Pricing

Simple pricing. Everything handled.

$99 a month is the monthly price: you don't have to sign up for a year to get it. No design fee, no contract, and no setup fee on the website. The Google profile carries a one-time $149 listing setup, waived when you start within 30 days of your preview. Your site is built before you pay anything, and your domain stays yours: cancel whenever you like and it leaves with you.

The plans

Three ways to work with us.

The first two include the site, the domain, the hosting and every change you ask for. The second also puts someone in charge of your Google listing. The third is the Google listing on its own, for a business that’s keeping the website it has.

  • Managed Website

    Your site, built, hosted, and kept current by people who answer email.

    $99per month

    Billed monthly · $0 to start

    • Site built before you decide
    • Hosting, SSL and domain in your name
    • Ready for Google and AI search
    • Unlimited small changes, done within one business day
    • Contact forms straight to your inbox
    • A links page for your Instagram bio
    • Hours and holiday updates
    • A monthly report: page views, top pages and messages

    No setup fee. Month to month.

  • Google Profile Only

    Plus a one-time $149 listing setup and citation cleanup. Your Google Business Profile run for you; keep the website you have.

    $99per month

    Plus a one-time $149 setup and citation cleanup

    • Your Google listing claimed, corrected, and completed
    • A reply to every review within two business days
    • Review requests emailed to your customers after each job
    • Photos and updates posted every month
    • Hours and services kept current
    • A one-page monthly report: calls, directions, reviews, and where you rank

    Month to month.

Pay for the year and get two months free — $990 or $1,490. Monthly cancels any time; annual runs the full year. Your domain and Google listing stay yours either way.

Add-ons

Add to any website plan. Run by us too.

Optional, month to month, and added only when you ask. Each one is a single line on the same invoice. We set them up and write the words, and nothing goes out to your customers until you’ve approved it.

  • Mailing List

    A sign-up form on your site, and four emails a month, one a week, to your customers. Tell us what to say, approve the draft, and we send it.

    +$49per month

    Added to a website plan

    • Unlimited subscribers (fair use)
    • 4 emails a month (one a week), written and sent for you
    • Confirmed sign-ups and one-click unsubscribe
    • Delivery and click counts after every send

    Extra emails $25 each. Bring your existing list if those customers agreed to hear from you.

  • Managed Blog

    One post a week on your own site, written by us from your news and your customers’ questions. You read each one on your site and approve it before it goes live.

    +$49per month

    Added to a website plan

    • One post a week, written for you
    • Private preview on your own site
    • Nothing goes live until you approve
    • Every post its own page, ready for Google

    Extra posts $25 each.

  • AI Chatbot

    Answers your visitors’ questions day and night, from facts about your business only. When it doesn’t know, it takes their details and sends them to you.

    +$29per month

    Added to a website plan

    • Answers in your visitor’s language
    • Never guesses: questions it can’t answer become leads
    • We write what it knows and keep it current
    • We review what visitors ask and fill the gaps with you

    Try it out on this site: the chat button in the corner. Up to 2,000 questions a month.

  • Google Review Requests

    After each job, your customer gets a friendly email from you asking for a Google review, with one reminder. Tell us who; we do the rest.

    +$29per month

    Included with Google profile plans

    • Sent from your business, in your brand
    • One-tap button to your Google review page
    • One reminder, then nothing; one-click opt-out
    • By Google’s rules: everyone asked the same way

    Free with Website + Google profile and Google profile only.

With a website plan only, except review requests, which every Google profile plan includes. Annual billing gets the same two months free: $490 for the mailing list and the blog, $290 for the others.

Not sure where you stand? The Storefront Checkup looks at your website and Google listing the way your customers do. $250, one time.About the checkup

What the bill looks like

This is the whole invoice. There isn’t a second page.

The reason most website quotes need a spreadsheet is that the cheap headline number is only the beginning. Here, the number you were quoted is the number that arrives, every month, with nothing bolted on.

Invoice · MarchBrightwater Machine Works
Managed website$99.00
Design work this month$0.00
11 change requests$0.00
Hosting & SSL$0.00
Domain renewal$0.00
Overage / “out of scope”$0.00
Total due$99.00

Cancel any time. No termination fee, no final-month charge.

How it compares

The cheaper options cost you differently.

Not a knock on any of them — they’re fine tools if you have the time. That’s usually the part that runs out. Want the long version? Read PageTend vs a freelancer or agency.

The cheaper options cost you differently.
The cheaper options cost you differently.Build it yourselfHire a freelancerPageTend
Up-front cost

$0 plus your evenings

$2,500–$6,000

$0

Who makes a change

You, at 11pm

Whoever is free, billed hourly

You send one email

Typical turnaround

Whenever you get to it

Days to weeks

Same day

When it breaks

You find out from a customer

You find out from a customer

We find out first

How fast it loads

Whatever the template weighs

Depends who built it

About 40KB — near-instant

Certificate & renewals

Your calendar

Usually nobody’s

Handled

Who owns the domain

You

Sometimes them

Always you

Leaving

—

Often awkward

Cancel, keep the domain

Illustration of a phone showing a map pin, a five-star listing with a Call button, a new-review bubble, and an hours card

The listing you may not know you have

Search your trade and your town on a phone. The first thing on the screen is a map with three businesses, their star ratings, and a Call button. That is your Google Business Profile, and for most local shops it brings in more calls than the website does.

Google made one for you whether you asked or not. If nobody looks after it, the hours are wrong, the photos are whatever a customer uploaded years ago, the two-star review from a wrong number sits unanswered, and the shop three miles away with forty fresh reviews gets the call.

For $50 a month on top of your site, or $99 a month on its own, we take it over: fix it, keep it current, answer every review in your voice, and show you each month what it produced. It is the least expensive thing you can do for your business that actually moves the phone.

What the Google profile plan gets done

  1. Every review answered

    Good, bad, or bogus, within two business days, in words you would use. The bogus ones get flagged to Google.

  2. Hours that are never wrong

    Regular hours, holidays, and closures updated in one place and pushed to your listing and your site.

  3. Fresh photos and updates

    Send a few photos of finished work each month. We caption them, post them, and keep the listing looking alive.

  4. Someone watching it

    Google lets the public suggest edits and applies many of them. We catch the wrong ones, reverse them, and handle a suspension the same day.

Questions

The things people actually ask first.

What does “unlimited changes” really mean?

It means what it says: text, photos, hours, prices, new pages, seasonal banners, a whole new services section. If a request is genuinely a different project — an online store, a booking system, a second location site — we’ll tell you before doing anything, and quote it plainly. Nobody has ever hit a limit by updating their hours too often.

Is there really no contract?

None. It’s month to month. If you cancel, we transfer the domain to wherever you want it and the site stays up until the end of the month you paid for.

What happens if I don’t like my site?

Then that’s the end of it, and you owe nothing. We don’t phone you afterwards. You will have spent one email and got a free look at what your business could look like online.

Who owns my domain and my content?

You do, on both counts. The domain is registered in your name, not ours — that’s deliberate, because the most common horror story in this industry is a business that can’t leave. Your text and photos are yours as well.

Can you move my existing site?

Yes, and it’s included with no page limit. In practice we usually rebuild rather than copy, because the old site is often the reason you’re here. Nothing goes live until you’ve approved it.

Do I get a login?

No, and that’s the point. There’s no dashboard to learn, no password to reset, no plugin asking for attention. You already know how to send an email.

What if I need something urgently?

Say so in the email. Genuine urgencies — a wrong phone number, wrong hours on a holiday weekend, a closure you need posted — go to the front of the queue and are usually live within the hour.

Do I need the login to my old website?

No. We build your new site from your public pages, so you don't need the old password or the person who built it. The one thing we need, when you're ready to go live, is access to your domain.

What happens if I leave?

Your domain is registered in your name and goes with you. We send you every page of text and every photo. There is no contract to buy out, and a monthly plan simply isn't billed again.

See yours before you decide

Nothing to weigh up until you’ve seen it.

We’ll build a real page for your business and send you the link. Decide then.

Free. No card, no call, no obligation.