Weblio comes from Basel and builds websites for firms in Lörrach and its district. Fixed price, one contact, an imprint that says Basel.
Fixed price from CHF 499, no border markup
The S6 runs from the main station to Basel Bad Bf in a good ten minutes, every half hour and without a change. Beyond the southernmost district the next stop is called Riehen and is already in Switzerland. More than twenty thousand people from the district commute into Switzerland for work every day.
The decision happens on a phone while people are already out, and part of it starts on the other side of the border. Opening hours, address and directions therefore have to be there without a detour. And the phone number belongs on the page with the country code, because a Swiss handset will not dial it otherwise.
The first question here is not what something costs, but whether you drive out that far and whether Switzerland is included. Anyone who only clears that up on the callback has half lost the enquiry. The page needs the places you actually serve, photographs of finished work and a form that can be filled in one-handed.
Before calling, someone wants to know which treatment is on offer, who provides it and when there is a slot. In Lörrach a fourth question comes on top: people working in Switzerland are covered there or in Germany depending on the option they chose, and they check in advance which payers you bill. With the answer on the page, that saves a call every time.
These offices are looked for by companies on both sides, and companies search differently from private customers: for the precisely named service, for references and for a person with a name and a direct line. Usually in German and English, and in business with Alsace in French as well.
Advertising short distances says nothing here: Lörrach and Basel are one labour market, and any supplier can be with you within half an hour. It only gets interesting at the three points where offers really differ.
Questions do not travel through a chain
Whoever answers you also built the site. There is no client desk in front of it and no change of ownership after it. You explain your plan exactly once, and the answer to a technical question comes from the person who made the decision.
Two currencies in daily life, one in the offer
Around here the exchange rate is everyday knowledge. On your offer you do not need it: the amount is stated in euros, it is set before the start, and no rate moves it between the go-ahead and the final invoice.
The size that gets built here every week
A shop, a trade business with six people, a practice with four treatment rooms: from a onepager up to five pages is the type of job that fills our week. Your start date therefore does not depend on whether a larger project gets in the way.
The journey is short, and for everyday project work it hardly matters anyway: progress sits in the dashboard, questions land in the ticket system, on WhatsApp or in a video call. What the border does change is the paperwork. German law applies to your website, a different tax procedure applies to our invoice, and we settle both before the go-ahead rather than after.
Onepager from CHF 499, Starter from CHF 699, Business from CHF 1'099. After a short video call the sum is there in writing, together with the list of what is not included. Billing follows the scope, not the time spent.
You receive an invoice in euros without German VAT and with a note on the reverse charge procedure. As a company you declare the tax yourself and deduct it as input tax in the same step, provided you are entitled to. For small businesses under § 19 UStG the case works differently, which is why we ask beforehand.
Your site, the mailboxes and the backup copies stay inside the EU. You get the processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR before go-live, so your record of processing activities is complete. The fact that your contract partner sits in Switzerland calls for no standard contractual clauses: the European Commission lists Switzerland as a country with an adequate level of data protection.
What counts is who operates the website, not who visits it. So an imprint under § 5 DDG, a privacy notice under the GDPR, and consent under § 25 TDDDG for anything not technically necessary, before something is stored on or read from a visitor's device. A pre-ticked box does not satisfy that, and neither does a banner while the scripts underneath are already running.
In Lörrach the border is part of the commute. Your site has to account for that, and your quote still stays in a single currency.
How we work
If something is missing here, we will answer it directly. The legal and tax notes on this page come from practice and do not replace advice.
What should a Lörrach business reckon with, and what stays afterwards?
Three fixed-price packages: Onepager from CHF 499, Starter for three pages from CHF 699, Business for five pages from CHF 1'099. Booking, shop, a second language or a newsletter are add-ons with their own price, and you have that list before you commit. Afterwards the hosting remains, billed monthly and cancellable to the end of the month. Maintenance is voluntary; if you take it, it runs for at least six months.
Do you come to Lörrach for a meeting?
Yes, and here that is not a big deal: for a meeting at your premises there is no travel on the invoice. We still suggest a short video call for the first conversation, because nobody has to leave the shop or the workshop for it. If you would rather talk in person first, just say so and we will come by.
Some of our customers come from Switzerland. What do we have to watch out for?
Three things that are easily forgotten. First the public holidays: the Swiss national day on 1 August is in no German calendar, and 3 October works the other way round, which affects your opening hours. Second the export certificate: if you issue one, that belongs visibly on the page, because since the beginning of 2025 the Swiss duty-free allowance has stood at 150 francs per person and day and the question comes up accordingly often. Third the pricing: if you also label prices in francs, it should be plain which of the two amounts applies at the till.
Weblio sits in Switzerland. Whose law applies to our website then?
Yours. What counts is who operates the site, not who built it. So an imprint under § 5 DDG with name, address, legal form and a way to make contact, plus chamber and professional title for regulated professions, and a privacy notice under the GDPR. Since 28 June 2025 the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz, the German accessibility act, applies on top for certain services offered electronically to consumers, such as a shop or an online booking; for services there is an exemption for micro-enterprises with fewer than ten employees and no more than two million euros in annual turnover. Whether you fall under it is something we look at before the offer. Only a law firm can judge it bindingly.
We are not in Lörrach itself but further out in the district. Is that a problem?
No. The district of Lörrach has 35 towns and municipalities, and all of them are within our catchment area. Weil am Rhein, Rheinfelden (Baden), Schopfheim, Grenzach-Wyhlen, Steinen, Maulburg, Hausen im Wiesental, Zell im Wiesental, Kandern, Binzen, Inzlingen, Efringen-Kirchen, Schliengen, Bad Bellingen, Todtnau and Schönau im Schwarzwald are only part of the list. Whether your business sits down by the Rhine or up in the Black Forest changes nothing about the process, because it does not hang on kilometres.
When can the site go live?
Two to four weeks, whatever the scope. More sub-pages mean more hours on our side, not more waiting on yours. The count starts once texts and images are complete. Handing that part over does not shorten it, it moves it: even then we need an hour of your time for the details nobody else knows.
By video or at your premises, in German, English or French. We listen, we ask a few questions, and afterwards we come back with an offer in euros. No obligation, and the short trip appears on no invoice.
