Pricing

Clear pricing for the build — and for the ongoing work

Straightforward pricing: a one-time build, then an ongoing care plan if you want us to keep looking after your site. No hourly guessing and no surprise invoices.

One-time website builds

Website builds

A professional website you own, built once, with the technical foundation to look good and be found.

Starter

$499 one-time build

A polished website for a business that needs to get online properly.

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Professional, responsive design
  • Core technical SEO foundation
  • Contact functionality (form and click-to-call)
  • Launch setup and go-live

Not included:

  • Ongoing SEO or content work
  • Copywriting beyond light editing
  • Photography or video
  • Paid advertising

Custom

From $1,500 quoted per project

Larger or more involved builds with functionality beyond a standard site.

  • Larger, more complex sites
  • Integrations (booking, payments, CRMs)
  • Ecommerce and ordering
  • Unusual or custom functionality
  • Larger content requirements

Not included:

  • Ongoing SEO unless added separately
  • Advertising spend or management

Builds include the initial SEO foundation (below). They do not include indefinite ongoing SEO or content work. Every project is quoted up front before any work begins. Care plans are month-to-month with no long-term contract. Launch pricing shown.

Ongoing care

Care plans

Care plans keep your website healthy and, at higher tiers, actively help it improve. Start with the level of involvement you want — you can change plans later.

Essential Care

$39/month

Keep it healthy and online.

Businesses that mainly need their website kept running smoothly.

Includes

  • Managed hosting where applicable
  • Uptime and health monitoring
  • Automatic backups
  • Routine technical and security maintenance
  • Basic email support
  • About 30 minutes/month of simple content edits
  • Basic issue resolution (fixing something that breaks)

Not included:

  • Ongoing SEO or content campaigns
  • New pages or redesigns
  • Priority or rush support
  • Analytics and performance reviews
  • Advertising or ecommerce work

About 30 minutes of edits per month. Unused time does not roll over.

Standard support: within 2 business days.

Growth Care

$199/month

Actively improve it.

Businesses that want ongoing improvement, not just upkeep.

Includes

  • Everything in Business Care
  • Ongoing SEO work (defined monthly scope)
  • Content and page improvements
  • Conversion optimization
  • Search-performance analysis
  • Local-search improvements
  • Periodic new content or service-page work
  • Proactive recommendations
  • Higher support and edit allowance (about 3 hours/month)

Not included:

  • Unlimited labor or unlimited redesigns
  • Advertising spend or management
  • Ecommerce build or management
  • Full-scale content production (blog campaigns, video, photography)
  • Paid third-party tools beyond the agreed plan

Bounded monthly scope: about 3 hours plus one defined monthly deliverable (such as a page improvement or a content update batch). Work beyond scope is quoted as a project or moved to Custom.

Priority support: next business day.

Custom / Higher-Touch

Custom quote

For substantial ongoing work.

Businesses needing frequent content, integrations, ecommerce, or advertising-related work.

Includes

  • Substantial ongoing work
  • Integrations and ecommerce
  • Frequent content production
  • Advertising-related work
  • Unusual support needs

Scoped per client. No artificial cap.

Service level agreed per client.

Opening offer · 5 clients

Founding Client Program

We are opening the studio with a small founding group. The first 5 clients get a reduced build and a locked-in care rate, because they also get extra attention from us as we refine how we work.

Open to the first 5 genuine clients. The limit is real because these builds receive additional internal review and validation attention.

Apply as a founding client
  • $200 off your website build
  • First month of Business Care free, then the standard $99/month
  • Your Business Care rate locked for 12 months
  • Priority attention from the founders during your build
  • Extra internal review before launch
  • A direct line for questions during onboarding

In exchange, we ask for:

  • Permission to feature your completed, live website in our portfolio
  • An honest testimonial if you are happy — entirely optional
  • A short feedback conversation to help us improve

No countdown timers, no invented previous prices, and no manufactured urgency. This is a straightforward opening offer, and it is limited because our capacity for hands-on founding work is limited.

Ongoing care after the free month is $99/month and can be cancelled anytime. Removing the offer does not change the quality of the website.

Turnaround & support

Timelines and response times

We work to clear timelines so you always know what to expect. These are maximum targets, not a reason to sit on finished work — we deliver sooner whenever it is safely possible.

Typical delivery targets

  • Startertarget delivery within 5 business days
  • Growthtarget delivery within 10 business days
  • Customturnaround quoted with your project

The clock starts only once your required information, assets, and access are complete. Customer-caused delays pause and extend the timeline.

Support response times

  • Essential Careresponses within 2 business days
  • Business & Growth Careresponses by the next business day

Support is provided Monday–Friday during business hours. We do not offer 24/7 support.

Clear boundaries

What Vellworks provides — and what comes from other providers

We are honest about boundaries: Vellworks builds and maintains your website. Some features come from other companies, and some accounts belong to you.

Vellworks provides

  • Website design, build, hosting, and care
  • On-page SEO foundation and content improvements
  • Monitoring, backups, and support

Third-party integrations

  • We link to or embed third-party services (booking, ordering, payments, maps)
  • Vellworks does not operate its own payment, booking, ordering, ecommerce, or analytics platform
  • Those services are provided and priced by the third party

Your accounts

  • Your domain (registered in your name or transferred to you on request)
  • Google Business Profile and Search Console
  • Analytics, booking, ordering, and payment accounts

Any third-party or provider fees are the customer's, separate from Vellworks' build and care pricing.

Avoiding confusion

What is included with a build vs. ongoing

This distinction matters, so we make it clearly: a build includes the initial SEO foundation. Ongoing SEO and growth is a recurring service.

Initial SEO foundation (included with every build, one-time)

  • Clean, semantic page structure
  • Unique page titles and meta descriptions
  • Mobile-friendly, fast-loading pages
  • Sitemap, robots, and canonical handling
  • Appropriate structured data
  • A Google-ready setup

Ongoing SEO and growth (recurring, Business Care and above)

  • Ongoing keyword and content work
  • Continuous on-page optimization
  • Search-performance monitoring and analysis
  • Local-search and Google Business improvements
  • New content and page expansion
  • Authority and link work where agreed

Buying a website does not include indefinite SEO services. Ongoing SEO is part of Business Care, Growth Care, or a separate project — never an unlimited promise.

Pricing questions

What owners usually ask

How much does a website cost?

Most small-business sites are a flat one-time build: Starter is $499 (up to 5 pages) and Growth is $899 (up to 10 pages). Larger projects are quoted from $1,500. You always approve the price before any work begins.

What are the ongoing care plans?

Care is optional and month-to-month. Essential Care is $39/month (keep it healthy and online), Business Care is $99/month (we actively look after it — our most popular plan), and Growth Care is $199/month (ongoing improvement). Larger, higher-touch needs are quoted individually.

Does a website build include SEO?

Every build includes the initial SEO foundation — clean structure, titles and descriptions, sitemap, structured data, and fast mobile pages. Ongoing SEO and content work is a recurring service, available in Business Care and above. Buying a website does not include indefinite SEO.

How long does it take to build?

Starter sites have a target of 5 business days and Growth sites 10 business days; Custom timelines are quoted with your project. The clock starts only once your required information, assets, and access are complete, and customer-caused delays pause the timeline. We deliver sooner whenever it is safely possible.

Do I own my website and domain?

Yes. The domain and the finished website are yours. We can register and manage the domain for you, or hand it over whenever you like.

Can you improve my existing website instead of starting over?

Often, yes. Sometimes a focused cleanup is enough; sometimes a rebuild is the better value. We will tell you honestly which makes sense for your situation.

Do you only build websites?

Websites are where we start, but we are set up to help with the related things a small business needs online — search visibility, landing pages, content, and ongoing care.

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