People ask Syncora for "the cost of a website in Sri Lanka" as if it were a menu item. It is not. A five-page marketing site and a web application with accounts, roles and an integration are different professions that happen to share a browser. Quoting one number for both would be a fiction, so we do not publish one.
Syncora (Pvt) Ltd is a technology company in Colombo. We quote custom work in Sri Lankan rupees or US dollars after a written scope. This note explains what that scope is made of, so you can brief us — or anyone else — without paying for surprise.
What actually moves the price
The fee follows the work, not the city. These are the factors we ask about first:
- Pages versus a product. Public pages are content and design. A signed-in application is records, permissions and a way to recover when something fails.
- Who supplies the words and pictures. We can structure a page. A long brand story, a photo shoot or a product catalogue of thousands of items is a different effort.
- Integrations. A contact form is small. A payment provider, an accounts export or a WhatsApp Business API is a project of its own, and it depends on the other vendor's sandbox.
- Languages. English is the default. A second language is translation, layout and maintenance, not a checkbox.
- Care after launch. A build that ends at deployment is cheaper than one with a retainer. It is also how sites quietly break six months later.
None of these has a universal LKR figure on this page. If a vendor offers one before asking, ask what they assumed.
How we quote
- 01You tell us who the site is for and what they must be able to finish.
- 02We write a scope: pages or screens, what is out of scope, and the currency.
- 03You accept that document or you change it. We do not start from a chat thread.
- 04The build is reviewed on a staging URL. New ideas are a change, not a free extra.
Staffora, our own HR product, is priced on staffora.syncora.solutions in LKR because it is a product with a defined boundary. Custom work does not have that boundary until we write it.
What to send with the first message
A useful enquiry names the audience, lists the pages or tasks, links to anything you already have, and says whether the deadline is real. "As soon as possible" is not a date. A launch tied to a season or a funding round is.
You do not need a specification. You do need to know the difference between "we need a brochure" and "customers must log in and see their orders". Say which one it is. If you are unsure, say that too. We would rather narrow it on a call than price the wrong thing.
A note on cheap and fast
A low price usually means a theme, shared hosting you do not control, or copy that was not written for you. Sometimes that is the right purchase. Syncora is the wrong vendor if you want a template with the logo swapped and no one accountable in six months. We are the right vendor if the site has to match a process, stay editable, and be readable by search engines as real HTML.
Write to info@syncora.solutions or use the contact form. We reply within one business day.