Restaurant website cost in India by build tier
Most Indian restaurant sites land in one of three bands. The band is set by how a customer can act on the page, not by how many pages you buy. A menu that people can read is cheap. A menu that people can pay from is a small shop.
| Tier | What it includes | Market band (one-time) |
|---|---|---|
| Menu site | Five pages: home, menu, about, gallery, contact with map | ₹5,000–₹15,000 |
| Menu plus booking | Adds a reservation form or a WhatsApp order button on every page | ₹20,000–₹35,000 |
| Ordering site | Cart, UPI and card payments, delivery zones, order alerts | ₹35,000–₹60,000+ |
Those bands are the Indian market range for 2026. A studio build for a chain, with a booking engine or POS integration, is priced like software and sits well above the third row. WebJi® does not publish a fixed restaurant package: the website design team quotes the build by email before any payment.
What moves the number up or down
Two quotes for the same five pages can differ by a factor of four. These six decisions explain almost all of the gap.
- Who edits the menu. A menu typed into the page costs less to build and goes stale in a month. A menu with an admin screen, categories and price fields costs more and lets your manager change a rate without calling anyone.
- Payments. A payment gateway adds gateway setup, webhook testing, refund handling and a per-transaction fee, usually around two percent plus GST.
- Reservations. A form that emails the manager is nearly free and loses bookings silently. Real table inventory means a booking platform subscription or a small build.
- Ordering logic. Delivery zones, minimum order value, pickup slots and order alerts are all logic, and logic is what you are paying for.
- Photography. Usually outside the build quote. Budget for one shoot of your room and twelve dishes rather than buying stock photos.
- Outlets. One outlet is a page. Four outlets is a location template, per-outlet hours and menus, and routing that sends a searcher to the right branch.
Which tier fits your restaurant today
Start from how orders arrive this month, not from where you hope to be next year. If nine of ten customers walk in, a menu site plus a complete Google Business Profile earns its keep. If your phone rings for takeaway all evening, add the WhatsApp button before you add a cart.
Move to the ordering tier when you already have repeat customers who know your name. Direct ordering only pays for itself on people who would have ordered anyway. A first-time diner who found you on a delivery app is not the audience for a site they have never seen.
Direct orders against aggregator commission
Commission is the number that decides the budget. At a ₹400 average order and 40 aggregator orders a day, the platform keeps roughly a fifth of your monthly revenue, every month, for as long as you stay listed.
| Line, one month | Rupees |
|---|---|
| 40 orders a day × ₹400 × 30 days | ₹4,80,000 |
| Aggregator commission at 22 percent | ₹1,05,600 |
| Payment gateway at 2 percent on the same volume, direct | ₹9,600 |
| One-time ordering build | ₹35,000–₹60,000 |
Move a quarter of that volume to your own site and you save about ₹24,000 a month in commission while paying roughly ₹2,400 in gateway fees. The build is repaid in two to three months. You also keep the phone numbers, which no aggregator hands over.
What a restaurant website quote must list
Ask every vendor for the same six lines and compare them side by side. A quote missing three of them is not cheaper, it is shorter.
- Page count, and the exact pages, written down.
- Who writes the copy and who shoots the photographs.
- Whether the menu is editable by your staff, and how.
- Reservations and ordering: in scope or not, and which product provides them.
- Domain and hosting in your company name, with admin access at kickoff rather than at handover.
- Price before or after 18% GST, and the payment schedule.
Yearly cost after launch
The build is a one-time number. The renewals are the ones that decide whether the site survives year two. On WebJi® shared hosting the Linux plans are ₹300 a month for L-Basic and ₹400 for L-Unlimited, before 18% GST, and that covers the site, SSL and email accounts on the plan.
Add the domain renewal at your registrar's rate, plus any paid plugin or booking subscription you chose. Menu updates, plugin updates, backups and uptime checks are quoted by email for restaurants that would rather not touch the admin. Plan for the renewal in the same budget as the build, or the site goes quiet in month fourteen.
How WebJi® quotes a restaurant build
Email support@webji.services with the tier you want, roughly how many menu items you have, and whether you need payments on day one. The desk replies with a fixed scope and price in INR, with 18% GST shown separately, before you pay anything. Support is by email in Hindi and English, 24/7, with an average first reply under 60 minutes.
Hosting can start on any Linux plan and move up later without a rebuild. If you want the build itself, the contact form reaches the same team. Next, read the restaurant website design guide for the page-by-page build, or the wider website design cost breakdown for other business types.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a restaurant website cost in India in 2026?
About ₹5,000–₹15,000 for a five-page menu site, ₹20,000–₹35,000 with booking or WhatsApp ordering, and ₹35,000–₹60,000 or more with cart and UPI payments. Chain builds with a booking engine or POS integration cost more and are quoted per scope.
Is a website cheaper than Zomato or Swiggy commission?
Over a year, usually yes. A ₹35,000–₹60,000 ordering build is repaid in two to three months at 40 orders a day and 22 percent commission. Keep the aggregator for discovery and use your own site for regulars, where you keep the customer's number.
How long does a restaurant website take to build?
A menu site is typically ready in one to two weeks once the menu text and photos are in hand. Booking and ordering tiers take three to six weeks because payment testing, delivery zones and order alerts need your staff to test them.
Should the menu be a PDF or a web page?
A web page. Search engines and AI assistants cannot read a scanned PDF, it is slow on a mid-range phone, and it cannot carry prices as structured data. Text menu sections also let you update one price without reshooting the file.
Do I need to pay for hosting separately from the build?
Yes, unless your quote says otherwise. WebJi® Linux shared hosting is ₹300 a month for L-Basic and ₹400 for L-Unlimited, before 18% GST. A domain renewal is charged at the registrar's rate each year.
Can I update menu prices myself after launch?
Ask for that in writing before you pay. On a build with an admin screen you edit an item and its price in the panel. On a hard-coded menu every change is a developer task, which is why cheap builds go stale.

