We are a logistics company with 45 employees based in Ankara, offering international LTL shipping and warehousing services. We want to overhaul our current website from the ground up. The pages we need follow a standard corporate structure: fleet presentation route information, a quote request form a blog and a simple tracking screen where clients can check their cargo status using a bill of lading or invoice number.
We met with two different agencies and the gap between their quotes left us completely torn. The first agency proposed building our corporate site on a WordPress backend with a custom theme designed from scratch; they said they could integrate the tracking screen with our existing system and quoted 55.000 TL. The second agency claimed WordPress is bloated insecure due to its open-source nature, and unfit for corporate enterprises because of constant updates. They offered to build the entire system from scratch using their proprietary admin dashboard and software architecture, quoting 165.000 TL.
There is a three-fold price difference here. Is custom software genuinely necessary for a corporate firm in the logistics sector or is WordPress more than enough? When it comes to ongoing maintenance costs security, and agency lock-in down the road, which decision criteria should I weigh most heavily?