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How Much Does a Website Cost in the Philippines?

By Michelle Austria · September 3, 2026 · Reviewed September 2026

The honest answer is a range, because “a website” can mean a single page that takes enquiries or a fifteen-page site with online booking. For a small business in the Philippines in 2026, most projects land somewhere between ₱15,000 and ₱150,000 one-time, plus a small yearly amount to keep it online. Here is what sits behind those numbers.

The three ways to get a business website

1. Do it yourself on a website builder. Wix, Squarespace, or Shopify for a shop. You pay a subscription — roughly ₱600 to ₱2,500 a month depending on the plan — and you build it yourself from their templates. Cheapest to start, but the time cost is real, the design tends to look like the template it came from, and you are renting the platform rather than owning the site.

2. Have a professionally designed template customised. You pick a finished design, and a designer rebuilds it around your brand, words and photos. You get a site that looks made-for-you without paying for a blank-canvas custom build. This is what ElleDesigns does — the template catalog is a set of complete, working demo sites you can click through before deciding.

3. Commission a fully custom site. Every page designed from scratch for your business. The right choice when nothing off the shelf fits — a specific booking flow, a members area, an unusual structure. It costs more because it takes more design time.

What a customised design costs at ElleDesigns

Prices are fixed per project and quoted before any work starts — never by the hour. The exact figure comes after a short kickoff call, once the pages and features are clear. There are three starting points — a one-page site, a full multi-page website, and a website with an ongoing care plan — plus custom projects by quotation. How each works and what moves the price is on the pricing page.

What moves the price

Number of pages. A one-page site and a six-page site are different amounts of design and build work. Most small businesses need somewhere between one and six.

Online booking or a shop. Taking payments, managing a calendar, or listing products with a checkout all add build time.

Content. If you can supply your own text and photos, that is included. If you need the words written from your notes, or licensed stock photography sourced, that is a separate add-on.

A second language. A bilingual site roughly doubles the content work.

The running costs most quotes leave out

Domain name — about ₱600 to ₱1,500 a year for a .com, a little more for .ph. You own it and it renews yearly.

Hosting — where the site actually lives. For a modern static site this can be free or a few hundred pesos a month. A ElleDesigns build is deployed to your own hosting account, in your name.

Maintenance — small content changes, keeping things updated and secure. You can do this yourself, or a monthly care plan handles it. Budget for it one way or another.

Is a Facebook page enough instead?

A Facebook page helps people discover you, but it is not a substitute for a site you control. Search engines and AI assistants read a website far more reliably, you decide the layout and the information, and the page keeps working if the platform changes its rules. Most businesses end up wanting both — the page for reach, the site as the place that answers questions and takes enquiries.

How to budget

Decide how many pages you actually need and whether anything has to be booked or bought on the site — those two answers set most of the price. Then add a small yearly amount for the domain and hosting, and a decision about who maintains it. If you want to see what your money buys before committing, open a few of the live demos and click through them.