What a business website costs in Edmonton in 2026
What a business website costs in Edmonton in 2026, what moves the price, what a template site leaves out and the real cost over three years.
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How much does a website cost in Edmonton in 2026?
What a website costs an Edmonton business depends on what the site has to do. At Glasshead Tech, a custom marketing website costs $4,500 – $12,000 and takes 4 to 6 weeks. A store, booking system or member area costs $9,000 – $28,000 over 6 to 10 weeks. Care after launch starts at $150 a month.
Those figures are in Canadian dollars and sit on our published pricing page, so you can hold them against your budget before anyone books a call. Every project gets a fixed quote before work starts.
What drives the price of a website?
Eight factors move a website up or down its band: the number of pages, how much of the design is custom, what the site connects to, whether it sells online, who writes the content, how much search groundwork is done, who will edit it, and how it is hosted and maintained after launch.
- Page count. Each page needs an outline, a layout and copy. A home page, five service pages and a contact page is a different job from thirty service and area pages.
- Custom design. Laying out pages around your services and buyers takes longer than pouring text into a theme.
- Integrations. A quote form feeding your CRM, a booking calendar or a link to QuickBooks each adds build and testing time. One connection rarely moves the price far; several will.
- E-commerce. Taking payment means a catalogue, cart, checkout, tax and shipping rules, customer accounts and an admin. That is why e-commerce website design has its own band rather than sitting at the top of the website band.
- Content. Finished text and photos from you make the build faster. If we write the pages or arrange photography, that time is in the quote.
- SEO groundwork. Page titles, headings, internal links, redirects from old addresses, page speed and Search Console setup. Google's own SEO starter guide describes the basics any build should cover.
- Who edits it. A site your staff update needs editing screens set up around real tasks, plus training. A site only a developer can change is cheaper to hand over and dearer to own.
- Hosting and care. Hosting, updates, backups and monitoring are a monthly cost, separate from the build.
Website types compared: best for, inclusions and cost
Most business sites fall into one of four types, and the type decides the price band more than the page count does. The table uses Glasshead Tech's published bands. The template route is listed for comparison but not priced, because we do not sell it and what it costs varies by provider and plan.
| Site type | Best for | What is included | Cost band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low-cost template or do-it-yourself site | Testing a new idea, or a placeholder while the business takes shape | A ready-made theme, your own words and photos, the builder's hosting and editor | Not a Glasshead service; usually a subscription plus your own hours |
| Custom marketing website | Service businesses that need local enquiries and a site staff can update | Custom design, editable WordPress build, on-page SEO groundwork, forms, analytics, redirects, training and handover | $4,500 – $12,000, 4–6 weeks |
| E-commerce or booking platform | Selling products online, taking bookings or running customer accounts | Catalogue or booking logic, checkout and payments, customer accounts, shipping and tax rules, an admin your team runs | $9,000 – $28,000, 6–10 weeks |
| Portal or web application | Quoting, scheduling, staged applications or client portals with roles | Workflow discovery, role-based logins, integrations, training and documented handover | $18,000 – $50,000, 8–16 weeks |
One anonymised example shows where the lines fall. A direct-to-consumer store we built for an Alberta specialty food producer needed checkout, shipping and an admin the owners run, which made it platform work rather than a website.
What does a low-cost template website include, and what does it leave out?
A low-cost template site usually includes a ready-made design, a drag-and-drop editor, hosting on the builder's platform and a way to connect your domain. What it usually leaves out is the thinking: page structure planned around your buyers, the copy, search groundwork, redirects from an old site, speed testing and someone to call when a form stops sending.
That trade can be the right one. A business with no customers yet may be better served by one template page now and a proper site once services and prices settle. The cost shows up later, in three places: the owner's evenings spent building and fixing it, enquiries lost to pages that never explain the offer, and a rebuild when the template no longer fits.
Before choosing that route, confirm three things: you can export pages and content if you leave the builder, the domain is registered in your name, and old page addresses can be redirected so existing search rankings survive the move.
What should a website quote include?
A useful website quote names a fixed price, lists every page and feature in scope, says who supplies the content, states how many rounds of changes are included and how extra work is priced, and confirms you will own the domain, code, content and accounts. It should also show the monthly cost after launch.
- A fixed figure, not an hourly estimate without a ceiling.
- A page list and a feature list, so anything excluded is visible.
- Who writes the copy and who supplies photos, with dates for each.
- How changes outside the scope are agreed and priced before extra work begins.
- Redirects from your current addresses, if you already have a site.
- Speed and mobile testing before launch, and a written definition of done.
- The domain, hosting account, code, content and analytics registered to you.
- A payment schedule tied to milestones you can check.
- Training for whoever will edit the site.
- The monthly cost after launch, and whether you can cancel it.
Ours are fixed, written in plain language after a short call, and any scope change is agreed in writing before extra work starts.
What does a website cost over three years?
Over three years, a site in our Websites band with care at the entry rate comes to between $9,900 and $17,400: the $4,500 – $12,000 build plus 36 months at $150. A store in the platform band totals $14,400 – $33,400 on the same basis, before payment processing fees and any third-party software subscriptions.
Care is optional, but the work it covers is not. Someone has to apply software and security updates, watch for outages, keep backups that can be restored and answer the call when a form stops sending. Our website maintenance plan covers hosting for client sites on Canadian infrastructure, updates, monitoring, backups and support by email and phone, from $150 a month, cancellable anytime. The monthly figure rises for larger systems. If you run the site yourself, budget for hosting and for your own hours instead.
Thinking in three-year terms often changes which quote is cheaper. A build that costs less up front but needs a developer for every price change, or a rebuild in year two because it cannot grow, can overtake a site that was planned properly and that your team edits without help.
Getting a figure you can plan around
The quickest route to a real number is a short call about what the site must do, followed by a fixed written quote. Bring your current site address, a rough page list, two or three sites you like and a note on who will edit it. That is enough for us to place the project in a band.
The website design service page sets out what the Websites band includes. When you are ready, send Glasshead Tech a short note about the project and we will reply within 24 hours.
Asked before they write.
How much does a small business website cost in Edmonton?
At Glasshead Tech, a custom small business website costs $4,500 – $12,000 in Canadian dollars and takes four to six weeks. A site with a handful of service pages and supplied content sits near the bottom of that range. More pages, written content, bookings or several integrations move it up. You receive a fixed quote before work starts.
Is hosting included in the price of a website?
Not in the build price. Hosting, updates, monitoring, backups and support are part of our ongoing care, from $150 a month, billed monthly and cancellable anytime. If you would rather host the site yourself, we hand over everything needed to do that, and you pay your hosting provider directly.
How long does it take to build a business website?
Four to six weeks for a marketing website, and six to ten weeks for an e-commerce or booking platform. The schedule depends most on how quickly content, photos and feedback arrive. Review dates are set at the start, so both sides know what is needed and when.
What is not included in a website quote?
A good quote lists its exclusions. Typical ones are third-party software subscriptions, payment processing fees, paid photography, ongoing search marketing and ad spend. In a Glasshead Tech quote, anything outside the written page and feature list is excluded until you agree to it in writing, and a scope change is priced before any work on it begins.
Can I start with a smaller site and add to it later?
Yes, and sometimes that is the right call. A first phase can cover the pages that bring in enquiries now, with more added once the business settles. Plan the structure for the full site from the beginning, so later pages slot in rather than forcing a rebuild, and keep the first phase inside a fixed quote.
Where this goes next.
Glasshead Tech does website design in Edmonton for businesses that want to edit their own site: custom, planned around what buyers ask, on an editor your team learns at handover, with on-page SEO, forms and analytics included. Projects cost $4,500 to $12,000 CAD, take four to six weeks and are quoted at a fixed price first.
Glasshead Tech does ecommerce website design in Edmonton and across Alberta, building stores you can run without a developer: catalogue, cart, checkout, payments, shipping, GST and an admin for orders and stock. We compare Shopify, WooCommerce and custom builds in writing first. Projects cost $9,000 to $28,000 CAD, take six to ten weeks and are quoted fixed.
Glasshead Tech provides website maintenance in Edmonton through care plans that start from $150 per month, cancel anytime. A plan covers hosting where needed, software updates, backups, uptime and security monitoring, small content edits and support by email and phone. Larger changes are quoted separately. Sites built by someone else get a review before we take them over.
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