How Much Does a Website for Carpenters Cost in Australia?

Carpenters quote by the hour, the day or the square metre, so those are useful units for judging a website quote. An independent Australian price guide, verified in November 2026, puts carpentry at $55–$130 an hour (typically about $85) and a full day at $400–$900 (typically about $620), with deck-building labour at $80–$190 per square metre. Its companion guide to web design gives $800–$3,000 for a single landing page, $2,000–$6,000 for a five-to-ten-page small business site and $6,000–$15,000 for a custom build. Fixed web quotes, it says, usually come with a 30–50% deposit and staged payments.

Put another way, our three-page site costs about the same as the labour on seven square metres of deck at the guide's typical rate. There's no deposit: we build the draft, you ask for whatever changes you want, and you pay once you approve it. WebCraft Studio isn't registered for GST, so the figure you're quoted is the figure you pay.

For most carpenters the gallery does the selling. Someone pricing a pergola wants to see pergolas, ideally with the timber species or board brand and the suburb in the caption. On our sites a gallery is part of the build, so 15 photos or 50 cost the same; what changes is how they're grouped. Sorting them by job type, rather than in one long scroll, means a visitor planning stairs isn't wading through decking shots.

We don't take photos, so the time cost falls on you. Phone photos are fine if they're taken in daylight, from a couple of angles and with the site cleaned up. A before shot from the same spot is worth taking at the start of every job, and a photo of the subframe before the boards go down shows workmanship a finished deck hides. Leave out house numbers, number plates and clients' faces unless you have permission.

Two sites in our portfolio show what a photo-heavy trade site looks like. Tomi's Bobcat and Excavation, in the Bega Valley, has a swipeable 42-photo gallery on a single page. M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas in Queensland has a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on mobile. Neither is a carpentry business, but a carpenter's gallery would work the same way.

Whether your licence has to appear on your website depends on where you work and what the job is worth. In New South Wales, residential carpentry valued at more than $5,000 in labour and materials, including GST, needs a contractor licence, and NSW Fair Trading says the licensee's name and licence number must appear in all advertising. In Queensland, building work valued over $3,300 needs a QBCC licence, and the QBCC lists websites and social media pages among the things that count as advertising: an advertisement must show the name you're licensed under and state that you're licensed under the QBCC Act, with your licence number.

Other states and territories set their own rules, so check with your regulator. For us it's a line of text in the footer and on the contact section, so it doesn't change the price. If your jobs sit below your state's threshold and you don't hold a licence, we won't put one on the site.

The same web design guide puts website care plans at $50–$300 a month. For sites we build, hosting is $30 a month after launch, with no contract, covering hosting, security monitoring, backups, email support and unlimited text and image changes on existing pages. Your domain is about $20 a year, registered in your name, and we set up your business email.

The updates carpenters ask for most are new job photos, a changed service area, a new licence class and seasonal notes such as a booked-out period. Each is a text or image change on an existing page, so it's covered. A new page, for a service you've just started offering, is quoted before we begin.