What this costs
A small custom website is $1,500 and a multi-page site with a page per service is $3,000, which is what most businesses need. Sites with ordering or booking, and anything unusually large, are quoted per project. You pay once: after launch it costs $0 a month to run, there is no fee to us and no commission on anything you sell.
Small site
$1,500
A new business, or one service to sell
- Up to about five pages
- Structured data for your business, hours and services
- Enquiry form or click-to-call
- Live in about a week
Most businesses
Multi-page site
$3,000
Most businesses with more than one service to sell
- Around six to twenty pages
- A page per service, room type or job - each able to rank on its own
- Full structured-data graph, validated before launch
- Quote or booking path built for a phone
- FAQ markup on every service page
- Live in two to three weeks
Ordering, booking or larger
Quoted
Restaurants, hotels and anyone currently paying commission
- Everything in the multi-page site
- Commission-free online ordering or reservations
- Runs on your own domain and your own payment account
- No per-order fee, ever
- Priced per project, fixed before work starts
Then $0 a month — for as long as the site is live.
- Hosting$0
- SSL certificate$0
- Your domain~$1
- Contact form$0
- Software updates$0
- Our fee$0
Prices are in US dollars. The domain is extra at about $11 a year - we can register one for you or use one you already have. Every quote is fixed before work starts.
Work out your own number.
Not ours - yours. Put in what you pay every month today, and this shows you when a one-off build has paid for itself and what you keep after that.
| You pay now | Paid for itself in | You keep over 5 years |
|---|---|---|
| $60/mo | 50 months | $600 |
| $150/mo | 20 months | $6,000 |
| $299/mo | 11 months | $14,940 |
Excludes your domain, about a dollar a month, which you pay your registrar either way. Card processing on orders is unchanged - the saving is the platform cut, not the card fee.
Questions we get asked
Why publish prices when most studios will not?
Because hiding them wastes everyone's time. You can tell in thirty seconds whether we are in your range, and we stop having calls that were never going to work. The two published figures are real prices rather than opening bids. Only ordering, booking and unusually large builds are quoted individually, because those genuinely do vary.
Is there a monthly fee?
No. Not to us, and not for hosting - we set that up and run it as part of the service, and there is nothing to pay after launch. The one unavoidable cost is the domain, roughly eleven dollars a year. Small changes afterwards are free; if you want us on call with agreed response times we will quote a care plan, and declining it takes nothing away from you.
Is paying once actually cheaper than a monthly plan?
It depends entirely on what you pay now, which is why there is a calculator on this page rather than an assertion. Against a restaurant platform at $299 a month, a $3,000 site pays for itself in eleven months and saves close to $15,000 over five years. Against $40 a month on a website builder it takes over six years, and we would tell you to stay where you are and spend the money on something that brings customers in.
What does commission-free ordering actually mean?
Orders and payments run through your own site and your own payment account, so no platform takes a percentage of each order. You pay your payment processor their standard card fee, exactly as you would in person, and nothing else.
What do you need from me to start?
Your services and prices, any photography you have, and access to your domain and existing site if there is one. If photography is missing we will tell you exactly which shots the layout needs before you book a photographer.
Do you charge for a quote?
No. A call and a written quote with a fixed price and a date are free. If you want a written audit of an existing site before deciding anything, that is a paid piece of work and we will say so up front.
Tell us what you need built.
A short call, a straight answer on scope and cost, and a fixed quote. No retainer, no monthly fee, no commission on your orders.