Price guide
What it costs
Websites from £495. Job software set-up from £750. Hosting and care £35 a month.
Websites
Website options
Starter website
from £495
A website on its own.
- Up to five pages
- Quote form with photos
- Call and WhatsApp buttons
- Accreditations linked to the register
- Your own domain, hosted by you or by TechPhobe
- One round of changes
Connected website
from £995
A website that bolts into the systems you already use, so enquiries from your website land in your job software as new jobs.
- Everything in the Starter website
- Quote requests arrive in your job software as new jobs
- Google Business Profile set up
- Email set-up checked
- A review request after each job
- Live in about 10 working daysMost websites, counted from when I have your photos.
- Nothing goes live until you say yesYou see it first, and it goes live once you've said yes.
- Pay in threeA third to start, a third when you see the first version, the rest at launch.
- Words written for youSend the words, or I write them for £150 extra.
- 30-day free fixIf something I set up doesn't work as agreed, I put it right free for 30 days after handover.
Monthly, optional
Hosting and care
£35 a month
TechPhobe hosts your website and looks after it, month to month. You get a full copy of your site to keep and use, and your domain is always yours, whether or not you stay on Hosting and care. Or host it on your own account and it's handed over to you.
- Hosting set up and paid for
- Updates and backups
- Uptime checks, so problems get spotted early
- Your domain and email settings kept working
- Small changes, up to 30 minutes a month
Job software
Software set-up
You pay the software company directly, on an account you own.
Help choosing job software
from £150
A session comparing the main options against what your firm needs, with a written recommendation. My hands-on experience is with ServiceM8.
ServiceM8 set up for your business
from £750
Diary, job types, customers, price list, templates and agreed messages, with your team shown how to use it.
Other job software: whether I can take it on, and the price, agreed after a free 20-minute look.
Call answering
Set-up quoted first. Monthly running costs.
Call answering set-up
from £395
I choose and set up a UK AI answering service to suit how you work. A fixed quote before I start.
- Your greeting and wording for your trade
- Up to 15 common questions and up to three answering modes
- Recording notice and rules for urgent calls
- Your phone set to send missed calls to the agent, done with you
- About ten test calls before it goes live
- One review of the first week's calls and a round of fixes
Optional
Call check
from £30 a month
Up to 20 minutes a month of checking call summaries and fixing the instructions. I tell you what callers asked that it could not answer. Bigger changes are quoted first. Month to month.
You can keep using the set-up without this check.
I'm not VAT registered, so there's no VAT to add.
If something I set up doesn't work as agreed, I put it right free for 30 days after handover.
Monthly running costs: You also pay the answering service each month, on your own account. Most cost about £25 to £100 a month for a small trade, depending on how many calls you get. I tell you the exact cost for your set-up before you agree to anything.
If you use ServiceM8, its Phone plan with the agent is £25 a month for 500 minutes, then 3p a minute, on top of your software plan (November 2026).
Moving a number across fully, rather than diverting it, is quoted separately. If your booking form needs extra work, I quote that first too.
Small fixes
One-off jobs
Email set-up and checks
from £100
So your emails show they really come from you, checked and tested, so they're far less likely to land in spam.
Google Business Profile set-up
from £150
Claimed or fixed, with your trade, towns, services, photos and hours.
Review requests
from £150
A message after each job with a one-tap review link, plus a QR code and van card.
Small group course
£197 a person
Four Tuesday evenings with up to ten trade owners.
One-to-one
£250
Two hours on your own phone or laptop, working on your own jobs.
Private course
£695 for up to three
The same four sessions, online at times that suit you.
Team half day
£750
Half a day for whoever handles quotes and enquiries, in person or online.
Running costs
Paid straight to the provider
These go straight to the company, so the accounts stay yours.
- Domain nameTypically £10 to £20 a year
- HostingTypically £5 to £15 a month if you host it yourself. Covered by Hosting and care if TechPhobe hosts it
- Job softwareA monthly subscription to the software company
- Text messagesSome software charges a few pence per text
Questions
Payment questions
Do your prices include VAT?
There's no VAT to add. I'm not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay.
What's not included?
Software subscriptions, domain fees, hosting (unless you choose Hosting and care), professional photography and paid adverts. Anything else outside the agreed scope is quoted first.
How do I pay?
By bank transfer, in three parts if you like: a third to start, a third when you see the first version, and the last third at launch.
What if the job turns out bigger?
You get a fixed price for the extra work before I start on it.
Is there a monthly fee?
Hosting and care is optional at £35 a month. Call check is also optional at from £30 a month, covering up to 20 minutes of checking and fixes. Both are month to month. The build is paid once. Your domain and any job software are paid straight to those companies, on accounts you own. If you host the site yourself, changes after launch are quoted when you ask.
How much does a website cost?
A Starter website is from £495: up to five pages, a quote form, and one round of changes. A Connected website, where enquiries land in your job software as new jobs, is from £995. Words written for you are £150 extra, and you can pay in three.
Want to talk it through?
Tell me what you need. I'll reply with any questions, then a fixed price before any work starts.