Web design questions, answered.

Our websites start at R5,900 for a one-page site, R12,900 for a 6-page business site and R24,900 for a Growth site with a booking system or quote calculator built in. For comparison, most South African agencies charge between R15,000 and R50,000 for a professionally built business website in 2026. Every quote is fixed, so there are no surprise invoices.

A Launch site goes live in about 7 days, a Business site in about 14 days and a Growth site in 3 to 4 weeks. Web apps and custom booking platforms usually take 6 to 12 weeks, depending on scope. The biggest factor is how quickly we receive your content and feedback.

Rainbow Web Designers publishes fixed prices from R5,900 for a custom one-page site and R12,900 for up to 6 pages. See our affordable web design page and 2026 website cost guide for full comparisons.

Our published prices are in South African Rand. Your written quote confirms the final amount, including any applicable taxes, before work starts.

A WhatsApp chatbot answers customer questions, captures leads, takes bookings and hands the conversation to you when a human is needed, all inside WhatsApp, 24/7. Setup starts at R7,500 with managed hosting from R650 per month. Meta charges small per-message fees for business-initiated messages, billed in US dollars. We set everything up on your own verified WhatsApp Business account, so you own the number and the data.

Yes. Our online booking system starts at R6,500 and plugs into most existing websites. It shows live availability, sends email and WhatsApp reminders to cut no-shows, and can take deposits through PayFast or Yoco. For multi-staff or multi-branch businesses we build custom booking platforms from R24,000.

Yes. Every Rainbow website includes WhatsApp click-to-chat buttons with pre-filled messages. For automation we set up WhatsApp chatbots on the official WhatsApp Business API from R7,500.

Yes. We integrate PayFast, Yoco, Ozow and Peach Payments for online stores, booking deposits and memberships.

Yes. We build client portals, dashboards, booking and ordering platforms, internal tools and startup MVPs from R45,000. Larger builds start with a paid discovery sprint of R4,500 that maps features, screens and costs, and that amount is credited to your build.

Every site ships with clean semantic code, schema markup, fast Core Web Vitals, local SEO and a Google Business Profile setup. We also structure your content so AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews can understand and quote your business.

Yes. You own your domain, your code, your content and your WhatsApp number. There are no lock-in contracts. If you ever move on, we hand everything over.

For DIY, Wix, Squarespace and WordPress.com are popular. For speed, SEO, local payments and conversion, a custom-built site usually performs better and costs less over three years. We will recommend what suits your budget.

We build consent into every form, add a clear privacy policy, only collect what you need and host on secure, SSL-protected servers. We also advise on how to handle customer data captured by chatbots and booking systems.

It can be. We add opt-in messages, link to your privacy notice, collect only the data needed and store it securely. Your business remains the responsible party under POPIA.

Yes. Every site runs on HTTPS with security headers, spam protection on forms and, on our care plans, daily backups and monitoring.