North India · India
Web developer in Kanpur
Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Kanpur businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in INR, scoped in writing before anything starts.
A working site for a Kanpur business is a smaller and more boring thing than most agencies will sell you. Fast pages, honest copy, a form that works on a phone, and structured data so search engines can read what you do. There is no fifth thing. The budget saved by not buying the fifth thing is better spent on photography.
What working with a Indian client actually changes
These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in India, Kanpur included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.
| Quoted and invoiced in | INR — never a converted figure presented at the end |
|---|---|
| Tax position | GST at 18% on your sales; my invoices are imported services under reverse charge |
| Your customers' data sits under | the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 |
| Lawful transfer mechanism | the DPDP Act permits transfers except to notified countries, and the DPA records the basis |
| Checkout can realistically use | Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume |
| My day, in Kanpur time | 09:30–18:30 — about 8.5 hours inside a normal working day |
One thing worth knowing about building for India
UPI changes the entire checkout design. An Indian store built around card fields first and UPI as an afterthought converts far worse than one built the other way round, and that is a layout decision, not a plugin.
How a Kanpur build is scoped before anything is written
Scope is fixed in writing before development starts, and the number in that document is the number on the invoice. For Kanpur projects that document lists every page, every form, every integration and every third-party account the site will touch — priced in INR, not converted at the end from something else.
The reason this matters more than it sounds: almost every dispute in web development is a scope dispute wearing a different hat. "Can you just add" is how a three-day build becomes a three-week one. Fixing scope up front does not stop you changing your mind; it makes the cost of changing your mind visible before you commit to it, which is the only honest way to run a fixed price.
Professional services in Kanpur
Accountants, solicitors, consultants and agencies sell judgement, which cannot be photographed. What converts instead is specificity: the sectors you actually work in, the size of client you actually serve, and named people with real biographies. A professional services site full of stock imagery and the word "bespoke" is indistinguishable from every competitor in Kanpur.
Practically, the site's job is qualification rather than lead volume. Publishing your minimum engagement size loses you enquiries and saves you hours, and almost every practice I have built for concluded afterwards that it should have done it sooner.
Images shipped at ten times the size they display
A hero photograph exported at 4000 pixels wide and displayed at 400 is the most common single cause of a slow page. The browser downloads all of it and then discards most of it. On a phone over mobile data that is several seconds spent waiting for pixels nobody will ever see.
The fix is generating each image at the sizes actually used, serving AVIF or WebP with a fallback, and setting explicit width and height so the layout does not jump while they load. It is mechanical work with a directly measurable result, which makes it the first thing worth doing on almost any Kanpur site.
Hiring a developer who is not in Kanpur
Working across a border adds one genuine obligation most suppliers skip: your customers' personal data ends up being processed in a country their privacy notice probably does not mention. Under Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 that is your liability, not mine. It is handled here before you ask — the mechanism is published, pre-signed and linked from every page on this site.
What I build for Kanpur businesses
Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in INR. The full list is on the services page.
Priced for Kanpur specifically
What I am not claiming about Kanpur
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 Kanpur
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Kanpur 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
Kanpur web development — common questions
- What hours will you be available to us in Kanpur?
- My working day lands at 09:30–18:30 in your time, which is roughly 8.5 hours inside a normal Kanpur 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.
- 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.
- Do you provide ongoing maintenance after launch?
- Thirty days of snag fixes are included after launch at no extra cost — anything that does not work as specified gets fixed. Beyond that there are monthly plans for updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. They are optional and cancellable; a site handed over properly does not require a retainer to keep running.
- Will the site actually rank in Kanpur search results?
- The build handles what is technically controllable: crawlable HTML, correct headings, structured data, fast pages, a clean sitemap and Search Console set up on day one. Ranking also depends on your competitors, your domain's age and the links pointing at you, which no developer controls. Anyone guaranteeing a position is guessing or lying.
- Who owns the website when it is finished?
- You do, completely. The domain is registered in your name, hosting sits in your account, the code lives in a repository you control, and any payment provider account is opened in your business name. Credentials are handed to you as they are created rather than at the end, so you are never locked out of your own site.
- How do you handle our customers' data under Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023?
- Your customer data is governed by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by the DPDP Act permits transfers except to notified countries, and the DPA records the basis, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.
- What payment methods can my Kanpur checkout accept?
- For India: Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, and UPI — which now carries the majority of domestic transaction volume. 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.
Also covering North India
Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other North India towns with a page here.
Where this page sits
This page covers Kanpur. Every other town in India is listed on the India 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.
Building something in Kanpur?
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in INR. If it is not a project I should take on, I will say so then rather than after a deposit.
- Response
- Replies within 1 business day
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 PKT — overlaps 05:00–14:00 UK, 00:00–09:00 US Eastern
- Booking
- Booking projects from October 2026