Short answer: with us, a professionally built website costs $297, $497 or $997 a month, depending on what your business needs, with hosting, security, updates and support included, plus a one-time setup fee of $997 (Starter and Business) or $1,897 (Professional). Larger projects, like several locations or a big product catalog, are priced after a conversation.
The longer answer is more useful, because “how much does a website cost?” has a hundred different answers depending on who you ask. Here’s how to think about it, whoever you hire.
Why we charge monthly instead of one big invoice
A website isn’t finished when it launches. WordPress, plugins and themes need updates. Security holes get patched. Backups need checking. Your hours, services and prices change. When nobody is paid to do that work, it doesn’t get done, and the site slowly drifts until something breaks.
Most of the sites we’re asked to rescue were fine at launch. Nobody kept them up. So we price the build and the upkeep together.
What each plan costs and includes
- Starter, $297 a month + $997 setup: a new mobile-first site of up to 5 pages in about 2 weeks, hosting with SSL, and monthly content updates.
- Business, $497 a month + $997 setup: unlimited pages and content updates, a lead capture system, CRM integration and monthly maintenance.
- Professional, $997 a month + $1,897 setup: everything in Business plus SEO, Google Business Profile optimization, analytics, social media strategy, eCommerce setup and a monthly strategy meeting.
- Enterprise: multiple locations, large catalogs, custom integrations or several sites, scoped and priced with you.
Not sure which fits? Our free website cost calculator asks six questions and recommends one, with the reasons. The full details are on the plans page.
What changes the price of a website
Whoever you hire, these are the things that move the number:
- How many pages. A five-page brochure site and a site with a page for every service and town are different jobs.
- Selling online. A store needs products, payments, shipping, taxes and someone keeping it all current.
- Connections. Forms that go into a CRM, bookings that land on a calendar, orders that update inventory.
- Getting found. SEO and Google Business Profile work is ongoing, not a one-time setting.
- How often things change. A site you touch twice a year costs less to look after than one with weekly specials.
What you should get, whatever you pay
Price aside, these are the things that protect you. Ask about each before you sign anything.
- Your domain registered in your name. Not the designer’s. This is the one that surprises people most.
- Backups you can restore from, kept somewhere other than the website itself.
- A secure, fast, mobile-first site. Most of your visitors are on a phone.
- The basics Google reads: a title and description on every page, your business details marked up, and a sitemap.
Cheap websites aren’t always cheap
A low up-front price can be a good deal. It can also mean the domain sits in someone else’s account, nobody updates anything after launch, and the site needs replacing in a couple of years. When we audited our own old site, we found a robots file pointing Google at roughly a thousand pages that no longer existed, and a mobile speed score of 44. It looked fine. It wasn’t.
If you already have a site and aren’t sure whether it’s worth keeping, a free website audit will tell you what’s wrong, what it’s costing you and what we’d fix first. Sometimes the answer is “your site’s fine.”
How to compare quotes
- Put every quote on the same footing: what’s included at launch, and what it costs per year after.
- Ask who owns the domain.
- Ask who does updates and backups, and what happens when something breaks.
- Ask to talk to the person who will actually build it.
Want a straight answer for your business? Schedule a free call or ring (208) 964-9963. We’ll look at your current site first and tell you what we’d do, including when a smaller plan would do.