Website Cost Calculator: Four Questions, a Real Price - Ziwi
Website cost calculator

What will your website cost? Four questions and you have the number.

Not a range, not an average, and not a call first. Tell us what you want looked after and what you need at launch, and this page prints the real Ziwi figures: what your website costs to build once, and what it costs every month. Every price is the one published on the pricing page.

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  • Four questions, about a minute. The number prints on this page and no email is needed to read it.
  • Every figure is a published price off the pricing page. Nothing here is an average and nothing is rounded up.
  • You own the website, the domain and the data from day one. Plans stay month to month.
How it works

How the estimate gets made.

Every figure is either a choice you made or a price printed on the pricing page. There is nothing else in the calculator, and nothing is sent anywhere while you use it.

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Answer four questions. New site or redesign, whether you want it kept updated and secure, whether you want a new post every week, and anything else you need at launch. Every one of them can be skipped, and a skipped question leaves its line off the estimate entirely.

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The estimate prints in place. The card you just answered in turns into the receipt: what the build costs once, what anything you asked for at launch costs once, and what the work costs every month, kept apart so nothing is bundled. The link holds your answers, so you can reload it or send it to a partner.

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Check it against the market. Underneath the lines sits the published market range for the same two bills, with the sources named and dated. Then the work that is not in either total at all, listed separately so nothing is smuggled into a number.

The 12 months, in plain English

Why the build can print as $0.

The 12 months is how the build fee earns down. It is not a contract you sign, and the plan underneath it stays month to month with 30-day cancellation the whole time.

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The waived fee is the $1,000 template build fee. A custom build gets the same $1,000 applied, leaving a $1,500 balance rather than $2,500.

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You start and keep an ongoing plan. That is maintenance and hosting at $99 a month, or Ziwi Care at $299 a month per location.

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The fee earns down monthly. Every month you stay retires part of the $1,000. Cancel early and only the unearned part is billed, prorated by the months remaining, never more than the original $1,000.

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Complete 12 months and you owe nothing for the build, ever. The plan itself stays month to month with 30-day cancellation. The site was yours the whole time either way, on your own domain.

Read the full terms on the free website offer page.

Questions

About the price

Anything the estimate does not answer gets answered on the call, not after the invoice. Every price in it is printed on the pricing page.

Is this a real price or a starting point that moves later?

It is the price list off the pricing page, and it is explained line by line in what a website costs per month. A discovery call confirms scope, it does not reprice the work. There is no calculator-only discount hiding in here and no number on this page goes up after a call.

How can the build be $0?

Because the $1,000 template build fee is waived and earned down month by month across your first year on a plan. It is not a contract you sign: the plan stays month to month with 30-day cancellation. Cancel early and only the unearned part of the fee is billed, prorated by the months remaining, never more than $1,000. Complete 12 months and you owe nothing for the build, ever.

What if I would rather just pay for the build and owe nothing monthly?

That option stays open and it is on the calculator. $1,000 for a designed template or $2,500 for a custom design, owned outright, hosted anywhere you like, at $0 a month to Ziwi. You own the site, the domain and the files either way, so you are never paying us for permission to keep your own website.

What if a template will not carry my brand?

Then you want the custom build, and the calculator does not ask you to guess at that. It estimates the designed template, which is the right rung for most local service businesses, because the design is rarely what is losing them calls. A custom design is $2,500 one time and the same $1,000 applies on a plan, leaving $1,500. We say so on the call if your brand or your structure needs it: multiple locations, unusual booking flows, a service tree a standard page set cannot hold.

Do I pay extra for the pages my site needs?

No. Every page the site needs at launch is part of the build: a page per service, a page per town, whatever your structure calls for. That is why the calculator does not ask you to count them. $149 each applies only to a page added after the site is live, designed and written like the rest of it.

Is the monthly plan required?

Only if you took the waived build. Otherwise no: you can pay the build up front and host it yourself at $0 a month to Ziwi. Maintenance and hosting at $99 a month covers hosting, updates, backups and small edits. Ziwi Care at $299 a month per location adds a new post every week, unlimited small edits and an analytics dashboard, with the first month free.

How fast does the site go live?

Three days from kickoff, standard. There is no rush option because that is already the normal speed and there is nothing to charge extra for. Kickoff means we have your services and prices, your photos or approval to use ours, your logo, and access to the domain. If the photos are what is holding you up, the free photo guide shows you how to take them with a phone. A redesign of an existing site follows the same clock and the same prices.

Do I have to give you my email to see the number?

No. The total, every line and the market comparison print on this page for free. The email form is only there if you want the estimate in writing to forward to a partner or a bookkeeper.