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How much does a website cost in NZ?

Here is where ours start. You see your new home page before you pay anything, and every build gets a fixed quote in writing before it begins.

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Website care plans from NZ$89 a month.

50% deposit. Payment plans for business clients on jobs from NZ$1,000. Payment terms

Questions about the money
Fixed quoteNZ$990from NZ$599
Current special price, limited time
Fixed quote, in writing
Monthly or yearly care
The price lists

Where each one starts.

Every card opens the page with the full list of what is included, the weeks and the rounds of changes.

  • Websites

    NZ$990from NZ$599

    Current special price, limited time

    A Starter site of up to 5 pages, or a Business site of up to 10.

  • Custom builds

    from NZ$4,990

    Online stores, bookings and portals your customers log in to.

  • AI

    Free consult first

    Then a written plan or a build, each quoted in writing before it starts.

  • Apps

    from NZ$1,890

    From a prototype you tap through on your phone to an app in both stores.

  • 3D and motion

    from NZ$150

    Product renders from your CAD file, turntables, reels and launch films.

  • Website care

    from NZ$89 a month

    Updates, backups, uptime and small changes each month. A 3 month minimum, then 30 days' notice by email.

  • Google Ads and Meta ads

    from NZ$390 a month

    In accounts in your own name, with the ad budget on your own card. A 3 month minimum from go-live.

  • Google profile and reviews

    from NZ$149

    Your profile tidied and kept current, and an easy way to ask every customer for a review.

  • Brand kit

    from NZ$199

    Your logo in every shape you need, your colours and fonts, and a one-page guide.

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Free to start

A monthly plan runs for at least 3 months, counted from the first paid month. After that, cancel by email with 30 days' notice, and the plan ends at the end of the paid month in which the notice runs out. A yearly plan runs to the end of the paid year, with no refunds for unused months. No exit fee. All prices are in New Zealand dollars.

Wanted something different?

If none of these is the shape of the thing, or the budget is nowhere near these numbers, tell us what you are after. A website, an app, AI, 3D, or something we have not listed. We will say honestly what is possible for what you can spend, and if we are the wrong studio for it we will say that too. A conversation first, with no quote attached to it.

Tell us what you want
In every build

Not extras. The baseline.

Whatever size of build you pick, these come with it. They are the parts that stop a website from quietly failing after launch.

Phone first

Designed and tested on real phones, then widened for a desktop.

Changes without the runaround

A Shopify store you run yourself, and we show you how. A website we build is changed by us: small changes are in your care plan, and anything outside it is by the hour, with the time agreed first.

You own everything

Domain, hosting and every account in your name. We get access, never ownership.

Small jobs

Small jobs and changes outside care.

NZ$150 an hour

30 minutes minimum. For a change or a small job on a site that is not on a care plan, or more than a plan's monthly time. The time is estimated and agreed with you in writing before any work starts. On a care plan, small changes each month are already included. Something broken is different: a named fault is one fixed price, from NZ$120.

Ask for a small job
Referrals

A thank-you for sending someone our way.

NZ$100

For every paid job someone you send us goes ahead with, as cash or as credit on your care plan. It is a thank-you for the introduction, never for a review. We do not pay or reward anyone for a review.

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All prices are in New Zealand dollars.

About the money

Questions about the money.

What is and is not in the price, and what moves it. Anything else, just ask. We answer in writing.

Ask about anything else
Third-party costs you pay directly: your domain name, the store platform's own fee, payment processing fees, and any paid plugins or stock photos. We set them all up in your name and tell you what they cost before you commit. Hosting is part of every website care plan for a site we built. It is set up in your name, and we look after it for as long as the plan runs. A site built elsewhere stays on the hosting it already has.
Yes. The number you are quoted is the whole amount for the work described. Your quote and your invoice show one total, and that total is what you pay. If you choose a payment plan, its fee is shown on the quote too. Any third party cost, a domain or a stock photo licence for example, is listed separately and shown to you before you commit. The one exception is a price printed with the word from in front of it, which is the starting point for the work on that card rather than the whole number, and the page that card opens says what moves it.
Not for the work on the quote. If you ask for something new part way through, we tell you what it costs before we do it, and you choose. The quote only changes when you sign off on a change to it.
Most small businesses do not need an app, and we will tell you so. An app earns its keep when the same people come back over and over: regulars ordering, members booking, staff filling in jobs on site, customers who need it to work out of signal. If you are trying to reach new customers who have never heard of you, a website does that and an app does not, because nobody installs an app for a business they have not used yet. If you are not sure, start with the installable app. It costs less, there are no store fees, and you can add the stores later without rebuilding it.
Depends which package. The installable app is not in the stores. People add it to their home screen from your website, and from then on it looks and behaves like any other app on the phone, with your icon, no browser bar and no yearly fee. App in the stores is the one that puts you in both, where people can search for you and find you. What we cannot do is promise you will be approved, or promise how long Apple and Google will take to look at it. We prepare the submission properly and we answer the reviewers, and the decision is theirs.
If your app goes in the stores: Apple charges US$99 a year and Google charges US$25 once, ever. Both are paid by you on accounts opened in your name, so you own them and can walk away with them. They are charged in US dollars, so the NZ$ figure depends on the rate that day. Hosting for the app's data is a cost on top, on an account in your name. We tell you the actual figures before you commit, and we set the accounts up with you rather than for you. Prices checked with Apple and Google on 12 September 2026.
Usually yes, and that is what the takeover package is for. It starts with a written review, because we will not quote fixes on code we have not read. Two things can stop it. If your old developer still holds the store accounts or the code and will not hand them over, that has to be sorted before anything else, and sometimes it cannot be. And occasionally the honest answer after reading the code is that rebuilding is cheaper than repairing. You get that answer in writing either way, and you can take it to any other developer you like.
No, and here is the straight version. We build with web technology, because that is what we are genuinely good at. Your app gets built once and runs on both phones, which is how most small business apps should be built anyway: bookings, ordering, accounts, loyalty, catalogues, staff tools, forms that work without signal. If what you need leans hard on the phone itself, real-time video, Bluetooth pairing, all-day location tracking, a game engine, augmented reality, or a health or finance app with a compliance regime attached, you need a specialist or a team, and we will say so on the first call and try to point you at one. We would rather lose the job than take your money for something we should not be building.
Because there is very little overhead. No account manager, no project manager, no sales team, no office, and no margin stacked on top of any of them. An agency's hourly rate has to carry all of those people, and its quote for an app carries the rate. The trade-off is real and worth knowing: we take one or two app builds at a time, so you wait for a start date, and the work is scoped tight so the price can stay fixed. If you need forty people and a service level agreement, we are not it.
Harbour Thoughts, our own journal app, runs its model on the phone itself once the model has been downloaded, and you can open it right now and try it. For your business we start small: a free consult, then a written plan if you want one. What you pay for the plan comes off the build if you go ahead.
It depends entirely on which job you automate and how often it runs, so we write the expected monthly cost down before you agree to the build rather than after. The accounts sit in your name with your own card on them, so you can see exactly what is being spent and you can switch it off in a minute without asking us.
Every account is set up in your name, not ours, and we tell you which provider each job uses and where that provider processes the data before anything is built. Under the Privacy Act 2020 you stay responsible for personal information about your customers even when a supplier handles it, so if a job would send customer details offshore we say so first and you decide. Anything that reaches a customer is approved by a person, not sent automatically.
We will not give you a percentage or a number of hours, because nobody can honestly know that before the work is mapped, and anyone quoting you one before looking at your business is guessing. What the planning session gives you is a written plan naming the jobs worth handing over, the ones that are not, and what each would cost to build and to run.
Want an exact number?

Tell us what you need. We will quote it in writing.

Two sentences is plenty. We reply in writing with what we would do and roughly what it costs. The fixed quote, revision rounds and payment stages follow once we have talked.

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