The short version #
$1 once for the website, plus your first month of hosting, both when you order. Then hosting every month on that date, until you tell us to stop. There is no third charge.
This is a subscription, and we would rather say the word than dress it up. The monthly repeats automatically, it has no end date, and it will keep being taken until you cancel it. Everything about how that works is on this page, and nothing about it is hidden in a longer document: the terms of service govern the agreement, the refunds and cancellation policy says what comes back, and the delivery and fulfillment policy says what arrives and when.
The two charges #
| The charge | Amount | How often | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| The build | $1 in USD | Once, and never again | When you order |
| Hosting, Basic | $8.99 in USD | Every month, automatically, until you cancel | From the day you order, then on that date each month |
| Hosting, Complete | $18.99 in USD | Every month, automatically, until you cancel | From the day you order, then on that date each month |
| The domain registry fee | About $12 a year for a .com, at cost with no markup | Yearly, and only on Basic | When the name is registered, then at each renewal |
The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.
There is no setup fee on top of the $1, no design fee, no launch fee, no reconnection fee, no cancellation fee and no charge for support, for a restore or for an export.
The terms of the offer
The $1 is our standing price, not a promotion. There is no closing date on it, no coupon to enter, no qualifying period, no minimum term you have to serve to keep it and no condition that you stay a certain number of months. The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size. It is not a discount that reverses, and it is not a trial: it is a real charge for a real build, and the build is yours whatever you do about the hosting afterwards.
Nothing here steps up at month four or month thirteen either. The monthly is the same figure in year two as in month one, for as long as your plan runs, which is section 9.
The recurring charge, in full #
This is the part people get caught by elsewhere, so here it is in one block with nothing left out.
| Term | What it is |
|---|---|
| What repeats | Hosting for your website: the servers, the certificate, the backups, the mailbox and our support. |
| How much | $8.99 a month on Basic, or $18.99 a month on Complete. |
| Currency | USD, and every price on this site is in USD. |
| How often | Once a month, on the same date each month. |
| When it starts | On the day you order, together with the website, as your first month. Then on that same date every month. |
| How long it runs | Until you cancel. There is no minimum term, no fixed period and no end date, so it keeps going month after month for as long as you want the site online. |
| How it is taken | Automatically from the card you gave us, through Stripe. |
| How to stop it | A cancel control on the billing screen of your dashboard, on live chat, or by email to [email protected]. No more steps than signing up took, and no save offer in the way. It takes effect at the end of the month you have already paid for. |
| What stopping costs | Nothing. No notice period, no exit fee, no penalty for the month you pick. |
If you ordered on the 31st, the payment is taken on the last day of shorter months.
Three things this arrangement deliberately is not. It is not an annual contract paid in installments, so canceling does not leave a balance to settle. It is not an introductory rate, so nothing steps up at month four or month thirteen. And it is not a free trial that starts charging because there is no trial: the $1 is a real charge for a real build, and the monthly starts on a day you can see coming, which is the day you order, shown on the checkout page before you pay.
What you agree to, and what we record #
The monthly repeats unless you stop it, which makes it a negative option, which is the kind of arrangement that gets people caught. We run it to the strictest rule any state has, for everybody.
The standard we hold ourselves to, and why it is written this way
Federal law reaches an arrangement like this through the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act and through section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The Federal Trade Commission’s 2024 negative-option rule, the one the press called click to cancel, was struck down in full by the Eighth Circuit in July 2025 and is not in force; the Commission began a fresh rulemaking in March 2026 and there is no new rule yet. We are not going to hide behind that. On top of the federal position sit the automatic-renewal statutes of individual states, and those do not agree with each other on a single point of detail.
There are two ways to deal with that. One is to work out which state’s statute reaches which customer and give each person the least the law allows. The other is to find the strictest requirement on each question and give it to everybody. We do the second. The commitments below are unconditional. None of them is written as “where required by law”, none of them turns on where you live, and none of them turns on whether you bought as a person or as a company: most of these statutes protect only consumers buying for personal or household use, and a company selling to small businesses can usually argue itself out of them. We do not make that argument.
| The question | What we commit to, in every state |
|---|---|
| When you see the terms | Before we ask for a card, never afterwards. The amount, the frequency, the date it starts and the fact that it continues until you cancel are on the screen with the pay button, in the same size type as the rest of it, not behind a link and not in a footnote. |
| How you agree | By a separate act that does only that. Agreeing to the automatic renewal is its own unchecked box, next to the renewal terms themselves. It is not bundled into agreeing to the terms of service, it is never pre-checked, and nothing is placed near it that argues with it. |
| What you get afterwards | An acknowledgment by email you can keep, print or forward, containing the renewal terms, the cancellation policy, how to cancel and our mailing address. It goes out immediately and it does not depend on you staying logged in to us. |
| How you cancel | Online, in one place, in no more steps than signing up took, in every medium in which we would take a signup, with no save attempt in the way. Section 6 sets it out in full. |
| Reminders | A reminder every year that the subscription is still running, sent to every customer whatever their term. The monthly receipt repeats the amount, what it is for and how to stop it, every single month. |
| Price changes | None on a plan that is already running. The price you order at is the price you keep. Section 9. |
| Free trials and introductory rates | We do not run either, so there is nothing to convert and no reminder to send about a rate stepping up. If we ever did, the notice would go out before the step and not after it. |
| The record of your consent | Kept for three years, or for a year after your plan ends, whichever is longer. It holds the date and time, the plan and amount, the exact wording you were shown and the email address on the account. Ask and we send you a copy. |
| Who it protects | Everyone. Consumers, sole proprietors, LLCs and corporations alike, in all fifty states, with no threshold and no argument about which statute reaches whom. |
Nothing is added later without asking. We do not upgrade you, add a service or increase a charge because you did not reply to an email. Silence is never agreement to anything here.
How the checkout works. The last step of ordering is a checkout page run by Stripe, our card processor. Before the pay button it shows what you pay today, the monthly amount, that it repeats on the same date each month and that it carries on until you cancel. Your card number goes to Stripe and never to us, and the email receipt you get afterwards is the retainable acknowledgment described above.
What your statement will say #
A charge nobody recognizes is the commonest reason a customer calls their bank instead of the business, so we set ours to be recognizable. The descriptor on your card statement is set to read as DEVIQO, and the amount will be one of the figures in section 2 and nothing else. Our support email and this website address are registered with the payment processor alongside it, which is what a bank looks up when a customer calls to ask who took the money.
Before you call the bank, email [email protected] or ask on live chat with the date and the amount. We will tell you what the charge was for, usually within the hour and always the same business day, and if it should not have been taken we refund it without argument. That takes an afternoon. A chargeback takes weeks, and it takes your website down while the card scheme investigates.
Every payment also produces an invoice in your dashboard, which you can download at any time, and a receipt by email on the day it is taken. Both show the plan, the period covered, the amount, any sales tax and the total.
How to cancel #
Three routes, all equal, none of them awkward. Canceling stops the next payment. Nothing else happens that day.
- In the dashboard, on the billing screen, where there is a cancel control on the page itself. At any hour, with nobody to get past.
- On live chat, where you can ask for the confirmation in writing and get it.
- By email to [email protected] from the address on the account. One sentence is enough.
Those are the same three routes by which you can start or change a plan, which is the point: you can end it wherever you could have begun it. There is no fourth route we keep for cancellations only, and no telephone number you have to find.
Six commitments about canceling
Every one of these is unconditional and applies to every customer in every state, whether you bought as a person or as a business:
- No harder than signing up. Canceling takes no more steps, no more information and no more time than starting did. If we ever make signing up easier, canceling gets easier by the same amount on the same day.
- No save attempt. Nothing sits between the cancel control and the confirmation: no retention offer, no discount to refuse, no pause you have to decline, no survey, no “are you sure” designed to look like the end of the process. We will not show you an offer to stay unless you ask us whether there is one. Nobody here is measured on saves.
- No obstacle course. No telephone call, no letter, no live agent, no reason to give, no password reset to get past, no cancellation form to complete and return.
- It takes effect when you ask. The cancellation is recorded at the moment you make it, and the next payment does not happen. It does not wait for anyone to process it in the morning.
- Charges after your first attempt come back. If you tried to cancel and we billed you anyway, every payment taken after that first attempt is refunded in full, whichever route you used and even if it never reached the right desk. That is our failure to catch, not yours to prove.
- Nothing changes because you canceled. Your support, your service and your export are exactly what they were until the last day you have paid for.
We confirm by email the same business day, and that confirmation tells you the exact date your website comes down and the exact date your export expires. If that email does not arrive, the cancellation has not registered, so chase us rather than assuming it is done, and if a payment goes out in the meantime the commitment above covers it.
What happens next, day by day, is section 6 of the refunds and cancellation policy: the site runs to the end of the month you have already paid for, then comes down, and nothing is deleted for a further 30 days while you take your export. Changing your mind before the site comes down needs one message and costs nothing.
What we send you, and when #
Nine messages, all of them about money, all of them carrying the way out. The yearly one goes to everybody, not only to the people whose state insists on it.
States disagree about renewal reminders more than about anything else here: some require one only for annual terms, some only for continuous service, some for every subscriber regardless of term, and the windows differ again. We have taken the widest version. Every customer gets a reminder every year that this is still running, and every monthly receipt repeats what the charge is for and how to stop it. Neither of those is conditional on where you live.
| Message | When it arrives |
|---|---|
| Confirmation of what you signed up for | Right after you agree, with the amount, the frequency, the start date and how to cancel in it. |
| Go-live notice | On the day your site is published, telling you that this is the day the monthly starts and what date it will be taken each month. |
| Receipt and invoice | Every month, on the day the payment is taken, with how to cancel written in it every time. Every invoice you have ever had stays in the dashboard. |
| A yearly reminder that it is still running | Once a year, on the anniversary, saying what you are paying, how often, what it is for and how to stop it. Every customer gets it, whatever their term and whatever their state requires. |
| Card about to expire | Before the card on file expires, so a payment does not fail for a reason nobody wanted. |
| Failed payment notices | The same day it fails, then on the timetable in section 10. |
| Cancellation confirmation | The same business day you cancel, with the date the site comes down and the date the export expires. |
| Export reminders | Before the site comes down, and again before the 30 day export window closes. |
Several of these are sent by Stripe on our behalf. They are listed here because this table is what we commit to sending.
These are service messages about your own account, not marketing, and they continue while you are a customer. Marketing email is separate, is something you opted into, and stops the moment you unsubscribe: section 6 of the privacy policy covers it.
Changing plan #
Switch in the dashboard whenever you like, in either direction, as often as you like.
- Moving up takes effect at once, and we charge the difference for the rest of the month, worked out to the day.
- Moving down takes effect at your next payment date, so you keep what you have already paid for.
- Moving from Complete to Basic also moves your domain out of the monthly and onto its own line at cost, and we tell you that before the change goes through rather than after.
- If a lower plan gives you less than you are using, we tell you what has to come off before the change can happen.
What separates the two plans is in section 7 of the terms of service.
If we change our prices #
The price you order at is the price you keep. Our prices for new orders can change; yours does not.
The monthly price you order at is the price you keep for as long as your plan runs. We may change our prices for new orders, and a change never reaches a plan that is already running. That means:
- a change to our prices applies to orders placed after it, and never to a plan that is already running;
- there is no notice to watch for and no new rate to accept on your plan;
- if you switch plans, the plan you move to is at its price on the day you switch, and that becomes the price you keep;
- we will not change the price of a build we have already agreed with you.
Hosting at $8.99 a month is limited to the first 100 orders each month. After that, new orders that month are on Complete at $18.99 a month, with the .com included. Whichever of the two you order at, that is the rate you keep.
We do not run an introductory rate that steps up at renewal, and we do not price a first year against a higher second year.
If a payment fails #
A declined card does not take your site down that day. You get three weeks of warnings first, and fixing the card puts everything back.
Cards expire and banks decline things. When a payment fails we email you the same day and try again on the third, seventh and fourteenth day after that. Nothing else happens in the meantime: your site stays up, your mailbox keeps working and the backups keep running.
- Day 21. If it is still unpaid, the website is suspended behind a holding page. Your mailbox keeps receiving.
- Day 30. The mailbox is suspended too, and we write to you again.
- Day 60. We treat the plan as canceled by you, and the timings in the refunds and cancellation policy take over.
Pay at any point in those sixty days and everything comes straight back exactly as it was. There is no reconnection fee, no late fee and no interest on a monthly plan like this. This is the same timetable as section 9 of the terms of service.
Refunds #
In one paragraph, with the full detail in the refunds and cancellation policy: the $1 and your first month come back in full, without a reason being asked for, any time before your website goes live, however much of the work we have done. After it is live the $1 is not refunded, because a team designed and wrote a website and it is now yours. The monthly is not refunded part way through a month, because the site was hosted for every day of it, and canceling stops the next payment instead. We refund a month anyway where we took a payment after you canceled, charged you twice, charged the wrong amount, or ended your plan for our own convenience.
Refunds go back to the card you paid with, through Stripe, and never anywhere else. We will never ask you for bank details to process a refund, so if someone claiming to be from DEVIQO does, it is not us.
Sales tax #
If we ever have to charge you sales tax, it goes on the invoice as its own line with the rate next to it. It is never folded into the price and it is never a surprise.
Whether a website build and monthly hosting are taxable is decided state by state, and the answers differ: roughly half the states tax software delivered as a service in some form and the rest do not, and California will start taxing prewritten software and services of that kind on January 1, 2027 under legislation passed in 2026. Where a business has to register and collect at all turns on economic nexus thresholds that also differ, and several states have dropped the transaction-count half of theirs. Which states we register in, and what is taxable in each, is a question for our accountant and the state revenue departments rather than something we would guess at on a policy page. We are not going to print an answer here that turns out to be wrong on someone’s invoice.
What does not depend on any of that, and what you can hold us to:
- prices shown on this site are the amounts we charge before any sales tax we are required to collect, and we say so wherever a price appears;
- where we are required to collect it, it is a separate line on the invoice with the rate shown, never folded silently into the total and never added at the last screen of a checkout;
- your invoice always shows the amount, any tax and the total separately, and every invoice you have ever had is in your dashboard to download;
- if we begin collecting in your state, you will find out from the invoice line and not from a change in the total you were expecting;
- we will never charge you tax we are not registered to collect and remit.
Sales tax on what you sell from the website we build is a different question and it is yours. The invoices page shows how tax lines are handled there.
Your card details #
Payments are taken by Stripe, which is a certified PCI Level 1 service provider, the highest of the card industry’s levels. Your card number is entered into Stripe’s own payment form and is held by Stripe.
What reaches us, and all that reaches us, is the card type, the expiry month, the last four digits, the billing address and whether the payment worked. The full card number never touches our servers and nobody at DEVIQO can see it or retrieve it. That is a deliberate design decision rather than a promise about how careful we are.
Every page of this site, including any page where a payment is made, is served over an encrypted connection with a certificate that is renewed before it can expire, and the same is true of every website we build for a customer. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, which is section 10 of the privacy policy.
Stripe is listed in section 7 of the privacy policy with every other company that touches your data and what each one does with it. Refunds go back through the same route, to the same card. We accept the cards shown in the footer of this page, and payment by ACH bank transfer where that suits you better.
Disputes and chargebacks #
Come to us first. Not because we can stop you going to your bank, which we cannot and would not, but because of what the two routes cost you. A refund we agree takes an afternoon. A chargeback takes weeks, costs us a fee whether or not it succeeds, and freezes the account while the card scheme investigates, which means your website is offline over an amount we would have paid back the same day.
If you raise one anyway, we will answer it with the record of what was ordered and what was delivered: your brief, the preview link, the go-live date, the site answering at your own domain, and every email in between. If it turns out we were in the wrong, we will say so to the bank rather than fight it.
If you are unhappy about how any of this was handled, the complaints route is section 21 of the terms of service: acknowledged within one business day, answered properly within ten, and looked at again by a director if the first answer does not satisfy you.
Who is charging you, and how to reach us #
- Who takes the payment
- Fumo Media LLC, trading as DEVIQO, through Stripe as our payment processor. Stripe is the processor, not the seller: your agreement is with us.
- Registered entity
- Fumo Media LLC, formed in the State of Wyoming. Registered agent Kira Manning. Wyoming filing ID 2024-001553648. Our taxpayer identification number is not published here; we put it on a W-9 for any customer who needs one. The same details are printed on every invoice.
- On your statement
- Set to read as DEVIQO. See section 5.
- Billing questions
- [email protected], or live chat on any page of this site. First chat reply within 15 minutes while it is staffed, Monday through Friday.
- Website
- https://deviqo.com
- Mailing address
- Fumo Media LLC, 1910 Thomes Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82001-3527, United States. It is published here, printed on every invoice and included in every marketing email we send, and you never have to ask for it.
- Currency
- We bill in USD and refund in USD. If your bank settles your card in another currency, its rate on the day applies and a small difference either way is normal.
Common questions about billing #
The six things people ask before they hand over a card, which is the right time to ask them.
Is the $1 a trial that turns into something more expensive?
No. It is the price of the build, paid once, and nothing about it converts, escalates or expires into a higher rate. What repeats is the hosting, at $8.99 or $18.99 a month depending on the plan you pick, and you are told that before you pay rather than after. Section 2 sets the two charges side by side.
When is the first monthly payment taken?
When you order, together with the $1 for the website, and on that date every month afterwards until you cancel. If you change your mind before the site goes live, the $1 and that first month both come back in full. The delivery timeline is on the delivery and fulfillment page.
How do I cancel, and how long does it take?
A cancel control on the billing screen of your dashboard, or one message on live chat, or one email to [email protected] from the address on the account. Those are the same routes by which you could have started, all three carry the same weight, none of them puts you through a retention script or a save offer, and it takes no more steps than signing up did. We confirm in writing the same business day with the exact date your site comes down. Section 6 is the whole procedure.
Will you put the price up?
Not on a plan that is already running. The monthly price you order at is the price you keep for as long as your plan runs. We may change our prices for new orders, and a change never reaches a plan that is already running. We do not use an introductory rate that jumps at renewal either. Section 9 is the rule in full.
What will the charge look like on my statement?
It is set to read as DEVIQO, so you can recognize it a month later without having to search for it. If a charge appears that you cannot place, email [email protected] before you call the bank: we can tell you within the hour what it was for, and a chargeback takes weeks and takes your website down while it runs. Section 5 has the detail.
Do you keep my card number?
No. Card details are entered with Stripe and handled by Stripe, which is a certified PCI Level 1 service provider. What reaches our systems is the card type, the expiry month, the last four digits and whether the payment worked. The full number never touches our servers, and nobody here can see it. Section 13 says how that works.
A charge you do not recognize?
Email us with the date and the amount before you call the bank. We will tell you what it was, and if it should not have been taken you get it back the same day.