Website as a Service
See your finished website before you pay anything.
Tell us your trade and your town, and we build the whole site — words, services, photos, opening hours, your own domain — in about ninety seconds. Look at it, change anything you like, and only start paying when you want it live. $39 a month, first month free, no setup fee.
Build my site — free See the plans
- Nothing to pay, and no card, until you have seen the site
- Your own domain, hosting, HTTPS and updates included
- First month free, cancel any time, keep the words you wrote
- If no enquiry reaches you in 90 days, we refund what you have paid
Two plans. One price each, everything in.
Prices in US dollars, billed monthly, cancel any time. Both include the site, your own domain, hosting and enquiries. The only difference is how much of the work we do for you.
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Everything a trade needs
Your Site
$39/month
First month free. For a business that wants a proper site without a project.
- Five pages plus a work portfolio when you add photos
- Your own domain, connected for you (
acme-plumbing.com) - Hosting, HTTPS, sitemap, structured data and accessible markup
- Unlimited edits — words, photos, hours, sections, as often as you like
- Contact form that emails you directly, and a privacy notice that satisfies the law
- Email support, next business day
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Your Site, Handled
$99/month
First month free, no setup fee. For a business with no time to sit at a keyboard.
- Everything in Your Site
- Thirty minutes of our time each month — send the changes, we make them
- We set up and check your Google Business Profile name, address, phone and hours
- A quarterly wording and photo review with you
- Priority support, same business day
In a hurry? A rush build is $149 once and puts you live within 24 hours instead of our usual two days. It is optional, and nobody needs it to get a site online.
Founding customers. The first twenty US trade businesses get their first month free, no setup fee, and the price held for two years in exchange for a review and a couple of photos of your work. Ask for it when you build.
What a change means. One sitting of up to thirty minutes with us on Handled — words, photos, hours or a section, as much as fits in the time. Anything beyond the monthly allowance is $39 a time, agreed before we start, never by the hour. On Your Site you make the changes yourself, and there is no limit to how many.
Why $39 is cheap, and why it is not a gimmick. A booked plumbing job costs about $319 in pay-per-lead advertising, and only about one lead in five becomes a customer. One extra job a year covers this site many times over. We can charge $39 because the build is automated — that is the whole business, and it is why there is no setup fee.
Card payments are handled by Stripe, and the first month is free — you are not charged until day 31. Cancel any time from your account, and the site stops at the end of that month.
What is not included, on either plan: online booking, card payments or a shop, member logins, custom design work, or ad management. If you need those, a specialist is the right call — we would rather say so than sell you something that half works.
What "Website as a Service" actually means
You are paying for a site that keeps working, not for a folder of files you have to host yourself.
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We run it, you own the words
Hosting, the domain, HTTPS certificates, deploy pipelines and traffic are our problem. Your content is yours: ask for an export at any time and take it elsewhere.
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Edits are included, not quoted
Change a headline, swap a photo, close for the holidays, drop a section you never liked. No hourly rate, no "that is three hours' work" email. Most changes take under a minute.
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It stays maintained
Every site is static HTML and CSS on one maintained codebase. When the templates get a fix — accessibility, page weight, a search-engine change — your site picks it up at the next publish.
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No lock-in tricks
Month to month. If you leave, you keep the copy and the photos, and we will point your domain wherever you ask.
Templates versus a site builder
Both are cheaper than a custom agency build. They are not the same job, and the difference is where your evenings go.
| What matters | 101 Pixels template | Site builder | Custom agency build |
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| Who designs it | We do — four layouts already built for plumbing, HVAC, electrical, solar, remodeling, roofing, pest control, cleaning and landscaping. | You do, block by block, from a blank canvas. | A designer, over weeks, on your budget. |
| Time to a live site | About an afternoon: template, details, photos, publish. | Days to weeks — the blank canvas is the hard part. | Four to twelve weeks. |
| Structure and accessibility | Fixed, so headings, labels, contrast and page weight are checked before publishing. | Whatever you build; accessibility is on you. | Depends on the agency. |
| Search-engine basics | Canonical tags, structured data, sitemap and robots generated with every page. | Often partial or an upsell; structured data usually missing. | Usually good — and part of what you paid for. |
| What you can change | Every word, every photo, hours and sections — deliberately not the layout. | Anything, which is also how sites end up inconsistent. | By asking the agency, at their rate. |
| Typical monthly cost | From $39 including hosting and your domain; first month free. | $15–$40 for the plan, plus your time, plus paid add-ons. | Hundreds to thousands, plus maintenance. |
Why the template approach keeps the price down
- No discovery phase per customer. The page structure, copy patterns and colour systems were designed once, properly, and reused. You are not paying someone to reinvent a services page.
- No plugin stack to babysit. A builder site carries a server, a database and a dozen plugins that all need patching. These sites are static files — nothing to exploit, nothing to break, hosted for pennies.
- Cheap to serve. Static pages on a CDN with immutable asset caching load fast on a phone in a van, which is where your customers actually are.
- One codebase to maintain. A fix or improvement reaches every customer site at once, so maintenance is not billed per customer.
- Editing is self-service. The most expensive part of a small website is the phone call to change a phone number. You do it yourself in a minute.
Compare with a builder, line by line Three-year cost calculator
Questions people ask before starting
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, and it is included on both plans. We connect it for you and check the DNS. If you already own a domain we will keep it and point it at your new site, so you do not lose the history it has built up.
What happens if I cancel?
The site stops being served at the end of the month. You keep the words and photos — ask for an export and we will hand over the files and help point your domain elsewhere.
Do I have to be technical?
No. You fill in a form, upload photos from your phone, and press publish. If you can send a text message, you can run this site.
Are the reviews on my site real?
There are none unless you add them. The reviews section stays off the page until you paste in real customer quotes, so a site built here cannot publish invented ones — that is a search-engine risk and a bad idea with real customers.
Is there a contract?
None. Billed monthly, and the first month is free. Cancel at the end of any month and the site stops being served; you keep the words and photos. There is no setup fee to lose.
Will this get me to the top of Google?
Nobody can promise that. What we do is remove the technical reasons a good local business fails to rank: correct page metadata, structured data, a sitemap, fast static pages, a working mobile layout and no broken links. Where you appear also depends on your Google Business Profile, real reviews and how competitive your town is.
Try the whole thing before you pay anything
Build a site, preview it live, and publish it. A plan only starts when you decide to keep it.