Website partner plans
A custom site, built and looked after .
Most small businesses get told to pick one, cheap and generic or custom and out of reach. A partner plan is the third answer, a site designed and coded for your business, with someone who stays to run it.
- No templates
- Custom coded
- A partner who stays
- Yours to edit, mine to maintain
Why a partnership
Custom and affordable, without picking one.
Custom, not templated
Your site is designed and coded for your business. Not a theme with your logo dropped into it, and not a layout a thousand other businesses are already using. It fits what you actually do.
A partner who stays
Most builds end at launch, and then you are on your own with a site you cannot edit and a developer who has moved on. This one does not end at launch. Running it is my job, not a favour you have to ask for.
Premium made affordable
The work that usually arrives as a five-figure check up front is spread into a start fee and a flat monthly instead. The same craft, at a number you can plan around.
How it works
Three steps, and then it just runs.
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We build it
We start with what the business actually needs, then I design and code it around that. You see it as it comes together, not as a surprise at the end.
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We run it
Hosting, SSL, security, backups, updates and the small fixes. It stays online, it stays fast, and it stays current. None of that lands on your desk.
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You stay in control
The site is yours. On Business and Commerce you edit your own text, images and products whenever you want. On Presence, you send the change and I make it.
The plans
A start fee, then a flat monthly.
A 12-month plan, then month to month. The price you see is the price.
Presence
Solo operators, trades, restaurants, personal brands
$1,000 start fee
$100 a month
- Pages
- 1 page, up to 6 sections
- CMS
- Managed edits only
- Change requests
- Quoted per job
- Hosting
- SSL
- Security
- Daily backups
- Contact form
- Google Business
- On-page SEO
- Analytics
First year, $2,200, the start fee plus twelve months.
The monthly works out to about $3.29 a day.
Business
Established local businesses, professional services
$2,000 start fee
$200 a month
- Pages
- 5 to 10 pages
- CMS
- Self-serve CMS included
- Change requests
- 3 per month
Edit your own text and images whenever you want.
All Presence plus
- Booking
- CRM
- Advanced SEO and schema
- Conversion tracking
- Monthly report
- Quarterly call
- Priority support
First year, $4,400, the start fee plus twelve months.
The monthly works out to about $6.58 a day.
Commerce
Small e-commerce brands
$3,000 start fee
$300 a month, plus platform fee
- Pages
- Business plus storefront
- CMS
- Full product and content CMS
- Change requests
- 4 per month
Edit your own products, text and images whenever you want.
All Business plus
- Modern checkout
- Search and cart
- Email marketing
- Promos
- E-com reporting
First year, $6,600, the start fee plus twelve months.
The monthly works out to about $9.86 a day.
The start fee is billed once, and you can split it. If it is easier to spread it across the first few months, say so when you get in touch and we will work it out.
Growth add-on
+$200 a month
Attaches to any plan. For when you want the site actively working on being found, not just sitting there.
- 2 SEO articles
- Local SEO
- Monthly report and strategy call
How it compares
The one-and-done build, against the partner plan.
Based on the Business plan, over 3 years.
| What is being compared | The one-and-done build About $8,100 over three years, and the running of it is all on you. | The partner plan $9,200 over three years, fully supported and kept current. |
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| Who runs it | You do, or whoever you can get on the phone. | I do. That is what the monthly is. |
| Hosting, security and backups | On you, along with the bills. | Included, and handled. |
| Changes after launch | A new quote every time. | 3 per month, included. |
| Three years in | Right on launch day, and quietly going stale ever since. | Still current, because keeping it there is the job. |
| 3-year total | About $8,100 | $9,200 |
About the same over three years, without a five-figure check up front, and nothing rots.
You are not paying more. You are paying for it to keep working.
About $6.58 a day.
That is the Business plan. The monthly, spread across a year.
About the price of a morning latte, except this one brings in customers.
- Presence $3.29 a day
- Business $6.58 a day
- Commerce $9.86 a day
Included in every plan
The boring, essential things, handled.
Every plan starts here, Presence included. The tiers above it add to this list, they do not unlock it.
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Hosting and SSL
Fast hosting and a secure connection, set up and paid for inside the plan.
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Security and daily backups
Kept patched, and backed up every day, so a bad change is never permanent.
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Contact form
A form that reaches you, wherever you actually read your email.
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Google Business
Your Google Business profile set up and pointed at the site.
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On-page SEO
Titles, descriptions and structure done properly, so you can be found.
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Analytics
Plain numbers on how the site is doing, and on what people do once they land.
Questions
The honest answers.
Do I own my site?
Yes. The site is yours, and so are your domain and the content in it. It is coded for your business rather than rented space on a platform someone else owns, so you are not tied to me to keep it running. If you ever want to take it elsewhere, it goes with you.
Can I edit it myself?
On Business and Commerce, yes. Both include a self-serve CMS, so you can change text, images and products yourself whenever you want, without booking time with me. Business also includes 3 change requests a month for the things you would rather hand off, and Commerce includes 4. Presence works the other way around: edits are managed, so you send the change to me and I make it, quoted per job.
Why monthly instead of paying once?
Because a website is not a thing you buy once and set down. It needs hosting, security, updates, and changes as the business changes. Paying once gets you a site that is right on launch day and then slowly goes stale, with every fix after that arriving as a new invoice. Over three years the two paths land at about the same number. The difference is that one of them still works at the end of it.
Why not Wix or Squarespace?
You could, honestly. If the budget is tight and you like building things yourself, a site builder is a fair answer and I am not going to talk you out of it. The difference is what you end up with and who does the work. A builder hands you a template to assemble and then maintain yourself. This is designed and coded for your business, and running it is my job rather than another one on your desk. You are paying for the design and the partner, not for the software.
Is there a contract?
Yes, and it is short. The plan runs for twelve months, then continues month to month. That first year covers the build and gives the site time to settle in and start doing its job. After that you stay because it is working, not because you are stuck.
What if I cancel?
After the first twelve months you can stop at the end of any month. The site is yours, so it goes with you, and I will hand over what you need to run it somewhere else. What ends is my side of it: the hosting, the updates, the changes, and the support. If something is not working, I would rather you tell me and give me the chance to fix it, but I am not going to make leaving difficult.
Custom projects
Not everything fits a plan.
Plenty of the work here does not, and it is not a smaller version of this page. It is quoted per project, because it is shaped by what you are actually making.
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Bespoke web
The builds the plans are not shaped for. A tool, a product, a site with real complexity sitting behind it.
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Product design
Interfaces and products, from the first rough sketch through to the built thing.
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Brand identity
The mark, the type, the colour, and the rules that keep it holding together everywhere it shows up.
Ready when you are.
Tell me about the business and what the site needs to do. I will come back with the plan that fits, or tell you straight if none of them do.