Pricing Information

It covers the design and build of your site: planning the structure, designing every page, writing it into code, connecting your domain, and getting everything live and working. It's charged once, at the start, and split into a $150 deposit up front with the rest due at launch. The deposit is non-refundable, since it's what reserves my time for your build, and your site goes live once the launch payment is in.

Changes to the site as it's built. New photos, new hours, rewritten copy, a swapped menu, a new section, a seasonal banner, a fix. Size doesn't matter and there's no monthly cap.

Building something genuinely new, like adding an online store to a site that never had one, is new scope and we'd talk about it first. I'll always tell you which side of the line something falls on before any work starts.

Yes. The domain is registered to you and stays yours. Your photos, text, and branding are yours. Nothing about the arrangement holds your name or your content hostage.

Forge is Sunburst Studio's gym management platform, and Hearth is the restaurant management platform. They're full systems that connect to your website rather than living on it, so they're priced on their own.

Forge's pricing is on its own website at forgemembers.com. Hearth is in beta, so reach out if you'd like to learn more.

They're built into Solar Flare, so they come with every website at no extra monthly cost: e-signing, rewards, class and appointment booking, client portals, an online store, and more. The only costs that can come with them are outside providers' usage charges, like newsletter sends or text messages, which are passed through at cost.

Some services come from outside providers that charge per use: Amazon for newsletter emails, Twilio and the phone carriers for text messages, Cloudflare for video, and Stripe for card payments. You pay exactly what they charge, with no markup from me.

Those are the providers' prices, not mine, so if a provider changes its rates, the pass-through changes with it.

Just a small "Powered by Solar Flare" credit in the footer, the same on every site I build. It's there on every plan and every promotion. Nothing else: no ads, no pop-ups, no badges in your content.

A website isn't a file you park somewhere once. It runs on a server that has to stay online, patched, and secure every day, and that's an ongoing cost whether it comes from me or anyone else. The monthly fee covers that, plus the maintenance and the unlimited changes.

No, and you don't have to buy it at all. A mailbox is optional, and when you do want one, you get it straight from a service such as Proton, Microsoft, or Google, at their price. I'll set it up and connect it to your domain, but the bill is between you and them. There's more in Business email, explained.

Most sites come together in a couple of weeks from the point I have your content and a clear direction. The honest bottleneck is usually photos and copy, so the faster those land, the faster you launch.

That's common, and moving over is usually straightforward. I'll rebuild it on Solar Flare, carry across whatever's worth keeping, and point your existing domain at the new site so visitors never notice a gap.