Website design pricing: one build fee, then the hosting

No. It’s the standing price, with no coupon, no qualifying period, no closing date and no minimum term attached to it. The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size. What repeats afterwards is the hosting, at the rate on this page, and there’s no introductory rate anywhere in it. 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.

There’s no catch, but there’s a business model, and it’s fair to say it out loud. We lose money on the build and make it back over the months you stay hosted. That only works if the site is good enough that you want to keep it, which is why a designer and a writer do the work instead of a wizard. If you cancel in month two we’re down on the deal, and we would still rather that than tie you into a term.

Not on your plan. 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’s written into the terms of service, not just promised here.

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. It’s a renewal price rather than a cheap first year: year five costs what year one cost. The .com in year one and year two sets out what happens elsewhere, where an included domain usually lapses after twelve months and renews at list.

No. Edit the site yourself from the dashboard as often as you like, or send the change over and we make it, usually the same business day: two a month on Basic, as many as you send on Complete, and unlimited for the first 30 days. A new phone number, a price list, a photograph, a whole new page of services: all of it is inside the monthly.

You cancel from the billing screen in your dashboard, in about four clicks, with no notice period and no exit fee. The site runs to the last day you have paid for and nothing is deleted for thirty days after that, so you can take the export. You’re the registrant of the domain, so the name leaves with you and the transfer code goes out within one business day at no charge. The refunds and cancellation policy has it in full.

With the sources printed. What a small business website costs puts our number next to the real US range, and the comparison pages take it vendor by vendor. Every competitor figure on this site was read off a public pricing page and is dated in the row.