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Quick summary
- The credentials page lists the registration number, the business certificate with its work classifications, the tax number, and all expiry dates
- Each project becomes its own page with location, year, scope, floor area, duration, and client type
- The quote form captures type of work, area in square metres, location, target start, and an upload slot for drawings or a BoQ
- The SEO package runs from IDR 5,000,000 a year for 150 pages, one page per type of work in each area you cover
- Daily site reports, crew attendance, material stock, and progress billing are app modules at IDR 5,000,000 per module per year, server included
- Hosting, SSL, the server, a WhatsApp group, and unlimited revisions for a year are included. The domain is bought separately in your name
Two buyers open the same site with different suspicions
The first is a procurement officer or supervising consultant. Your company name is already in their hands, from a referral or a tender shortlist, and they search it to confirm the firm is real, the classification fits, and the work has been done.
The second owns the building: someone planning a two storey house, a shop owner whose roof leaks every rainy season, a plant manager needing a steel warehouse. Classification codes mean nothing to them. They type build cost per square metre, or shop renovation contractor Bogor.
A third group asks an Artificial Intelligence assistant which contractor has built a steel warehouse near Cikarang. Such an assistant names you only when each project's scope, location, and year exist as text, not baked into an image or a PDF catalogue.
- Type of work: house contractor, steel warehouse, office interior, shop renovation
- Cost: build price per square metre, renovation cost, lump sum or daily rate
- Verification: company name plus licence, credentials, office address, project experience
- Subcontracting: steel frame, mechanical and electrical, waterproofing applicator
The credentials page gets looked for most and exists least
Before inviting you, procurement works the dull list: registration number, the business certificate and its subclassifications, the tax number, the deed of incorporation, a verifiable address, plus management certificates and a safety record for industrial estates. It all sits in your filing cabinet, unmentioned on the site.
So the same bundle leaves over WhatsApp dozens of times a month. Good contractor website design treats this as a one time job: numbers, classifications, and expiry dates as text, full scans on request. List them in an owner's words too, since a site saying only general construction services loses both readers.
Project records are judged on scope, not on good photography
A contractor portfolio is usually finished buildings with no captions. Those photos answer none of the questions: structure only or through to finishes, how many square metres, how long, which year, where. Thirty such photos are worth nothing to somebody screening vendors.
So every project gets a page: location down to the district, the year, an honest scope line, floor area, duration, client type such as a food plant or a school foundation, and one problem with how your team solved it. A render is never shown as the finished building: an owner who visits, sees a mismatch, then withholds payment traces it to that page.
A quote request is not a contact form
A name field, an email field, and a message box produce requests nobody can price: what does a house cost, no location, no area, no drawings. Your estimator then spends three days on calls gathering what should have arrived up front, and some go quiet.
The form we install asks what an estimator needs: type of work, area in square metres, site location, land and permit status, target start, budget range, plus an upload field for plans, drawings, or a bill of quantities as PDF or Excel. Submissions reach the estimator WhatsApp group, not an inbox opened weekly. On pricing, a dated range per square metre per finish grade beats one firm figure.
Features that get used, app modules, and how we build
Contractors get pitched what nobody touches: a house configurator, a chatbot that cannot price a job, heavy animation that crawls on a phone at the site. Forgotten is the jobs page for foremen, tradespeople, drafters, and supervisors, plus a list of equipment you own.
The second problem is on site: daily reports in a notebook that reach the office on Saturday, crew attendance on paper, material lost between store and job, billing stalled on an unsigned completion note. That is module work, IDR 5,000,000 per module per year with the server, every 5 modules bundled at IDR 20,000,000.
Contractor web development starts from data, not a design: the licence list with expiry dates, three years of work experience, and the site photos you may publish. A company profile of 50 pages takes 7 to 14 working days from IDR 3,000,000 a year. Our office is in Gunung Putri, Bogor, West Java.
- Needed: a credentials page with numbers and expiry dates, not certificate logos
- Needed: a page per type of work, since houses and steel warehouses are searched differently
- Not needed: a cart and online payment, since progress payments move by transfer and a person verifies them
- Exception: a contractor also selling precast or wall panels needs a unit price catalogue, the E-Commerce package from IDR 12,000,000 a year
Which package fits which kind of contracting business
| Operation | Package | Price and limit |
|---|---|---|
| A renovation specialist in one trade, running ads | Landing Page | From IDR 2,000,000 a year, 1 page, 3 to 5 working days |
| One registered company, credentials and 20 to 30 projects | Company Profile Website | From IDR 3,000,000 a year, up to 50 pages, 7 to 14 working days |
| Several types of work across more than one area | SEO Website | From IDR 5,000,000 a year, up to 150 pages |
| Branches in many cities, hundreds of project records | GEO Website | From IDR 8,000,000 a year, up to 500 pages |
| Daily reports, crew attendance, material stock, progress billing | Application modules | IDR 5,000,000 per module a year, server included, 5 modules IDR 20,000,000 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does contractor website development cost?
Contractor website development starts at IDR 3,000,000 a year for a company profile of 50 pages covering credentials and project records, then IDR 5,000,000 a year for the SEO package of 150 pages. Hosting, SSL, the server, and unlimited revisions for a year are included, and the domain is bought separately in your name.
How long does a contractor website take to build?
A contractor company profile of 50 pages takes 7 to 14 working days once the licence list, the experience list, and the site photos reach us. A single page for ads is done in 3 to 5 working days. Delays come from waiting on the scope and year of each project.
Should licences and certificates be published in full on the site?
Licences belong on the site as text: the number, the classification, and the expiry date, so search engines and procurement staff can read them, while full scans go out on request, since they hold details better kept private.
Why build a site when the work already comes from referrals?
Referrals still bring in most construction work, but a recommendation gets checked before it travels further. Whoever passes your name upward needs one link showing credentials and finished projects. A business website also catches the work referrals never reach, such as renovations owners search for themselves.
Should a contractor website show a price per square metre?
Construction pricing holds up better as a dated range per square metre per finish grade than one firm number. A range filters out enquiries whose budget sits far below the plan, while a fixed figure gets quoted back at you a year later.
Does Metanotech also build daily reporting and progress billing systems?
Daily site reports, crew attendance, material stock, and progress billing are app modules at IDR 5,000,000 per module per year with the server included, every 5 modules bundled at IDR 20,000,000. The Paket Bisnis Berjalan pairs the SEO website with 3 modules at IDR 20,000,000 a year.
