ZACODERS
Pricing

What shapes the cost of a project.

Most firms don't publish anything about cost and make you sit through a sales call to find out whether you can afford them. We'd rather you understand what drives the price before we speak, so the conversation starts from the right place.

Every project is priced as a fixed figure after discovery, before any development begins.

Approach

Why we price after discovery

A price given before anyone understands your business is a guess. Guesses produce one of two outcomes: an inflated quote to cover the unknowns, or a low one followed by change requests. Discovery replaces the guess with a written scope both sides can hold to.

Websites

Websites and redesigns

What affects the cost

Page templates

Distinct page types (home, service, location, article) drive design and build effort more than total page count

Content

Writing from scratch costs more than improving or migrating existing content

Custom functionality

Booking, quoting, calculators and member areas add development

Integrations

CRMs, booking systems and email platforms each need connecting

Ecommerce

Catalog size, variants, payment and shipping setup

Redesign scope

The size of the current site and how much search visibility must be protected

What makes a website cheaper: fewer distinct templates; content supplied ready to publish; standard functionality; no integrations.

Search

SEO and digital marketing

What affects the cost

For paid campaigns, advertising spend — what you pay directly to Google, Meta or other platforms — is billed separately from our management fee.

Search work is usually ongoing, because visibility has to be maintained as competitors, search engines and your business change.

Custom Software

Custom software, CRM and ERP

What affects the cost

Modules

Each distinct area — sales, inventory, billing, HR — is a unit of work

User roles

More roles mean more permissions, views and testing

Data migration

Volume and cleanliness of existing data

Integrations

Number of systems and quality of their APIs

Reporting

Number and complexity of reports

Specific requirements

Regulatory, security or performance needs

Systems are priced phase by phase, so you commit to one phase at a time.

Integrations

Integrations and automation

Priced per integration or process. The biggest factor is how well each system shares data: a clean, documented API is quick to work with; an old system with no API takes longer.

Ongoing

Costs after launch

Budget for these from the start:

Process

How to get a price

  1. 1.

    Discovery call — Tell us what you need and what isn't working

  2. 2.

    Discovery — We scope the work properly

  3. 3.

    Fixed price — A written scope and figure for the first phase or whole project

  4. 4.

    Decision — No obligation until you approve it

We don't publish blanket starting prices — the factors above genuinely move the number too much for a single figure to mean anything. Discovery gets you a real one.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Why not just give us a price now?+

Because it would be a guess. We can often indicate a likely range on the first call once we understand the scope.

Do prices change during the project?+

Not for agreed scope. New requests are priced and approved before they're built.

Can we start small?+

Yes — a first phase, a single integration, or an SEO audit.

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