How much does a website cost in Richmond?
The rates first, then the Richmond part: in the region’s most international city, the strongest thing a website can say is shown, not written.
The short answer: Richmond pays the same rates as the rest of Metro Vancouver: $5,000 to $20,000 at agencies, $300 to $1,500 freelance, $15 to $50 a month forever on builders. We build Richmond businesses their website for $499 to $999 one time, photoshoot at your business from $699, no monthly fees. The full market breakdown is in the price guide; this page is about what makes Richmond different.
The most international city in the region
Just over 60 percent of Richmond residents are immigrants, the highest share in Metro Vancouver, and the city’s commercial life shows it, from Steveston’s wharf to the food corridors around Alexandra Road that people cross the region for. For a business website, that has a practical meaning most guides skip: your customers search in more than one language, and your page cannot write its way into all of them. It can show its way into all of them. A photo of the dish, the finished haircut, the tiled bathroom you renovated, reads the same in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi or Tagalog.
Photos first is a strategy here, not a style
This is why our Richmond builds lean on the $699 bundle: the website plus a real shoot at your business. Stock photos are generic in every language at once; your actual counter, your actual work, is persuasive in all of them. The wider evidence agrees, 93 percent of diners check menus online and listings with real photos get measurably more directions requests and clicks, and we broke the food specifics down in the café guide and the rates in the photography price guide.
What the money buys
A four to six page informational site, owned outright: prices, hours, directions, the photos doing the talking, reviews out front, one booking or call button. $499 for the site, $699 with the shoot, $999 with video, live in about a week, domain in your name at about $20 a year. We drive anywhere in Richmond for shoots, Steveston to Hamilton, usually on a weekend. What we deliberately do not build, stores and live booking platforms, is the honest part of the platform guide.
Common questions from Richmond businesses
The market here runs $5,000 to $20,000 at agencies, $300 to $1,500 freelance, and $15 to $50 a month on builders. We build for $499 to $999, once.
All of Richmond: Steveston, City Centre, Alexandra Road, Ironwood, and everywhere between.
Customers who search in many languages all read photos the same way. Your real work is the universal copy.
Real photos, a menu as a readable page, true hours, directions with parking. The comparison in a food city is visual.
Normally within one week of the first call.
Sources
- NewToBC demographic profiles: Richmond’s 60%+ immigrant share referenced
- OpenTable data: 93% check menus online
- BrightLocal: photos and local listing engagement
Keep reading: the full price guide · everywhere we work in the Lower Mainland
Your work speaks every language.
Book a 15 minute call. Website and photoshoot from $699, live in about a week.
Book your call