How Much Does It Cost to Build an Ecommerce Website in Nigeria?

Ask three developers what an online store costs in Nigeria and you will get three very different answers. Here is what actually goes into the number.

The custom-build route

• Design and build — typically several hundred thousand naira, paid once.
• Hosting — a recurring bill that grows with your traffic.
• Domain — modest, but annual.
• Maintenance — the one people forget. Something breaks, and you are back to the developer.

The build cost is visible. The maintenance cost is the one that quietly ends projects.

The hosted route

A hosted store folds all of that into one predictable figure. On StoreVase that is ₦2,000 a month, with the first month free and no card needed to start. Hosting, security, updates and SSL are included, and there is no separate developer to call when something needs changing.

Which makes sense for you

A custom build is worth it when you need something genuinely unusual. If you are selling products, taking payment and shipping orders — which is most shops — you are paying a large amount for a solved problem.

The honest test is to run the cheap version first and find out what you actually need. Most shops discover the custom features they were quoted for are ones they would never have used.