How Much Does a Restaurant Website Cost in Australia?

A national price guide for Australian web design, checked in November 2026, puts a landing page at $800–$3,000, a small business site at $2,000–$6,000 and a custom build at $6,000–$15,000. Its top tier, $15,000–$40,000, is for sites that plug into bookings, memberships or a CRM. The same guide lists care plans at $50–$300 a month and hourly changes at $80–$250.

That top tier sounds like the restaurant bracket, because restaurants take bookings. In practice most venues never need it. The bookings already live in a reservation system the restaurant pays for separately, and the website's job is to send diners there in one tap. The expensive integration work in that bracket is mostly building things a reservation platform already does.

So the useful question isn't only what the site costs. It's what the site costs next to the platforms around it, and whether it steers diners towards the cheaper ones. The rest of this guide works through those platforms, then the parts of the site that do change the price: menus, functions, ordering and the number of pages.

For reference, our restaurant sites are $399 for one page, $899 for up to three pages and $1,499 for up to eight. No GST is added because we aren't registered for it, and there's no deposit: you see the finished draft, ask for changes, and pay once you approve it.

Delivery apps publish their commission rates, and at these percentages they add up quickly on a busy week. Uber Eats lists these rates for Australian restaurants:

Read the right-hand column against the left. The same platform charges noticeably less when an order arrives through the restaurant's own ordering page instead of the app's marketplace. Square, as another example, charges 2.2% per transaction on purchases made through a Square Online site. In Uber Eats' own table the pattern is clear: orders that start with your name cost less than orders that start with a search inside the app.

That's the strongest cost argument for a restaurant website. On a $60 pickup order, the gap between 8% and 6% is $1.20. On a $60 delivered order, the gap between 30% and 25% is $3.00. Neither figure is large on its own, but regulars order every week, and a clear Order pickup button on your site is where regulars go once they know it's there. The marketplace remains useful for finding new customers; the website gives the ones you already have a cheaper door.

We link whichever ordering page you use at no extra cost. Full takeaway ordering built into the site, with pickup times and payment, is quoted per job.

For venues with a private room or a space that can be booked out, one rehearsal dinner or end-of-year party can fill the room for a whole night. A functions page with capacities for each space, sample packages, minimum spends and an enquiry form that asks for the date, numbers and occasion gives those enquiries a clear place to land, with the details you'd otherwise ask for on the phone. It's also the main reason a restaurant moves from one page to three.

Gift vouchers are the other. Most point-of-sale and reservation systems sell them, so the site usually just links to that page. Under the Australian Consumer Law, most gift cards bought since 1 November 2019 must be redeemable for at least three years, and the expiry date must be prominently displayed. The voucher page on your site should say the same thing your vouchers do.

If you sell things that ship rather than meals, such as house-made sauces, hampers or cookbooks, our online stores start at $799 for up to 25 products with one payment gateway and basic order management, or $1,999 for unlimited products, several payment options, customer accounts and advanced shipping. A store is a separate build from a menu-and-bookings site, so only add it if the products already sell well over the counter.

Take the three-page site: $899 to build, $360 of hosting across the first twelve months and about $20 for the domain, which we register in your name. That's roughly $1,279 in the first year and about $380 a year after that, including every menu and price change on the existing pages.

Against that sit the costs that are yours whoever builds the site: the reservation subscription or cover fees, delivery commissions and card fees. Those are worth reviewing once a year, because the cheapest improvement to your online costs is often moving a share of regular orders from the app to your own link.

Hosting has no contract and you can cancel anytime. Our guide to hidden costs behind cheap websites covers what else to check in any quote.

A larger budget is the better choice if you run several venues with shared loyalty, a members' area or a custom app; if you want takeaway ordering tied directly into your point-of-sale and kitchen screens; or if you want someone to write your menus and story, photograph the food and run your social media and ads. We don't write copy, take photos or manage ads, and an agency that does will rightly charge for it.

For an independent restaurant that can send its menus, hours and phone photos of the room, most of a larger quote pays for work the owner has already done. Our guides to small business website costs and online store costs cover the wider market.