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What you stock, when you are open, and whether it is worth the drive.

Somebody is three blocks away in a car with a phone in their hand. They want to know whether you have the thing, whether you are open right now, and whether the drive is worth making. A retail site that answers those three turns a search into a person walking through the door.

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The price

What it costs.

Website design & build

Up front

$750 once

Designed and built for your business, one time.

Website design & build

Every month

$99 /mo
  • Custom design
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Hosting, SSL, backups
  • Ongoing edits
  • Your domain in your name

The same published price wherever you are and whatever you do. It can be bought on its own or folded into a monthly plan on the pricing page.

The three questions

What a phone search is actually asking.

Open right now is the first one, and small retail gets it wrong most often. Hours belong on the site, they have to match your Google listing, and holiday hours have to be set before the holiday. Wrong hours do more damage than a plain design: the customer does not conclude the site is stale, they conclude you closed down.

The second is what you carry — brands, lines and categories, written out, because that is what people type. Just as usefully, what you deliberately do not carry. The third is whether the trip is worth it, and that is answered with photographs of the inside of the shop rather than adjectives.

The fork

Brochure site, or actually selling online.

This decision shapes the whole build and most retailers put it off. One version of the site exists to get somebody into the store: what you stock, who you are, where to park. The other takes money over the internet, which means a catalog, stock counts, shipping rules, returns and somebody packing boxes on a Tuesday night.

Both are legitimate. What is not is an Online Store button leading to four products nobody has touched since launch. If you want to sell, that is the e-commerce side. There is also a middle option: publish the catalog without a checkout, so people browse and then call or come in.

Inventory

What you can honestly say about stock.

Unless your point of sale feeds the website live, the site cannot claim something is on the shelf and should not try. What it can do is be specific about what you carry rather than what is in the building this minute, and then make checking trivial.

Text us and we will look is a good answer when it is written as an offer instead of buried as an excuse, and it beats a stock number that turns out to be wrong. If you hold items, say how long a hold lasts.

The content

What this site needs that a generic one does not.

Getting it built

What I need out of the store.

1. Decide the fork

Bring people in, or sell online. If it is genuinely both, we sequence it so neither ships half-finished.

2. Send me the brand list

Everything you carry, and everything you get asked for and do not. That list is most of the search value the site will have.

3. Photograph the shop, not the products

Aisles, window, counter, people. The room is what makes the drive feel worth making.

4. Fix the hours in both places

Site and Google listing have to agree, and the listing is usually what a customer sees first.

What this normally costs

The comparison, honestly.

An agency build plus a monthly SEO retainer

$1,000+/mo once the build is amortized

The usual shape: a project fee up front, then a retainer that covers the site and the search work together.

Website design & build

$750 up front, then $99/mo

One published price, one invoice, and the work is done for you.

Figures are typical market ranges shown for illustration, not quotes from named providers. Many vendors price by seat, contact or location and keep pricing behind a sales call.

Questions

Frequently asked

What should a small retail website include?

The brands and categories you carry and the ones you do not, hours that match your Google listing, price bands, photographs of the actual shop, parking and which door, and a plain way to ask whether something is in.

Do I need an online store?

Not automatically. Selling online is a second business with packing, shipping and returns in it. If you do want to sell, that is the e-commerce conversation.

Can the website show live inventory?

Only if your point of sale can publish it, and most small-shop setups cannot do it reliably. I would rather list what you carry than show a stock count that is wrong by lunchtime.

How do I stop my hours being wrong everywhere?

Change them in both places, and treat the Google listing as the more urgent since it is what people see first. If that keeps slipping, it is what profile management covers.

I already have a Google listing. Do I still need a site?

The listing gets you found and the site is where somebody decides, and Google weighs what the profile points at. The longer answer is here.

Is there a contract?

Not on this. Growth, marketing and website services — including the website care plan — are month-to-month with no long-term commitment, and you can prepay annually for up to two months free. Payment processing is a separate thing: it is a merchant account and it has its own terms, which I go over with you personally on the free review so everything is clear before you decide.

Can I cancel?

Yes, any month. There is no cancellation fee and no notice period to argue about on the month-to-month services — I would rather earn the next month than hold you to a term you regret. If you cancel a website plan the domain is yours, registered in your name, and you can take the site elsewhere.

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