Almost every Nepali business has been through it: a website that took months longer than promised, looks dated a year later, loads slowly on mobile data and cannot be edited because the developer stopped answering the phone. Choosing the right website design and development company in Nepal is mostly about avoiding those outcomes.

This guide covers what a good web company should deliver, how to compare quotes, the red flags, what websites really cost in NPR, and how my practice — Arjan KC with Gurkha Technology — approaches website projects.

Disclosure: I am Arjan KC, co-founder and lead strategist at Gurkha Technology in Kathmandu. Market price ranges here come from my 2026 website cost guide for Nepal, which reflects typical local quotes rather than a survey.

The short answer

A good website company in Nepal will:

Website Design & Development Company in Nepal: How to Choose
  1. Show you live sites it has built, which you can test on your own phone.
  2. Put everything in your name — domain, hosting, code, Analytics and Search Console.
  3. Build for results, not just looks: fast on mobile data, structured for SEO, with calls, WhatsApp clicks and forms tracked.
  4. Give a written scope with pages, features, timeline, revisions and what happens after launch.

If a company cannot do all four, its low price will cost you more later.

What a business website in Nepal needs to do

A website is not a digital brochure any more. For most Nepali businesses, it has four jobs:

  • Win searches. Pages for each service and location, clean structure and proper technical SEO so Google can understand and rank the site.
  • Load fast on mobile data. Most visitors arrive on phones, often on 4G. Heavy sliders, uncompressed images and bloated themes lose them before the page appears.
  • Turn visitors into enquiries. Clear offers, prices where possible, and one-tap call and WhatsApp buttons.
  • Build trust. Real photos, location, reviews, team, registration details and policies — especially important when many buyers pay cash on delivery or visit in person.

Design matters, but only as far as it helps with those four jobs.

Seven things to check before you hire

1. Live work you can test

Ask for links to sites they built in the last two years, not just screenshots. Open them on your phone, on mobile data. Check how quickly they load, whether the call button works and whether the content is still up to date. A portfolio of mockups that never went live tells you little.

2. Ownership and access

Ask directly: whose name will the domain and hosting be registered in? Will I get the admin login and the source files? Many Nepali businesses have lost their domain or been locked out of their own site because a developer registered everything in their own name. Insist on owning it all.

3. SEO built in from the start

SEO is far cheaper to build in than to retrofit. Ask how they handle page titles, URL structure, headings, image compression, schema markup, redirects from an old site and XML sitemaps. If the answer is “we will install an SEO plugin”, keep asking. My technical SEO checklist for Nepali websites lists what to expect.

4. Speed and Core Web Vitals

Ask what speed they target on mobile and how they test it. A good answer mentions specific measures — image formats such as WebP, caching, a CDN such as Cloudflare, limiting plugins. See website performance in Nepal.

5. Tracking and conversions

A website that cannot tell you where enquiries come from is half a website. Ask whether they set up Google Analytics 4, Search Console and tracking for calls, WhatsApp clicks and forms, and whether they will show you how to read it. Our conversion optimisation and landing page services cover this.

6. The right platform for your team

There is no single best platform. WordPress suits teams that edit content often or need WooCommerce. A static site suits marketing sites that change less often and need to be fast, secure and cheap to run. A headless setup suits larger sites that need flexibility. A good company recommends based on who will update the site and how often — not on what it always uses. See WordPress vs static sites.

7. Maintenance and security after launch

Ask what happens after launch: who updates the software, who takes backups, who fixes it if it is hacked, and what that costs per month. Unmaintained WordPress sites are a common target. See WordPress security in Nepal and website maintenance costs.

Red flags

  • Domain or hosting registered in the developer’s name.
  • No live portfolio, or sites that no longer load.
  • “Unlimited pages and revisions” for a tiny fixed price. The cost reappears as delays or poor quality.
  • No written scope, timeline or payment milestones.
  • Pirated or “nulled” themes and plugins. These often carry malware and cannot be updated safely.
  • No plan for after launch.

For more on what goes wrong, read common web development failures in Nepal.

What a website costs in Nepal

Typical 2026 market quotes, from my website cost guide:

Website type Typical NPR range Typical timeline
Restaurant or café (about 5 pages, menu, map) 35,000 – 55,000 2–3 weeks
Professional services (8–12 pages, forms, blog) 65,000 – 120,000 4–6 weeks
E-commerce (50–200 products, wallets, shipping) 120,000 – 280,000 6–10 weeks

On top of the build, budget for a domain, hosting and maintenance. The cost guide breaks those down.

Our own builds start at NPR 90,000 for a fast static site, NPR 120,000 for a custom WordPress site and NPR 250,000+ for a headless CMS build, as listed on the web development service page. E-commerce is quoted after scoping, because catalog size, payment gateways such as eSewa, Khalti and Fonepay, and delivery rules change the work a lot.

The cheapest quote is rarely the cheapest website. A site that has to be rebuilt in eighteen months, or that never brings in enquiries, costs more than a well-built one.

How Arjan KC and Gurkha Technology build websites

Arjan KC is a Nepal-based full-stack digital marketing expert covering search, paid media, social, content, websites, analytics and conversion. Gurkha Technology is a Kathmandu digital agency founded by Diwas Pandey, Sushil Ghale, Kapil Amagain, Sudip Dhungel and Bibek Neupane. I joined as co-founder after its first year and lead strategy (more on that).

Because we come from marketing, our websites are planned around search, speed and enquiries before design. I lead the strategy, structure and measurement; the Gurkha Technology team handles design and development.

Our process

  1. Discovery. Your goals, customers, services and competitors, plus how you get enquiries today.
  2. Structure and SEO plan. A page list and URL structure mapped to what people search for, and redirects if you are replacing an old site.
  3. Design. Mobile first, with your real photos and content, and clear calls to action.
  4. Build. On the platform that suits your team, with speed, schema and security handled from the start.
  5. Tracking and launch. Analytics 4, Search Console, call, WhatsApp and form tracking, then a checked launch.
  6. After launch. Maintenance, updates and backups, or a handover with training if your team will run it.

Everything — domain, hosting, code and analytics — stays in your name.

Work you can check

  • Treebones Resort: website, brand guidelines, deployment from GitHub to cPanel, and Cloudflare, live at treebonesnepal.com.
  • Kathmandu multi-specialty clinic: a site rebuild alongside local SEO that helped grow Google Business Profile map views from about 2,100 to 9,240 a month in six months (client name withheld).
  • Jhalko: brand identity and design guidelines for a Nepali photo framing platform.

Questions to ask on your first call

  1. Can I see three live sites you built recently?
  2. Whose name will the domain, hosting and code be in?
  3. Which platform do you recommend for my business, and why?
  4. How will you make the site fast on mobile and ready for SEO?
  5. Will you set up tracking for calls, WhatsApp and forms?
  6. What is included after launch, and what does maintenance cost?
  7. What do you need from me, and when?

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