Web Design in Cyprus: Bilingual Websites and E-shops That Sell Across the Island

English is widely used in Cypriot business, so many companies launch in English only. That leaves a large share of local searches on the table. Cypriot customers often search in Greek, and sometimes in Greeklish, the habit of typing Greek words in Latin letters. Someone looking for a plumber, a dentist or a sofa in Strovolos is at least as likely to type in Greek as in English, and Google treats those as different searches with different results.

If your customers are local, a Greek version is usually worth it. We build it as a proper second site structure, with its own URLs, page titles and descriptions, and hreflang tags that tell Google which version to show to whom. A language switcher that only translates the menu, or a plug-in that machine-translates pages on the fly, does not rank and often reads badly to native speakers.

We work in English. For the Greek version we build the structure, the language switching and the technical SEO, and the Greek text comes from you or a translator you trust. We do not publish machine translation without a native speaker checking it. For businesses that sell to Russian-speaking, Hebrew-speaking or other visitor groups, the same structure extends to a third language without rebuilding the site.

An e-shop in Cyprus has two practical problems a shop in a larger market rarely thinks about: which payment provider the local banks and customers trust, and how parcels reach villages in the Troodos or the far end of Paphos district. Both have to be designed in from the start, because they shape the checkout.

On payments, JCC Payment Systems, based in Nicosia since 1989, is the island's established card processor, and many Cypriot merchants accept cards through its online gateway. International gateways such as Stripe and PayPal also serve Cyprus businesses and are often easier to connect to modern shop platforms. We help you weigh fees, payout times and the platform you want to use, then build and test the checkout with the provider you choose.

On delivery, local couriers such as Akis Express and ACS, and Cyprus Post, carry most online orders across the island, and international carriers generally hand over to local partners for the last mile. Your shop should show delivery options and times by district, offer collection where it makes sense, and calculate charges before the customer reaches the payment page, not after.

We do not publish quotes on this page; our packages are on the pricing page. What we can tell you is what moves the cost, so you can compare offers fairly. The biggest drivers are the number of languages, the number of unique page types (a listing, a product, a booking page), integrations with booking engines, CRMs or payment gateways, and who writes the content.

An affordable site is one that does the job without paying for features nobody uses. A five-page bilingual site for a clinic, a law office or a trades business is a very different project from a 2,000-product e-shop with Greek filters and courier integration. We scope the first version tightly, launch it, measure what visitors actually do, and add to it based on evidence rather than guesswork.

Whatever the size, you own the result: the domain, the hosting account, the content and the code. There is no lock-in. If you register a .cy address, note that the registry is run by the University of Cyprus and sets its own eligibility rules, so check them at nic.cy before you settle on a name.