Pricing
No guesswork. One number, agreed before any work begins.
All project work is fixed-price, quoted from your brief or after agreed diagnostic work. You will never receive a surprise invoice. Care plans are a flat monthly fee with no hidden extras.
Project Work
£75
per hour
£600
per day
These rates apply to time-based work. Most engagements are not billed this way. They are scoped as fixed-price projects. The rate becomes relevant when I am diagnosing a problem against an agreed scope, advising on architecture, reviewing a third-party proposal, or working through something genuinely open-ended.
Every engagement starts with a written brief. You receive a single fixed price for the complete scope. That number does not change unless the scope does, and only then with your agreement.
How engagements work →Site Audit
£600
fixed price, credited against a care plan
A standalone health check for your site. I check who has access to your site and hosting, whether WordPress, your theme and your plugins are current and genuine, whether there is any sign of compromise, how your backups work, how the site performs, and whether forms, checkout and site email do what they should.
You receive a written report that ranks every finding by priority and explains it in plain English. Questions on the report are answered in writing.
If you start a care plan within 30 days of the report, the full £600 comes off your first year.
Request an audit →Care Plans
Monthly maintenance. Flat fee.
Annual plans save approximately 15%, Essentials at £499/year, Professional at £699/year, Premier at £999/year.
Essentials
For straightforward WordPress sites where reliability matters but downtime can wait until business hours.
- ✓ Weekly off-site backup
- ✓ Site restore from backup
- ✓ 24/7 security monitoring
- ✓ Malware and intrusion protection
- ✓ Staged WP core and plugin updates
- ✓ Email support
Professional
For business sites where downtime has direct commercial impact and problems need to be caught immediately.
- ✓ Daily off-site backup
- ✓ Site restore from backup
- ✓ 24/7 security monitoring
- ✓ Malware and intrusion protection
- ✓ Staged WP core and plugin updates
- ✓ Same-day email support
- ✓ 24/7 uptime and performance monitoring
- ✓ 1 hour developer time per month
Premier
For WooCommerce stores and complex sites where any downtime is lost revenue.
- ✓ Hourly off-site backup
- ✓ Site restore from backup
- ✓ 24/7 security monitoring
- ✓ Malware and intrusion protection
- ✓ Staged WP core and plugin updates
- ✓ Priority email support
- ✓ 24/7 uptime and performance monitoring
- ✓ 2 hours developer time per month
- ✓ Ecommerce support
Not sure which plan fits? The care plans page walks through each tier in detail, or send me a brief and I will recommend the right one.
Pricing Questions
What people usually want to know.
Do you charge by the hour?
For time-based project work, yes, £75/hour or £600/day. But most projects are priced as a fixed amount, not as a running clock. You will know the total cost before any work begins.
When do you issue a fixed price?
From your brief, when the job is clear. Where the cause of a problem needs finding first, I agree a fixed scope for diagnostic work at my day rate, then quote the fix once the cause is confirmed. You know what each stage costs before it starts.
What if the work turns out to be more complex than expected?
I stop. I contact you with a revised scope and a revised price. Nothing changes without your agreement. This is how fixed-price work should operate.
Can I cancel a care plan at any time?
Monthly plans require 30 days' written notice to cancel. Annual plans run to their renewal date. No lock-in beyond the billing period you are in.
Is WooCommerce included in care plans?
Dedicated WooCommerce support, checkout health, order processing oversight, ecommerce-specific monitoring, is included in the Premier plan. Standard WooCommerce updates are covered across all plans.
What does "1 hour developer time" mean on the Professional plan?
One hour of actual development work per month, minor fixes, adjustments, small improvements. It is not support time or consultation time. Unused hours do not roll over.
Ready to discuss your project?
Send me a brief and I will tell you honestly what I can do, how long it will take, and what it will cost, before any work begins.
