HOSTCUPID · WEBSITE GUIDES
What goes into a website quote?
Understand the work before you compare prices.
A website quote should separate the one-time build from the costs you pay again: domain, hosting, licences and maintenance.
What changes the build cost?
- Number of pages and products.
- Custom design or an existing theme.
- Who supplies text, photos and translations.
- Payments, booking tools or other integrations.
- Moving content from an old website.
What do you pay again?
- Domain renewal and hosting renewal.
- Paid theme, plugin and software licences.
- Email subscriptions, if needed.
- Maintenance and changes outside the original scope.
- Payment gateway fees when customers pay online.
Before accepting a quote
- Ask for the page list, deliverables and exclusions in writing.
- Confirm GST, payment stages and revision limits.
- Check who owns the domain and website accounts.
- Agree how forms, mobile pages and checkout will be tested.
- Ask what support is available after handover.
Do you need every feature now?
- Start with the pages customers need to understand and contact your business.
- Add a store only if you need to take orders online.
- Separate essentials from features that can wait.
- Use the project brief to request a quote for your actual requirements.