Pay monthly websites, with every term on one screen.
A pay monthly website is designed, built, hosted and looked after for a flat monthly fee instead of a large upfront bill. Ours is £99 to start, then £29.99 a month. Your domain is registered in your name from day one, there is no minimum term, and the site is yours to keep after 12 months.
The whole deal
Pay monthly has a mixed reputation, and some of it is earned: long contracts, a bill for leaving, a domain you turn out not to own. So here is ours in full before anything else. Each line matches the terms you would sign up to.
- To start
- £99, oncePaid at sign-up with the first month. It pays for a design started from your business, not a template.
- Each month
- £29.99Card or Direct Debit. An online shop makes it £49.98. Prices include VAT where it applies.
- Minimum term
- NoneCancel in month two or year five with 30 days' notice. No exit fee and no balance to pay off.
- Your domain
- In your name from day oneYou are the registered owner, not us. Its first year is included in the setup; it then renews once a year at the normal rate, currently £12.99 for a .co.uk.
- The website
- Yours after 12 monthsComplete 12 months and the site and its files are yours to keep and host anywhere.
- If you leave in year one
- Domain and content go with youThe build stays with us and the site comes down at the end of your paid period. Moving the domain out early costs a £15 admin charge.
- If a payment fails
- We retry and tell youA site is only suspended if the account is still unpaid after 14 days, and we try to reach you first.
- Price changes
- No more than once a yearPrices are normally reviewed no more than once a year, with at least 30 days' written notice, and never during a build.
What the monthly fee covers
Built around your trade, your customers and your photos. You see a first design within about a week of sending your content, with up to three rounds of changes before it goes live.
Hosted on our own servers and delivered through a content delivery network with UK edge locations, with the security certificate, daily backups and software updates handled for you.
A new .co.uk registered in your name, with its first year included, or your existing domain moved or pointed across. From year two it renews at £12.99 a year. Email at your own domain, set up on your phone and computer.
New prices, new photos, changed hours, an extra page. Send them by WhatsApp, email or your portal. Most are done within two working days, simple ones the same day.
Proper titles and descriptions, fast pages, local business markup, and your Google Business Profile set up so you appear on Maps.
The person who built the site is the person who answers, Monday to Friday. Your client portal shows visitors, searches and enquiries month by month.
Optional extras such as online bookings, extra mailboxes or an SEO campaign are priced individually on the pricing page, and you can add or drop them from your portal. How the build runs week by week is on how it works.
What a pay monthly website costs over three years
The monthly figure only means something next to the alternatives, so here are all four routes over the same three years. The ranges for the other routes are from our UK website cost guide.
| Route | Upfront | Running cost | Year one | Three years | Who looks after it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay monthly with us | £99 | £29.99 a month, plus £12.99 a year for the domain from year two | £458.88 | £1,204.62 | Us: hosting, security, updates and 3 content edits a month |
| DIY builder (Wix, Squarespace) | £0 | £10 - £36 a month | £120 - £430 | £360 - £1,300 | You, in your own time |
| Freelancer build | £500 - £2,000 | £300 - £700 a year | £800 - £2,700 | £1,400 - £4,100 | You, or billed by the hour |
| Agency build | £2,000 - £10,000+ | £300 - £700 a year | £2,300 - £10,700+ | £2,900 - £12,100+ | A care plan, or billed by the hour |
Our totals are the setup fee, the monthly fee and the domain: £458.88 in year one, £831.75 by the end of year two and £1,204.62 by the end of year three. A .co.uk domain's first year is included in the setup; from year two its renewal is billed once a year at the normal rate, currently £12.99, and that is in the totals. A DIY builder is the cheapest route in cash and the dearest in evenings. An upfront build is yours on day one, and so are the hosting, the renewals and every future change.
Seven things to check on any pay monthly website deal
On 9 November 2026 we read the pay monthly pages of eight other UK providers and noted what each one said, or did not say. We are not naming them, because the useful part is the questions. Ask them of anyone, us included.
| Ask | What we found elsewhere | Our answer |
|---|---|---|
| Is there a minimum term? | Five of the eight had one: 12, 24 or 36 months. | None. 30 days' notice at any point. |
| What does leaving early cost? | Where the page said, it was the rest of the contract: a remaining balance or a "settlement figure". | Nothing. No exit fee and no balance. |
| Whose name is the domain in? | None of the eight pages said. | Yours, from day one. |
| Can the site be moved elsewhere? | Usually after the term. One provider said its sites cannot be transferred at all. | After 12 months, yes: files handed over, host it anywhere. |
| Is VAT in the price? | Most did not say. One listed prices before VAT. | Included where it applies. The price shown is the price paid. |
| How many changes are included? | Often "unlimited", sometimes with a monthly cap further down the page. | Three content edits a month, stated up front. More are quoted first. |
| Is the price on the page the price? | Two pages showed one price in the title and a higher one in the text. | £99 and £29.99, the same on every page of this site. |
Plenty of pay monthly providers are fair and say so plainly. The point is that the price per month tells you very little until you know these seven answers.
Who it suits, and who should pay upfront instead
- You want a proper website without finding £1,000 or more up front.
- You would rather send a WhatsApp than learn a website builder.
- You want one number that covers hosting, security, updates and changes.
- Your site is a normal small business site: around five pages that say who you are and how to reach you, or an online shop.
- You enjoy running your own site and will keep it updated yourself.
- You want admin access to the back end from day one. The plan is a managed service, so that comes with ownership at 12 months.
- You need custom software, a member area or integrations. That is a quoted project, not a plan.
- You are sure the site will not change for years. Then a one-off build and cheap hosting can cost less over the long run.
If the second list sounds like you, that is a fair answer and we would rather you heard it here. For software, portals and integrations, see custom builds.
Websites we have built and look after
Live sites you can open and test yourself. Each case study shows the brief, what we built and its Google PageSpeed scores.
A kitchen design site on the plan with the shop add-on. 100 on all four of Google’s PageSpeed tests.
Read the case study →A charity taking donations, recruiting volunteers and receiving referrals, on the standard plan.
Read the case study →A driving school moved off Wix. Live the day after the go-ahead, 100 on all four PageSpeed tests.
Read the case study →A 61-product sofa shop rebuilt in WooCommerce, live four days after signing up.
Read the case study →An existing WordPress site we host and look after on the plan, rather than rebuild.
Read the case study →A photo booth hire site we took over and sped up: page weight from 2.7MB to 0.8MB.
Read the case study →The full set is on the work page, and what clients say is on the reviews page, taken straight from Google.
How it works
Pay the £99 setup and first month online, then tell us about the business in a short brief: what you do, who for, and where your photos and logo are.
Once your content is with us we design the site around it. You get up to three rounds of changes, and nothing goes live until you approve it.
We register or connect the domain in your name, set up your email and launch. Most sites are live within a week of us having everything we need.
Hosting, security, backups and updates carry on in the background. You send changes when you have them, and the site stays current.
Pay monthly website questions, answered straight
What is a pay monthly website?
A pay monthly website is one you pay for as a flat monthly fee instead of a large one-off build cost. The fee covers the design and build, the hosting and the looking-after, so there is no separate invoice for hosting renewals, security updates or small changes. Ours is £99 to set up and then £29.99 a month, which comes to £458.88 in the first year.
What's the catch with pay monthly websites?
With some providers there are three: a long minimum term, a bill for the rest of the contract if you leave, and a domain held in the provider's name so you cannot easily go. Those are the things to check before signing anything, including with us. Ours are on this page: no minimum term, no exit fee, and the domain in your name from day one. The honest limit on our plan is ownership of the build. The website becomes yours to keep after 12 months, so if you leave before then you take your domain and your content but not the site itself.
Are pay monthly websites worth it?
For most small businesses that want a site run for them, yes. Over three years our plan totals £1,204.62, against roughly £1,400 to £4,100 for a freelancer build once hosting, renewals and upkeep are counted, and the looking-after is included instead of billed by the hour. It is not the cheapest route for everyone. If you would happily run your own site for years, a one-off build can cost less in the long run, and our guide to pay monthly against paying upfront works through the five and ten-year totals for both.
What happens to my website if I stop paying?
If a payment fails we retry it and let you know by email or WhatsApp. If the account is still unpaid after 14 days the site may be suspended until it is brought up to date. That is a last resort, and we will have tried to reach you first. If you want to stop altogether, give 30 days' notice: nothing more is charged after that, and there is no exit fee.
Can I move my pay monthly website to another provider?
Yes, once you have completed 12 months. We hand over a copy of the site files and move the domain wherever you like, free of charge. Inside the first 12 months the build stays with us, so a new provider would be building you a new site. Your domain still moves with you for a £15 admin charge, and your own text, photos and logo are returned on request.
Is it a finance agreement or a loan?
No. It is a monthly service, like a phone contract with no minimum term. You are not borrowing the cost of a website and paying it back, so there is no balance to settle if you cancel. You pay for the month you are in, and you can leave with 30 days' notice.
I already have a website or a domain. Can I switch to pay monthly?
Yes. If you own a domain we either transfer it to our registrar in your name or leave it where it is and point it at the new site, whichever you prefer. If the site you have is sound, we can sometimes take over its hosting and upkeep on the same plan instead of rebuilding it, as we did for Coast Apartments. More often an ageing site is cheaper to replace than to nurse, and that is a website redesign on the same £99 and £29.99. Not sure which it needs? Run it through the free website check first.
Can I get a pay monthly online shop?
Yes. An online shop is the same plan with the shop add-on: £99 setup, then £49.98 a month, with card payments through Stripe and no commission on your sales. You can also start with a normal site and switch the shop on later. The detail, with a cost comparison against Shopify and the marketplaces, is on the pay monthly e-commerce websites page.
Do you build pay monthly websites outside Blackpool?
Yes, anywhere in the UK. We are a Blackpool studio and a lot of our work is on the Fylde Coast, but the whole process runs over WhatsApp and email: the brief, the design approvals, the changes. Sites on this page are in Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire as well as Lancashire. The price is the same wherever you are. If you are local and would rather meet, we can do that at the Blackpool Enterprise Centre by arrangement.