How much does a website cost in South Africa?

The short answer

Re-EL publishes starting prices because guessing is disrespectful to everyone involved:

• Websites — from R2,500. Corporate sites, landing pages and web apps engineered for performance and conversion.
• Applications — from R5,000. Custom platforms, business systems and internal tools built around how your company actually works.
• Automation — from R1,500. Workflow automation that removes repetitive manual work and connects directly to your systems.
• Support — from R2,500/mo. Ongoing maintenance, bug fixing and optimisation after launch.

Those are floors, not fixed menu prices. Every project is different, so every quote is built from scope, complexity and requirements rather than a generic one-size-fits-all package.

What actually moves the number

Three things, in rough order of impact.

1. Scope

The number of distinct screens, roles and integrations is the largest driver. A five-page corporate site and a customer portal with authentication, payments and reporting are not the same object, and no honest estimate treats them as one.

2. Integration

Connecting payments, a CRM, a database or any third-party service adds real engineering: authentication, error handling, retries, reconciliation. Each connection is quoted on its own so you can see where the money goes.

3. Content and readiness

Projects slow down when copy, photography and approvals arrive late. Having your content organised before the build starts is the cheapest saving available to you.

What is not optional

Some things are part of how Re-EL builds, not line items you have to argue for:

• Self-hosted fonts and assets — no third-party requests slowing the page down or leaking your visitors' data.
• Semantic heading structure, alt text and keyboard-visible focus states.
• Core Web Vitals work: lazy media, sized image slots and minimal layout shift.
• Metadata, canonical URLs and structured data so search engines understand the page.

How to get an accurate number

Send the enquiry form with as much of the following as you already know:

• What problem the thing solves, in one sentence.
• Who uses it — customers, staff, or both.
• What it has to connect to.
• What happens today instead.
• When you need it by, if that date is real.

That is enough for a scoping conversation and a dated schedule with the quote. Start a project, message Re-EL on WhatsApp, or read more on the services pages.