Website Design for Cape Town Contractors & Tradespeople
You’re on site all day. You’re not chasing website enquiries between jobs — but your competitors are showing up on Google, and you’re not. We build fixed-price websites for Cape Town contractors so customers can find you and trust you before they even call.
No deposit games. No hidden costs. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay.
Right now your best leads come from a Facebook group or a phone number written on a van.
That’s fine, until someone searches “electrician near me” or “plumber Cape Town” and finds three competitors with a proper website before they ever hear your name.
There’s also the quote problem: you send a customer a price from a Gmail address, and it looks the same as every chancer who’s never finished a job in their life. A real domain and a proper site does something a WhatsApp quote can’t — it makes the price look like it came from someone who’s still going to be around in a year.
The jobs you’re missing aren’t going to competitors who are better. They’re going to competitors who show up first.
Everything you need to be found and trusted.
Your own domain name
Your .co.za domain, registered in your name for the first year. yourbusiness.co.za instead of a Facebook page you don’t control.
Business email addresses
quotes@yourbusiness.co.za instead of a Gmail address. It’s the difference between a quote that looks official and one that looks like it could vanish tomorrow.
Hand-coded, not dragged together
Your site is written by hand and runs on WordPress. No page-builder plugin loading code you’ll never use — it loads fast, even on a customer’s data on-site.
Works properly on a phone
Most people searching for a tradesperson do it standing in a leaking kitchen, on their phone. We design for that first and test on real devices.
Basic SEO setup
Page titles, descriptions, a sitemap submitted to Google, and your business set up to show for local searches like “[your trade] Cape Town.”
A quote form that works
Tested end to end before launch, going straight to an inbox you actually check on site. No enquiry sitting unread in a form nobody set up properly.
Built for the trades that live on referrals and repeat work.
Electricians
COC-ready, callout-ready, found before the other guy in the group chat.
Plumbers
Show up for “emergency plumber Cape Town” searches, not just word of mouth.
Builders & renovators
A place to point people before they’ve seen a single completed job.
Painters
Quotes that look like they came from a real business, not a text message.
Landscapers & garden services
Seasonal work needs to be found in season — a site works every month.
Roofers & waterproofers
High-value jobs where trust matters more than the lowest quote.
Two packages. Both fixed. Pick the one that fits.
| Feature | Starter | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Pages | 3 | 5 |
| Once-off price | R3,000 | R4,500 |
| Or three payments of | R1,000 | R1,500 |
| Domain registration | Included | Included |
| Business email accounts | 3 | 5 |
| Hosting | 3 months free | 3 months free |
| Basic SEO setup | Included | Included |
| Mobile friendly | Yes | Yes |
| Quote form | Yes | Yes |
| Live in | 2 weeks | 2–3 weeks |
| Get my fixed price | Get my fixed price |
After the first three months, hosting is R149 a month. No contract — cancel any time and take the site with you.
Four steps. About two weeks. No site visits required.
Tell us about your trade
A short call or WhatsApp chat — what you do, the areas you cover, and the kind of jobs you want more of. Twenty minutes, no jargon.
We build it
Domain registered, site designed, copy written, email set up. Send us any job photos you’ve got — before/afters work well for trades.
You review it
You see the whole site before it’s live and tell us what to change. Two rounds of changes included — most people use one.
It goes live
We launch it, submit it to Google, and show you how to update your own text if you want to. Then it’s yours.
Paying in three? The first payment starts the build, the second releases your site for review, and the third takes it live. Same total price either way.
A good fit if you’re a tradesperson who’s outgrown word of mouth.
This is for you if
- You’re relying on referrals and a Facebook group for leads
- You want quotes to look like they came from a real business
- You want to show up when someone searches for your trade in Cape Town
- You’ve been quoted R15,000 by an agency and thought there must be a sensible middle ground
This isn’t for you if
- You need online booking or job scheduling built into the site
- You want an online shop for parts or materials
- You need it live by Friday
If you need something we don’t do, tell us anyway and we’ll point you in the right direction.
Questions contractors ask.
Will my site actually show up when someone searches for my trade?
Basic SEO is included on every site — page titles, descriptions, and a sitemap submitted to Google, plus your business set up to target local searches like “[your trade] Cape Town.” It won’t outrank an agency spending thousands a month on ads, but it puts you in the running for the searches that matter.
Can customers request a quote directly from the site?
Yes — every site includes a working quote/contact form that goes to an inbox you actually check, tested before launch. Business and Starter packages both include this.
Can I show photos of completed jobs?
Yes, and we’d encourage it — before/after job photos are some of the strongest trust signals a tradesperson’s site can have. Send us what you’ve got and we’ll build a gallery or portfolio section into your pages.
I don’t have a logo or a registered business name yet — is that a problem?
Not at all. We can set you up with a clean text-based logo to start, and your domain and email will still look properly established even if the paperwork is still catching up.
Do you only build for contractors, or other small businesses too?
We work with small businesses generally — contractors and tradespeople are simply a group we see the same pattern in again and again: strong word-of-mouth, no way to be found on Google, and quotes that don’t look official.
What if I work across more than just Cape Town?
That’s fine — the site isn’t locked to one area. We’ll set the SEO up around Cape Town since that’s likely where most of your searches come from, but the site itself works for enquiries from anywhere you cover.
Get your fixed price today.
Tell us about your trade and we’ll come back within one working day with a straight answer and a fixed price. No pressure and no sales sequence — if we’re not right for you, we’ll say so.