How long does a Salvador 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 Salvador checkout accept?

For Brazil: Pix, Mercado Pago, PagSeguro, and boleto bancário. 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 do you handle our customers' data under LGPD?

Your customer data is governed by LGPD, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA meeting ANPD requirements for international transfer, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.

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.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

BRL. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in BRL so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: a layered ICMS and ISS regime that varies by state.

How much does a website cost in Salvador?

A business website starts from R$440 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from R$830 in around seven days, and a custom application from R$1,100 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

Do you actually work with businesses in Salvador?

Yes, remotely. I work with Brazilian clients from Islamabad, quoting in BRL and invoicing in BRL. I have no office, address or phone number in Salvador and will not pretend otherwise. If your project needs someone physically present, hire locally — I will say so in the first reply rather than after a deposit.

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Web developer in Salvador

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

There is a version of this conversation where you are sold a brand refresh, a content strategy and a six-week discovery phase. For most Salvador businesses that is not the constraint. The constraint is that the site is slow, the phone number is hard to find and nobody has looked at the analytics in a year. Fixing those three is cheaper and works faster.

What working with a Brazilian client actually changes

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

Quoted and invoiced in	BRL — never a converted figure presented at the end
Tax position	a layered ICMS and ISS regime that varies by state
Your customers' data sits under	LGPD, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados
Lawful transfer mechanism	a DPA meeting ANPD requirements for international transfer
Checkout can realistically use	Pix, Mercado Pago, PagSeguro, and boleto bancário
My day, in Salvador time	01:00–10:00 — about 1 hours inside a normal working day

One thing worth knowing about building for Brazil

Pix settles instantly and free, and it took over Brazilian payments faster than almost any rail anywhere. Any Brazilian store without Pix is charging itself card fees for no reason and losing buyers who expect it.

What actually ships when a Salvador project goes live

A handover for a Salvador client is not a link and a login. It is the repository, the hosting account in your name, the domain registered to you, the payment provider account under your business, and a written record of every credential as it was created rather than dumped in one email at the end.

The test I apply is uncomfortable but correct: if I disappeared tomorrow, could another developer pick this up on Monday without calling me? If the answer is no, the handover is not finished. That standard is why the documentation takes a day I do not bill separately — it is part of the build, not an upsell.

Education and training providers in Salvador

Course pages are the whole site. Each needs the outcome, the duration, the price, the prerequisites and the next start date visible without scrolling — and each needs to be its own indexable URL, because people search for the course, never for a training provider they have not heard of.

The recurring failure is a single "Courses" page listing twenty courses. It ranks for nothing because it is specifically about nothing. Twenty pages, each genuinely about one course, is more work and is the difference between a site that recruits and a brochure that sits there.

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 Salvador 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 Salvador

The honest version is that for a build specified in writing, developed on a staging URL you can open from your phone at any hour, and handed over with documentation, being in the same city changes very little about the finished site. What it changes is your recourse if things go wrong — and that is a fair thing to weigh, which is why the contract, the staging access and the escrow-style milestone structure all exist before you pay anything.

What I build for Salvador businesses

Fixed-scope, fixed-price, quoted in BRL. 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 Salvador

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 Salvador
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Salvador 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

Salvador web development — common questions

How long does a Salvador 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 Salvador checkout accept?: For Brazil: Pix, Mercado Pago, PagSeguro, and boleto bancário. 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 do you handle our customers' data under LGPD?: Your customer data is governed by LGPD, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, and sending it to a developer in Pakistan is a restricted transfer. That is resolved by a DPA meeting ANPD requirements for international transfer, published on this site and pre-signed before you send an enquiry — not drafted after you ask about it.
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.
What currency will I be invoiced in?: BRL. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in BRL so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: a layered ICMS and ISS regime that varies by state.
How much does a website cost in Salvador?: A business website starts from R$440 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from R$830 in around seven days, and a custom application from R$1,100 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.
Do you actually work with businesses in Salvador?: Yes, remotely. I work with Brazilian clients from Islamabad, quoting in BRL and invoicing in BRL. I have no office, address or phone number in Salvador and will not pretend otherwise. If your project needs someone physically present, hire locally — I will say so in the first reply rather than after a deposit.

Also covering Brazil

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

Where this page sits

This page covers Salvador. Every other town in Brazil is listed on the Brazil 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 Salvador?

Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day — questions or a scoping call, quoted in BRL. If it is not a project I should take on, I will say so then rather than after a deposit.

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