Shops, Clinics & Schools
Residents search in Nepali or Romanised Nepali, often for a service near a chowk or ward. A correct Google profile and a simple page with hours, fees and a phone number win most of those searches.
I’m Ujjwal Rupakheti, a full-stack web developer and SEO specialist in Itahari, on the same East-West Highway that runs through Hetauda. For 3+ years I’ve built websites, business software and SaaS in Nepal. Makwanpur’s manufacturers, suppliers, schools and shops work with me online, in Nepali or English.
The Hetauda market
Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City is the headquarters of Makwanpur District and, since January 2020, the capital of Bagmati Province, so provincial ministries sit here alongside the district’s own offices. About 194,000 people lived in the city at the 2021 census.
It is also an industrial town. The Hetauda Industrial District was set up in 1963 with support from the United States and still houses large, medium and cottage industries. The state-owned Hetauda Cement factory is here, and Unilever Nepal makes consumer goods at its factory in Basamadi, just outside the city. The East-West Highway and the old Tribhuvan Rajpath to Kathmandu both pass through.
The last few years have been hard on those factories: Onlinekhabar reported more than 600 industry closures in Makwanpur in fiscal year 2080/81. The firms doing well are the ones finding new buyers, and those buyers increasingly start with a search.
Hetauda at a glance
Manufacturers & suppliers
A contractor in Kathmandu or a distributor in Birgunj looking for cement, pipes, feed or packaging searches the product plus “manufacturer in Nepal”, then compares what comes up. They want specifications, certifications such as the NS mark, pack sizes, delivery areas and a way to ask for a price. Many factory websites show little more than a photo of the plant and a phone number.
I build B2B sites around a buyer’s questions: a page per product line with a specification table and a downloadable data sheet, a dealers page by district, and a quote request that reaches your sales staff on WhatsApp and email at once.
Request a quoteSales replies within one working day
Product lineChoose a product
Quantitye.g. 500 bags
Deliver toDistrict or city
Phone or WhatsApp98XXXXXXXX
Send request
Arrives on your sales WhatsApp and email together
Local SEO
Three kinds of people search for Hetauda businesses: residents, people travelling the highway or visiting provincial offices, and weekend visitors heading for the hills. Each finds you differently.
Residents search in Nepali or Romanised Nepali, often for a service near a chowk or ward. A correct Google profile and a simple page with hours, fees and a phone number win most of those searches.
Drivers and people with business at the provincial offices search Maps for a meal or a room tonight. Photos, current hours, prices and reviews matter more to them than anything else.
Weekend visitors from Kathmandu plan short trips to the hills of northern Makwanpur. A small site with rooms, food, directions and WhatsApp booking turns their search into a stay.
The method is set out in local SEO in Nepal and my Google Business Profile guide; for the keyword side, see keyword research.
Software
When orders, stock and payroll live in spreadsheets and notebooks, mistakes cost real money. I build systems around how your business already works, one module at a time, with Nepali rules for VAT, SSF and TDS built in.

Case study: EutaaHR, payroll and finance with Nepali VAT, SSF and TDS, used every day at Ektukra Digital Agency.

Case study: CivicSathyA complaint and infrastructure tracking system designed for Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City.
Eutaa is live at eutaa.com and the CivicSathy code is on GitHub. More on management systems, custom software and database design.
Process
Your products, buyers and process on a video call. For a system, you show me how orders and stock move today.
Pages or modules, timeline and price in writing. Systems start with the module that hurts most.
Your staff test each part on a preview link with real examples, every week.
Go live, hand over the logins and train your staff on a call, or on site for larger systems.
Working together
Itahari and Hetauda share a highway and a time zone, and most of our work never needs the road. We talk on WhatsApp or video in Nepali or English, you review progress on a preview link, and you pay in stages by eSewa, Khalti or bank transfer against a fixed quote.
Getting to Hetauda
Two ways I reach you when a visit helps
Pricing
Prices are the same across Nepal: websites from NPR 18,000, online stores from NPR 60,000, SaaS from NPR 70,000 and SEO audits from NPR 15,000. A manufacturer’s B2B site usually fits the CMS tier; systems are priced module by module.
| Service | Starting price | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | ||
| Static websiteA shop, school or highway hotel: hours, fees, location and a WhatsApp button | NPR18,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| B2B or business website with CMSProduct lines, spec sheets, dealers and quote requests | NPR35,000 | 2–4 weeks |
| Online storeOrders from retailers or customers with eSewa, Khalti and Fonepay | NPR60,000 | 3–8 weeks |
| Software & SEO | ||
| Management systemInventory, dealer orders, payroll or attendance | Quoted per module | By scope |
| Technical SEO auditSite and profile checked against competitors in the province | NPR15,000 | 1 week |
| Monthly SEOProduct pages, local profiles and links, reported monthly | NPR30,000 / month | 3–6 months to see movement |
Not in the price: domain, hosting, paid plugins and data-sheet design. The complete rate card is on services and pricing.
Factories, local shops, systems and how we work across the highway.
Ask me on WhatsAppA simple site for a shop, clinic, school or hotel starts at NPR 18,000. A manufacturer’s site with product lines, data sheets and dealer pages usually starts at NPR 35,000, and an online store at NPR 60,000. The price is fixed in writing after a short call.
Yes. A B2B site gives each product line a page with specifications, certifications, pack sizes and a data sheet, adds dealer pages by district and routes quote requests to your sales staff. It’s built so buyers searching for a manufacturer in Nepal find the right product page.
It can, because many manufacturers have thin websites, so a page with real specifications often stands out. Expect early movement in 3 to 6 months for product searches, faster for your company name. Nobody can honestly promise a position, and I won’t.
Yes. I build management systems module by module: stock, dealer orders, dispatch, attendance and payroll with SSF and TDS. Each module is quoted separately, so you can start with the one causing the most trouble. My own system, Eutaa, handles Nepali VAT, SSF and TDS.
For software projects, yes: seeing how stock and orders really move is worth the trip. I come by road along the East-West Highway or fly to Simara, and we agree the date and travel cost first. Websites rarely need a visit.
Yes. I work across Makwanpur District, including Bhimphedi, Manahari and Makawanpurgadhi, Thaha with Chitlang and Daman, and Indrasarowar around Kulekhani. Homestays and small hotels in the hills need the same thing as city shops: a correct Google profile and a fast page.
Yes. Most guests come from Kathmandu for a night or two and plan on their phone. A small site with rooms, meals, directions and WhatsApp booking, plus a complete Google profile with recent reviews, is usually all you need, from NPR 18,000.
Not if the switch is planned. Before launch I list every page your old site has, decide where each should point on the new one and set up permanent 301 redirects, so links and rankings carry over. The new site is tested on a private address first, and afterwards I check Search Console for broken pages until things settle.
You pay by eSewa, Khalti or bank transfer, in stages tied to a written quote. We work in Nepali or English, whichever your staff prefer, and the site itself can be in either language or both. Each stage is agreed before it starts, so you never pay for work you haven’t seen on a preview link.
You do. The domain, hosting, code and every record in your system are in your name after the final payment, and I hand over the logins and a short guide to running it. If you change developers later, everything they need is already in your hands.
Describe your products or shop and the buyers you want more of. I answer within one working day, usually with a few questions first.
Ujjwal RupakhetiReplies within one working day
What does your Hetauda business need?
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