Know what your website will really cost before you sign up

What the checklist will cover

• Intro price vs renewal price. Where to find the renewal rate, and how to tell when the discount ends.
• Billing term traps. Why the advertised monthly price can require paying for a year or more upfront.
• Domain costs. Whether a “free domain” covers only year one, what year two costs, plus privacy protection.
• Professional email. Whether you@yourbusiness.com is included, and what a mailbox costs if it isn’t.
• Selling online. Transaction fees, payment processing fees and which plan removes them.
• Paid apps and add-ons. Forms, booking, pop-ups, extra storage: what you’d need to pay for.
• Plan limits. Storage, pages, form submissions and contributors that can force an upgrade.
• Leaving later. What you can export, and what you’d have to rebuild.
• A 24-month cost table to fill in for up to 3 builders side by side.

What you’ll get after that

One email when we publish a new Same-Site Build Test or a major price change. Each one will say what we tested, what it cost and who it suits. No daily emails, and we won’t sell your address.

Our first test, on Wix, is up next, so early emails will be infrequent.

Questions