Pricing

Most South African agencies will not tell you what a website costs until they have your phone number. We think that is a strange way to start a relationship, so here are our prices.

These are real, fixed prices for the scope described. If your project needs more than that, we will say so before you pay anything — and the number in the written proposal is the number on the invoice.

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Business website

A complete, custom-built business website. Not a recycled template with your logo dropped into it.

R5 500

excluding VAT

or 3 × R1 833 with PayJustNow no interest, no fees

Best for: Established businesses, professional practices and consultancies who need to be found and believed.

What is included

  • Up to 7 pages, designed around what your customers actually need to decide
  • Mobile-first — most South African traffic is on a phone, so that is where we design
  • SEO foundations: clean structure, meta data, sitemap, Google Search Console setup
  • AI-answer-engine ready: structured data and an llms.txt so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can quote you correctly
  • Enquiry forms with POPIA consent, plus a privacy policy draft
  • Google Business Profile setup guidance for local search
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement
  • Training handover so you can update your own content

What is not included

  • Domain registration and hosting (we advise, you own the accounts)
  • Copywriting beyond structuring and tightening what you supply
  • Stock photography licences

Listing exclusions is not us being difficult — it is how you avoid a surprise invoice. Anything here can be quoted separately.

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E-commerce store

Everything in the business website, plus a working shop that takes South African payments.

R7 500

excluding VAT

or 3 × R2 500 with PayJustNow no interest, no fees

Best for: Retailers and product businesses selling online, whether that is 12 products or 1 200.

What is included

  • Everything in the business website package
  • WooCommerce store, configured properly rather than left on defaults
  • South African payment gateways — PayFast, Yoco, Ozow or PayGate
  • Courier and delivery rules, including local rates and collection
  • Product schema so your items are eligible for Google Shopping results
  • Abandoned-cart recovery and order notification emails
  • Stock, variation and pricing structure set up with you
  • Consumer Protection Act and POPIA-shaped store policies

What is not included

  • Payment gateway merchant fees and approval (the gateway’s own process)
  • Product photography
  • Bulk product data capture beyond an agreed starting catalogue

Listing exclusions is not us being difficult — it is how you avoid a surprise invoice. Anything here can be quoted separately.

Get a proposal for a e-commerce store

Custom software

Software built for how your business actually works, when off-the-shelf will not do it.

from R15 500

excluding VAT

Best for: Businesses with a process no product fits — internal tools, portals, integrations, or a product of your own.

What is included

  • A scoping session that ends in a written specification you own
  • Fixed-price phases, so you are never signing a blank cheque
  • Web applications, client portals, dashboards and internal tooling
  • Integrations with the systems you already run
  • AI features where they earn their place — document handling, classification, assistants
  • POPIA-aware data design: encryption, access control, retention, audit trail
  • Source code handed to you. You own what you paid for.
  • Support and iteration after launch, quoted separately and honestly

What is not included

  • Third-party licence and infrastructure costs
  • Scope added mid-build without a written variation

Listing exclusions is not us being difficult — it is how you avoid a surprise invoice. Anything here can be quoted separately.

Get a proposal for a custom software

The things nobody puts on a pricing page

What you will also pay for, but not to us

A .co.za domain runs roughly R100–R150 a year, and decent South African hosting around R80–R200 a month depending on the site. We set both up in your name and you pay the provider directly, so you are never locked into us for something you could buy yourself.

Payment terms

Half to start, half on approval before we point the domain. Or three PayJustNow instalments on websites and stores. No retainer, no lock-in, no automatic renewals you have to remember to cancel.

What makes a project cost more

Custom integrations, bespoke functionality, multi-language content, migrating a large existing catalogue, or copywriting from scratch. We will tell you before you pay, not after. If your project genuinely needs more than the fixed package, we quote it as software.

Ongoing care

Optional. Luna Cyber Guard covers backups, monitoring, firewall and email filtering, quoted monthly and cancellable. If you would rather run the site yourself, we will show you how at handover and that is the end of it.

Pricing questions

Are these prices real, or a starting point?

They are real fixed prices for the scope described on this page. Solis & Luna builds a business website for R5 500 excluding VAT and an e-commerce store for R7 500 excluding VAT. If your project needs work beyond that scope we will tell you before you pay anything, and the number in the written proposal is the number on the invoice.

Why is custom software quoted "from" R15 500?

Because complexity genuinely varies and a fixed number would be a guess. R15 500 excluding VAT is the realistic floor for a small custom application. We scope the work first, then quote fixed-price phases, so you are never signing an open-ended agreement.

Can I pay in instalments?

Yes. PayJustNow is available on business websites and e-commerce stores — three equal monthly instalments with no interest and no fees. Otherwise our standard terms are half to start and half on approval.

Do you charge for the first conversation?

No. The introductory call is free and there is no obligation. If we are not the right studio for your project we will say so on that call rather than three weeks into a build.

Tell us what you are trying to build

A short message is enough to start. A person reads every enquiry and replies within one working day — and if we are not the right fit for your project, we will say so instead of selling you something.

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