Website & Ecommerce Lesgo Media · 2026
- RM3,500-RM8,000typical business package
- RM300-RM800hosting and upkeep a year
- RM150-RM400copywriting per page
A web design package is a menu written by the seller. Every line sounds complete while leaving room to bill again later, and that room sits in words buyers read past.
“Five pages.” “SEO ready.” “Free hosting first year.” “Two revisions.” Each is a scope boundary wearing the costume of a feature. Together they decide whether your RM5,000 build finishes at RM5,000 or at RM9,000.
This is a teardown, not a price list: what each line covers, what falls outside it, and what to ask while the deposit is still yours.
How Malaysian web design packages are usually structured
Almost every studio and freelancer here sells the same three shapes under different names.
| Tier | Typical price | Usually contains, and where it runs out |
|---|---|---|
| Template starter | RM500 to RM800 | Bought theme, your colours, three to five pages, contact form. Stops at structure the theme did not anticipate |
| Landing page | RM1,500 to RM3,500 | One long page, single offer, form or WhatsApp button. Stops at a second product or anything needing a menu |
| Business package | RM3,500 to RM8,000 | Five to ten pages, custom layout, basic on-page SEO. Stops at booking, member login, CRM |
| Ecommerce | RM4,000 to RM8,000 basic | Cart, checkout, gateway, courier rates, small catalogue. Stops at large catalogues, variants, POS sync |
Tiers exist for the vendor’s benefit, which is fine. The trouble starts when a business gets pushed into a tier because that tier is what sits on the price sheet.
The tell is a quote arriving an hour after your first message with nothing asked about your business. Deciding whether you need a full website or a single landing page is a scoping call, and it belongs before anyone names a number.
The page count line, and why five pages is rarely five
Page count is the most quoted number in Malaysian web design and the least useful. A “5 page website” means five templates the developer will build, not five pages your business can run on. Take a services company: Home, About, Services, Contact, Blog is the standard five. Now list what has to be live on day one.
What a real services site ends up needing
- Home, About, Contact, blog index and a blog post template
- A services overview plus one page per service, because one stacked page ranks for nothing
- A thank you page after submission, so conversions can be tracked
- Privacy policy and terms, which the PDPA and payment gateways expect
- A 404 page that sends people somewhere useful
A company with four services lands at eleven pages against a package quoting five. The extra six bill as add-ons at RM200 to RM600 each, and that conversation happens after the deposit clears.
Ask for the per page rate in writing before you sign, and whether a service page reusing an existing layout costs full price. Vendors answer that honestly when asked early and creatively when asked late.
SEO ready is the emptiest line in the quote
“SEO ready” and “SEO optimised” sit on nearly every package sold here. Neither phrase has a definition, which is why both survive.
In practice it means the build will not block Google: pages are crawlable, headings run in order, a sitemap exists, and titles are filled in rather than left as “Home Page 2 Copy”. That is a floor, not a service.
| What “SEO ready” normally includes | What it almost never includes |
|---|---|
| Sitemap submitted, robots.txt sane | Keyword research for your market |
| One H1 per page, headings nested properly | Content written to target those keywords |
| Meta titles and descriptions filled in | Google Business Profile and local citations |
| Images compressed, alt text present | Backlinks, ongoing content, rank reporting |
The useful question is not “is SEO included” but “what will rank on launch day, and for which search”. If the honest answer is your brand name and nothing else, that is normal for a new site, and ongoing SEO becomes a separate budget. Our breakdown of what SEO costs in Malaysia covers that line.
Free hosting for the first year, and the renewal nobody mentions
Free first year hosting is real, and it is also customer acquisition. The vendor absorbs a couple of hundred ringgit to close a RM5,000 deal. Year two is the part that matters.
Renewal for a business site on decent shared hosting, plus domain and basic upkeep, generally sits between RM300 and RM800 a year. What you want to avoid is month thirteen arriving with a RM1,800 invoice because hosting was bundled with a retainer you never agreed to.
Three questions settle it. What is the renewal price in ringgit, in today’s quote. Is hosting billed separately from maintenance. Is there an exit fee if you move to your own hosting in year two.
Cheap hosting is a false economy on a site that carries enquiries. Plans at RM100 a year exist and they slow under load, costing conversions and rankings at once. Ask where the server sits: a Malaysian or Singapore data centre serves local visitors faster.
Content is the line item most packages quietly leave out
Read any Malaysian package closely and you will find a clause saying “client to provide content”. That line moves the largest chunk of the project onto your desk, and it is why most builds run late.
Copywriting for a ten page site is a real job. Someone writes the service descriptions, the about page that does not read like an SSM filing, the FAQ and the calls to action. When billed, expect RM150 to RM400 per page depending on whether the writer researches your industry or rewrites what you send.
Photography is the other one. Stock images appear in most packages, but read which library and which licence. Free tiers often forbid commercial use or require attribution, and paid stock is licensed per image, per site. If the vendor supplies twenty images, ask whether that licence transfers to you.
Your own photos are the better spend anyway. A half day shoot covering shopfront, team and products runs RM800 to RM2,500 in Klang Valley and buys more trust than a design upgrade of the same value.
Revision rounds, and how vendors count them
“Two revisions included” sounds generous until you learn how a round is defined. Under batch counting, a round is one consolidated list of changes sent after you review the whole design. Under item counting, every separate request is a revision, so “make the logo bigger” on Monday and “try a different blue” on Tuesday burns both rounds before you have seen page two.
- Confirm the counting method in writing. One consolidated feedback list equals one round. Get that sentence into the quote.
- Confirm what a revision covers. Colour, copy and layout tweaks are revisions. A redesign after you approved the concept is new work.
- Set a feedback window. Five working days per round is normal. Past that, the vendor can reschedule you.
- Fix the post launch rate. Extra rounds after handover bill at RM80 to RM250 an hour, or a flat fee per change.
- Nominate one decision maker. Feedback from three people in a group chat is what actually exhausts revision rounds.
That last point does more for a project than any contract clause. Consolidate internally, send once, and two rounds is usually enough.
Timelines, delays, and the months after launch
Most Malaysian business sites are quoted at three to five weeks, assuming content arrives on schedule and feedback returns inside the agreed window. That happens on a minority of projects.
Read the delay clause carefully, because it works both ways and usually only one direction is written down. A fair contract states what the vendor owes you if they run late, and what happens to your slot if you go quiet for three weeks. Studios book resources in blocks, so miss yours and you rejoin the queue behind later projects. Many contracts also close a project after 30 or 60 days of silence and charge a reactivation fee. Tie payment to milestones, not dates: design approval, development complete, launch. Our guide to how long a business website actually takes breaks the phases down day by day.
Then comes the part packages rarely price. Most include a warranty, commonly 30 days, covering bugs the vendor built. That is not maintenance. It does not cover WordPress and plugin updates, backups or uptime monitoring, and an unpatched plugin is the most common way a Malaysian SME site fills with spam links.
| Care plan level | What it should cover | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Core and plugin updates, weekly offsite backup, uptime monitoring, security scan | Brochure sites that rarely change |
| Standard | The above plus content edit hours each month | Sites with promotions, new services, blog posts |
| Ecommerce | The above plus daily backups, checkout testing, gateway checks | Any store taking payments |
Ask what happens at 2am on a Saturday when checkout stops working. If the answer is an inbox read on weekdays, price that risk yourself. The platform you chose also decides how much upkeep is yours.
Who owns the domain, the hosting and the source files
This is the part that costs Malaysian businesses the most, and it is almost never discussed before the deposit.
The domain should be registered in your company name, with your company as registrant and admin contact, using an email address you control. A vendor registering it under their own account is not necessarily acting in bad faith. It still means that when the relationship ends, you negotiate for something you already paid for.
Same for hosting, Google Analytics, Search Console, Meta Business Manager and the payment gateway. All should sit under your business with the vendor added as a user. Adding a user takes thirty seconds. Recovering an account from a vendor who stopped replying takes months.
Get these in writing before the deposit
- Domain registrant is your company, contact email is yours
- Hosting account in your name, vendor holds access as a user
- Analytics, Search Console and ad accounts owned by you
- On final payment: design source files, a site backup, all logins
- Premium theme and plugin licences transfer, or the renewal cost is stated
The one page checklist to hold against any quote
Put the quote beside this list and mark anything it does not answer. Every blank is a future invoice.
| Line item | What the quote must state |
|---|---|
| Pages | Exact count, what counts as a page, rate for extras |
| Content | Who writes it, per page rate, your deadline to supply |
| Images | Stock library and licence, whether it transfers |
| Revisions | Rounds included, how a round is counted, rate after |
| SEO | The exact tasks included, and what is explicitly excluded |
| Hosting | Year one cost, year two renewal in ringgit, server location |
| Timeline | Milestone dates, feedback window, delay and abandonment clauses |
| Training | Session length, written guide or recording |
| Maintenance | Warranty period, care plan price, urgent response time |
| Ownership | Domain, hosting, accounts, source files, plugin licences |
Three questions to ask out loud before transferring anything. What is not included that a site like mine normally needs. If we part ways in two years, what do I walk away with. What will I have spent twelve months after launch.
A vendor who answers all three plainly is worth paying. One who turns vague on the second has built a lock-in nobody mentioned, and the deposit is the last moment you hold any bargaining power.
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Frequently asked questions about web design packages in Malaysia
What should a web design package in Malaysia cost?
A template starter runs RM500 to RM800, a landing page RM1,500 to RM3,500, and a business package of five to ten pages RM3,500 to RM8,000. Ecommerce starts near RM4,000. The tier matters less than what it excludes.
Why do two quotes for the same website differ by thousands?
Scope, not skill. One includes copywriting, ten pages, three revision rounds and a year of updates. The other includes five template pages and expects you to supply the text. Put both against the same checklist and the gap explains itself.
Does SEO ready mean my site will rank on Google?
No. It means the build will not obstruct Google: crawlable pages, a sitemap, sensible headings, filled meta titles. Ranking needs keyword research, content for those keywords, and work after launch. Expect your brand name and little else.
How many revision rounds should a package include?
Two to three at design stage is normal for an SME project. How a round is counted matters more. Insist one consolidated feedback list equals one round, and get the rate for anything beyond that in writing.
Is free first year hosting worth taking?
Usually yes, provided the year two renewal is stated in ringgit in the same document. Budget RM300 to RM800 a year for hosting, domain and upkeep, and confirm hosting is billed separately from maintenance.
Who should own the domain name?
Your company, as registrant, with an email address you control. The vendor should be a technical user, not the owner. Same for hosting, Analytics, Search Console and ad accounts. Recovering an account from a silent vendor takes months.
Do I get the design source files when the project ends?
Only if the contract says so. Ask for design files, a site backup and all logins on final payment. Ask which premium plugins the build uses, because a vendor developer licence stops covering your site once you leave.
What happens if I am the one causing the delay?
You lose your production slot. Studios schedule in blocks, so a three week gap in feedback means rejoining the queue behind later projects. Many contracts also close a project after 30 or 60 days of silence.
Conclusion: read the scope, then decide on the price
A web design package in Malaysia is priced honestly at RM3,500 to RM8,000 for a business site, and that number stays honest only when the scope behind it is written down. Page count, content, revision counting, renewal pricing and account ownership decide whether the final invoice matches the first.
None of this requires distrusting the vendor, only specific questions asked early, while the deposit is still yours to give. Good studios welcome them, because clear scope protects them too.
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