Web design in Wanaka, priced up front
FOUNDR AI is based in Wānaka. We build websites and online stores for local businesses, and we meet you in person instead of sending a sales rep down from Auckland. The base build and every add-on have a published price.
| What you get | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Website base: one of our ready-made designs rebuilt with your logo, colours, photos and words, built on Shopify | $990 | Home, About, Services and Contact pages, an online shop for up to 25 products from one brand, mobile-first build, SEO and AI-search setup, Book buttons linked to your booking system, your own domain and client portal access |
| Service menu & pricing set-up | $190 | Add-on |
| Google Business Profile setup | $249 | Add-on |
| Extra page | $149 | Add-on |
| Clean product images (up to 25) | $149 | Add-on |
| Journal + 3 starter articles | $150 | Add-on |
| Branded email templates (5) | $150 | Add-on |
| Custom design from scratch, large catalogues, store migrations, web apps | Quoted | Free, fixed-price proposal: price your project |
Extra brands in the shop are an add-on too. You can build your website online by choosing the base and any add-ons. The base includes SEO and AI-search setup and access to the client portal, where you can ask for photo and copy changes. That last part matters here, because a Wānaka business's website should look different in July than it does in January.
Our Wānaka proof: UKIYO on Helwick Street
We built the website and Shopify store for UKIYO, a salon and haircare brand in Wānaka, at 28 Helwick Street in the middle of town. The store carries haircare from brands like Kérastase, Wella, Redken and ghd, with stylist pages, a journal and online booking linked to the salon book. Read the UKIYO case study.
Working on it showed us what a Wānaka business deals with online: locals and visitors searching for the same thing in different ways, quiet weeks in the shoulder seasons, and a store that has to keep selling while the owner is flat out on the floor.
Another Wānaka business, MPA Collective, put it simply. Jordy: "Best money we've spent on the business."
How it works when you're local
- Coffee, not a sales call. We meet in person in Wānaka for the kick-off. Bring your logo, your phone full of photos and a list of what you sell.
- Your words, your photos. We shape your content into pages. If your photos are thin, we'll tell you which shots to take before the light changes.
- Preview, then launch. You get a live preview link to check on your phone before anything goes live. Bigger custom jobs get their timeline in the proposal.
- Changes after launch. Ask through the client portal, or catch us in town.
Websites, Shopify and SEO from one Wānaka studio
Most small towns end up with the website built by one person, the online store bolted on by another and the Google listing left to whoever had a spare afternoon. We do all three, so they work together.
- Website design. A ready-made design rebuilt around your business, or a custom site designed from scratch.
- Shopify development. Stores for local brands, with Afterpay, NZ shipping and GST set up, and Google Shopping connected.
- SEO for Wanaka searches. Service pages written for the places you work, plus monthly blog posts on the Rank plan and above.
If you're not sure whether to fix the site you already have or start again, send us the link through the contact page.
Built around the Upper Clutha's seasons
Trade in Wānaka swings hard between winter, summer and the quiet months in between. A site that's right for the ski season reads wrong when the lake's full of swimmers. We set sites up so the seasonal parts are easy to swap:
- Homepage banners and offers that change for winter and summer
- Booking and enquiry buttons placed where visitors look on a phone, often from a car park or a hotel room
- Gift vouchers and online retail that keep money coming in during the shoulder seasons
- Pages written for the way visitors search ("near Wanaka", "Lake Hāwea", "Cardrona") as well as the way locals do
Who we build for in Wānaka
- Tourism and activities. Guides, hire shops, tour operators and anyone selling a day out on the lake or the mountains.
- Hospitality and accommodation. Cafés, restaurants, bars, holiday homes and lodges from Albert Town to Luggate.
- Builders and trades. Building, landscaping, joinery and the trades busy with new homes across the Upper Clutha.
- Beauty and wellness. Salons, clinics, studios and therapists.
- Makers and retail. Local brands selling online to people who visited once and want to buy again from home.
Local details we get right
- Both spellings. People search for "Wanaka" and "Wānaka". Your pages use both naturally, so you show up either way.
- Google Business Profile. Your address, hours and service area on the site match your Google listing, which helps you appear in the map results.
- Shipping from Wānaka. For online stores we set NZ shipping zones with rural delivery priced properly, which matters when plenty of your customers live rurally.
- Privacy and GST. Forms and checkouts come with a privacy policy for the Privacy Act 2020, and stores have GST set up on prices and invoices.
Pay once, or $0 upfront
Pay the total in full, or spread it 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.
Monthly plans cover the design, the build and the ongoing work with $0 upfront and no lock-in, month to month:
- Launch, $149/mo. A 5-page website, 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 one every 3 weeks, and managed Google Ads.
- Growth, $1,499/mo. Meta ads alongside Google, full-funnel strategy and a monthly growth review.
Ad spend is paid to Google and Meta directly. Rank and above add monthly blog posts, which is how a Wānaka business starts showing up for searches beyond its own name.