Web Design for Trades have been around for a while and they know the trades market. But the way they charge is very different to how TradeClicks works, and for a lot of tradespeople, that difference matters.
They charge a large upfront fee to build your site, then a monthly fee on top to keep it running. Everything is priced plus VAT. Some of the things you'd expect to be included, like your domain name and the wording for your site, you have to sort out yourself. Here's a straight look at how the two compare.
Build Your PlanWeb Design for Trades charge an upfront build fee before they start work on your site. The cheapest option starts at £650 plus VAT, which is £780 out of your pocket on day one. The mid-range option is £1,250 plus VAT, and the bespoke option starts at £1,950 plus VAT. That's a significant amount of money to spend before you've seen a single visitor come through your site, and before you know whether it's going to work for your business.
TradeClicks has no upfront cost at all. You pay one monthly fee, and that's it. There's nothing to find before you get started and no large invoice to clear before your site goes live. Everything is included in the monthly price you see on the page. For a tradesperson watching their cashflow, the difference between paying nothing upfront and paying £780 or more before you see anything is a big one.
Once you've paid to have your site built, Web Design for Trades charge a monthly maintenance fee on top. That starts at £39.99 plus VAT for the basic package, going up to £59.99 plus VAT for the bespoke option. What that covers is mostly technical maintenance, things like hosting, security updates, and checking your contact form works. You also get one free hour of text and image updates per month. Any changes beyond that are charged at £60 per hour plus VAT.
With TradeClicks, the monthly fee covers everything you'd expect. You're not paying separately for hosting, separately for maintenance, and separately for changes. It's one number, paid monthly, and it includes everything your site needs to stay live and keep working. For most tradespeople, that's a much simpler and more predictable way to budget for a website.
Web Design for Trades are upfront about this: they recommend their customers go to a third-party website, buy their own domain name, and either set it up themselves or ask Web Design for Trades to help. That's an extra job to do, an extra account to manage, and an extra cost to factor in on top of everything else. It's not a huge amount of money, but it's one more thing to think about when you're just trying to get your business online.
With TradeClicks, your domain is included in your monthly package as standard. You don't need to visit any other website, you don't need to create an account anywhere, and you don't need to manage anything yourself. We sort it out as part of setting you up. Your business name, your web address, handled from the start with nothing extra to pay and nothing extra to do.
Web Design for Trades say they can get a site live in 3 to 5 business days once they have everything they need. That sounds fast, but the list of things they need from you is longer than you might expect. You need to sort your domain, provide your logo, supply your own images, and write the wording for your site using their template. For a busy tradesperson working full days, finding the time to pull all of that together can push that 3 to 5 days out by quite a bit.
TradeClicks gets your site live in days too, but you don't have to do the heavy lifting to get there. You have a call with us, tell us about your business and your work, and we handle the rest. We write all the wording, sort the domain, and build the site. You don't get sent a template to fill in and you don't have to find time in your evenings to write copy for a website. The process is fast because we've taken as much off your plate as possible.
Websites for trades. Made to win.
Build Your PlanWeb Design for Trades give you a login to their CMS so you can make updates yourself, and they encourage customers to own and control their own domain. If you're someone who wants to be hands-on with your website, that approach could appeal to you. There's also something to be said for paying a build fee and owning what you've paid for.
But most tradespeople we speak to don't want to log into a website to make changes. They don't want to learn a CMS, they don't want to write their own content, and they don't want to think about whether their SSL certificate is up to date. They want a website that works and someone else to worry about it. That's exactly what TradeClicks is. Everything is handled by us, every month, for one simple price. No logins, no templates, no hourly rates for changes. Just a professional website doing its job while you get on with yours.
Build Your PlanFor the cost of just one day's graft, we'll build you a proper website that brings in the type of work you're looking for, while you crack on.
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