Website cost guide · Tennessee
How much does a website cost in Tennessee?
What a website costs for a business in Tennessee in 2026, from Nashville and Memphis to small rural towns. It also covers how Tennessee sales tax treats software and website work, what the Tennessee Information Protection Act asks of larger businesses, and what to check before you sign a quote.
The short answer
Website prices for Tennessee businesses
For a small business in Tennessee, a website of up to 5 pages on a premium WordPress theme starts at $799 with us and takes about 15 days. A custom-coded site of up to 8 pages, built in Astro, Next.js or React, starts at $1,999 and takes about 4 weeks. Fixing an existing site starts at $249, and looking after it costs $49 a month. Tennessee treats software as taxable property, so before you compare quotes, ask each studio how it treats sales tax on the work.
- 01 · Basic Website
- $799
- 02 · Business Website
- $1,999
- 03 · Website Fix & Speed-up
- $249
- 04 · Website Care Plan
- $49
Our usual starting prices in USD. You get a written quote before any work starts, and the price we agree is the price you pay.
Official figures · Tennessee
Tennessee in numbers
A few official figures that shape who buys websites in Tennessee and what they pay on top of the price.
- Small businesses in Tennessee
- 741,196
- The SBA's 2025 profile, based on 2022 Census data, counts 741,196 small businesses, 99.5% of all businesses in the state. With that many competitors, a site that loads fast and answers the questions customers search for is worth more than extra pages.
- Official source U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy · 2025 Small Business Profile: Tennessee
- Small businesses with no employees
- 637,340
- By 2022 Census data in the SBA's 2025 profile, 637,340 Tennessee small businesses had no employees. For a one-person business, a 5-page site you can update yourself usually makes more sense than a large custom build.
- Official source U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy · 2025 Small Business Profile: Tennessee
- Rural small businesses
- 196,379
- The 2025 profile, using 2022 Census data, counts 196,379 small businesses in rural Tennessee. If customers have to travel to reach you, put clear opening hours, a map and a phone number on every page.
- Official source U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy · 2025 Small Business Profile: Tennessee
- Share of Tennessee employees at small businesses
- 41.5%
- In the SBA's 2025 profile, small businesses employed 1.2 million people in 2022, 41.5% of the state's employees. If you are hiring, a simple careers page can be worth adding to the brief.
- Official source U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy · 2025 Small Business Profile: Tennessee
- Highest local sales tax rate
- 2.75%
- Counties and cities can add a local rate of up to 2.75% on top of the general state rate of 7%, as the Department of Revenue's pages read in 2026. Where tax applies to website or software work, your local rate changes the total, so ask for tax as its own line.
- Official source Tennessee Department of Revenue · Local Sales Tax
Only in Tennessee
Tennessee rules to know before you buy a website
These are rules set by Tennessee itself, not the federal ones every US business shares. They are here so you know what to ask, not as tax or legal advice.
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Tennessee treats software as taxable property
Under Tennessee law, packaged or customized computer software counts as tangible personal property. In a notice first published in June 1998 and still on its site, the Department of Revenue says charges to create, design, develop, program, alter or modify software are taxable when they are made as part of the sale of software, and that a non-employee consultant's entire charge for creating or altering a company's software is taxable. Ask every studio whether it treats your project as software, and whether its price includes Tennessee sales tax.
Official source Tennessee Department of Revenue · Computer Software Services Subject to Sales and Use Tax (notice, June 1998) -
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Website design depends on the true object of the deal
Tennessee looks at what the buyer is really paying for. In Letter Ruling 24-10 (November 26, 2024), the Department found that one company's fees for website design and configuration were not taxable, because the true object was a service it ran for its clients, not the website itself. Letter rulings bind the Department only for the taxpayer named in them. If your project mixes design, code and a web app, ask your accountant or the Department how your own contract would be treated.
Official source Tennessee Department of Revenue · Letter Ruling 24-10 -
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Hosting and domains have been treated differently
In Letter Ruling 11-21 (June 10, 2011), the Department found that one company's web templates, domain registration and website hosting were not subject to Tennessee sales and use tax. That ruling is old, binds the Department only for that taxpayer, and may no longer reflect the law. Ask for hosting, domains and build work as separate lines so the tax on each can be checked.
Official source Tennessee Department of Revenue · Letter Ruling 11-21 -
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The Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA)
TIPA took effect on July 1, 2025. The Attorney General's office says it covers businesses that do business in Tennessee or target its residents, earn more than $25 million a year, and either handle the personal information of at least 175,000 Tennessee consumers in a calendar year, or of 25,000 while making 50% of their revenue from selling it. Covered businesses need a reasonably accessible privacy notice and a way for people to use their rights. If you are near those thresholds, ask how the site's forms, analytics and ad tags will support that.
Official source Office of the Tennessee Attorney General · TIPA guide for consumers and businesses (April 30, 2025) -
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Free help planning the business side
The Tennessee Small Business Development Centers, hosted by Middle Tennessee State University and funded in part by the SBA, give no-cost virtual and in-person consulting to for-profit businesses. Before you brief a studio, they can help you work out what the website has to do for your business plan and budget.
Official source Tennessee Small Business Development Centers · About
This is a builder's checklist, not legal or regulatory advice. Guidance changes, so check your regulator's current pages; we build the pages it asks for and make them easy for you to keep up to date.
What moves the price
Six things that decide the cost
Storvexa Your quote, line by line
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Pages and content
Five pages cost less than twenty. Writing the copy, finding photos and moving content from an old site all take time, so say up front who supplies them.
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Theme or custom code
A premium WordPress theme is the quickest and cheapest route. A site written in our own code costs more, loads faster and has no page-builder plugins to keep updating.
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What the site has to do
A contact form is simple. Online booking, payments, client logins or a shop each add work, because each has to be built, tested and kept safe.
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Languages and markets
Every extra language means translated pages and its own search setup. Prices in more than one currency add a little more.
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Connections to your tools
Linking the site to a CRM, a booking calendar, an accounting tool or a payment provider is quoted per connection, after we have seen what the tool allows.
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Speed and search work
Basic Google setup comes with every site. Full on-page SEO, a Google Business Profile and analytics come with the custom-coded package.
Total In your written quote, before any work starts
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