Websitero vs a traditional web agency
An agency and a Websitero build end up in a similar place — a custom, hand-coded website — but you pay an agency for the process, not the site. A discovery call, a proposal, a deposit before you have seen a pixel, a wireframe round, a design round, and a launch date some weeks out. We send you a finished site the same day, and if it is not right you have 7 days to take your money back. The difference is a few thousand euros and who carries the risk while it happens.
- 7-day money-back guarantee
- Code you own
- Live in hours
Point for point
Every claim here is something a traditional web agency publishes or that you can check in an afternoon. Nothing on this page is an opinion about them.
Weeks, sometimes months, with review rounds and sign-off meetings stacked between them. Every one of those weeks is a week you are not being found.
Hours. A preview link usually the same day you send your material.
Usually thousands, and the number moves once the scope does. Change requests after sign-off are billed.
A fixed build fee, quoted before we start, with no scope creep attached to it.
A deposit upfront, before you have seen anything at all — and it is rarely refundable if the design comes back wrong.
A fixed fee upfront, and a finished site in your hands within hours — with 7 days to change your mind and get all of it back.
Wireframes and static mockups, which is a hard thing to judge a website by. What it feels like on a phone comes much later.
The real, finished site on a live preview link. You judge the actual thing within hours, not a mockup weeks out.
Discovery calls, briefing documents, feedback rounds and sign-off meetings, all in your working hours.
About two minutes. Send a document about your business and your photos.
Usually a fixed number of revision rounds, with anything beyond them quoted as extra work.
Unlimited on All-in and Pro, and you still have not paid anything while you make them.
A separate retainer, or you are on your own until you commission — and pay for — the next piece of work.
24/7 chat included with the people who built it, so a small change is a message rather than a purchase order.
A separate line item, a separate specialist, or simply not in scope — plenty of sites launch without either.
Included on All-in and Pro, as part of the same build.
Switching from a traditional web agency
Because the slow part of an agency build is the process, not the coding. Discovery calls, proposals, wireframe approvals and design sign-off take the weeks; writing the site does not. We replace all of that with a document you already have and a finished preview you either approve or send back with notes — the review happens on a real website instead of on a wireframe.
You do not have to take our word for it, which is the point: it is hand-written code by a developer, not a template with your logo dropped in, and you judge the finished preview within hours — with 7 days to get your money back if it is not what you wanted. An agency asks for a deposit and shows you a mockup. If what you actually need is bespoke functionality or original brand identity work, we will tell you to hire an agency rather than take the job.
Tell us and we change it. The preview exists to be picked apart — All-in and Pro include unlimited changes before launch. If it never gets to something you are happy with, say so within 7 days and every cent comes back, which is not a sentence anyone says after paying an agency deposit.
Yes — standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript on hosting you control, in a repository you own. Hand it to any developer, move it anywhere, redesign it whenever you like. The difference against an agency is not what you end up owning, it is that you did not pay thousands and wait a quarter to get there.
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Ready to put your business online?
Two ways to get there: send us a doc about your business and your photos and we'll hand-code it for you, or start from a complete kit and build it yourself.
Takes about two minutes. Backed by a 7-day money-back guarantee.
- 7 days to get your money back
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep