A useful website quote explains the build, the service after launch, and what you keep if you leave. The upfront number alone cannot tell you whether two offers cover the same work.
Start With the Scope
Write down the pages, customer actions, integrations, and content your website needs. A brochure site, a booking website, and a custom application are different projects. Agree on the work before comparing prices.
Ask each provider to separate the build from hosting, routine edits, provider fees, and optional marketing. Agencies, freelancers, and website platforms all offer different arrangements; none is automatically the cheapest or the best fit.
What Small Business Websites Generally Cost
Before looking at my plans, here is the wider market. These are rough ranges for a typical five-to-ten-page small business site. Real quotes vary with scope, location, and who is doing the work.
| Option | Typical upfront cost | Ongoing cost | Who does the work |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY builder (Wix, Squarespace, etc.) | Your time | Roughly $200 to $600 a year in plan fees | You |
| Freelancer | Often $1,000 to $5,000 | Hosting, plus hourly edits | The freelancer builds; edits vary |
| Local or regional agency | Often $5,000 to $25,000 or more | Monthly retainer or hourly | A team |
| Managed subscription | Little or nothing upfront | A monthly or annual fee | The provider, ongoing |
Three things move a quote more than anything else:
- Who writes the content. Copywriting is real work. A quote that assumes you supply every word will look cheaper than one that includes it.
- What the site has to do. Online booking, payments, a product catalog, or a customer login each add cost. A brochure site with a contact form is the cheapest category.
- What happens after launch. Hosting, security updates, backups, and edits continue for as long as the site exists. A low build price with every change billed hourly can cost more over three years than a higher one that includes them.
If you're weighing a builder against hiring someone, I compared those honestly in Wix or Squarespace vs. hiring a professional.
Alectronic Solutions Managed Plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual paid upfront | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $149 | $1,490 | A professional business website with ongoing care |
| Growth | $299 | $2,990 | Standard booking or lead integrations and quarterly SEO improvement |
| Advanced | $499 | $4,990 | Agreed integrations, limited automation, and monthly SEO improvement |
Annual payment covers twelve months for the price of ten. The annual totals above are the amounts charged. Monthly subscriptions have no setup fee, and subscription billing starts at launch.
Every plan includes an agreed launch scope, hosting and SSL, routine updates and ordinary new pages within scope, launch SEO and technical upkeep, analytics access, and monthly reporting. The report becomes more detailed at higher tiers. Copy is drafted from your business facts, licensed stock imagery is sourced, and a starter logo can be included with an agreed scope.
Growth includes one focused proactive SEO improvement quarterly; Advanced includes one monthly. Work might improve a service page, internal links, or listings. It does not guarantee rankings or new customers.
What Is Separate?
- Domain, business-email, and paid-tool provider charges, unless the proposal states otherwise.
- Full branding, original photography, email campaigns, and listings and citation work.
- Major redesigns, custom applications, and work beyond the agreed scope.
- A customer-editable content management system when the project needs one.
Routine individual updates usually take 2–3 business days. Larger batches are scheduled realistically. A response within one business day is different from a promise to finish every request that day.
One-Time Builds
A one-time build is a custom quote. My quote includes the build and the first twelve months of the chosen management level, itemized within the total. Payment is 50% to start and 50% after approval, before launch and handover. The management year starts at launch.
After that year, maintenance continues at $33/month for hosting, SSL, and routine updates unless you cancel or move the site. There is no additional first-year management charge on top of the quoted total.
Ownership Changes the Comparison
Your domain, accounts, and content stay yours from the start. Monthly customers qualify for the completed, approved site files after twelve completed payments, or can choose an early buyout at the original monthly rate multiplied by the remaining payments. Canceling with thirty days’ notice does not itself require that buyout.
Annual customers qualify after upfront payment and completion/approval. One-time customers qualify after full payment and approval. Reusable tools and third-party assets keep their license terms. Qualified customers are offered the files and documentation. After the first twelve months on any plan, maintenance continues at $33/month for hosting, SSL, and routine updates unless you cancel.
See the full pricing and scope and service terms before choosing. For a direct comparison of payment models, read subscription versus one-time cost.
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