Website design in NZ, at a published price
You can start from one of our ready-made designs or have a site designed from a blank page. Both are fixed price: the ready-made website has a published price, and a custom build gets a fixed-price proposal before any work starts.
| Option | Price | Pages | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website base: a ready-made design, built on Shopify | $990 | Home, About, Services and Contact, plus an online shop for up to 25 products from one brand | About 2 weeks |
| Extra page | $149 each | Add as many as you need | Built with the base |
| Custom design from scratch, large catalogues, store migrations | Free, fixed-price proposal | Scoped to your site | Set out in the proposal |
Ready-made designs
Browse the designs in the website designs collection. Pick the one closest to how you want to come across, and we rebuild it with your logo, colours, photos and words. It isn't a theme you fill in yourself. Every ready-made site comes with:
- SEO and AI-search setup, so Google and AI tools like ChatGPT can read and quote your pages
- A mobile-first build, with Book buttons linked to your booking system
- Your own domain and access to the client portal
Add-ons, if you want them: service menu and pricing set-up $190, Google Business Profile setup $249, extra page $149, clean product images (up to 25) $149, a Journal with 3 starter articles $150, and 5 branded email templates $150. Extra brands in the shop can be added too. You can build your website and choose add-ons here.
Custom website builds
A custom build starts from your brand, not from a layout. It suits businesses whose site has to do something specific: explain a complicated service, show a big project portfolio, take enquiries for several locations, or match a brand that's already been through a proper design process. You get design rounds before anything is built, and the site is coded to the agreed design. Custom builds are quoted, so ask for a free, fixed-price proposal.
Not sure which you need? If a ready-made design is 80% of the way there, take it. You'll be live sooner and spend less. If none of them feel like you, go custom.
Work we can point to
We'd rather show you real sites than a logo wall.
- UKIYO, Wānaka. We built the website and Shopify store for UKIYO, a salon and haircare brand in Wānaka. Read the UKIYO case study.
- Crew Stylists, Queenstown. We built the website and Shopify store for Crew Stylists in Queenstown, with a page for each service.
- MBS Architectural. A website for a supplier of architectural ceiling and wall systems, built to show its product range and take quote requests.
- Sharpen It, Christchurch. Hamish's words: "Codie turned my idea into a proper website in days, not months."
- MPA Collective, Wānaka. Jordy's words: "Best money we've spent on the business."
How the process works
- Choose and pay. Pick a design and any add-ons, or ask for a proposal for a custom build. You'll hear from Codie within two business days to book the kick-off.
- Kick-off. A call about your services, customers and what the site needs to get people to do: call, book, buy or enquire. You send your logo, photos and any copy you have.
- Build. We shape your content into pages and design them. Ready-made designs go straight to build. Custom builds go through design rounds first.
- Review. You get a live preview link to check on your phone and laptop. Changes go in before launch.
- Launch. We connect your domain, submit the site to Google and check that every form sends.
Who it's for
Most of our sites are for owner-run businesses where the website's job is to make the phone ring or fill the booking sheet:
- Trades and construction: builders, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, painters
- Hospitality and tourism: cafés, restaurants, accommodation, tour operators
- Beauty and wellness: salons, barbers, clinics, therapists
- Professional services: accountants, advisers, architects, consultants
- Retail and makers who want a content site alongside a shop
Website redesign
A redesign is worth it when the site looks dated on a phone, when you can't change it without paying someone each time, or when it's getting visits but no enquiries. Rebuilding a site you already have is a different job from starting fresh. Your old pages have links and rankings, so we map every important URL to its new home with 301 redirects, keep the pages that bring in traffic, and rewrite the ones that don't. Smaller sites usually fit the $990 base with a few extra pages. Larger sites and store migrations get a free, fixed-price proposal.
Four questions to ask any web design company in NZ
- What's the total price? Get it in writing, including what happens if you want one more page.
- Whose name is the domain in? It should be yours, not the agency's.
- What does the monthly fee actually cover? Hosting alone is cheap. Ask whether changes, security updates and backups are in it.
- How do changes work after launch? If every edit means a new invoice, the site goes stale within a year.
We publish our answers on this page, so you can hold us to them.
Built for NZ
We're based in Wānaka and build websites for businesses all over New Zealand.
- Your .co.nz domain. We connect the domain you own, or help you register one in your name. You keep it if you ever leave.
- Privacy Act 2020. Contact and booking forms come with a plain-English privacy policy covering what you collect and why.
- Local search. Your address, phone number and service area are marked up for Google, and match your Google Business Profile.
- Speed on NZ connections. Images are compressed and pages are kept light, so the site loads quickly on rural broadband and mobile data.
Pay upfront or monthly
You can pay for your website in full, or spread the total over 3, 6, 9 or 12 months with no interest or extra fees, and pay off the balance any time. Your Shopify plan is billed by Shopify separately. If you'd rather not buy a site outright, our monthly plans include the design, the build and the ongoing work, with $0 upfront and no lock-in contract:
- Launch, $149/mo: a 5-page website on your own domain, mobile build, hosting and updates
- Grow, $299/mo: up to 10 pages, service pages and on-page SEO foundations
- Rank, $549/mo: 10+ pages, keyword-led service pages, Google Business Profile optimisation, monthly blogs and local SEO
- Authority, $899/mo: a full SEO programme, 10 launch blogs then 1 every 3 weeks, and managed Google Ads
- Growth, $1,499/mo: Meta ads alongside Google, a full-funnel strategy and a monthly growth review
See the full list on the monthly plans section. Ad spend on Authority and Growth is paid directly to Google and Meta.