The price is agreed before anything starts, and it is set by the size of the site rather than by how you settle it. Half to begin, half when it goes live, and then the code, the files and the domain are yours.
From $1,000. No setup fee.
The trouble with paying for a website once is not the size of the cheque. It is that the money and the work run out on the same afternoon. From there on, every edit and every password is a fresh negotiation with somebody who has already been paid, and who has no particular reason to pick up.
The figure follows how big the site is, not how you settle it. A four-page site costs the same whether it goes out in one payment or in monthly ones, so there is no better version of your website hiding behind a longer commitment. And because the price does not depend on how long you stay, nothing has to be held back to keep you here.
Three sizes cover most of what a growing business actually needs. Anything larger is priced the same way and agreed the same way, before the work starts.
Split in two: half to begin, half on delivery. Prices in USD.
One exception: a resale domain, one somebody else already owns, is paid separately and direct to the registrar.
Paying once is not the only way, and it is not the discounted way. The same price can be divided into a fixed monthly that comes off it until there is nothing left of it, and which monthly you land on follows the price, not the kind of site.
Nothing is spread beyond twenty-four months. Once a price is bigger than twenty-four of those payments there is no monthly left to divide it into, and that one is paid once.
“Our old website was years behind the business. Daniel rebuilt it from scratch and now runs our SEO — one point of contact, and things move without chasing.”
“Daniel set up our store and SEO completely. Within 3 months we were selling consistently online — he handles everything.”
No, it is the same figure. The monthly route is that price divided up, and each payment comes off it until there is none left. What you are choosing is when the money leaves, not how much of it does.
The site, the code, the files and the domain, which is in your name from the first day rather than signed over on the last. Nothing is kept back as a reason for you to stay.
Domain and hosting sit inside the price for year one. After that, hosting and upkeep carry on as a monthly that is agreed with you before anything starts — or you move the site to any host you like, because the files are already yours.
If you are on an upkeep monthly, edits are part of it. If you are not, they are quoted as work before they are done, never discovered afterwards on an invoice.
Past a certain price it is the only way. Nothing is spread past twenty-four months, so once the site costs more than twenty-four payments would cover, there is no monthly left to divide it into. I tell you on the call which side of that line yours falls on.
Me. The person who designs and builds the site is the one who answers, before the invoice and after it. There is no account manager, and there is no project manager to be swapped out halfway through.
The monthly route makes sense for some builds and not for others.
One call. You describe the business and what the site is for; I tell you the size, the price and how the two halves fall. Nothing is signed on the call.
