Website and Software Development Pricing

A custom website starts from €1,000, an online store from €5,000 and AI integrations from €2,500. The final amount depends on scope, and you get it in writing before work starts, as a fixed price per phase. These are starting prices for a simpler project of each type, not averages.

Get a ballpark for your project in the calculator at the top of this page, or see the details on custom web development and e-commerce development.

The difference between a template site and a custom-built one is not how it looks. It is everything you don't see: how fast it loads, who owns it, what you pay every year and how exposed it is to attacks. On launch day both look finished. The difference shows over the next year or two, in Google and on your invoices.

Speed and Google. According to HTTP Archive's Web Almanac 2025, only 45% of WordPress sites pass Google's Core Web Vitals on mobile, the speed and stability measures Google takes into account in ranking. A template has to fit thousands of different businesses, so it ships code for features your site never uses. A custom site ships only what it needs: nevioxdigital.com scores 98 on Lighthouse, and the Poliklinika dr. Meter site scores 99 out of 100.

Ownership. Wix's own help centre says a Wix site must run on Wix's servers, so you can't move it to another host. With WordPress the problem is different: premium theme and plugin licences are often registered to the agency, and when the agency goes, so do your updates. With us, the code, domain, hosting and every account are in your name from day one, and any team can take the site over.

Licences you pay for forever. A serious WordPress site often needs several paid plugins: a page builder, multilingual support, SEO, caching, security, forms and backups. Each one renews every year. Add them up over three to five years and compare that with the difference in the build price. A custom site has none of these line items, because the features are part of code you own.

Security. Patchstack's State of WordPress Security in 2026 report counts 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem during 2025: 91% of them in plugins, and 46% with no fix available when they were disclosed. Every plugin is someone else's code that you have to track and update. A custom site has fewer external dependencies, and the ones it has are documented and maintained as part of the project.

When a template is the right call. If you need a simple site with a few pages, don't plan to grow it, and it isn't your main source of enquiries, a template is a sensible choice and we'll tell you so. Once the site has to bring in enquiries, bookings or sales, a custom build is an investment you can see in the results: Poliklinika dr. Meter's new site brought 45% more mobile conversions.

The cheapest quote is not always the cheapest website. You see the real price when you add up everything you pay over three years, not just the build.

• Template site: the build, a platform subscription or yearly theme and plugin licences, regular updates, fixes when an update breaks something, and sometimes a full rebuild when the site can no longer keep up with the business.
• Custom site: the build, hosting, and maintenance billed by the time actually spent. No licence for the code and no mandatory subscriptions, and new features are added to the existing site instead of starting over.

The gap in the starting price is smaller than it looks: a custom website with us starts from €1,000. When you compare it with a template quote, compare what you will pay over the next three years too.

Check these points before you sign. If a proposal has no clear answer to one of them, a low price usually has a reason.

• Domain and hosting in the agency's name. The domain must be registered to you, or the site isn't really yours.
• Licences on the agency's account. If the theme and plugins aren't on your account, you lose updates when the agency leaves.
• No written scope. Without a list of pages, features and languages you don't know what you're paying for, and every change becomes an extra.
• No plan for moving from the old site. Without redirects from the old URLs you lose the Google rankings the site already has.
• The full amount upfront. Payment with no phases and no sign-off puts all the risk on you.
• Unclear costs after launch. Hosting, licences and maintenance belong in the proposal, not on the first invoice.

Every proposal we send answers all of this in writing, before work starts.

We build websites, online stores and business software for companies whose website has to bring in business, not just exist. What you get:

• Engineers with 5+ years of experience on every project. The engineer who replies to your enquiry is the one who builds it.
• A fixed price per phase. Each phase has its own amount and ends with your sign-off before the next one starts.
• Ownership of everything. Code, domain, hosting and accounts are in your name.
• Work built around your goal. We first agree on what the site or software must achieve for your business, then decide how to build it.
• Three languages. We build and write in English, German and Croatian.
• EU legal framework. Based in Split, Croatia, with GDPR built into the work and a data processing agreement on request.

The same engineering standard you'd expect from a London or Berlin agency, for less than a comparable agency there charges.

Projects with a clear scope get a fixed price per phase. Work that changes over time runs as a scoped engagement, priced to the scope and value of the work.

1. Fixed price per phase: websites, online stores and MVPs. You know the amount before work starts, and it only changes if the scope changes, with your approval.
2. Scoped engagement: AI integrations, ERP and software built in steps. We confirm the price of each phase before it starts.
3. Maintenance and further development: basic maintenance is billed by the time actually spent. For systems your revenue depends on there is also a managed service, scoped to your system and agreed in writing.

Payment is part upfront and the rest per delivered phase. You never pay for something that doesn't exist yet, and the project runs on a predictable schedule.

Scope, features, integrations and content move the price the most. The clearer each of them is at the start, the more precise the proposal.

• Scope: the number of pages and of different page types.
• Languages: each language version means translation, separate URLs for Google and testing.
• Features: bookings, a store, user accounts, calculators, search.
• Integrations: connecting a CRM, ERP, payments or inventory, agreed per project.
• Content: whether texts and photos are ready or need to be produced.
• Moving from an old site: migrating content and redirecting old URLs.
• Data and security: migrating existing data and specific requirements, for example in healthcare.

You get to a fixed proposal in three steps, with no obligation to continue.

1. Ballpark: pick the project type, languages and features in the calculator and get an estimated range.
2. Project brief: describe the project in the enquiry form. The engineer who will build it replies in writing, with a scope assessment and an estimated price range.
3. Fixed proposal: you get a proposal broken down by phase, stating what is included, what isn't and what you pay after launch.

For the enquiry it helps to have a list of the pages you need, two or three sites you like, the languages, the systems you already use and a rough budget. A rough budget isn't a trap: it lets us propose a scope that actually fits it.

For more complex projects, where the existing system, integrations and risks need to be reviewed before a proposal, we run a technical project analysis. It is a paid engagement from €600 that delivers a complete technical blueprint: data model, integrations, risks and a development cost estimate. The document is yours to keep, and if you continue with development with us, the analysis fee is deducted from the first development invoice.

Referral program: refer a business that signs a contract for custom development and you receive 10% of the contracted value, paid within 14 business days after the client pays in full.

Basic maintenance is billed by the time actually spent, with no fixed monthly package. It covers security updates, uptime monitoring, daily backups and small fixes. New features aren't maintenance; they are new work and are estimated separately, before anything is done.

For systems your revenue depends on there is a managed service: a written response time in working hours, monitoring with alerts, a monthly report and reserved development days. It is scoped to your system and agreed in writing before it starts.

Maintenance is a service, not a condition. The code is yours, so the site keeps working if you don't take maintenance with us, and any team can take it over.