E-commerce Website Cost in Nepal: A Transparent 2026 Pricing Guide

Ask five web agencies in Kathmandu what an online store costs and you'll get five wildly different numbers, anywhere from NPR 15,000 to well over a lakh, often with no clear explanation of what changes between them. The honest answer is that e-commerce pricing depends on a handful of specific factors, not a mysterious agency formula. Here's what actually drives the number, broken down plainly.

The Baseline: A Simple WooCommerce Store

For a store with up to 20 to 30 products, standard product pages, Fonepay/eSewa/Khalti and COD at checkout, and a template-based design customised to your brand, expect NPR 40,000 to 60,000 with us. This covers most small retailers, boutiques, and single-product-line businesses just starting to sell online.

What Pushes the Price Up

  • Larger catalogs. Fifty to two hundred products with variations (size, colour, material) means more setup time entering data and testing variant logic, pushing toward NPR 60,000 to 90,000.
  • Custom design work. A fully bespoke visual identity rather than a customised template adds design hours, typically NPR 15,000 to 30,000 on top depending on complexity.
  • Extra payment or delivery integrations. Each additional gateway or a courier API integration (real-time tracking, automated labels) adds setup and testing time, usually a few thousand rupees per integration.
  • Custom features. Wishlist systems, loyalty points, subscription billing, multi-vendor logic, these move you toward custom development pricing, which starts well above the WooCommerce baseline and is quoted separately once we understand the exact requirement.

What Doesn't Change the Price (With Us)

Domain registration, SSL certificate, and the first year of hosting are included in our packages, not add-ons some agencies quote separately to make their headline number look lower. Ask any agency directly what's excluded before comparing quotes; a cheap number that excludes hosting, SSL, and payment gateway setup fees often ends up more expensive once those get added back.

Get a Fixed-Price E-commerce Website Quote in 24 Hours

WebsNP designs and builds online stores in Kathmandu for businesses across Nepal: Fonepay, eSewa and Khalti built in, free domain and a year of hosting included, fixed price agreed before we start. Standard sites ship in 2 to 7 days; custom e-commerce builds take longer depending on scope, and we'll tell you honestly how long yours needs.

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Hidden Costs to Ask About Upfront

Beyond the build itself: payment gateway settlement fees (a percentage per transaction, charged by Fonepay/eSewa/Khalti/your bank, not by your web developer), annual hosting renewal after year one, and ongoing plugin or security updates if you're not on a maintenance plan. None of these are hidden from you with WebsNP, we list them plainly in every quote, but they're worth asking any agency about before signing.

A Realistic Budget Range for 2026

For most Nepali small and medium businesses, a properly built online store lands between NPR 40,000 and 90,000 all-in for the website itself, with delivery in roughly one to two weeks depending on catalog size and how ready your product content is. Anything beyond that, custom platforms, large catalogs, complex logic, is a different conversation with its own quote. Send us your product count and rough feature list and you'll have an itemised, fixed-price number within 24 hours, no guessing required.