Tools
Editorial review: 19 September 2026 · By: Alston Antony
Two free tools for the two moments where Sri Lankan website buyers lose the most money: working out what a project should cost before anyone quotes, and reading a quotation properly once they have. Neither collects your details, and neither sends your answers to a provider.
Website cost calculator
Answer a few questions about what you are building and get an itemised LKR range: one-off build cost, fixed annual running cost, and - for stores - the variable payment-gateway fees at your expected sales volume. Every assumption behind the estimate is printed next to it rather than hidden in a lookup table.
Use it when: You are budgeting, or sanity-checking a quote someone has given you.
Open →Website quotation checklist
The questions to put in writing before you accept a web design quotation, and the things a quote must state explicitly - scope, revisions, content responsibility, hosting and domain ownership, and what happens after launch. Send it to every shortlisted provider so you are comparing like with like.
Use it when: You have quotes in hand, or are about to ask for them.
Open →Use them in this order
- Work out your own number first with the cost calculator, so you walk into the conversation with an expectation rather than reacting to whatever figure you are given.
- Read website cost in Sri Lanka for what drives the range, and how to choose a web designer for how to build the shortlist.
- Send the quotation checklist to everyone on that shortlist, so the quotes you get back are comparable.