For Perth people leaving a job to work for themselves, makers selling from a spare room in the suburbs, consultants with a first client lined up and founders getting a grant application ready: a website built from your own words, a .com.au registered in your name, and business email on it. We build the draft first, and you pay once you've approved it.
Western Australia has its own rules for running a business from a house and for selling food cooked in a home kitchen, and both change what a first website should say. So does the size of the place: the metropolitan region runs along the coast from Two Rocks to Singleton, and a customer at one end won't assume you'll come to the other.
The standard WA definitions of a home occupation and a home business don't allow goods to be sold, displayed or hired from the house unless the sale happens only over the internet. If you make or resell products at home, the website is where the selling happens: a product page with an order form, or an online store from $799.
Name the suburb you work from and the suburbs or council areas you'll travel to, and say plainly where you stop. A mobile dog groomer in Baldivis and one in Joondalup are both "in Perth", but they're answering different customers.
Food cooked at home can't be sold, online included, until your local government has registered you or been notified. The page can go up earlier with your menu and a sign-up for launch news; the order form goes on once you're approved.
For a tech or product start-up, the first visitors are often mentors, program staff and early customers. Say what the product does and who it's for in a sentence or two, show the people building it, and add a form for early access.
Plenty of new owners keep a job or a roster while the business finds its feet. A contact form that says when you'll reply works better than a phone number nobody can answer between nine and five.
Consultants and coaches can link a scheduling tool they already use, such as Calendly, from every page. If you'd rather take bookings and payments inside the site itself, we build that too, quoted for your job.
The Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) is the state government's agency for small business, and its advisory service is free: ring 133 140, use the live chat, or book a phone or Microsoft Teams appointment. Its advisers cover starting a business, testing an idea, business structures and plans, market research, licences and permits, and marketing, and its free templates include one for planning a website, which is a useful way to sort out what you need online before you spend anything. The SBDC's free Business Licence Finder asks a few questions and returns an itemised list of the licences you need, which agency issues each one, what it costs and how long it's valid.
Plenty of new businesses start from home, and WA councils generally sort that work into three standard planning uses. A home office is carried on entirely inside the dwelling, with no clients coming and going and no sign. A home occupation employs nobody from outside the household, takes up no more than 20 square metres and can have one small sign. A home business can employ up to two people from outside the household and use up to 50 square metres. For the last two, goods can't be sold, displayed or hired from the home unless that's done only over the internet. What needs approval depends on your council: the City of Joondalup, for example, requires development approval only for a home business, while the City of Canning puts home business applications out for public consultation and says home baking, hairdressing and beauty salons also need approval from its environmental health team. Find out which category you're in before the site invites anyone round.
Food made at home is the other early hurdle. WA Health says that if you prepare or sell food for sale in a residential home, you're a food business under the Food Act 2008 and must register or notify through your local government's environmental health team. It lists online food sales from home among the activities this covers, says the exemptions that make a home kitchen workable are meant only for food businesses classed as low risk, and puts the penalty for running an unregistered business at $10,000 for an individual and $50,000 for a body corporate. So the menu and a sign-up can go live first, and the order form follows the council's approval.
For product and tech founders, one state grant aimed at early-stage companies is the Innovation Booster Grant, a competitive grant for WA-based start-ups and small businesses paid from the $40 million New Industries and Innovation Fund (2025–29). In August 2026 the government named 26 recipients of up to $50,000 each. The listed uses include getting a product or service commercially ready and testing a minimum viable product. Whether or not you apply, a plain page that explains the product, names the founders and collects early-access sign-ups gives anyone who reads about you somewhere to land.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Perth businesses by phone and email. WA stays on Western Standard Time all year, so Perth is 1.5 hours behind Adelaide, or 2.5 hours while South Australia is on daylight saving from October to April: 9 am in Perth is 11:30 am here in summer. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and the examples below come from those states. Starting out south of the city? We also have pages for new businesses in Mandurah and Bunbury.
We haven't built for a Perth business yet. We also don't call these clients start-ups, because we don't know how long each had been trading when it came to us. Resolve Forward shows a professional service that publishes its package prices and takes bookings; M.J. Debney shows how much a sole trader can fit on a single page.
A Sydney family law dispute resolution practice. Six service pages with FAQs, priced packages that lead straight to online booking, a five-step intake form, a contact form and a newsletter sign-up.
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A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page carries six services, a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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$399
For a sole trader, a home-based maker or a mobile service: what you offer, the suburbs you cover, how orders or bookings work and a contact form, with your domain and email set up.
Our suggestion for a new consultancy or product
$899
A home page, a page for your services or products, and an about page with your background. For a start-up, the third page can hold founder bios and an early-access form.
$1,499
For a business opening with several service lines, staff, or more than one part of Perth to cover: a page for each, a news page for launches, and Google Analytics visitor stats.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team working with businesses Australia-wide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send your words and photos, we send a link to the draft that you can check on your phone, and you pay only after you approve it. We reply within 24 hours, and with a time difference of 1.5 to 2.5 hours most of your working day overlaps ours.
Yes, and in WA that's usually how it has to work: the standard home occupation and home business definitions only allow goods to be sold from a home if the sale is made over the internet. Confirm your category with the council. A few products can sit on a page with an order form; for a bigger range, our online stores are $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.
We'd wait. WA Health counts online food sales from home as running a food business, which has to be registered with, or notified to, your local government first. We can put the site up now with your menu and a sign-up for launch news, and switch the order form on once you tell us you're registered.
Only if customers are meant to visit, and that depends on your planning category: a home office can't have clients coming to the house at all, and a home occupation or home business has limits set by your council. The SBDC on 133 140 can help you work out where you stand. If nobody visits, we show your suburb and service area and leave the street off.
The current guidelines tell you what the application itself needs. For the people who look you up, one clear page usually covers it: the problem and who has it, what the product does, the founders with photos, and a form for early access or partner enquiries. You write it; we arrange it and set up the form. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos, so allow time before a deadline.
No. It's $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 and $1,499 for up to 8, with no GST added and no deposit, wherever you are. Hosting is $30 a month after launch, and the domain is about $20 a year, registered in your name. Our guide to website costs in Perth goes through the first year in more detail.
Tell us the business name, what you'll sell or do, and which suburbs you'll work in. We'll check whether the .com.au is free, quote the site and build a draft that you pay for only once you've approved it.
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