How much does a website cost in Mecca?

A business website starts from SAR300 and goes live in about three days. An e-commerce build starts from SAR560 in around seven days, and a custom application from SAR750 in ten. Those are starting figures — the exact number is fixed in writing once scope is agreed, and it does not move after that.

What currency will I be invoiced in?

SAR. Quotes, milestones and the final invoice are all written in SAR so you are never comparing a converted figure against a local supplier's. Regarding tax: VAT at 15%, reverse-charged on imported services.

Do I need to provide the content and images?

Content, yes — you know your business and I do not. I will restructure and edit what you send so it reads for the web, and I will tell you where a section is missing. Photography is worth paying a local photographer for; stock images of people in offices are recognisable as stock and quietly cost you credibility.

Do you actually work with businesses in Mecca?

Yes, remotely. I work with Saudi clients from Islamabad, quoting in SAR and invoicing in SAR. I have no office, address or phone number in Mecca 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.

What payment methods can my Mecca checkout accept?

For Saudi Arabia: Stripe, HyperPay, Moyasar, and mada for domestic cards. 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 Mecca 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.

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.

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WordPress design, build and optimisation in Mecca

Most WordPress sites are slow because of how they were built, not because of WordPress. I build lean themes without page-builder bloat, so the site stays quick, ranks properly, and you can still edit it without calling a developer. For Mecca businesses, quoted in SAR from $80, typically live in 3 days.

What wordpress design, build and optimisation includes for a Mecca business

Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $80, typically live in 3 days.

Custom theme build — no bloated multi-purpose page builder
WooCommerce configuration where you sell online
Core Web Vitals optimisation: images, fonts, caching, render path
Security hardening and automated backups
On-page SEO: schema, sitemaps, meta, heading structure
Editor training so your team can update content without breaking layout
Plugin audit — removing what is slowing you down

The terms for a Saudi client

Starting price	From $80, quoted and invoiced in SAR
Typical timeline	3 days once content is supplied
Tax position	VAT at 15%, reverse-charged on imported services
Data protection	the Personal Data Protection Law enforced by SDAIA — resolved by the PDPL restricts transfers abroad, so the DPA records the safeguards and the purpose limitation in writing
Payment rails available	Stripe, HyperPay, Moyasar, and mada for domestic cards
My day in Mecca time	07:00–16:00 — about 7 hours of overlap

Why this matters for Saudi Arabia specifically

mada is not optional. A Saudi checkout that only accepts Visa and Mastercard loses a large share of domestic buyers at the payment step, and that single integration decision moves conversion more than anything on the product page.

Why the Mecca quote lists exclusions as well as inclusions

Every quote I send names what is not included as explicitly as what is. Copywriting from scratch, photography, logo design, ongoing content, paid advertising and third-party licence fees are the usual ones. A quote listing only inclusions is not cheaper — it is the same price with the arguments deferred to later.

This is unpopular at the proposal stage and it is the reason fixed prices hold. Someone comparing three quotes for a Mecca project is usually comparing three different scopes without realising it, and the cheapest one is very often the one that excluded the most while saying the least.

Professional services in Mecca

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 Mecca.

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 Mecca search terms actually produce enquiries is what turns the site from a cost into something you can steer.

What I am not claiming about Mecca

I have no office, postal address or phone number in Mecca
I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
I am not claiming existing clients in Mecca 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