Web Development Agency in Christchurch

Platform, template count and integrations decide it, in that order. A standard WordPress brochure or service site is the cheapest build. Larger WordPress sites with custom templates and one or two integrations cost meaningfully more, and it is the integrations that move the number rather than the extra pages. A well-configured Shopify store sits between the two, rising sharply for custom logic or headless work. Next.js builds with bespoke functionality are the most expensive, because everything is written rather than configured. Discovery is quoted separately and the build price is fixed after it.

It is a flat monthly plan with two tiers. The standard plan covers a WordPress or Shopify site — hosting, updates, backups, uptime monitoring and a small allowance for content edits. The higher tier is for larger sites and Next.js builds with integrations that need watching, where a failed third-party call matters more than a plugin update does. You can also take the repository and host it yourself; we will document the setup either way.

WordPress if your team publishes regularly and wants to edit without a developer. Shopify if you sell physical product, because payments, shipping, GST and stock are already solved. Next.js if you need custom logic, unusual speed, or a front end pulling live data from another system. We make the call in discovery and write down why. The design half of the project — user experience, information architecture, brand expression — is covered on our Christchurch web design page, and the two usually run together.

A standard site is six to eight weeks from discovery to launch. Larger builds with integrations run ten to sixteen weeks. The variable is almost never our engineering — it is content and third-party access. Projects that stall usually stall waiting on copy, photography, or API credentials from another vendor.

No, and we would rather tell you that than list an address we do not occupy. Our studio is at G04 428 Dominion Road, Mt Eden, Auckland, and Canterbury clients are delivered remotely — video calls, a shared staging link from week one, and a project board you can open at any time. In practice that is how most web development runs now regardless of where the developer sits, because the work happens in a repository and a browser rather than in a room. If a project genuinely needs someone on the ground for a site visit or photography, we arrange it and quote the travel openly rather than burying it in the build price.

Compare on the three things that actually differ. First, does the quote follow a discovery, or is it a number produced before anyone listed the systems the site has to talk to? Second, who owns the output — the repository, the hosting account, the domain, the third-party credentials should all be in your name, and any hesitation there is the answer. Third, ask how they handle launch: mapped redirects for every old URL with traffic or links, tracking verified before switchover, and someone watching Search Console daily for the first fortnight. Portfolios all look similar; those three answers do not.

Often, yes, and we will say so. If the underlying build is sound, a performance pass, a hosting move and some integration work can cost a quarter of a rebuild and get most of the benefit. We recommend a rebuild when the platform is unsupported, the content model cannot express what you sell, or the accumulated plugin debt makes every change risky.