Pricing

Clear scope. Clear price

Three packages for small and medium websites, with hosting and support as monthly plans. The brief sets the scope; the scope sets the price. No hourly surprise at the end.

Three ways in

Website packages

Starter

A five to eight page site for a business that needs to exist properly online.

fromA$2,000One-off build

5–8 custom-designed pages
Payload CMS + SvelteKit
Enquiry form with validation
Mobile and desktop layouts
Launch, handover and CMS walkthrough

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Standard

Recommended

A content-led site with collections and room to grow without a rebuild.

fromA$3,600One-off build

10–20 pages, designed in full
Custom collections for services or projects
Search and filtering where useful
Content migration from the old site
Staging site and CMS training

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Custom

Multiple services, integrations, or a content model that needs more thought.

fromA$7,500Scoped after a short brief

Larger page count and content model
Third-party integrations
Complex content migration
Custom admin workflows
Ongoing support plan from launch

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Every package includes the same foundations: a custom design, a Payload CMS admin, a SvelteKit build, responsive layouts, accessible forms and a handover. What changes is the number of pages, the content model and the integrations.

Keep it running

Hosting & support

Hosting

A$45/ month

Managed hosting, SSL, DNS, backups, uptime monitoring and scheduled updates. A staging environment is included for reviewing changes before they go live.

Support

A$80/ month

Content edits, small fixes, CMS help and a monthly look at what needs attention. Larger changes are scoped and quoted before work starts.

Hosting and support are quoted separately from the build so they can be adjusted independently.

Add-ons

Quoted per project

Extra pagesAdditional pages in the same design system, quoted with the project.

Copy supportHelp shaping the words, from headlines to service descriptions.

Content migrationMoving pages, posts, images and products from the old site.

CMS trainingA session for the people who will publish and edit content.

Fair questions

Pricing & process

What counts as a small or medium website?

Roughly five to twenty pages, one content model and a small number of integrations. Enough to need a real design and CMS; not a product with user accounts or a checkout.

Do you use WordPress?

No. Sites are built on Payload CMS with SvelteKit, or Next.js when React is the better fit. The content model lives in code, so there is no plugin directory to maintain and no page builder between the design and the browser.

Who owns the website?

The site is built on an open stack, not a proprietary platform. Content and code can be handed over at the end of the project; the exact terms are set out in the proposal.

What happens after launch?

You can take the handover and run the site yourself, or keep a hosting and support plan so changes, updates and fixes stay with the studio.

What if my project is bigger than this?

Say so in the enquiry. If the scope does not fit the studio, you will get an honest answer and a pointer rather than a stretched quote.

Next step

Tell me what the site needs to do

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