How long does a Iloilo project actually take?

Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.

What payment methods can my Iloilo checkout accept?

For Philippines: GCash, Maya, PayMongo, and Dragonpay. The right combination depends on your average basket and your customers, and picking wrong is expensive — the payment method a buyer expects but cannot find is one of the most common reasons a checkout is abandoned at the final step.

Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?

Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.

What hours will you be available to us in Iloilo?

My working day lands at 12:00–21:00 in your time, which is roughly 6 hours inside a normal Iloilo working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

PHP. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in PHP so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 12%.

How much does a website cost in Iloilo?

A business website starts from ₱4,600 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₱8,700 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₱12,000 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

How do you handle our customers' data under Data Privacy Act of 2012?

Your customer data is governed by the Data Privacy Act of 2012, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA meeting NPC requirements for outsourced processing, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

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Web developer in Iloilo

Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Iloilo businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in PHP, scoped in writing before anything starts.

Most sites I am asked to look at in Iloilo are not badly built. They are badly prioritised — enormous effort on the parts nobody reads and none on the parts that decide whether someone gets in touch. The fix is rarely more work; it is the same work pointed somewhere else.

What working with a Filipino client actually changes

These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in Philippines, Iloilo included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.

Quoted and invoiced in	PHP — never a converted figure presented at the end
Tax position	VAT at 12%
Your customers' data sits under	the Data Privacy Act of 2012
Lawful transfer mechanism	a DPA meeting NPC requirements for outsourced processing
Checkout can realistically use	GCash, Maya, PayMongo, and Dragonpay
My day, in Iloilo time	12:00–21:00 — about 6 hours inside a normal working day

One thing worth knowing about building for Philippines

GCash and Maya are wallets rather than card rails, and cash-on-delivery is still a meaningful share of Philippine e-commerce. Both need to exist in the order model or the store only serves a minority of buyers.

Accessibility on a Iloilo build, and why it is not optional

Keyboard navigation, real contrast ratios, form labels that are actually associated with their inputs, and alt text that describes rather than repeats. None of it is expensive when built in from the start and all of it is expensive to retrofit, which is the entire argument for doing it in the first pass.

The commercial case is simpler than the legal one: a site that a screen reader can navigate is a site that a search engine can parse, because both are reading the same semantic structure. Accessibility work and technical SEO overlap far more than either discipline usually admits, and in Iloilo the same build serves both.

Retail and e-commerce in Iloilo

A store is judged at the checkout, not the homepage. For Philippines that means the payment methods have to match what people actually use — GCash, Maya, PayMongo, and Dragonpay — and the cart has to survive a slow connection and a page refresh. Most abandoned baskets are not indecision; they are a checkout that broke and gave no reason why.

The second issue is stock truth. A product page saying "in stock" when it is not costs you the sale and the customer, and the fix is unglamorous plumbing between wherever your stock actually lives and the storefront. That is worth a day of work far more than the product photography carousel is.

The contact form that silently fails

The most expensive bug on a small business website makes no noise at all. A form posts, shows a thank-you message, and the email never arrives — usually because the host's mail function is unauthenticated and the receiving server drops it without a bounce. The business concludes demand fell.

The fix is authenticated SMTP with SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured on the sending domain, plus a database write so a submission survives even when delivery fails. If you are unsure whether your Iloilo site has this problem, submit your own form from a phone on mobile data and see what actually arrives.

Hiring a developer who is not in Iloilo

Currency is worth being blunt about. Quoting a Filipino client in PHP and then invoicing something else at a rate that moved is a way of raising the price quietly, and it is common enough that you should ask any overseas supplier about it directly. The number agreed at scoping is the number invoiced, and exchange-rate movement is my problem rather than yours.

What I build for Iloilo businesses

Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in PHP. The full list is on the services page.

E-commerce website development I build online stores end to end — catalogue, cart, Stripe checkout, order emails and the technical SEO that gets them found. Six of the fifteen sites I have shipped are e-commerce builds, and every one of them takes real payments. From $150 · 7 days Technical SEO audits and implementation Most SEO audits hand you a 60-page document and an invoice. I am a developer first, so I find the problems and then fix them in the codebase — crawlability, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals, and whether AI answer engines can read your site at all. From $80 · 3 days Business website development Most small business websites fail at one job: turning a stranger who searched for your service into a phone call. I build the version that does — three days, mobile-first, live on your own hosting, with the enquiry form tested before anybody sees it. From $80 · 3 days Custom website development A template is the right answer more often than developers like to admit. This page is about the times it is not — when the thing your business does has a shape no theme author anticipated, and forcing it into one costs more in permanent workarounds than building it properly would have cost once. From $200 · 10 days Web application development A website presents information. An application does work — it holds state, enforces rules, and produces something at the end. Most businesses that need the second one are running it on a spreadsheet nobody is allowed to sort, and paying for that in errors rather than in software. From $200 · 10 days

What I am not claiming about Iloilo

A location page is the easiest place on a website to imply something untrue, so here is the other side of it plainly:

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Iloilo
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Iloilo specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer

Iloilo web development — common questions

How long does a Iloilo project actually take?: Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.
What payment methods can my Iloilo checkout accept?: For Philippines: GCash, Maya, PayMongo, and Dragonpay. The right combination depends on your average basket and your customers, and picking wrong is expensive — the payment method a buyer expects but cannot find is one of the most common reasons a checkout is abandoned at the final step.
Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?: Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.
What hours will you be available to us in Iloilo?: My working day lands at 12:00–21:00 in your time, which is roughly 6 hours inside a normal Iloilo working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.
What currency will I be invoiced in?: PHP. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in PHP so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 12%.
How much does a website cost in Iloilo?: A business website starts from ₱4,600 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from ₱8,700 in around seven days, and a custom application from ₱12,000 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.
How do you handle our customers' data under Data Privacy Act of 2012?: Your customer data is governed by the Data Privacy Act of 2012, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA meeting NPC requirements for outsourced processing, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

Also covering Philippines

Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other Philippines towns with a page here.

Where this page sits

This page covers Iloilo. Every other town in Philippines is listed on the Philippines coverage page, and the full worldwide list is at all locations.

Before you enquire: pricing is published rather than quoted on request, how I work covers the process end to end, the work page lists live client sites you can open, and vendor information answers the procurement questions.

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