Subscription-Based Websites
Get a fully managed, custom website with affordable monthly payments.
Sign up for Sandfire Design’s subscription website service, and you’ll get a brand-new, custom website EVERY THREE YEARS. With hosting, updates, SEO, and more included in the monthly fee, you’ll never have to worry about your website again!
Why Choose a Subscription-Based Website?
There are a number of reasons why a subscription-based website may be the optimal choice for you. Perhaps the total cost of a new website all at once is more than your budget allows. Maybe your previous website designer ‘ghosted’ you, and you want a plan that ensures your designer will be available to you when you need them. Or maybe you simply prefer having a plan that gives you the convenience of affordable monthly payments for a website that you never have to worry about.
With a subscription-based website plan, the cost for building, hosting, maintaining and updating your website is spread out in affordable monthly payments.
Why get a new website every 3 years:
Your website becomes outdated
The internet is constantly changing, and part of that includes what makes websites attractive, modern, and most importantly, high-converting. Plus, Google is always changing how it ranks websites in search results.
If you’re not updating your website every so often, your online presence will soon start to look dated and unprofessional.
Your web designer gets better
Yes, this is a shameless self-promotion, but the team at Sandfire Design is continuously improving their design skills, not to mention expanding their library of premium plugins.
Plus, you get the added benefit of working with someone you already know and trust, and who understands you and your business.
Improve what's working; fix what's not
After 3 years, we’ll have a pretty good idea what’s working on your website and what isn’t.
A full redesign is a great opportunity to build on and improve the parts that are working, and change or eliminate entirely the parts that are holding you back.
How Does This Work?
Fill out our intake form to subscribe to the plan of your choice.
Read and sign our contract.
Pay the setup fee (the first three months of your subscription).
Fill out our design and content collection questionnaires.
We build your site!
One hour of content changes every month is included.
Hosting and maintenance is included ($75/month value).
Included With Every Subscription-Based Website:
Modern, Engaging Design
Clean, modern and functional design that is customized to your individual needs, and is mobile-friendly.
Writing/Editing of all Content
Spelling and grammar mistakes can make you look unprofessional. We won’t let them make it onto your website. We can write your content for you, or edit what you submit.
Image Editing and Optimization
We resize every image on your website and compress it before uploading it to your site. This plays a huge role in site loading speed.
We also offer license-free stock images.
Hosting with Storm Internet
Secure, fast and reliable hosting on a Virtual Private Server that houses only Sandfire Design clients. Storm Internet is an Ottawa-based Internet Service Provider.
One Hour Per Month for Content Updates
One hour per month for requested changes and updates to your site. This does not roll over to the following month, and does not include redesign work.
Discounted Hourly Rate & Priority Support
Discounted hourly rate for work requiring more than one hour, and expedited service for any technical support issues or website change requests.
Premium Plugins
We have a vast collection of premium plugins, many of which add cool functionality to a website. We use these plugins as needed in our builds, at no extra charge.
Google Search Console Indexing
We register every site we build with the Google Search Console to get it found online even quicker.
Fathom Analytics
We use Fathom Analytics to track your website visitors in a way that doesn’t impede on their privacy. Fathom Analytics is a Canadian company that doesn’t compromise privacy for data. You can get access to your account to view your website’s analytics anytime you want.
On-Page SEO
We use a popular Search Engine Optimization plugin to add meta-data to each page on your website prior to launch to help it get found in a Google search. If you’re looking for more advanced SEO services, we can refer you to a trusted colleague.
Monthly Maintenance
Website hacks and malware are not fun, but unfortunately, they’re very common. We make sure your website is protected by keeping your theme and plugins up to date and routinely running security checks on it. You will get a report emailed to you to show you what we’ve done.
Fast Loading Speed
We use several premium plugins to help make your site load as quickly as possible, coupled with secure and reliable hosting from Storm Internet.
The cost of your domain is not included in your subscription website package, but registering one for you is included, if required.
Setup fee is pre-payment of the first three months. This will allow us to collect content from you, and get rolling on the design and build of your new website, with the goal of having it launched by the end of this period. Monthly payments will commence on the 4th month.
Choose The Plan That Fits Your Needs:
Brochure Website: $199/month
- Up to 10 pages
- Social media integration
- Editing and compressing of all images and graphics
- Writing/editing of all content for the site
Portfolio Website: $249/month
Brochure website features, plus:
- Up to 25 pages
- Gallery of up to 25 images or portfolio items
- Blog (includes importing blog posts from another site, blog post template setup, and category setup)
- Event calendar (with online booking functionality)
- Email marketing integration, connected to your email marketing platform (MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc.), if required
E-Commerce Website: $349/month
Brochure website features, plus:
- Up to 15 pages
- Custom templates for product page, cart page, shop page, category page
- Up to 25 products and variations (sizes, colours, styles, etc.)
- Shipping settings for local, national, and international as required
- Tax settings configured based on location
- Payment gateway integration
- Any special integrations needed (custom fields added to checkout process, subscriptions, product downloads, customer uploads, additional add-ons or options offered on product page or cart page, etc.)
