Services & rates
What it costs,
before you ask.
Most studios make you sit through a call to hear a number. Here are ours. A website starts at $4,000 and most of them land between $4,000 and $6,000, depending on how many pages there are and how much of the writing and photography we do. Stores, portals and anything that reads from your data are scoped first and quoted from the scope, because a number before that is a guess.
Most sites
$4,000$6,000
Built, written and live on your own hosting. Yours outright once it is paid for.
Build your floor.
Start from a site and add what you know you need. The number moves as you go. It is a floor rather than a quote — we will not price you properly without reading a brief — but it is the same arithmetic we would do on a call, and nothing is hidden inside it.
Starts from
Starts from $4,000
Directional, not a quote. Half on signature and half on launch, or twelve monthly instalments.
Send this as a briefEngagements
04 ways to start- 01
Website
From
$4,000
- Typical
- 4–5k
- Duration
- 2–3 weeks
You have outgrown the site you put up yourself, and it shows on the first screen.
Five pages that carry a business: what you do, who it is for, why anyone should believe you, and a contact form that reaches you. Written and built properly, live on your own hosting, yours outright when it is paid for.
Includes
- A look that is yours, not a template
- Up to five pages
- Help shaping the words
- A contact form that reaches you
- Built, deployed and fast on a phone
Costs more when
- More pages
- Booking or payments
- More than one location
- 02
Website+
From
$5,500
- Typical
- 5.5–9k
- Duration
- 4–6 weeks
The site has to do more than introduce you. People decide on it.
The same build with more of everything that changes the outcome: more pages, photography direction, copy written rather than tidied, and the search and analytics groundwork done while the site is being made rather than after.
Includes
- Up to ten pages
- Copy written for you, not just edited
- Art direction for photography
- Search and analytics set up at launch
- Built, deployed and fast on a phone
Costs more when
- A store or a login
- A second language
- More than one brand
- 03
Custom build
Priced
On scope
- Typical
- Stores from 4.2k · portals from 6.5k
- Duration
- Set by the scope
Someone has to log in, buy something, or read from your data.
Commerce, databases, portals, and integrations with the systems you already run. This is the work that cannot honestly carry a price before someone has looked at it, so it is scoped first and quoted from what the scope says.
Includes
- A scoping call and a written scope before any figure
- A store, a portal, or an integration built to it
- Your data and your accounts, on infrastructure you own
- Built, deployed and handed over with the code
Costs more when
- Regulated data
- Moving off a system you already run
- More than one integration
- 04
Product interface
From
$9,000
- Typical
- 9–25k
- Duration
- 6–10 weeks
People use this all day and it wastes a few minutes every time.
The screens people work in: the crowded ones, the awkward ones, and the ones nobody got round to. We work in your codebase next to your engineers, and the reusable pieces come out of real screens rather than a separate exercise.
Includes
- The main things people do, designed properly
- What every screen shows while loading, when empty, and when it breaks
- Real code your engineers review
- Works with a keyboard and a screen reader
- Components documented as they are built
Costs more when
- More than three main flows
- A phone app as well as the web
- Moving off an old system
In every price.
These are not upsells and they are not negotiable. They are the reason the floor sits where it does.
A fixed price
Quoted before we start, from a written scope. If we misjudge the work, we absorb it rather than raising a change order.
Weekly shipping
Work lands in a real environment every Friday. You never wait a month to see where the money went.
No handoff
There is no junior team behind the pitch. Whoever you meet on the first call is who does the work.
Live on your own hosting
Deployment, SSL and DNS are part of the build, never an add-on. A price that cannot go live is not a price.
The running thing
You get the repository, the components and the documentation. Nothing is held hostage as leverage for a retainer.
- Professional design and development services, delivered remotely and quoted per engagement from a written scope. Nothing here is a physical product, a licence or a subscription to software we host. What you receive is described under each engagement above, and it is what the agreement obliges us to deliver.
- Two ways, same site either way. Half on signature and half on launch, or twelve monthly instalments starting on order, which costs six per cent more for the wait and is stated in dollars on your invoice. You own the site once the build is paid for. A care plan, if you take one, bills separately at the start of each month and cancelling it never takes the site away. Invoices are in US dollars and payable on receipt; anything unpaid after thirty days pauses the work until it clears.
- Work ships to a real environment every Friday from kickoff, and each engagement above carries its own duration. Final handover is the repository, the running deployment and the documentation, on your own hosting. If we are the reason a date slips, we do not bill for the delay.
- The deposit reserves a studio slot and covers the discovery that starts immediately, so it is non-refundable once kickoff happens. Before kickoff, it is refunded in full. After that, fixed-price work can be halted at any milestone: you pay for what has shipped, you keep it, and any balance already paid against unstarted work is returned within ten business days. A care plan ends on thirty days’ notice, and the notice month is not refunded.
- Scope, mostly: more pages, more flows, a store or a login, another language, another location. Regulated work costs more because the research and the documentation cost more. A rush timeline carries a premium, quoted in dollars before you agree to it, and we will usually talk you out of it. Anything outside the signed scope is quoted in writing and starts only once you approve it.
- You do, on final payment. The designs, the repository and the components transfer to you outright. We keep the right to show the work publicly unless the agreement says otherwise. Nothing is held hostage as leverage for a retainer.
- No. It is a separate decision from the build and a separate invoice, it is cancellable, and cancelling it does not take the site away. It exists because a site left alone for two years stops being the site you paid for: dependencies age, links rot, forms quietly break. If you have someone who does that already, keep them.
- Yes, white-labelled, at the same rates. We will not pretend to be your staff on a client call, but our name does not need to be on the work.
- A site starts at four thousand. Smaller pieces of work on a site we already built are priced individually. Below about two and a half thousand, the overhead of working with a studio costs you more than it returns, and we will say so rather than take the work.
- Prices exclude any sales tax or VAT, which is added where the law requires it. Engagements are governed by the laws of the State of New York. If something goes wrong, write to the studio before you write to your bank. Every dispute we have had was a scope conversation nobody started early enough.
- Jacquelyn Meyer Design, an independent design studio operating from Long Island, NY. Reach a human on any question, billing or scope or refunds, through the studio inbox linked on this page.