Hire a Freelance Web Developer for Kolkata

Yes, Kolkata has a rich handicraft, Kantha stitch, Jamdani, and Baluchari silk ecosystem. We've built Shopify and WooCommerce stores for craft exporters, artisan collectives, and state-sponsored craft boards. We handle certificate of origin documentation, GST invoicing, INR + USD multi-currency, and artisan story-telling pages that convert international buyers.

Yes. Salt Lake's Sector V and New Town's Rajarhat tech park house major IT services companies, startups, and BPOs. We deliver remote-first with weekly video calls and monthly check-ins for retainer clients. Our builds integrate with standard enterprise tooling (Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise) that IT-sector clients require.

Yes. Bengali Unicode (Bangla script) requires specific font handling, text direction testing, and CMS workflow setup. We build bilingual Bengali+English sites with React-i18next or Next.js i18n routing, test across Windows and Android font renderings, and ensure Bangla text is written or reviewed by a native speaker, not auto-translated.

Kolkata has a major private school and coaching-institute economy (Madhyamik, HS, WBJEE, JEE prep). School ERP + student portal + fee payment via Razorpay: ₹40-70K, 8-14 weeks. Coaching institute LMS with test series and video classes: ₹50-80K, 10-16 weeks. We handle Bengali + English bilingual UI and WBSEDCL-compliant payment integrations.

Yes for engagements above ₹3L. Kolkata is a 2-hour flight from Delhi. We travel for kickoffs and quarterly reviews. For retainer clients we build a quarterly visit into the engagement.

Marketing website (WordPress or Next.js, 15-20 pages): ₹20-40K, 3-5 weeks. SaaS MVP or web app: ₹80K-2L, 10-18 weeks. Shopify D2C store: ₹25-50K, 3-6 weeks. We provide a written scope and fixed-price quote before starting any project.

It starts with a properly set up Google Business Profile: the right category, your actual Gariahat or Salt Lake address, real photos, and a steady flow of customer reviews, not the website on its own. On the site we add location landing pages, an embedded map, and consistent name, address and phone details so Google trusts the same information everywhere. For a single locality you can usually expect to move into the local pack in about 3 to 6 months of steady work, quicker in a niche category than in a crowded one like Park Street restaurants or Gariahat boutiques.

The biggest one is running the whole business off a Facebook page and a Justdial listing with no site you actually own. After that it is pages that crawl on a mid-range Android over a patchy connection, WhatsApp and phone numbers buried three taps deep instead of one, and image-heavy boutique or mishti-shop sites stuck on the cheapest shared hosting that fall over during Durga Puja traffic. We also see plenty of English-only sites in neighbourhoods where a Bengali option would clearly bring in more enquiries.

Yes. A monthly or annual AMC covers security patches, plugin and framework updates, backups, small content edits, and uptime monitoring, usually Rs 3-10K a month depending on the stack and how often you need changes. For retail and food clients we load-test the site and hosting before Durga Puja and the winter wedding season, when orders and traffic spike hard across Kolkata. You are never locked in, and we hand over full admin access so you can move elsewhere if you ever want to.

Yes. The jewellery trade around Bowbazar and Gariahat is one of Kolkata's biggest, and a good site does more than show a catalogue. We build galleries with BIS hallmark and weight details, a live gold and silver rate widget, gold-savings-scheme signup, EMI enquiry, and showroom appointment booking. A catalogue-and-enquiry site runs Rs 35-60K in 5 to 8 weeks; add full online checkout with a payment gateway and GST invoicing and it moves toward Rs 70K to 1.2L.