How much does a website cost in Lebanon?

A website in Lebanon costs whatever the job actually is: a few public pages people can find, or a booking calendar, or a store that takes cash on delivery. Those are not the same product. Quotes on Facebook range from a favour to a number that belongs in another country because people are selling different things under the same word. Ask for a written page list. Then the number means something.

With this practice a starter site starts from $350, a booking or store system from $600, and custom automation from $500. Those figures live in one price file so the site, the packages page, and this article cannot drift.

Why “how much” is the wrong first question

If you only ask how much, you will compare a cousin’s one-page card to a shop that needs checkout, WhatsApp tickets, and Arabic plus English. The cheap one will look clever until you ask where the calendar is. The expensive one will look greedy until you read the list. Start with the job: found on Google, booked without a phone tag, or sold while you sleep.

A second trap is hourly talk. Hours only run one way, and they run faster when the scope was never written. Fixed scope, fixed price, in writing, is how you sleep. If they will not write the pages, they do not have a price. They have bait.

Three jobs, three starting numbers

Starter site: from $350. For owners who are invisible on search and tired of pasting the price list into WhatsApp. You get the pages you signed, mobile layout, the languages you actually need, click-to-call, WhatsApp, a form, a Maps checklist. You do not get a staff calendar or checkout. Timeline after content arrives: 1-2 weeks.

Booking or store: from $600. For clinics, salons, gyms, and shops that lose money when the phone is busy or Instagram is the till. Pick one centre: appointments or products. Mixing both is possible; it is not this starter number. Timeline: 3-5 weeks.

Custom automation: from $500. For teams typing the same order into chat, a sheet, and an invoice. One flow first. Timeline: 2-6 weeks as a planning range; the quote locks a date after we map the messy version, including the cousin who still takes paper at the door.

The public packages, what is in and what is out, live on pricing. This article is the buying guide so you do not pay for the wrong job.

What is never in a honest website quote

Weekly social posts. A warehouse. Ads spend. Writing all your copy from nothing if you send a blank folder. A second location. Those get added as new pieces or they get quietly billed later. Ask. If the answer is “we will see”, leave.

Hosting is not the build. A site that only lives on a PC in the shop disappears when the power does. Hosting here is $10 per month for a typical public site we launch. Care and small text or photo updates, if you want someone on call, are $30 per month. Domain names are billed at cost from the registrar. You can host elsewhere. Then you own the 3am surprises.

Lebanon extras that change the number, honestly

A second language is work if it is a real page, not a plugin that flips letters. WhatsApp as the main button is normal and should be in the starter. Cash on delivery, Whish, OMT, mixed USD and LBP, those belong to a store, not to a brochure, and they are why the store package exists. Do not stuff them into a cheap five-page site and act surprised.

I will not quote Google ads prices, bank fees, or “average agency rates in Beirut”. Those change and they are not this product. I will tell you when a vendor’s number is for a different job.

Red flags when you shop around

No written scope. A price that is only cheap until the second invoice. They want your hosting password and then disappear. Rank guarantees. A template checkout with seven payment logos you cannot check. “Unlimited pages” with no owner. You should keep the keys. The first conversation should be free and short.

Freelancer versus a big agency is the wrong war. An agency adds people who never touch your site. A random freelancer may vanish. What you want is the person who does the work, a page list, and a number that does not grow in the dark.

If the job is “people cannot find us”, start with a website in Lebanon, not a store. If they find you and then wait on WhatsApp for a slot, you need booking. If they already buy and you pack from screenshots, you need a store. Read do I need a website if you are still on that fence. Then message on WhatsApp or use the contact form. Bring the messy truth, not a moodboard.