Trading and distribution businesses
A trading site is a catalog plus credibility plus a working enquiry form. Money spent on motion design is money not spent on the product pages that actually get found.
Web development services in Kolkata
honest scope for a price-sensitive market.
Web development services in Kolkata compete against very low quotes, and the low quote is sometimes the right answer. Gatilab publishes starting prices, names a budget floor, and will tell you when a cheaper route genuinely fits. Manufacturing, retail, and trading businesses here mostly need a site that ranks and loads, not one that wins awards.
850+ clients served
$38M+ in client revenue influenced
10,000+ sites running our plugins
Delivery is remote, with calls in IST. You keep the code, the hosting account, and every login in your own name.
What Kolkata businesses usually need built.
Three patterns account for most of the web development work we take on in Kolkata. Yours may not be here, and that is what the scoping sprint is for.
Retail moving online for the first time
The first store is where most budget gets wasted, usually on a custom build the volume does not justify yet. Start on a platform, prove the demand, then build when the economics support it.
Older sites carrying real search equity
Sites that have been live for a decade often rank well despite looking dated. The risk in redesigning them is losing that equity, which makes redirect mapping the most valuable line in the quote.
Three ways in, priced before you call.
Pick by how much of the build is genuinely unknown. Prices are in rupees and exclude tax.
Scoping sprint
from ₹27,000
For teams inheriting a site, taking over a stalled project, or deciding between a repair and a rebuild.
- Code, plugin, and database audit on the live site
- Performance traced to the query or asset causing it
- Migration and redirect risks named before they bite
- A build estimate with the assumptions written down
The fee comes off the build price if you go ahead with us.
Custom build
from ₹72,000
For businesses whose site is the main sales channel and cannot afford another rebuild in 2 years.
- A component system, not a page builder mess
- Performance budget agreed before the first template
- Redirects mapped from the old site so rankings survive
- Staging environment your team can review on
- Handover with documentation and no lock-in
If a rebuild is not warranted, we quote the repair instead and it is cheaper.
Ecommerce build
from ₹2,55,000
For stores where downtime, checkout friction, or stock errors cost money the same day.
- Checkout built and tested against real Indian payment methods
- Stock, variants, and tax handled before launch
- Load tested at the traffic you actually expect
- Analytics and abandoned cart tracking wired in
- A launch runbook, because launch day is when stores break
If your volume does not justify a custom store yet, we say so and name a platform.
Development is delivered remotely, so location changes meeting times and payment method rather than price. Hosting is never resold, so leaving us never means moving your site.
What is actually in each package.
The same table we work from internally. If a line is not ticked, it is not in the price, and we would rather you saw that here than found it in week 6.
| What you get | Scoping sprintfrom ₹27,000 | Custom buildfrom ₹72,000 | Ecommerce buildfrom ₹2,55,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code, plugin, and database audit on the live site | Included | Included | Included |
| Written scope with assumptions and risks named | Included | Included | Included |
| Performance traced to the query or asset causing it | Included | Included | Included |
| Build estimate you can take elsewhere | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Performance budget agreed before the first template | Not included | Included | Included |
| Component system your editors can use without a developer | Not included | Included | Included |
| Staging environment your team reviews weekly | Not included | Included | Included |
| Redirect map crawled from the old site and tested | IncludedRisks named only | Included | Included |
| Before and after crawl at launch | Not included | Included | Included |
| Payments, stock, variants, and tax configured | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Load tested at the traffic you actually expect | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Launch runbook with a rollback path | Not included | IncludedBasic | Included |
| Documentation and every account in your name | IncludedAudit document | Included | Included |
| Post-launch monitoring for 2 weeks | Not included | Included | Included |
Taxes are extra and always printed. Every track opens with the scoping pass, because an honest build price depends on what is already there. If the audit shows a rebuild is not warranted, we quote the repair instead and it costs less.
Six services, each bookable on its own.
Most engagements start with one and add the others once the first has paid for itself.
Custom WordPress development
WordPress built as a real component system with version-controlled themes and purpose-built blocks, so your editors change pages without filing a ticket. No page builder sprawl, no 40 plugins holding the layout together.
Block themesCustom blocksACFHeadless WP
Ecommerce development
WooCommerce stores scoped around the checkout rather than the catalog. Payments, stock, variants, and tax are settled before launch, because those are the parts that cost money the same day they break.
WooCommerceRazorpayCheckout UXLoad testing
Web application development
Dashboards, portals, booking flows, and internal tools. We scope the data model first and the interface second, which is the reverse of how most quotes are built and the reason ours hold.
REST APIsPortalsDashboardsIntegrations
Website migration and replatforming
Moving off Wix, Squarespace, Drupal, or an abandoned custom stack without losing rankings. Redirects are mapped from a full crawl of the old site, tested on staging, and shipped with the launch rather than after it.
Redirect mappingReplatformingContent migrationSEO safe
Performance and Core Web Vitals
Slowness has a cause you can point at, usually a query, an unbounded asset, or a plugin doing work on every request. We trace it to the line rather than installing another caching layer over the problem.
Core Web VitalsCachingQuery profilingAsset budgets
Maintenance and support retainers
Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, and security patching on a schedule, with a named person who answers. Retainers are month to month, because a maintenance contract you cannot leave is a hostage situation.
UpdatesBackupsMonitoringSecurity patching
What we build with.
Chosen because they stay maintainable for whoever comes after us, not because they are new. Most builds are the WordPress column. We reach for the JavaScript column when the front end genuinely needs it, and we say so when it does not, because headless roughly doubles what you have to maintain.
WordPress
WordPressWooCommerceBricksPHPMySQL
JavaScript and headless
Next.jsAstroReactNode.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
Data and payments
PostgreSQLRedisStripeRazorpayGoogle Analytics
Hosting and delivery
VercelRailwayCloudflareGitHubDocker
Four stages, each ending in something you can hold.
Overruns come from work nobody scoped. Every stage below produces an artifact you check before the next one starts.
- 01
Audit and scope
We read the existing code, the database, and the hosting before quoting. Most of the risk in a rebuild is invisible from the front end, so pricing it without looking is a guess dressed as a number.
You leave with: a scope with the assumptions and risks written down
- 02
Build on staging
Everything is built and reviewed on a staging environment your team can reach. You see the site grow weekly instead of getting a reveal at the end and a week to react to it.
You leave with: a staging URL you can click through as it grows
- 03
Migrate without losing rankings
Redirects are mapped from a crawl of the old site, tested, and shipped with the launch. This is the stage most agencies skip and the one most post-launch traffic losses trace back to.
You leave with: a redirect map plus a before and after crawl
- 04
Handover and watch
We monitor errors, crawl stats, and Core Web Vitals under real traffic for 2 weeks. Problems surface when actual people use the site, not during internal testing.
You leave with: documentation, every account in your name, and a post-launch report
Bolt-ons, quoted against your scope.
None of these are bundled into the headline price, because most projects do not need all of them. You see what each one costs and can decline it.
- Design system and UI
A component library with locked styling, so marketing assembles new pages from approved parts without a deploy and without drifting off brand.
- Technical SEO at launch
Schema, crawl budget, internal link structure, and indexation checked before the site goes live rather than diagnosed 3 months later.
- Analytics and conversion tracking
Events wired into the build against the real funnel, so you can tell which step loses people instead of guessing.
- Multilingual and multi-region
Translation workflow and correct hreflang. Priced separately because the cost sits in the workflow, not the templates.
- Security hardening
Least-privilege access, 2FA, hardened file permissions, and a patch schedule. Standard on ecommerce, optional elsewhere.
- Email and automation
Transactional email that actually arrives, plus the sequences that run after a form submission or an abandoned cart.
Worth booking, or worth looking elsewhere.
Development is where vague quotes do the most damage. Half of this list is reasons we turn Kolkata projects down.
Worth booking
- Your site earns money or generates the leads that do
- You can name 1 person who approves technical decisions
- You want the migration quoted rather than discovered
- You would rather hear a scope is uncertain than get a confident wrong number
- You want to keep owning your hosting, code, and accounts
Look elsewhere
- Your budget is under ₹27,000. Below that we cannot audit the site honestly, and a build quoted without an audit is a guess.
- You want a fixed price before anyone has read the code. Whoever gives you one is pricing in the risk, and you are paying for it.
- You need it live in 2 weeks. Migrations compress badly and rankings pay the bill.
- You want us to host it. We do not resell hosting, on purpose.
- You need someone on site daily. Delivery is remote, and that is how the published prices stay honest.
Web development questions from Kolkata.
Cost, timelines, rankings, hosting, and how engagements actually run.
You are more expensive than local quotes. Why?
Because we audit before quoting and we quote the migration, which is where cheap builds usually go wrong. That is not always worth paying for. If your site is small, has little search equity to lose, and does not carry revenue, a local developer at a lower rate is a reasonable choice and we will say so.
What is the minimum you will take on?
The floor is the ₹27,000 scoping sprint. Below that we cannot read the site properly, and a build quoted without reading the code is a guess that you end up paying for later.
How much do web development services cost?
Published floors are ₹27,000 for a scoping sprint, ₹72,000 for a custom build, and ₹2,55,000 for an ecommerce store, plus taxes. The final number depends on template count, integrations, and how much of the existing stack has to survive the move. You get the assumptions in writing rather than a range.
How long will the project take?
A scoping sprint runs 1 to 2 weeks. A custom build is typically 6 to 10 weeks from kickoff to launch, and ecommerce runs longer because payments, stock, and tax need real testing. We quote a timeline against your actual scope and say early if a date is not achievable.
Will we lose search rankings when the new site launches?
Not if the redirects are done properly, which is the part most rebuilds skip. We crawl the old site, map every URL, test the redirects on staging, and ship them with the launch, then run a before and after crawl so any loss shows up immediately.
Do you host the site or lock us into a contract?
Neither. We do not resell hosting, so leaving us never means moving your site, and maintenance retainers run month to month. The code, the hosting account, and the domain are in your name from day one.
Tell us what the site has to do.
Send the current URL, what is underperforming, and the 1 outcome the site most needs to produce. The more specific you are, the more specific the reply.
- Read by Gaurav personally, not routed to a sales queue
- A reply within 1 business day with a specific recommendation
- A straight answer on whether we are the right fit, including when we are not
- Your details stay private and are never resold
Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp. Budgets under ₹27,000 are better served elsewhere and we will say so rather than take the project.