How to create a company website in India, step by step

To create a company website, decide what the website must do for the business, register a domain in the company's name, and choose between a website builder, WordPress and a custom build. Then plan the pages, write the content, and test the site on a mid-range Android phone. Add a privacy notice that meets the DPDP Rules, and launch with Google Search Console and a Google Business Profile in place.

1. Decide the job: enquiries, bookings, online sales or support for a sales team.
2. Register the domain: in the company's legal name, with company email.
3. Choose the platform and hosting: a builder, WordPress or a custom build, on hosting in India.
4. Plan the pages and content: home, services, About, Contact and privacy policy.
5. Build and test: on a mid-range Android phone, every form and payment, with HTTPS on every page.
6. Add the legal details: the company details the Companies Act requires on the home page, and a DPDP consent notice.
7. Launch and connect Google: Search Console, the sitemap and the Business Profile.

Three decisions settle whether a business website still works for the company 3 years later: who owns the domain and the logins, when a builder stops being enough, and what Indian law asks of the home page and the enquiry form. The sections below take each step in order.

What should a company website do for the business?

A company website should do one main job, and the company should be able to name it in one sentence before any design starts: bring enquiries, take bookings, sell products, or give a sales team something to send after a meeting. That job decides the platform, the pages and the budget. It comes first.

Please write down the one action a visitor should take, and how that enquiry should reach the business: a phone call, a WhatsApp message, an email, or a form that feeds a CRM such as Zoho. Please also decide who in the company will update the website after launch. A website that only an outside developer can edit goes out of date whenever that developer is busy.

A Pune diagnostics chain with 6 centres took nearly all its bookings by phone. Webzenia rebuilt its website around online booking, with Razorpay payments and WhatsApp confirmations, and online bookings rose from 12 to 210 a month within 3 months of launch.

How do you register a domain name for your company?

Register the domain through an accredited registrar, in the company's legal name, using an email address on the company's own domain, set up through Zoho Mail or Google Workspace, that more than one person can open. A .in domain costs about Rs. 600 to Rs. 900 a year, and a .com about Rs. 1,500.

On 11 November 2026, OVHcloud listed .in at Rs. 616 before GST, and Hostinger India listed .in at Rs. 899 and .com at Rs. 1,499 before GST, the same on renewal.

Please make sure three accounts are in the company's name, and not under a freelancer's or an employee's personal Gmail ID: the domain, the hosting, and the website's admin login. If the person who holds them leaves, the company can lose control of its own website and its email. Please ask the developer to hand over all three logins in writing at the end of the project.

Many Indian companies use .com even when they sell only in India. A .in tells visitors the business is Indian, and the name you want is more often free. Many companies register both and redirect one to the other, so that no one else can buy the second.

Should you use a website builder, WordPress or a custom build?

For a service business that wants enquiries from Google search, WordPress with a design made for the site is the right choice. Use a website builder such as Zoho Sites, Wix or Shopify when the site is small, connects to nothing else and must go live within weeks. Choose a custom build, written on a framework such as Next.js, when the website must connect to a CRM such as Zoho, an ERP or a booking system.

WordPress runs 39.3% of the websites W3Techs tracks (data as of 11 November 2026), so developers, plugins and hosting for it are easy to find in India. Shopify runs 5.4% and Wix 4.2%. Before choosing a builder, please ask the vendor whether the company can take its pages, products and customer data away if it moves platforms later, because a builder keeps the site on its own servers. Wix, for example, offers export to code only for its newer Studio Two sites, as a beta, and the exported site still runs on Wix's systems.

Webzenia has built on Shopify, WordPress and Next.js. The job decides which. Urjalife's Pravaah, a resort near Satara in Maharashtra, ran on an old PHP site that drew 5 visits a month from Google search. Webzenia rebuilt it on WordPress so that the resort's own team can update it without a developer. Within 3 months of launch, visits from search passed 1,800 a month in Google Analytics 4, and corporate bookings, taken by chat and phone, rose from 30 to 80 a month.

A Delhi NCR logistics company needed every enquiry form to land in its Zoho CRM. Webzenia built that site on Next.js, with Sanity as the editing system, in 12 weeks. Within 3 months it was bringing 38 qualified leads a month, from none before, and the team now publishes an update in 20 minutes instead of 3 days.

The table sets the three routes side by side.

Can AI build a website for your company?

AI can build a first draft of a company website in minutes, but a person still has to check every page before it goes live. Hostinger's AI Builder creates a site from one written prompt, and Wix announced its AI builder, Wix Harmony, on 21 January 2026. Framer's own page says its AI helps you "move faster while you make the final design decisions".

Please read the limits on the vendor's own pages before choosing one. Hostinger's AI Builder spends credits each time the AI chat creates or edits the project, and its page says a simple business page usually takes 250 to 500 of them; edits made by hand cost none. Its page also says that if the hosting plan expires without renewal, the project is permanently deleted.

None of the AI builders checked on 11 November 2026 (Hostinger, Wix and Framer) adds the Rule 26 company details, a DPDP consent notice or a connection to the company's existing CRM, such as Zoho, on its own.

Use AI for the first layout and a first draft of the text, then have someone who knows the business rewrite every claim, price and contact detail. A website that repeats generic AI text describes every company in the sector equally well, and gives a buyer no reason to call this one.

Can you create a business website for free?

You can publish a free website, but not one that looks like a company website. Wix's free plan, as Wix described it on 5 November 2026, gives an address ending in wixsite.com, 500 MB of storage and free SSL, but no own domain, no online payments and Wix branding "and sometimes ads". Framer's free plan also uses a Framer address, and Zoho Sites offers a 15-day trial rather than a free plan.

A free plan is useful for trying a builder before paying. For the company itself, please budget for a domain in the company's name and a paid plan or hosting. On 11 November 2026, Hostinger India's entry shared hosting plan was listed at Rs. 69 a month before GST, paid as Rs. 3,312 upfront for 48 months, and renewing at Rs. 289 a month.

Where should a company website be hosted?

Host a WordPress or custom-built company website on a server in India, so that pages load quickly for Indian visitors: shared hosting for a small WordPress site, and a VPS or cloud server for a busy or custom-built one. A Wix, Zoho Sites or Shopify site runs on the builder's own hosting. Please choose India as the server location at checkout and confirm it in the hosting panel, because not every plan offers it.

The three main kinds of hosting differ in who looks after the server:

• Shared hosting: many websites share one server. It costs the least, and suits a brochure site of 10 to 15 pages.
• Managed WordPress: the host updates WordPress, the theme and the plugins, and takes backups. Hostinger's managed plans back up weekly or daily depending on the plan.
• VPS or cloud: a reserved share of a server for one website. It suits a busy site or a custom build, and someone must keep it secure and updated.

Please compare the renewal price, not only the first price. Hosts in India quote a monthly price for a term of 2 to 4 years paid upfront, and charge more at renewal.

Free SSL comes with the shared plans. Let's Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority, issues certificates "at zero cost", and Hostinger and Bluehost include one on every shared plan. On a VPS, the developer installs it. Please make sure every page loads on https://, because Chrome marks a page "Not secure" when it asks for a password or card details over an unencrypted connection.

What brand basics should be ready before design starts?

Have the logo, the brand colours, the fonts and a set of real photographs ready before design starts, because the designer builds every page from them. Please give the designer the logo as a vector file (SVG, AI, EPS, or the CorelDRAW CDR file the printer used for the visiting cards) and as a PNG on a transparent background, and each brand colour as its HEX code, such as #1A4FD8, rather than "dark blue".

Google's guidance for the logo in its search results asks for at least 112 by 112 pixels, and advises checking it on a plain white background, since a mostly white or grey logo may not show as intended. Brand colours used for text need enough contrast to be read. WCAG 2.2, the W3C's accessibility standard, asks for a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for normal text. Pale grey or light brand colours on white often fail, so please ask the designer to check each text colour with a free contrast checker.

Please use photographs of the actual office, team, products or site work. In a 2019 study of About pages by Nielsen Norman Group, a US usability research firm, stock photography made visitors less satisfied.

How do you plan a company website so that it is found on Google?

Plan one page for each service the company wants enquiries for, and write each page for the searches a buyer would make for that service. Please look at the pages that already rank on Google for those searches before writing, and make each of your pages answer the buyer's questions more fully than they do.

Give every page a title and a description of its own. Google's SEO Starter Guide asks for a title that is unique to each page and describes it accurately. Google Keyword Planner, free inside a Google Ads account, shows how often each search is made in India. After launch, Search Console shows the searches each page already appears for.

Which pages does a company website need?

A company website needs 5 pages at a minimum: a home page, a page for each service or product line, an About page, a Contact page and a privacy policy. Google's SEO Starter Guide names no minimum number of pages. It asks for a logical structure, readable web addresses, and a title on each page that is unique and describes it accurately.

The same Nielsen Norman Group study found that visitors look for what the company does, whom to contact, and a real address and phone number. Layouts that did not work on a phone also made them less satisfied. Visitors also mentioned reviews more than 40 times across 20 sessions, and compared a company's own claims with what others said about it.

On an Indian company website, the pages should carry:

• Contact: the registered company name, the full office address with PIN code, a phone number and a WhatsApp number.
• About: who runs the company and the year it was founded, with the GSTIN, and the CIN or LLPIN where the business has one.
• Services: one page per service, each answering what it is, whom it suits and what the first step is.
• Proof: client names, case studies with numbers, and a link to the company's Google reviews.
• Privacy policy: what the forms collect, why, and how to ask for the data to be corrected or deleted.

How much does a company website cost in India?

A company website in India has two costs: a one-time build and a yearly running cost. The lowest-cost set-up listed on 11 November 2026 cost about Rs. 4,000 before GST to start: a .in domain at Rs. 616 to Rs. 899 a year, and Hostinger's Single plan at Rs. 3,312 paid upfront for 48 months. The running cost also covers any annual maintenance contract (AMC) with the developer.

This guide gives no build price, because the pages, the integrations and the content change it more than anything else. A fair comparison needs a written scope from each vendor.

Please check whether each price you are quoted includes GST, since registrars and hosts often list prices before tax. A Shopify store includes hosting: Shopify's India plans, as listed on 11 November 2026, are Rs. 1,499 a month for Basic, Rs. 5,599 for Grow and Rs. 22,680 for Advanced, each billed yearly. Please confirm with Shopify whether GST is added.

If the website takes payments, the payment gateway charges a fee on each transaction. On 11 November 2026, Razorpay listed 2% on domestic cards, UPI, netbanking and wallets at a website checkout, plus 18% GST on the fee, with no setup fee. PayU listed 2% on domestic cards and netbanking, and Cashfree a standard 1.95% plus taxes.

Four things affect the build cost most:

• Pages and templates: a 10-page site and a 200-product catalogue are different projects.
• Integrations: payments, a CRM such as Zoho, a booking system or WhatsApp notifications.
• Content: who writes the text and who takes the photographs.
• Design: a ready-made theme adapted to the brand's colours and logo, or a design made for the company.

Please ask every agency or developer for a written scope with a page list and a fixed price before work starts, so that quotes can be compared on the same basis. Webzenia sends one within 5 working days, with a fixed price for the first phase.

How long does it take to build a company website?

A standard company website build with Webzenia runs 12 weeks from kickoff to launch. A brochure site of 10 to 15 pages takes 6 to 8 weeks from the start of design, and an online store 12 to 16 weeks. A builder site can go live within days if the text and photographs are ready. Content is the step to plan first.

Please name one person in the company to collect the content and approve each stage, so that approvals do not wait on several people. A typical build runs in this order:

1. Discovery: the sitemap and the page list, agreed before any design work.
2. Design: the page layouts, approved by the company before development starts.
3. Build: the pages, forms and integrations, on a private preview address the company can review.
4. Testing: every form, payment and page checked on a mid-range Android phone.
5. Launch: the site goes live, with Search Console and analytics connected on the same day.

What does Indian law require on a company website?

A company registered under the Companies Act must show its name, registered office, CIN, phone, email and a contact for queries or grievances on its home page, under Rule 26 of the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014. Rule 26 applies to companies, not to proprietorships or partnership firms.

From May 2027, any website that collects names, phone numbers or email addresses through a form will also have to give a clear notice and take consent under the DPDP Rules.

The DPDP Rules were notified in November 2025, with most duties, including the notice, phased in over 18 months. Building the enquiry form to them now avoids changing it again in 2027. The notice should list the data the form collects, say why, explain how to withdraw consent, and say how to complain to the Data Protection Board of India. Please keep it short and beside the form, with a link to the full privacy policy.

If the website will take payments by UPI or card, most payment gateways review the site first. Cashfree, for example, asks for a live website with Terms, About, Contact and Privacy pages that show the business name. It also asks for the business's PAN and a bank account, but not a GSTIN. Law firms read the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 as applying to businesses that sell goods or services online, so please have a lawyer confirm the seller details those rules require.

How do you make a company website load fast on phones in India?

Design and test the website on a mid-range Android phone first: 84.21% of web page views in India came from mobile phones in October 2026, according to StatCounter. Google's Core Web Vitals set the targets: the main content loads within 2.5 seconds, the page responds to a tap within 200 milliseconds, and the layout does not jump while it loads.

Google is clear that good Core Web Vitals do not guarantee top rankings. Relevance comes first. Speed matters because a slow page loses buyers before they reach checkout. When Webzenia rebuilt the Shopify store of an Ahmedabad spice brand, it replaced slow add-on apps with code written into the theme and cut checkout from 7 taps to 3. The main content of its top product pages loaded in 1.4 seconds in a PageSpeed Insights lab test, and conversion rose from 0.83% (the 3 months before launch) to 2.61% in month 3.

Please ask the developer for three checks before launch, so that the site is tested rather than assumed to be fast:

• Images: in WebP, a lighter image format, and sized for a phone.
• Plugins and apps: none installed that the site does not use.
• A speed report: from PageSpeed Insights, Google's free speed test, on the home page and one service page.

What should you check before the website goes live?

Before a company website goes live, check every form, every payment, HTTPS on every page, the speed on a phone, and that search engines are allowed to read the site. Most launch problems are small and easy to fix before launch, and costly after it, when an enquiry form has quietly sent nothing for a week.

Two checks are often missed. A developer often blocks search engines while the site is being built. On WordPress this is the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" box under Settings, Reading; please confirm it is unticked on launch day. And a WordPress backup needs both the database and the files: the WordPress handbook says "You need both", and suggests weekly backups for small sites and daily ones for busy sites.

What should you do after the website goes live?

After launch, verify the website in Google Search Console, submit its sitemap, and claim or update the company's Google Business Profile (the Google Maps listing, earlier called Google My Business), which costs nothing. If the new website replaces an old one, please have the developer set up a permanent (301) redirect from every old web address to its new page before launch.

Those redirects mean pages Google already knows, and links from other sites, still lead somewhere. Please ask the developer to verify Search Console ownership with a DNS record at the domain registrar, as it covers the whole domain and survives a redesign. Google calls a sitemap optional for a small, well-linked site of about 500 pages or fewer, but WordPress and most builders create one automatically, so submitting it costs nothing. Connect Google Analytics 4 so that each enquiry can be traced to the page that produced it. A local SEO plan then decides which searches each page is written for.

After launch, a website needs a little care every month. Please have WordPress, its theme and its plugins updated, keep a recent backup, and set up a key event in Google Analytics 4 for each enquiry form, so that every enquiry is counted.

Should you build the website yourself or hire an agency?

Build it yourself on a builder if the site is under 10 pages, takes no payments and connects to nothing else, and someone in the company has 2 to 3 weeks to spend on it. A freelancer suits the same small site when no one inside has the time, provided the domain and logins stay in the company's name. Hire an agency when the business will judge the website by the enquiries or sales it brings, when it must connect to payments or a CRM, or when it replaces a site that already has search traffic.

Whoever builds it, please ask for a fixed scope with the page list, a date for each approval, and written confirmation that the domain, hosting and admin logins will be in the company's name. Webzenia's website design and development page sets out how Webzenia works, and the web design case studies show the numbers behind it.