A proper website more than pays for itself, but that’s cold comfort if you can’t spare a few hundred pounds up front to get one built. Plenty of good small businesses put off getting online for exactly that reason, losing customers every month to competitors who simply show up better. Pay-monthly fixes that. Instead of a lump sum, you get a proper website now, with little or nothing to pay at the start, and then a simple monthly fee. You get earning from a real website sooner, and the cost sits comfortably within what you can actually manage.
How it works, and why it drops to £30/mo
Here’s the bit that makes mine different from the usual “£X a month forever” deals. It’s two phases. While you’re paying off the build, it’s from £69/mo, that covers the build spread over up to 12 months, your hosting, and ongoing care. Once the build’s paid off, usually within a year, and sooner for a smaller site, the fee drops to £30/mo, which is just hosting and looking after it from then on. You clear the cost of building the site, then settle into a low ongoing care fee, you’re not stuck paying the full rate indefinitely for a site you’ve already paid for. One predictable amount at each stage, and no surprise extras turning up later.
It’s your website, not a rental you’re stuck paying for
Here’s something worth knowing before you sign up to any “£X a month” website deal: a lot of them are really long-term rentals. You pay every month for the site to stay switched on, and the day you stop, it vanishes, you’re left with nothing to show for years of payments. Mine is the opposite. The website and the domain belong to you from day one. The monthly fee spreads the cost of building it and covers hosting and looking after it, it’s not rent for the right to use your own site. There’s no long lock-in, and if you ever moved on, the site’s still yours to take with you. It’s your business’s website, on your business’s domain, fair and square.
The honest trade-off
I’ll always be straight with you: spreading a cost works out a little more over time than paying it all at once, that’s simply how spreading anything works, and anyone who claims otherwise is fibbing. What you’re buying with that small difference is cash flow and speed: a website working for you today instead of whenever you’ve managed to save a lump sum, with hosting and care rolled in so there’s nothing else to arrange. For a lot of small businesses, being online and earning months earlier is easily worth it.
Which is right for you?
If you can comfortably pay the fixed from-£249 price up front, that’s the simplest and cheapest option overall, and I’ll happily point you there. Pay-monthly is for when a lump sum isn’t practical right now, you get exactly the same proper, custom website, just paid for in a way that suits your cash flow. Neither is the “right” answer in the abstract; it depends on your situation, and I’m glad to talk it through honestly. If you’re weighing up the whole cost picture, my guide to website costs sets it in context.
If you’d like to get online without a big bill upfront, let’s have a chat about how pay-monthly could work for you.