱1,000/month. You get the features your business type needs and skip the ones it doesn't.
Two ways to pay — any business type
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By route, for every business type
DIY builder vs freelancer vs agency vs done-for-you — the cost framework behind every business type above.
| DIY builder (Wix / Hostinger) | Freelancer | Agency | Web by Lods.AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | ₱0 plan, but paywalled (ads + branded subdomain) | ₱8,000–₱25,000 | ₱40,000–₱500,000+ | ₱0 to start (or ₱8,500 to own sooner) |
| Who builds it | You | One freelancer | A team | We do — your Web Lods ❤️ |
| Time to live | Hours–weeks (your time) | 2–6 weeks | 4–12 weeks | ~5 business days |
| GCash / Maya pay | Usually unsupported | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Taglish + PH-local | No | Sometimes | Sometimes | Yes |
| Free preview first | No (free trial only) | No | No | Yes — built in 24h |
| Ongoing | ₱280–₱2,800/mo + your labor | ₱2,000–₱10,000/mo maintenance | ₱2,000–₱10,000/mo | ₱1,699/mo yr 1 → ₱1,000/mo yr 2, cancel anytime |
PH price bands from published 2026 market data (agencies ₱15k–₱500k+; DIY builders ₱280–₱2,800/mo). Web by Lods.AI is a done-for-you service — not a DIY builder.
The cheapest website for your business type isn't the one with the lowest price — it's the one that has exactly the features your customers use, and not one peso more.