How Much Does a Corporate Website Cost in Egypt? A Scope-First Guide

Search for the cost of a corporate website in Egypt and you will find price tables: basic, standard, premium, each with a range in pounds or dollars. They are easy to read and hard to use. A table cannot know whether your site needs four pages or forty, whether someone has to write the Arabic copy, whether you will take payments, or where your customers’ data will be stored. Those decisions set the price. The tier name does not.

This article takes the opposite approach. It walks through the scope decisions an Egyptian company should make before asking for quotes, the local items that are new or often missing, and a short brief you can send to every bidder so the answers can be compared directly. It does not quote prices, because a number without a defined scope is not useful.

What moves the quote most

Before the detail, here is the short answer to “why is one quote double another?” The table ranks the scope items that most often change the size of an Egyptian corporate website project. It is a professional recommendation based on how the work is made up, not a price list: the actual weight of each item depends on your site.

If two quotes differ widely, check these eight rows first. The gap is usually explained by one or two of them being included in one quote and left to you in the other.

Why a price table cannot answer the question

Most published ranges describe packages, not projects. Two companies with the same “corporate package” may need very different work: a contracting firm that needs project references and pre-qualification downloads, and a food importer that needs a product catalogue and distributor inquiries. A table also tends to hide what is excluded, which is where comparisons go wrong: copywriting, photography, payment set-up, data protection and post-launch care are often outside the package price.

The better question to ask a bidder is not “which package?” but “what exactly will you deliver, and what will I still have to do or pay for?” The six decisions below give you the vocabulary for that conversation.

Six scope decisions that set the cost

1. What the site has to do

A site that exists to make the company look credible in tenders is a different project from one that must generate inquiries every week, and both differ from a site that sells online. Write one sentence on the site’s main job and one on the buyer it serves. Every later decision follows from it, and it lets bidders propose the right scope instead of their standard one.

2. How many pages, and who writes them

Count unique layouts, not just pages. A home page, an about page, a service template used for six services, a project template and a contact page is five layouts, even if the site has twenty pages. Then decide who writes the text. Writing clear service pages from scratch takes time, and it is the step that most often delays launch when the client is expected to supply it. If the quote says “content provided by client”, that work has not disappeared; it has moved to your team.

3. Arabic, English, or both

Many Egyptian companies need Arabic for local buyers and English for partners, export markets or GCC clients. A bilingual site is not a translated site: the Arabic version needs a right-to-left layout built correctly from the start and its own language annotations for search, which our guide to structuring Arabic and English websites explains. For the quote, ask each bidder whether both versions are designed, written and tested, or whether one is generated from the other.

4. How the WordPress build is approached

Many corporate sites are built on WordPress, but “a WordPress website” covers everything from a ready theme with your logo to a custom-designed site with its own components. The difference shows up in design time, how distinctive the result is, and how easily your team can edit pages later. Ask: is the design custom or theme-based, which paid themes or plugins are used and who holds their licences, and can a non-technical person update a page without breaking the layout?

5. Payments and WhatsApp

If the site will take money, the payment gateway is its own line item. Gateway documentation shows how much the scope can vary. Paymob, for example, lists cards, mobile wallets such as Vodafone Cash and Orange Cash, and several instalment and buy-now-pay-later providers, with integration options ranging from payment links and e-commerce plugins to hosted and embedded checkouts and mobile SDKs, and states that not all methods are enabled by default and availability depends on the merchant account set-up (Paymob developer docs). FawryPay, which many Egyptian buyers also expect, is a separate integration with its own merchant set-up. A plugin is quicker to set up than a custom checkout, but someone still has to configure, test and document it, and the merchant account application is usually yours to complete.

For WhatsApp, separate two very different line items. A click-to-chat button is a small task. Connecting the site to the WhatsApp Business Platform for automated replies is a larger build, and it adds per-message charges billed by Meta that sit outside the studio’s quote; our October 2026 WhatsApp pricing guide sets out which messages are charged. Ask each bidder which of the two they have priced.

6. SEO foundations

Page titles, meta descriptions, clean URLs, an XML sitemap, language annotations, Google Business Profile links and redirects from any old site are inexpensive to do during the build and frustrating to fix afterwards. If you are replacing an existing site, ask specifically how old URLs will be redirected so you do not lose the search visibility you already have.

The data protection item now due

This is the line item most Egyptian website quotes have not caught up with. Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Law, Law No. 151 of 2020, now has Executive Regulations, issued on 1 November 2025 under Decision No. 816 of 2025, which started a one-year compliance grace period. That grace period ended on 31 October / 1 November 2026, depending on the reading (CMS; Kennedys); no extension had been announced when we checked on 31 October 2026, so PDPC licences and documented consent are now required and enforcement is expected. The regulator is the Personal Data Protection Centre.

Several of the obligations described in those analyses touch the website directly:

• Privacy notices are expected to be concise, visible and in Arabic, covering the controller’s details, purposes, lawful bases, retention periods, data subject rights and transfer information (CMS).
• Consent must be explicit, specific and freely given through an affirmative action, easy to withdraw, and recorded. Kennedys notes the Centre’s consent guidelines expect consent requests to be in Arabic as the primary language and kept separate from privacy notices and general terms.
• Electronic direct marketing, such as email or messaging campaigns fed by website sign-ups, requires prior consent, a clear sender identity and a free, simple opt-out, and is subject to its own permit; our article on licensing your marketing database covers that permit.
• Cross-border transfers, which CMS notes include transfers to cloud environments outside Egypt, require a licence or authorisation.

For a website project this changes three things. Forms need Arabic consent wording and a way to record consent. A privacy notice needs to be written for what the site actually collects. And hosting location, including where form submissions, backups and CRM data are stored, becomes a decision to take with your adviser rather than a default left to the hosting company.

Domain, hosting and tax

Domain. A .com.eg domain for a company inside Egypt requires the commercial registry or tax card plus a copy of the ID of the owner or an authorised person; companies outside Egypt need a trademark registered in Egypt or internationally and a local representative (domain.eg). Many companies also hold a .com. Whichever you use, the domain should be registered in your company’s name, not the studio’s.

Hosting. Ask what plan is proposed, who pays for it, who holds the account, how backups are handled, and where the server is located, for the data protection reasons above.

VAT. Egypt’s standard VAT rate is 14% under the VAT Law No. 67 of 2016 (PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries). Ask every bidder to state whether prices include VAT, so a 14% gap does not decide the comparison for you.

Running costs to budget for

A one-page brief to send to every bidder

Send the same brief to everyone and ask for written answers against each point. If the project is large enough to need more than one page, use a full website brief with sitemap and content scope instead.

1. The site’s main job and the buyer it serves.
2. Expected pages, and which are unique layouts.
3. Languages, which one is primary, and who writes the copy in each.
4. Design approach: custom or theme-based, with licences named.
5. Integrations: forms, WhatsApp, payment gateway, CRM, analytics, ad pixels.
6. SEO foundations and redirects from the old site.
7. Data protection: Arabic privacy notice, consent on forms, consent records, hosting location.
8. Ownership: domain, hosting, CMS admin access, design files and content in your company’s name.
9. Maintenance: scope, duration and response times.
10. Price: one-off and recurring separately, with and without 14% VAT.

Proposals answered this way are comparable. The lowest total may still win, but you will know what it leaves out.

If you cannot yet answer half of the brief (layouts, who writes the Arabic, payments, where form data is stored), bring what you have to a business diagnosis session and leave with a scope every bidder can price against. RX Designer’s website design service then works from that same scope: structure, Arabic and English copy, design, WordPress build and SEO foundations. Examples are on the websites portfolio.