Straight answers.
What things cost in Australia, which option fits, and how to check where you stand, written for the person paying rather than for search engines. Every guide has the market's bands or the trade-offs, what we charge, and at least one real project itemised line by line.
- Website
- $5,000–15,000
- Under 1 s
- no extra, if decided in week one
- Store
- $56 a month, plus the build
- Automation
- $5,000–15,000 a process
- Web app
- $15,000–45,000
- AI visibility
- $0–5,000 a month
- To run
- $0–200 a month
Every figure on these pages excludes GST.
Australia · 2026Because "it depends" is not an answer.
Ask what a website costs and you get a range so wide it tells you nothing, or a form that promises a quote and delivers a phone call. We publish our prices on every service page, so writing these was mostly a matter of showing our working: what each band actually buys, what moves a number within a range, what the thing costs to run once it exists, and what real projects came to, line by line.
Where a figure comes from somebody else we say who and when. Where it comes from our own books we round it and say so. Where we cannot source it, it is not here.
Every guide, by service.
Web Development · 6
- Cost guide
How much does a website cost in Australia?
Most Australian businesses pay $5,000 to $15,000 for a website designed and built for them in 2026. The bands, running costs, what we charge, and one real build itemised line by line.
Updated October 2026 · 10 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
How much does it cost to build a website that loads in under a second?
No more than a website built properly: $5,000 to $15,000 across the Australian market, $9,000 to $18,000 with us. What each band buys, what makes a page fast, four sites timed, and what to ask anyone who says theirs are.
Updated October 2026 · 14 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
How much does a Shopify store cost in Australia?
Shopify costs $56 a month in Australia, plus $1,500 to $35,000 to build. Plan prices, card rates, the app bill, build bands, and one real store itemised.
Updated September 2026 · 9 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
How much does a web app cost in Australia?
$15,000 to $45,000 with us for a portal, a dashboard or a booking system built around how you work, and $10,000 to $150,000 across the Australian market. The bands, the booking tools, portal subscriptions and no-code builders priced beside them, when to build instead, and our own product with every hour counted.
Updated September 2026 · 14 min read Read the guide - Comparison
Is a headless Shopify storefront better than a standard Shopify theme?
Headless wins on speed, layout and content; a theme wins on time to launch, cost and one admin. Which store wants which, the cheaper ways to a faster theme, one real headless store itemised, and what to ask whoever builds it.
Updated September 2026 · 13 min read Read the guide - Comparison
Is WordPress or a pre-rendered site better for speed, cost and editing?
Pre-rendered for speed and running cost, a tie on editing once the site is built from named sections, and WordPress when your team already runs it or the feature is a plugin. Row by row, the fixes short of a rebuild priced, one pre-rendered site itemised, and six WordPress sites we replaced.
Updated September 2026 · 13 min read Read the guide
SEO & AI Visibility · 3
- How-to
How do you check whether ChatGPT mentions your business?
Ask the engines twenty of your customers' questions, three times over a fortnight, and count who gets named. That is the whole method and it costs an afternoon. The tracking tools from US$29 a month, a free report that runs it once, and the four reasons AI answers skip a business, with the fix for each.
Updated September 2026 · 13 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
How much does AI visibility reporting cost in Australia?
Nothing to $5,000 a month, depending on whether you want the number, the number with the fixing, or just to know. The three ways to pay, the tools by price, what a month's report should contain, one client's real report card, and what we charge.
Updated September 2026 · 11 min read Read the guide - Comparison
Should you focus on SEO or AI visibility now?
Both, in one programme, because most of the work is shared. SEO gets a page ranked for a keyword; GEO gets a business named in the answer to a question. What each optimises for, how each is measured, what only one of them needs, when to lead with which, and one client measured.
Updated September 2026 · 12 min read Read the guide
AI Automation · 4
- How-to
How do you keep your CRM, accounting and bookings in sync?
Give every fact one home, move it by webhook the moment it changes, match records on IDs and queue what does not match for a person. The method in eight steps, the five ways to wire it from a $0 connector to a $5,000 to $15,000 build, with Zapier, Make, n8n, HubSpot, Xero, Zoho and Odoo priced, and one real integration itemised.
Updated September 2026 · 13 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
How much does AI automation cost in Australia?
Automating one business process end to end costs $5,000 to $15,000 in Australia, plus $20 to $200 a month to run. The bands, what it costs to keep running, and one real system itemised, with two more priced beside it, from $5,000 to $36,000.
Updated September 2026 · 11 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
What does it cost to automate document and application processing?
An OCR template is A$89 to $199 a month and copies without checking. Cloud document AI reads a thousand pages for US$1.50 to $50 and does nothing else. A system that receives, reads, checks against your rules, files and flags the exceptions is $5,000 to $15,000. The five options priced, what the Privacy Act asks of an application pipeline, and one real system itemised.
Updated September 2026 · 14 min read Read the guide - Cost guide
What does it cost to automate enquiries and bookings?
A booking tool is $0 to $50 a month and answers nothing. An answering service or an AI receptionist rents you part of the job for $25 to $500 a month. A system built around your calendar, CRM and inbox is $5,000 to $15,000. Which one stops the 9:40pm enquiry going elsewhere, what breaks, and one real system itemised.
Updated September 2026 · 13 min read Read the guide