Website design cost?

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Dec 25, 2018

• #1

Hello!

When you offer your service to your client, for a web design, do you include the cost of the Premium Theme, domain name, and hosting, or you tell them their specific price plus the price of your work?

How do you calculate the entire price to your client?

 

A

aaronthepug

Junior Member

Dec 7, 2018

152

60

• Dec 25, 2018

• #2

Try not to make very detailed breakdown, because some clients will focus on each little thing, and even try to take some out that they feel they can get cheaper elsewhere. Instead, bundle it up all together in a package, with separate services show as well if needed.

Premium Theme, domain name, and hosting, and labor (as you said)

Maybe try:

Web development and design (Theme + Plugins + Labor + Whatever else needed to make the website)
Monthly Maintenance (Hosting + Updates + Upkeep)
Yearly Registration (Domain)

 

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Dec 26, 2018
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #3

What about the theme? Should i buy a new one and raise the price or should i use my own personally bought and not give them the licence (no future updates) ?

 

A

aaronthepug

Junior Member

Dec 7, 2018

152

60

• Dec 26, 2018

• #4

auiu said:

What about the theme? Should i buy a new one and raise the price or should i use my own personally bought and not give them the licence (no future updates) ?

Click to expand...

I wouldn't even include that in the breakdown, and just include the expense in your cost. Assuming you use themeforest, I'd buy it, register it in WP, and give a full handoff to them and if they want to renew the license, it's on them after expiration.

 

uncutu

Elite Member

Aug 6, 2010

3,506

3,376

• Dec 26, 2018

• #5

auiu said:

What about the theme? Should i buy a new one and raise the price or should i use my own personally bought and not give them the licence (no future updates) ?

Click to expand...

i do it exactly like aaron wrote
do not write price for themes and plugins and stuff like that. they will "nit pick" and be a pain, generally.
a) web design / logo design / copy writing / video editing labor & things of that nature
b) cost of server & domain per year (or multiple years)
c) maintenance/upkeep
thats it

 

R

Razzphox

Newbie

Jan 30, 2015

14

1

• Dec 26, 2018

• #6

I suggest you go to reddit to find web designers. Theres a lot of talented ones that are in need of money and offer extremely reasonable prices. You'd be helping them out and getting a good design for good price out of it.

 

A

aaronthepug

Junior Member

Dec 7, 2018

152

60

• Dec 26, 2018

• #7

Razzphox said:

I suggest you go to reddit to find web designers. Theres a lot of talented ones that are in need of money and offer extremely reasonable prices. You'd be helping them out and getting a good design for good price out of it.

Click to expand...

I don't think he's looking for a designer, I believe OP is one themselves. More like asking for advice on how to handle breakdown quoting/billing for clients.

 

Zwielicht

Elite Member

Aug 31, 2013

21,128

40,601

• Dec 26, 2018

• #8

Thread Moved​

 

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Dec 28, 2018
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #9

I am not looking for a designer. Im doing it by my self.
I just want to know if its a good choice to mention to the client the different prices of the domain + hosting + premium theme + my work worth...

Also should i use my own bought theme and not activate it with my licence (the client wont get any updates) or buy a new theme for every project( and this will raise the total price by 59$).

 

helloyes

Junior Member

Jun 4, 2015

143

34

• Jan 3, 2019

• #10

Clients are nt technical.like you. They womt even know what a wordpress plugin is..

 

E

ehis

BANNED

Jan 16, 2019

20

1

• Jan 18, 2019

• #11

What i do is give them the total cost. Explaining each bit to client will will make them think of been cheated.

 

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Jan 18, 2019
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #12

What about the renewal process of the domain and the hosting. How do you explain them?

 

E

ehis

BANNED

Jan 16, 2019

20

1

• Jan 18, 2019

• #13

auiu said:

What about the renewal process of the domain and the hosting. How do you explain them?

Click to expand...

This is has nothing to do with you. Domain renwal is part of the client maintainance job.

 

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Jan 18, 2019
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #14

I know,but should i mention to them that beside my payment, after a year they still have to pay the renewalof domain and hosting?

 

E

ehis

BANNED

Jan 16, 2019

20

1

• Jan 18, 2019

• #15

auiu said:

I know,but should i mention to them that beside my payment, after a year they still have to pay the renewalof domain and hosting?

Click to expand...

Yes. Tell em you are subscribing for a year or two.

 

A

auiu

Junior Member

Aug 17, 2018

156

32

• Jan 18, 2019
• Thread Starter Thread Starter

• #16

Ok thank you

 

Thesgtluca

Junior Member

Apr 16, 2013

123

17

• Jan 31, 2019

• #17

I pack all the services in one thing as I sell it as a complete package. With many little things clients can check the prices and they may want to remove some services that they doesn't think are necessary

 

J

johnnydeere

Registered Member

May 20, 2018

58

32

• Feb 8, 2019

• #18

I price out projects quite differently. Here's a typical breakdown.

1) Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Content Architecture
2) Information Architecture, UX, Wireframing
3) Visual Design, Illustration
4) Front-End Dev
5) Back-End Dev, CMS Integration
6) Testing, Deployment