Complete package

$999 one-time + $25 per month maintenance

One-time $999 for the design and setup of your website. After that $25 a month for hosting, updates and maintenance — cancel any time, no hidden costs.

Pay $999 and start

Secure checkout · card payment · you get an intake form right after paying. The $999 is non-refundable — §9 of the terms says what that means before you pay.

What's included in the $999

Complete design of your website
Your text placed, your images built in
Mobile, tablet and desktop
Contact form and legal pages
Domain registration and setup
SSL certificate and publishing
Search basics: titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data
One revision round included
Then: $25/month for hosting, updates & maintenance

What the two numbers actually buy

Split plainly, so nothing has to be discovered later. If something you need is in the right-hand column, tell us before you pay and we'll say honestly whether we can do it.

in and out

$999 · one-time Everything up to going live

A site of up to five pages, structured around what your business does
Design, layout and typography — all of it, done for you
Your existing text edited into shape and placed
Your photos resized, compressed and cropped to the layout
Mobile, tablet and desktop versions of every page
Contact form, tap-to-call and opening hours
Imprint and privacy pages built from your details
Domain registered and configured, or your existing one moved
SSL certificate installed and HTTPS forced
One full revision round after you see the draft
Publishing and final checks — we push it live, not you

$25 · per month Everything after going live

Hosting on a managed server
Domain renewal handled, not forgotten
SSL certificate renewals
Security and software updates
Regular backups you never have to think about
Small content changes on request — new hours, a changed number, a new service line
Uptime monitoring, so we usually know before you do
Cancellable monthly. It starts the day your site goes live, not the day you pay.
Not included: redesigns, new page templates, or rewriting the site

Optional extras

Things outside the package. Everything here is agreed and priced before any work starts — nothing on this list ever appears on an invoice you weren't expecting.

only if you ask

Optional extras and what they cost
Extra	Price	When you'd want it
Additional revision round	$100 per round	The included round wasn't enough — usually because the brief changed, not because something was wrong.
Extra page beyond five	$149 per page	A separate page per service or location, rather than one combined services page.
Logo design	$299 — three concepts, one revision round, delivered as SVG and PNG	You want a properly designed logo mark, rather than the typographic wordmark we build from your business name at no charge.
Simple online shop	$399 — up to ten products	You sell a handful of things and want people to buy them on the site. One buy button per product, checkout handled by Stripe, orders and money go straight to your own Stripe account — not through us. Stripe charges you a fee on every sale, currently around 2.9% plus 30¢ per order in the US. That is their charge, not ours, and it only applies when you actually sell something. Not included: live stock counts, a multi-item basket, or shipping labels.
Content in a second language	$399 per language	You serve a bilingual area and want both versions live.
Booking button to your existing tool	Included in the $999	You already use a booking service and want people sent there. A button in the header and at the end of the relevant pages, pointing at your booking page. Costs you nothing extra because it costs us nothing extra.
Your existing booking tool built into the site	$299	You already have a tool, but you want people to book on your site rather than being sent elsewhere. We embed the booking widget, style it so it looks like part of the page rather than something pasted in, test it at phone width, and put the third party in your privacy policy. Note what this changes: an embedded widget is a third-party script that sets cookies, so this is the one thing that brings a consent notice onto an otherwise cookie-free site. That work — and keeping it working when the provider changes its embed code — is what the $299 pays for.
Booking system set up from scratch	$599	You want people to book online and have nothing yet. We set up a proven booking service in your name, define your services, durations and opening hours, connect it to your calendar, switch on confirmation and reminder emails, and build it into the site. We don't write booking software ourselves — we set up one that already works and make it yours. Includes the integration described above, so it is $599 in total, not $599 plus $299. The booking service may charge a monthly fee of its own; several have a free tier that is enough for a one-person business, and we tell you which fits before you buy anything.
A second, separate business with its own site	$799 per additional site, then $20 a month each	You run more than one business and each needs its own address. Every site after the first is $799 instead of $999, and $20 a month instead of $25, because the getting-to-know-you part is already done. Several branches of one business are not this — those are extra pages on one site at $149 each.
Migrating an existing site's content	Included where it's a handful of pages	You have an old site with text worth keeping. Large archives are quoted separately.
Professional photography	Not offered	We work with the photos you have. If you need new ones, hire a local photographer — it's cheaper than going through us.

What the alternatives cost

Four ways to end up with a website. The money is only half the comparison — the other half is how many hours of yours it takes, and how long you wait.

orientation

Full-service agency$5,000 – $15,000, 6–12 weeks

Discovery calls, a proposal, a project manager, several rounds of feedback. Genuinely worth it for a business that needs a custom system — expensive for a business that needs five good pages.

Freelance designer$1,500 – $5,000, 3–8 weeks

Often excellent work. The variable is availability — one person, several clients, and your project moves when they have time.

Website builder, yourself$180 – $500 a year, plus 20–40 of your hours

The cheapest on paper and the most expensive in practice, because the hours come out of the evenings you were going to spend not working. It also never quite gets finished.

This package$999 once + $25/month, 7 days, ~10 minutes of your time

Fixed price, fixed scope, no meetings. The trade-off is honest: you get a well-built standard site, not a bespoke system designed around your business processes.

About these figures: the ranges above are what agencies, freelancers and builder subscriptions commonly quote in the US market — they are orientation, not a survey we carried out. Get two real quotes before you decide anything. If ours doesn't come out ahead for your situation, take the other one.

What does no website cost?

Nothing, on the invoice. The cost shows up somewhere else, which is why it's easy to postpone for another year.

the other side

Do the arithmetic yourself

We are not going to quote you a statistic about lost customers, because we have not measured your market and neither has anyone who sends you that kind of email. Do it with your own numbers instead: what is one average job worth to you? If the site brings one extra job a month, at what point has it paid for itself? For most trades the answer is somewhere between the first and the third month. If it isn't for you, that is a real argument against buying.

The quiet losses

People who searched your name, found nothing current, and assumed you had closed.
Callers who wanted your hours at 9pm and phoned someone open instead.
Customers who found you but couldn't tell whether you cover their area.
Referrals who were given your name, googled it, and lost confidence before calling.

What it costs to wait

At $25 a month, the running cost of having a website is roughly one takeaway lunch. The $999 is the real decision, and it is a one-time one. Waiting another year does not make the price lower — it just means another year of the losses above, invisible on every statement you'll read.

How paying works

Card payment through a secure checkout. We never see or store your card details.

four steps

1 You pay $999 Through the payment button on this page. It opens our payment provider's own checkout — your card details are entered there, not here.

2 You get a receipt An emailed receipt straight away, and an invoice for your books with our full company details on it.

3 The intake form arrives Same email. Ten minutes of questions about your business, and then the work is on us.

4 Maintenance starts at go-live The $25 monthly subscription is set up separately, once your site is actually online. You are not paying maintenance on a site that doesn't exist yet.

The full build process, step by step →

Questions about the price

money, plainly

Is $999 really the whole price?

For everything in the included column, yes. The only recurring cost is the $25 a month, and the only way to end up paying more one-time is to ask for something from the extras table — which is agreed in advance, in writing, before anyone starts.

Two of the extras bring a cost that isn't ours to charge. A shop means Stripe takes a fee on each sale — only when money is actually coming in. A booking system may mean a monthly fee to the booking service, and several of those have a free tier that covers a small business. In both cases the money goes to them rather than to us, and we tell you the figure before you buy anything.

One thing that is free: if you already use a booking tool, a button pointing at it is part of the $999. What costs $299 is embedding that tool into the page, because a third-party widget pulls cookies and a consent notice onto a site that otherwise has neither — and that is real work, not a link.

Why do you charge before the work?

Because the whole model depends on not spending three weeks on proposals and chasing. You pay, we build, you review, we publish. If we billed afterwards we'd need contracts, deposits and reminders — and the price would not be $999.

What if I pay and then change my mind?

The $999 is not refundable — §9 of our terms of service says it plainly, and it is worth reading before you pay rather than after. No trial period, no money-back guarantee.

That is the trade for the price: we start immediately rather than spending weeks on proposals and deposits. So ask first — write to support@yourwebdesignagency.com and every question gets answered before any money moves. Your statutory rights, if we failed to deliver or left defective work uncorrected, are untouched by this.

Can I cancel the $25 a month?

Any time, with effect from the next month. The site is yours; if you cancel, we hand over the files so you or someone else can host it. What stops is our hosting, backups, updates and small changes.

Is the domain included in the $25?

Yes, a standard domain renewal is covered by the monthly fee. Premium domains — the ones that cost hundreds a year — are not, and we would tell you that before registering anything.

Do you offer payment in instalments?

No — the $999 is paid in full before we start. It's the same reason the price is $999 and not higher: no contracts, no deposits, no reminders, no chasing. If the timing is wrong for you right now, say so and come back when it suits you. The price isn't going anywhere.

What about tax?

Prices are shown as you pay them. Where sales tax or VAT applies to your order, it is calculated and shown at checkout before you confirm, and it appears on your invoice.

Is there a discount for several locations?

It depends what you mean. Several branches of one business, all on one site, are simply extra pages — $149 each. Several separate businesses, each with its own site, is $799 per additional site instead of $999, and $20 a month each instead of $25. The second site costs less because the getting-to-know-you part is already done.

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$999, and it's handled

You'll have a finished site to look at in seven days. If you'd rather ask something before paying — about scope, about your industry, about whether this suits you at all — write to us. Nobody has to buy anything to get a straight answer.

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