British Virgin Islands

Web design for the British Virgin Islands.

Custom websites for businesses on Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke, and Anegada. Built to load on a weak signal, get found by people planning a trip months ahead, and work with the payment options actually available to a BVI company.

Office in Road Town, Tortola · Same time zone, same currency

Two tiers

Pick the one that matches the job.

The difference is scope and photography, not build quality. Both are custom, both are yours to keep.

Fully branded

Charters, villas, and resorts

For businesses where the website closes the booking months before anyone arrives, and the photography is doing as much selling as the copy.

$5,000 – $10,000+ Three to five weeks
  • Everything in the custom website tier, plus:
  • Brand direction, or a refresh of what you have
  • Original vessel, property, and food photography
  • Fleet, rate, and availability pages
  • Booking or enquiry integration
  • Email templates and social feeds
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Quick turnaround

Custom website

For a BVI business that needs to be findable and credible online without a long project attached to it.

From $3,000 Usually live in one to two weeks
  • Custom multi-page build
  • Search-optimised structure and copy
  • Mobile-first, fast on a weak signal
  • Contact forms and maps wired up
  • Google Analytics and Search Console set up
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Quoted in writing before anything starts. Hosting, domain registration, SSL, and business email are available as add-ons. Full ranges for larger systems are on the FAQ.

Taking payment in the BVI

The part most developers get wrong.

A BVI company cannot use several of the processors a web developer would reach for by default. It is better to know that before the site is built than after.

What is different here Payment processing is the single biggest practical difference between building for a BVI business and a US one. Several of the processors that a web developer would reach for by default are not available to a BVI-registered company at all.
Stripe At the time of writing, the British Virgin Islands is not on Stripe's list of supported countries, so a BVI-registered company cannot open a Stripe merchant account. Confusingly, BVI does appear on Stripe's payouts list, which means money can be sent to a BVI account by a platform elsewhere. Those are different things, and the distinction catches people out.
What does work PayPal supports BVI accounts. Local bank merchant facilities, regional acquirers, and offshore-friendly gateways all serve the territory. Some operators run payments through a related entity in a supported jurisdiction, which is a decision for your accountant rather than your web developer.
Why it matters before the build The processor decides how checkout is built, what the customer sees, and what the reconciliation looks like afterwards. Choosing it after the site is finished means rebuilding the part that takes money. We establish it during scoping.

Processor availability and terms change. Confirm current terms with the provider and your accountant before committing. We build against whatever you settle on.

Across the territory

Four islands, four different problems.

A charter base on Tortola and a villa on Virgin Gorda are not selling the same thing to the same person, and the site should not pretend otherwise.

Tortola

Road Town, the charter bases at Wickhams Cay and Nanny Cay, and most of the territory's shops, restaurants, and professional services. Where the majority of the work is.

Virgin Gorda

Villas, resorts, and the Baths. Almost every booking begins with a search from somewhere else, often months ahead of arrival, which puts real weight on the site.

Jost Van Dyke

Small operators with a large reputation. The site is frequently the only thing a visitor sees before they decide, and it needs to load on a phone at anchor.

Anegada

A different problem again. Limited connectivity, seasonal trade, and visitors who plan the trip well in advance and want to know before they commit.

.vg or .com

Which domain a BVI business should hold.

.vg is the British Virgin Islands country domain. It signals the territory immediately, which matters for local trade and for anyone searching with the BVI in mind.

.com is cheaper, universally understood, and usually the better choice if most of your customers are booking from North America or Europe before they travel. A visitor planning a charter from Chicago has no particular feeling about .vg.

Plenty of businesses hold both and point one at the other. The question is simply who is doing the typing. There is more on this, and on who should own the registration, in the guides.

Built to be found

Page titles, descriptions, headings, and structured data written for what people actually search. Sitemap submitted and Search Console configured, so you can see which searches you appear for.

Fast on the connection you have

Compressed images, minimal scripts, and self-hosted fonts. A site that loads at anchor off Jost Van Dyke will load anywhere.

Readable on every screen

Designed for phones first. Real touch targets, no pinch-to-zoom, no horizontal scrolling.

Accessible by default

Proper heading structure, labelled forms, keyboard navigation, and colour contrast meeting WCAG 2.2 AA.

Yours to keep

You own the code, the domain, the hosting account, and the content. No licence and no platform you have to keep paying to stay online.

Nothing to babysit

Hand-built HTML and PHP, commented and documented at handover. No CMS to keep patched and no theme to break on the next plugin release.

Our BVI office

Road Town, Tortola.

We keep an office in Road Town, so a conversation about your website happens here in the territory rather than over a video call with someone who has never seen the place.

Come in and talk it through, or we can meet wherever suits you on Tortola. Same time zone, same currency, and no need to explain how anything in the BVI works before we start.

We also work across the U.S. Virgin Islands, which means we understand businesses that serve guests on both sides of the line, and visitors who have not yet worked out that these are two different territories.

Start here

Tell us what the business does.

That is the whole brief to start with. What you sell, who buys it, and what you want someone to do when they land on the page.

How every engagement runs

Understand We watch the current process before anything is designed.
Map Scope, phases, and what is out of scope, agreed in writing.
Build In phases you can see, not one long silence.
Launch Documentation and account ownership handed over with it.
Support Continuing, with the same people who built it.