Here are the figures, the schedule they arrive on, how soon your site is actually live, and what happens once the six months are up.
A website lands as a real expense at the moment a business can least afford one, so we stopped asking for it all at once. Every build is a fixed total split into six equal monthly payments, with hosting and minor updates included in all six. The six months are how you pay, not how long you wait. Sites go live in days or weeks, and the payments simply carry on afterwards.
Three plans: Liftoff at $99/mo, Explorer at $199/mo and Voyager at $399/mo. Six payments each, so $594, $1,194 and $2,394 in total.
| Liftoff $99/mo | Explorer $199/mo | Voyager $399/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six-month total | $594 | $1,194 | $2,394 |
| To start | $198 | $398 | $798 |
| Pages | Up to 5 | Up to 10 | Up to 20 |
| Contact form | Included | Included | Included |
| Fast on a phone | Included | Included | Included |
| Built on your brand | Included | Included | Included |
| Booking, blog or menu | Not included | One | One |
| Copy written with you | Not included | Included | Included |
| Local SEO | Not included | Included | Included |
| Design system | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Integrations | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Small storefront | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Analytics, read monthly | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Start a build | Start Liftoff → | Start Explorer → | Start Voyager → |
Nothing is charged from any of these. Each one opens the same short form, and we write back with the plan and the price before anything is signed.
Local SEO means your Google Business Profile, schema and the map pack; integrations mean CRM, email, payments and scheduling. A design system means your site is built on one set of colors, type and components rather than styled a page at a time, so page twenty still looks like page one, and a change lands once instead of twenty times.
Every Voyager build gets a design system, published as a page on your own site and read live from your stylesheet so it cannot go out of date, yours to hand to whoever works on the site next. Ours is here if you would rather see one than read about it, measured off this site's own stylesheet as it stands today, unfinished parts included.
Priced on the work, still paid across six months where the shape fits
Storefronts with a real catalog, memberships, client portals, multi-location, booking that has to talk to something else: anything with an application under the pages. Guessing at these in advance is how projects end up half-built, so they are quoted from a written scope. The six-month rhythm below stays the same.
In every plan, for all six months: hosting, SSL, uptime monitoring, backups, platform updates, and an hour of edits or fixes each month, the same allowance as Orbit below. New pages and features are quoted as a change order first, so nothing lands on an invoice you did not agree to.
The payment schedule and the build schedule are two different things. Your site is normally live three business days to three weeks after the go-ahead. The remaining payments then carry on, with hosting and your monthly hour of changes included, until the six are done.
The fast end, and it is a real one: a small site on a plan like Liftoff, where your content is ready and you come back on the drafts quickly.
More pages, copy written with you, a booking or ordering flow, a small storefront. A bigger site takes longer to build. Deep Space projects are quoted with a schedule of their own.
Two things, and one of them is yours: how big the site is, and how quickly you send us content and your two rounds of revisions. We move at the speed of the slower one.
Launching early costs nothing extra and does not pull the remaining payments forward: the total is fixed and the dates stay where they were. Launch is not the end of us either: the rest of the six months carries hosting, backups, monitoring and an hour of changes a month, which is exactly the stretch when a new site needs them.
Two payments start the project and four arrive one a month afterwards, typically onto a site that is already live. The sixth is collected at the beginning rather than the end, which is the part worth reading twice: it means launch day has no invoice attached to it.
You pay the first month and the last month together when the agreement is signed. On a Liftoff plan that is $198. Those two reserve your slot on the calendar and start discovery, which begins straight away rather than at the top of a month.
One payment a month, the same figure every time. The site is normally live before the second of them arrives, so most of these land on a website that is already working for you. Four invoices, all of them the size you already know.
The build is paid off and the site is yours. You choose a support plan from the tiers below, or hosting on its own at $49 a month. Nothing renews that you did not pick.
The six payments are a schedule for a fixed total, not a subscription. The price you approve is the price you pay, whether the site launches in week one or week three.
With the sixth payment behind you, the build is settled and the choice is yours. Hosting on its own is a real option, not one you have to be talked out of. A care plan buys hours each month at a better rate than paying per request, and a faster answer.
Deployment, SSL, uptime monitoring, and platform and dependency updates. Your site runs on Netlify, which keeps every version we have published, so undoing a change takes seconds rather than a rebuild. Weekly backups kept for thirty days, or daily backups kept for ninety if your site runs on a database, because that is the part you cannot rebuild.
Static hosting is cheap; keeping a site current, patched, and recoverable is the work, and that is what this covers. Content and design changes are quoted per request, or covered by a plan below.
Hosting plus 1 hour of changes each month
Hosting plus 3 hours of changes each month
Hosting plus 5 hours of changes each month
Orbit is the allowance your first six months came with, so staying on it changes nothing. Hours cover changes, not projects. A new page or feature is a change order. Unused hours do not roll over, every plan is month to month on thirty days’ notice, and without a plan changes are $150 an hour.
A fixed price agreed before we start, no charge you did not approve, and every right in the finished site signed over to you once it is paid for. Read the terms up front →
Tell us about the business and what the site needs to do, and we will write back with the plan for your project: what we would build, how long it would take, and which of the figures above it lands on. Reading it costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
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