Poland · Poland
Web developer in Lodz
Websites, online stores and technical SEO for Lodz businesses — built remotely from Islamabad, quoted in PLN, scoped in writing before anything starts.
Businesses in Lodz usually come to me after a site has already been built once and disappointed. That is a useful starting point, because it means the requirements are no longer theoretical — you know exactly which parts failed. Rebuilding from a list of specific complaints produces a far better result than rebuilding from a mood board.
What working with a Polish client actually changes
These are the terms that differ by country rather than by town. They apply to every business in Poland, Lodz included, and they are the substance of what this page is claiming.
| Quoted and invoiced in | PLN — never a converted figure presented at the end |
|---|---|
| Tax position | VAT at 23%, reverse-charged |
| Your customers' data sits under | the EU GDPR |
| Lawful transfer mechanism | a DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses |
| Checkout can realistically use | BLIK, Przelewy24, PayU, and Stripe |
| My day, in Lodz time | 06:00–15:00 — about 6 hours inside a normal working day |
One thing worth knowing about building for Poland
BLIK is a six-digit code generated in the banking app and it is how a large share of Polish buyers pay. It has no real analogue in a Western checkout, so it needs designing in rather than appending to a card form.
How a Lodz 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 Lodz projects that document lists every page, every form, every integration and every third-party account the site will touch — priced in PLN, 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 Lodz
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 Lodz.
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.
Analytics that has never once been looked at
Most sites carry a tracking tag and no measurement. Nobody defined what counts as a conversion, so the dashboard reports sessions and bounce rate — numbers that move up and down and change no decision anybody makes.
Useful measurement is narrow: form submissions, phone taps, WhatsApp clicks, and which pages preceded them. Four numbers checked monthly beat forty never opened, and knowing which Lodz search terms actually produce enquiries is what turns the site from a cost into something you can steer.
Hiring a developer who is not in Lodz
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 EU GDPR 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 Lodz businesses
Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in PLN. The full list is on the services page.
What I am not claiming about Lodz
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 Lodz
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Lodz 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
Lodz web development — common questions
- What currency will I be invoiced in?
- PLN. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in PLN so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 23%, reverse-charged.
- 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 EU GDPR?
- Your customer data is governed by the EU GDPR, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.
- What payment methods can my Lodz checkout accept?
- For Poland: BLIK, Przelewy24, PayU, and Stripe. 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.
- How long does a Lodz 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 hours will you be available to us in Lodz?
- My working day lands at 06:00–15:00 in your time, which is roughly 6 hours inside a normal Lodz 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.
Also covering Poland
Same terms, same currency, same process — these are the other Poland towns with a page here.
Where this page sits
This page covers Lodz. Every other town in Poland is listed on the Poland 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 Lodz?
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in PLN. 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