One hour behind you, not twelve
Most fixed-price web work quoted into Singapore is built twelve hours away. This is not. The base is Southeast Asia, one hour behind SGT, so a question asked at ten in the morning is answered at ten in the morning.
- Currency
- Invoiced in euros. About S$2,230 and S$4,460 at current rates.
- GST
- Not charged. Under both overseas-vendor thresholds; registered clients reverse-charge.
- Languages
- Two included. Chinese and Malay are scoped on the call, not assumed.
- Time zone
- UTC+7. One hour behind SGT — same working day, overlapping hours.
What Singapore asks of your site
The PDPA wants a contact your visitors can actually reach
Section 11(5) requires the business contact information of at least one data protection officer to be made publicly available, reachable from Singapore and answered during Singapore business hours. A general company address is enough; silence is not. Financial penalties run to 10% of annual Singapore turnover or S$1 million, whichever is higher. The contact page in both tiers is where this lives.
The PSG is real money, and it is not free money
Enterprise Singapore and IMDA fund up to 50% of a pre-approved solution, capped at S$30,000 per company per financial year. Two conditions decide it: the vendor has to be on the Business Grants Portal list already, and paying before approval is an automatic rejection. We are not a pre-approved vendor. On a S$8,000 approved package your own half is about S$4,000, after a four to six week wait. TIER-01 here is S$2,230 and starts when you say go.
No cookies, no consent surface
This build sets no cookies and loads nothing third-party, so the consent and tracking questions the PDPA asks have almost nothing on your site to attach to. It also removes the banner, its annual licence, and the layout shift it causes on first view.
You own the code
Full IP transfer on final payment, repository included. No proprietary builder and no annual licence — which also means nothing about the build ties you to a vendor list.
What a Singapore site costs, and where this sits
Singapore SME sites usually land between S$4,000 and S$12,000. Brochure work starts near S$1,500, corporate builds run past S$20,000, and agencies bill S$100 to S$300 an hour when they bill by time at all.
- Brochure site
- from S$1,500
- SME corporate site, 5–10 pages
- S$4,000 – S$12,000
- Agency hourly
- S$100 – S$300
- PSG package, your own half
- about S$4,000 on a S$8,000 approved solution
- TIER-01 here
- €1,500 — about S$2,230, fixed, 5 pages
- TIER-02 here
- €3,000 — about S$4,460, 15 pages, two languages
The CBD and Raffles Place, Tanjong Pagar, one-north and Jurong — and the regional offices Singapore companies run in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. All of it inside a two-hour band of where the work is done.
This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Grant terms and eligibility are set by Enterprise Singapore and IMDA and they change — check the Business Grants Portal before relying on any figure here. Your accountant or lawyer remains the authority on your own position.