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Websites, software and maintenance

What a website costs

Four website plans, and the same two payments in each. You pay once to build the site, then once a year to keep it running. There is no monthly bill on any of the four.

Below them are two that work differently and are charged by the month instead: custom software, and marketing.

In every website plan

  • Hosting and the SSL certificate
  • A .in or .com domain, registered in your name, not ours
  • Software updates every month
  • A full backup every week
  • Someone watching that the site stays up

How you pay

Half before we start and half when the site goes live. The yearly fee is paid once a year, in advance. Anything charged by the month is invoiced at the start of the month. We invoice in your business name with GST, so you can claim it back if you are registered.

Starter

₹21,000 first year

Development, once
₹12,000
Maintenance, yearly
₹9,000
  • Up to 13 pagesHome, About, Services, Pricing, Gallery, FAQ, Testimonials, Location and directions, and Contact. Plus Privacy, Cookies, Terms and Refunds.
  • Hosting and SSL certificateSpace and traffic for a normal business site, on servers run by Linode, part of Akamai. The SSL certificate is renewed for you.
  • A .in or .com domainRegistered in your name, renewed each year. .in, .co.in, .com, .net and .org are all included. Endings that cost more, such as .store or .ai, are charged at the difference.
  • 2 email mailboxesAddresses at your own name, like you@yourbusiness.in, set up on your computer and your phone.
  • Your Google Business listing, set up
  • Security updates, backups, monitoring
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Pro

₹96,000 first year

Development, once
₹60,000
Maintenance, yearly
₹36,000
  • Everything in Business
  • Up to 40 pagesRoom for every service, branch or course, plus separate pages you can point an advert at.
  • 10 email mailboxes
  • Your changes come firstPro work is picked up ahead of the other plans.
  • Content and SEO workYour pages checked against the words people are searching for, and the wording improved where it helps. Larger pieces of work are quoted first.
  • A design made for your businessColours, type and layout chosen for your trade, not a template with your logo dropped in.
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Store

₹1.5 lakh first year

Development, once
₹90,000
Maintenance, yearly
₹60,000
  • Everything in Pro
  • A shop, with payments and delivery
  • Checkout and payments checked every week
  • Backed up every night, not weekly
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Custom software

₹1.5 lakh and up

Development, once
₹1.5 lakh to ₹10 lakh
Maintenance, monthly
₹15,000 to ₹40,000
  • Bookings and appointments
  • Enquiries and customers (CRM)
  • Member lists and renewals
  • Dashboards and reports
  • Staff-only pages
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Marketing

₹8,000 a month

₹15,000 to set up, once. Your list and your ad accounts stay in your name.

  • Email campaigns to your own listTwo sends a month: written, built, checked on a phone, and sent from your own domain set up properly so it has the best chance of reaching the inbox.
  • Google and Meta ads, looked afterWritten, targeted and watched every week. What you spend on the ads themselves is paid by you, straight to Google or Meta, never through us.
  • A page built for each campaign
  • See what brought each enquiryWhich advert, which email, which search. So you can stop paying for what is not working.
  • A monthly report on what came in
  • Sits on top of any plan above
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Prices do not include GST, which is added at 18% on the invoice.

  • Questions people ask

    Is GST included in these prices?

    No. Every price on this page is before GST, which is added at 18% on the invoice. So ₹21,000 for the first year on Starter comes to ₹24,780. If your business is GST registered you claim that 18% back, so the real cost to you is the figure shown here. If you are not registered, the 18% is a real cost and worth budgeting for.

    Who owns the domain name?

    You do. We register it in your name, not ours, and it stays yours whether or not you stay with us. If you leave, the domain goes with you. This matters more than it sounds. One of the commonest reasons people come to us is that whoever built their last site registered the domain in their own name and will not hand it over.

    What happens if I stop paying the yearly fee?

    Your website stays online for 30 days after the renewal date. After that we take it offline. The domain is registered in your name either way, so you do not lose the address people know you by, and if you are moving to somebody else we hand over the site files. Cancelling stops the next renewal rather than cutting anything off early.

    Can you take on a website you did not build?

    Yes, and most of the sites we look after were built by somebody else. You do not have to rebuild or move it first. We look at what it is running and tell you what state it is in before anything starts. If it is too far gone to be worth keeping, we will say so rather than take a yearly fee for propping it up.

    What if I need more pages than the plan includes?

    Move up a plan, or pay for the extra pages on the one you are on. Starter covers 13 pages, Business 20 and Pro 40. In practice the page count matters less than which pages: one page for each thing you do is what lets somebody searching for that one thing find you, and that is usually what pushes a business from Starter to Business.

    Why is there a build fee and a yearly fee?

    The build fee pays for writing and making the site, which happens once. The yearly fee pays for the things that do not stop: the server, the domain, the SSL certificate, monthly updates, weekly backups and somebody watching that it stays up. Cheaper quotes often cover only the first and leave the second to you, which is why they get more expensive in year two rather than less.

Other things we do

One-off jobs, whether or not you are on a plan.

Website health check₹2,500
Fixing a hacked or broken website₹15,000 to ₹25,000
Emergency help, out of hoursfrom ₹5,000
Upgrading an old site₹21,000 to ₹96,000
Moving a website₹9,000 to ₹21,000
An extra email mailbox, a year₹500
A member or staff login areafrom ₹10,000
Email set up, without a plan₹5,000
Google Business Profile set up₹5,000
Protection from bots and attacks₹10,000
Making a slow site faster₹12,000
An extra content change₹1,000
Extra hours₹1,250 an hour

Prices do not include GST, which is added at 18% on the invoice.

Not sure which plan fits?

Tell us roughly what you need and we will say which plan covers it, and what it would cost. No obligation.

Give us either an email or a phone number, whichever suits you.

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