Website design Sligo: what it costs, firm by firm

Our plans, with prices shown

All our prices exclude VAT. No setup fee and no commission on bookings: only payments taken online carry 3% excl. VAT. The yearly plan is paid in one go, €480 for twelve months; the monthly plan, €50, stops when you choose. When a subscription ends, the website and the domain stop with it, and your client records are returned on request within 30 days, then deleted. The details are on our pricing page.

What a website costs in Sligo from other providers

The search was “website design sligo” on Google (Ireland, English, location Sligo), on 16/10/2026. We opened every page the same day in a browser and copied the figures as they display. Each address is the firm's own; each name was looked up in the Companies Registration Office's records, through SoloCheck, that day. In the first ten, Format Web Design (Holborn Street, Sligo), which ranks first, OSD Digital Agency (Stephen Street, Sligo) and Darragh Kerrigan Creative (Castle Street, Sligo, by its site, while its business name is registered with a Dublin address; the budget options of its quote form start at €2,000 to €5,000) print no price; nor do Creation Media (Ballisodare) and Doublewest Design (Sligo), which Google lists among the local firms. Blossom Designs, seventh, gives Tubbercurry in its cookie policy, with no street and a second base in Malta, and we found no entry for its name in the register: we leave its prices out. Flo Web Design, second, has its offices in Drogheda, Kells and Dublin. Bark, eighth, is a directory: it displays “The average price of Web Designers in Sligo is €600” (its Sligo page) without saying how that is worked out, so it is no firm's price. These five firms' prices are also in our Irish price observatory. These are the prices of 16/10/2026: have the one you are offered put in writing. Ours are on the pricing page.

Five questions to ask a Sligo web designer before you sign

Is VAT on top? Dmac Media and Sligo Web Design write “+ VAT” after their prices; Sligo Websites, Sevenoways and Smiling Spiders do not say. A designer whose turnover stays under €42,500 need not register for VAT and adds none (Revenue's thresholds, read 16/10/2026); one who is registered adds 23%. Ask for the price with VAT, in writing.

What will year two cost? Sligo Websites prints it line by line: hosting, domain and care. Smiling Spiders and Sevenoways print monthly care plans, from €50 and from €79 a month. Sligo Web Design includes the first year of hosting and a domain up to €40, and does not say whether its €50 + VAT maintenance is a month or a year. Ask for the second year's bill before you pay the first.

How long am I tied in, and whose name is the domain in? Dmac Media's website plans run for twelve months at least; Sevenoways says all its plans are “rolling monthly”, and its web design page promises “You own everything. Your domain, your content, your site.” Ask what you take with you if you leave, and whose name the domain is registered in.

Which booking tool, and at what price? None of the five price lists in this survey puts a price on online booking. Sevenoways sets up “booking integrations”, Smiling Spiders counts calendars and payment gateways among its extras. Ask for the name of the tool and its monthly cost before you compare two quotes.

Will the site show what the law asks? If your business is a company (a Ltd, a DAC or any other kind), its website must show the company's name and legal form, where it is registered and its number, and the address of its registered office, “in a prominent and easily accessible place” (Companies Act 2014, section 151(4), revised Act read 16/10/2026). Analytics cookies need the visitor's consent, and a banner that takes “continued use” of the site as consent “is not permissible”, says the Data Protection Commission's cookie guidance (April 2020).

How it works with us: the account, then the website, then the payment

No quote to wait for and no meeting to fit around your appointments: you open an account online and fill in the website yourself, your services and prices, opening hours and a few photos. Count about ten minutes.

Nothing is billed while you build. You pick a plan and pay online, then put the website live yourself, in one click.

After that, a client reading your prices can book there and then at any hour and pay when they book, the full price or a deposit; an e-mail reminds them the day before, and on Pro they collect loyalty points. How they reach the site in the first place: how people find you on Google.

A free 15-minute launch call is there if you want a hand, booked from your account once it is open. What we do not do: we have no office in Sligo and meet nobody in person, we sell no Google Ads or social media management, we promise no position on Google, and Traxo is not a directory that sends you clients. It is a website in your business's name, with booking, payment and your client records.

County Sligo in figures: 4,875 businesses, 4,520 of them with fewer than ten people

County Sligo had 4,875 active enterprises in 2024, with 20,474 people engaged in them, and 4,520 of those enterprises, more than nine in ten, had fewer than ten people, according to the CSO's Business Demography by employment size, table BRA30 (read on 16/10/2026).

By sector (table BRA34), construction is the largest, with 910 enterprises. The businesses that live on appointments come next to each other: 294 in human health activities, where the CSO counts medical and dental practices; 279 in “other personal service activities” (S96, the NACE group that holds hairdressing and beauty treatment, beside laundries and funeral services); 264 in food and beverage service (restaurants, cafés, bars and caterers). Retailers come to 326.

Those 279 personal-service businesses engage 554 people, about two each, and 307 of them are employees, about one per business. A salon that size buys a website once, and the grant below asks for at least one paid employee. Of the five firms that print a price here, none prints one for online booking.

Rent, buy or subscribe: a hair salon on O'Connell Street over three years

Take Niamh, who runs a three-chair hair salon on O'Connell Street and wants a website where clients see her prices and book. Here are three ways to pay for it, each summed only with figures one firm prints on one page, read on 16/10/2026: Dmac Media's and ours before VAT; Sligo Websites' as printed, its page not saying whether VAT is in them.

Renting. Dmac Media, in Cleveragh, rents a template-based site with hosting, domain and an hour of changes a month for €199 + VAT a month, “Minimum 12-Month Contract” (its website as a service page). Year one: 12 × 199 = €2,388. Three years: 36 × 199 = €7,164. The page lists no online booking.

Buying. Sligo Websites, in Strandhill, sells its Gold package, four to six pages with a domain, hosting and monthly care for the first year, for €1250, and the same page prints what comes after: hosting €60 a year, a .ie domain €25, care at €85 a year (its packages). Three years: 1,250 + 2 × (60 + 25 + 85) = €1,590. The page does not say whether VAT is included, and lists no online booking: a booking tool would be another subscription, which neither firm prices.

Subscribing. With us it is €40 a month excl. VAT billed yearly, €480 a year, so 36 × 40 = €1,440 over three years, booking and payment at booking included. Payments taken online carry 3% excl. VAT. Our hypothesis, not a measurement: Niamh asks a €10 deposit at booking and 60 clients a month pay it, €600 a month, so €18 a month in fees, €648 over three years. Total: €2,088.

Year by year, added up: Dmac Media €2,388, €4,776, €7,164; Sligo Websites €1,250, €1,420, €1,590; us €696, €1,392, €2,088. We cost less than Sligo Websites for two years and €498 more by the end of the third. With no payment taken online, our three years come to €1,440, under its €1,590: the two meet when €5,000 is paid online over the three years (3% of €5,000 is €150), about €139 a month.

The honest result. If the site only has to show who Niamh is and what she charges, and will not change, buying from Sligo Websites is the cheapest over three years. Renting from Dmac Media costs the most, but someone else makes the changes every month. Ours makes sense if she wants clients to book and leave a deposit online, with each client's record in one place. Our yearly plan commits her for twelve months, paid upfront, much as Dmac Media's minimum term does; the monthly plan, at €50, commits her to nothing. And with us, when the subscription stops, the website and the domain stop with it. Dmac Media's terms of sale, a document dated 2016 and linked from its terms page, say that “The website, graphics and any programming code remain the property of Dmac Media Ltd. until all outstanding accounts are paid in full.” Ask what happens when a rental ends.

VAT. If the salon is VAT-registered, it deducts the VAT it is charged, and the sums above compare as they stand. If it is not, VAT is a cost. Dmac Media's €199 becomes €244.77 a month at 23%, €8,811.72 over three years. We add French VAT at 20% for a business without a VAT number: €48 a month, €2,505.60 over three years with the example's fees. Sligo Websites does not say whether its €1,590 includes VAT; if it does not and the firm is registered, it becomes €1,955.70. Buying stays the cheapest either way.

The grant. The Grow Digital Voucher changes a sum only where its conditions fit: it pays half of one year of an “off the shelf” subscription new to the business, “Online booking, payments or appointments” among its examples, but the grant is at least €500, so the project needs €1,000 of eligible costs. A year of our Starter is €480 (half is €240), a year of Pro €960 (half is €480): on their own, both fall under the minimum. A website bought outright is not a software subscription, and the voucher “does not support bespoke website development”; whether Dmac Media's rented site counts as an off-the-shelf subscription is for the Local Enterprise Office to decide.

Website grants in Sligo: what LEO Sligo and the Chamber on Quay Street offer

Sligo Chamber of Commerce & Industry is at 16 Quay Street. It says it represents “over 200 businesses and organisations in Sligo City and County”, and it is accredited to Chambers Ireland. Its membership benefits are network events, workshops and “up to 20% subsidy on customized training for your business through Sligo Chamber Skillnet”. Its membership rates page, which the menu does not link to (the site map dates it to August 2020), asks €175 a year for a business with one employee and €275 for two to ten. The year runs from January to December, and the page says nothing on VAT: ask whether those rates still apply.

The Local Enterprise Office Sligo is on the same street, at City Hall, Quay Street (F91 PP44). On 16/10/2026 its list of financial supports carried Digital for Business and Grow Digital, and no Trading Online Voucher. “This scheme will close for applications on the 13th December 2024 at 5pm”, its national page still says: a Sligo web page that still offers it to you is out of date.

The Grow Digital Voucher is the one that touches a website. “The grant aid will be 50% of eligible costs with minimum grant aid of €500 up to a maximum grant of €5,000 per application”, for businesses “with between 1 and 50 paid employees”, “established and trading for at least 6 months”, that “have completed a Digital for Business Project within the previous two years”. It pays for software “NEW to the business for a maximum of one year subscription”, “off the shelf”, and “The Grow Digital Voucher does not support bespoke website development”. Above all: “An application must be submitted before any project expenditure is incurred”. Traxo is an off-the-shelf subscription with online booking and payments, the kind of software the voucher lists; what a year of it comes to against the €500 minimum is worked out in the example above. Ask LEO Sligo before you buy anything: it decides what qualifies, and the firm selling you the software does not.

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