₹15,000 sits inside the honest range for a properly built five-page business site in Delhi NCR — and naming it in your first message gets you a faster, more useful answer than hiding it does. The worst outcome from saying it is a polite decline and a referral to someone better suited.
The fear, and what it costs you
You have ₹15,000. The vendor’s website looks polished. You assume they’ll dismiss you, so you either don’t enquire, or you enquire vaguely and hope the number that comes back is manageable.
Both cost you. The first eliminates a vendor who might have quoted within your budget. The second wastes a week on a negotiation that a single sentence would have resolved.
Self-elimination on price grounds is common and it’s the more expensive of the two.
Where ₹15,000 actually sits
Not at the bottom. Inside the honest range:
| What you’re buying | Range in NCR |
|---|---|
| Packaged template, you supply everything | From around ₹7,000/yr |
| 5 pages, built properly, you supply content | ₹15,000–40,000 |
| 5–8 pages with content written for you | ₹35,000–70,000 |
| Store with payments and stock | ₹60,000 upward |
₹15,000 is the lower end of a legitimate band, not below the market. It buys a real project provided one condition holds: you supply your own text and photographs.
That condition is the actual variable, not the number.
What ₹15,000 should genuinely include
Ask for these and expect them:
- Five pages, named — home, services with prices, about, contact, and one more
- A layout that works properly on a phone
- Your logo used as supplied
- A contact form delivering to an inbox you check
- A WhatsApp button with the country code
- Your address with a map
- Year-one domain and hosting, or a clear statement of what they cost
- The domain registered in your own name and account
- Analytics and Search Console under your own Google account
- Two revision rounds
- All three logins handed over at launch
That’s a complete small business website. Nothing on that list is a luxury.
What it won’t include, honestly
- Content written for you — you supply the text and photographs
- Original design; you’ll get an adapted template, which is fine
- Unlimited revisions
- Post-launch support beyond a short period, unless you pay for a plan
- Anything that brings visitors
If you need content produced for you, that’s real work and it pushes the number up. Better to know that now than to agree ₹15,000 and stall at week three because nobody wrote the text.
How to say it
One message, budget named:
Hi — I run [business type] in [area]. I need a straightforward five-page website: [list the pages]. I’ll supply my own text, photographs and logo. My budget is around ₹15,000. Is that something you’d take on? If it’s below your range, I’d appreciate a pointer to someone it suits.
Three outcomes, all useful. They say yes and you have a vendor. They decline but suggest someone — a referral worth more than a directory search. Or they don’t reply, which tells you what working with them would have been like.
Naming the number is what makes the answer immediate. Vendors don’t resent a stated budget; they resent three exchanges that end in one.
What not to do with a small budget
Don’t hide it and hope. You’ll get a proposal for something larger and then have an awkward conversation.
Don’t buy a cheaper vendor — buy a smaller site. Three pages done properly beats ten pages at the floor of the market. Reduce the scope, not the vendor’s viability.
Don’t skip the domain. Register it yourself first, in your own account. About ₹1,000 a year and it’s the single most important thing on this page regardless of budget.
Don’t spend all of it on the build. Keep something for getting found. A site with no traffic behind it behaves like no site.
The thing that earns you respect
Not the budget. Being organised.
A buyer who arrives with a named page list, their content ready, one decision-maker and a clear budget is a better client than one with three times the money and none of those. Vendors know which projects finish, and yours will be near the top of the list.
That’s genuinely how you get treated well at ₹15,000.
What to do this week
- Register your domain in your own account — about ₹1,000.
- Write your one page of content and take four photographs.
- Send the budget-named message to three vendors.
- Ask for a referral where anyone declines.
- Keep something aside for traffic rather than spending it all on the build.
If you want it done the certain way
Tell us your budget in the first message and we’ll tell you plainly what it covers and what it doesn’t — and if a packaged option suits you better, we’ll point you there. Domain in your name, year-two cost stated, whatever the size of the project. WhatsApp us; we reply in about five minutes between 9am and 7pm.
Related reading
- “This agency looks too big for me”
- How much should you budget for a website?
- What’s actually inside a ₹4,999 website offer?
- Where do you start when looking for a developer?
FAQ
Is ₹15,000 enough for a business website?
Yes, for a properly built five-page site where you supply your own text and photographs. That’s the lower end of the honest NCR range, not below the market. Content written for you pushes the figure higher.
Should I tell a web developer my budget?
Yes, in the first message. It produces a faster, more honest answer, and vendors who can’t help at that level often refer you to someone who can — which is more useful than three exchanges ending in a decline.
What should I do if my website budget is very small?
Reduce the scope rather than the vendor’s viability — three pages done properly beat ten done cheaply. Register the domain yourself first, and keep some budget aside for getting found rather than spending it all on the build.
