What does a website cost in Egypt? How to read any quote

Ask ten agencies and you get ten answers, most of them "it depends on the project". True, but not useful on its own. What helps is understanding what sets the number, so you can judge any quote yourself.

Project types, lightest to heaviest

• Single landing page — one page built around one goal; the fastest and cheapest to build.
• Company website (4–6 pages) — the most common request from small and mid-sized businesses.
• E-commerce store — products, cart, checkout and shipping, so it sits above a company site.
• Business system (CRM, pharmacy, POS) — driven by how many users and processes it covers.
• Full ERP — the heaviest, rising with modules, branches and integrations.

Anyone who gives you a final number before asking about pages, integrations and content is guessing, not quoting.

What actually moves the price

• Number of pages or screens — each one is real work.
• Integrations: payment gateway, courier, accounting system.
• An extra language — not just translation, a whole direction and layout.
• Who writes the content and supplies the images.
• How fast you need it. Urgency costs.

How to judge a quote

A serious quote states exactly what is included, what is not, how many revision rounds, and the delivery date. A single line with a number is not a quote — it is a guess.

And always ask: "if I need a change a month after launch, how is that handled?" The answer separates someone selling you a project from someone selling you a relationship.

Build a budget that survives the real project

A useful budget separates the build from the operating cost. The build covers discovery, design, development, testing and launch. Operating cost covers hosting, paid services, maintenance, content and advertising. Mixing them into one number makes a cheap first quote look better than it really is.

Compare quotations using the same scope and insist that every price is written in Egyptian pounds. Ask whether VAT, third-party subscriptions, support, content entry and post-launch changes are included. For services invoiced from abroad, record the actual Egyptian-pound charge shown by the bank on the payment date instead of promising a fixed conversion.

• Write the exact pages, screens, integrations and revision rounds.
• Separate one-time delivery from monthly and annual costs.
• Keep a 10–15% contingency for approved scope changes, not unclear requirements.
• Tie payments to visible milestones and a written acceptance checklist.

A topic-specific field checklist

• Ask for a page inventory, responsive states, CMS scope and integrations—not a vague “company website”.
• Budget by scope rather than by label: a focused landing page, a small company site and a basic store are three different sizes of work, and content, integrations and custom workflows raise each of them.
• Acceptance should cover mobile layout, forms, analytics, backups and account handover.
• Compare the final delivered scope, not the first number on the proposal.

Details most proposals miss

A price becomes meaningful only when it is connected to deliverables and operating assumptions. The useful comparison is not “how much?” but “what business capability exists on launch day, what evidence proves it works, and what will it cost to keep reliable?”

• A scope matrix that ties every screen and integration to an owner and acceptance test.
• Three cost columns: build, recurring operation and optional growth work.
• A dependency list for content, licences, payment providers, hosting and client approvals.
• A change-control rule that prices only genuinely new scope.
• A handover pack covering accounts, source files, backups and support contacts.

The TechMate implementation layer

In a TechMate scope, the useful difference is the operational layer around the deliverable. The client sees where the money goes and receives a product that can be measured, maintained and handed to another qualified team if needed.

• Arabic and English scope reviewed separately, including RTL behaviour.
• Mobile acceptance on real screen sizes, not a desktop preview resized by eye.
• Analytics events agreed before development instead of added after launch.
• Egyptian integrations and invoice requirements treated as core scope.
• A launch checklist with evidence for forms, payments, speed, access and recovery.

Delivery phases that reduce risk

A sensible commercial plan releases money when uncertainty falls. This protects both sides and keeps early discovery from being confused with finished production.

• Discovery: confirm users, goals, constraints and existing assets.
• Specification: approve scope, exclusions, dependencies and acceptance evidence.
• Prototype: validate risky journeys before full production.
• Delivery: test complete scenarios with real content and accounts.
• Operation: monitor, support and price later improvements from actual usage.

Questions that reveal implementation quality

• Which line items disappear if the scope is reduced?
• Which recurring costs are controlled by third parties?
• What evidence releases each payment milestone?
• Who owns every account and editable source file?
• How are defects separated from new change requests?

A realistic scenario

Example: two proposals both say “company website”. One includes bilingual content structure, lead tracking, redirects, backups and account handover; the other includes five visual pages only. The page count matches, but the business result and future cost do not.

Important: The figures shown are starting estimates in Egyptian pounds, not a fixed quotation. Scope, taxes and third-party services determine the final price.

Sources directly related to this guide

• Egyptian Tax Authority — VAT Law No. 67 of 2016