TTJ Systems Ltd
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What a website costs.

Guide prices below, plus every running cost that isn't in my fee. You get one fixed figure back in writing, and nothing is added to it without you agreeing first.

Prices

The three build prices

Guide prices below. Email me the details and you'll get one fixed figure back in writing, with what's included and what isn't. Nothing is added to it without you agreeing first.

Standard site
£500–1,500
Gets the phone ringing
Shop site
From £2,000
Takes card payments
Applications
Per job
Priced once we've talked it over

Why it's a range, and where in it you'd land

Five things move the price. Tell me about the job and I'll say which of these apply to you, then give you one number. After that it's fixed.

  • CheaperHow much there isOne trade, one service, one page to scroll sits at the bottom. A firm with several services, each needing its own place on Google, sits at the top.Dearer
  • CheaperPhotos and wordingYou send me photos and rough words, or I write it all and arrange the pictures.Dearer
  • CheaperHow many productsTen items with one price each, or two hundred with sizes, colours and stock counts.Dearer
  • CheaperDelivery and tax rulesCollection only, or postage bands by weight and area with VAT handled.Dearer
  • CheaperAnything it connects toA standalone site, or one that talks to booking software or your accounts.Dearer
In detail

Shops, priced honestly

A shop starts at one fixed price for a genuinely simple shop. Everything beyond that is a separate line you choose, so you never pay for a feature you'll not use.

Simple shop

Where every shop starts
£2,000FIXED · 2 TO 3 WEEKS

Up to 15 products, one price each, no options. A handful of pages. Deliberately plain, because a plain shop that works beats a clever one that confuses people.

  • Home, shop, product pages, about, contact
  • Up to 15 products with photographs and prices
  • Basket and Stripe checkout, in your own account
  • Receipt emailed to the customer automatically
  • Order notification emailed to you
  • Stock counts you can change yourself
  • One delivery method — collection, or a single flat rate
  • Set up on Google for your trade and town

That's the whole thing. Anything more is on the list below, and it's priced.

Why it starts here

Most shops that fail online didn't fail for want of features. They failed because nobody could find the thing they wanted and buy it without thinking about it.

Fifteen products, one price each, one way to get it delivered. That sells. Then you add what the shop turns out to need, once you can see which bit is getting in the way.

What that means for your number

A typical small shop lands around £2,400–£3,200 once you've added the two or three things you genuinely need. A full catalogue with options, filters and customer accounts is £4,500–£6,000.

You see every line before you agree to it. Nothing reaches the invoice that you didn't pick.

Add what you need

Each is a fixed price on top of the £2,000. Choose them at quote stage, or add them later once the shop is running and you can see what's missing.

More products

Up to 50 products
Instead of 15
+£400
Up to 150 products
The point where a catalogue needs organising properly
+£900
More than 150
Priced once we've looked at what the data looks like
Quoted

How customers find things

Categories, each its own page
So each range can rank on Google separately
+£350
Search across every product
Worth having past about 40 products
+£300
Filters
By size, colour, price, in stock
+£400

How products work

Options that change the price
Sizes, colours, finishes — each with its own stock count
+£450
Made-to-order pricing
The price works itself out from the options chosen
+£800
Bulk import from a spreadsheet
Update every price or stock count in one go
+£450

Money and delivery

Delivery bands by weight or area
Rather than one flat rate
+£300
VAT handled at checkout
Included in the shown price, or added at the end
+£200
Discount codes
Percentage, fixed amount, or free delivery
+£250
Deposit-only payment
Where the balance is due on delivery
+£350

Customers and accounts

Customer accounts and order history
They log in and see what they've bought before
+£600
Trade pricing
Different prices for logged-in trade customers
+£550
Connecting to your accounts software
Orders through to Xero, QuickBooks or similar
Quoted

Card fees go to Stripe, not to me — roughly 1.5% plus 20p per UK card payment, from an account in your own name. Every shop also needs a domain, about £12 a year.

Applications

A tool

From £9002 TO 3 WEEKS

A calculator, estimator or tracker. One job, done properly.

  • Runs on your machine or in a browser
  • Your own rates and margins, editable by you
  • Results broken down so you can check them
  • Print or email the output as a quote
  • Saved jobs you can return to

Booking system

From £1,4003 TO 5 WEEKS

The software is owned outright. Services it relies on — hosting, email, text messages or payments — may carry their own running costs, confirmed before work begins.

  • Availability set by you, slots vanish once taken
  • Buffer time so you are never double-booked
  • Confirmation and reminder emails
  • Syncs to your Google or Outlook calendar
  • Customers can move or cancel within your window
  • Deposits taken at booking if you want them

Dashboard or custom

From £2,000QUOTED AFTER A SCOPE

Your own figures in one place, or something nobody else sells.

  • Pulls from software you already use where possible
  • Charts that update themselves
  • Filter by date, job type or customer
  • Export to spreadsheet or PDF
  • Separate logins for staff
  • Written scope agreed before anything is built

Why applications say "from"

Because a shop has a shape everybody recognises and software does not. Two people asking for a "job tracker" can want jobs that differ by a factor of five, so quoting a range before I know what yours does would be a number pulled out of the air.

What happens instead: you tell me what it needs to do, I write a scope saying exactly what gets built, and I put one fixed price on it. If that price is more than the problem is worth, I'll say so — and sometimes the answer is a £900 tool rather than a £3,000 system.

Running costs

What isn't in my fee

Said plainly, because nobody likes finding this out afterwards. My fee covers design, build, launch and handover. It does not cover the cost of keeping a website on the internet.

Your domain name

~£12PER YEAR, PAID BY YOU

The address people type in. I'll tell you which one to buy and set it up, but it's registered in your name and renewed on your card. That's deliberate — a domain in my name would be a leash.

Hosting

Usually £0FREE TIER, WHILE IT FITS

Standard sites sit comfortably inside the free tier of the host I use, and most never leave it. If your traffic grows past what the free plan allows, the host charges for the overage and that bill is yours. I'll warn you before it happens, not after.

Shop costs

Shops only
Per saleCHARGED BY STRIPE, NOT BY ME

Card payments go through Stripe, in an account in your name, and the money lands in your bank. Stripe takes roughly 1.5% plus 20p on a UK card. A busy shop may also need a paid hosting tier. Neither of those is mine and neither comes to me.

Everything is in your name, not mine

You open the accounts in your business's name — domain, hosting, GitHub and, for a shop, Stripe. I guide you through each one. Stripe in particular has to be opened by you, because it verifies the account holder's identity. You then invite me in as a developer where I need access, and you can remove me at any time without affecting the site. Nothing sits in a TTJ Systems account, so there is no version of this where I hold your website hostage.

Any subscription that becomes necessary is one you sign up to and pay directly. I never put your running costs on my card and bill you for them.

Why I keep a key

At handover I ask to stay on as a collaborator on your site. That's so when you want something changed I can do it the same day instead of asking you to email passwords about. It costs you nothing to leave in place.

  • Changes are charged per job, or covered by a monthly plan if you take one
  • You can remove my access whenever you like, from your own account
  • Removing it doesn't break anything — the site is yours and keeps running
  • If you'd rather I had no access at all, say so and I won't ask again

How you can pay me

Whichever suits you. Nothing here carries a surcharge.

  • Bank transfer — preferred, details on the invoice
  • Cash — receipted, and through the books like anything else
  • Cryptocurrency — by arrangement, fixed in pounds on the invoice

I don't take cards. There's no card reader and no card fee built into my prices, which is part of why they are what they are. If your shop needs to take cards from your customers, that's Stripe in your own account and nothing to do with what you pay me.

Rough total for a standard site once it's live: about £12 a year for the domain, and nothing else unless you take a monthly plan. A shop adds card fees on what you actually sell.

Keeping it running

Upkeep, priced by what it's looking after

A website that sits there and a shop taking card payments are not the same thing to look after, and a piece of software is different again. Three ladders rather than one, because pretending otherwise would mean overcharging one of you and underserving another.

What separates the three tiers, whatever you're on

Bronze

I start work within 5 working days. Weekday email. One small change a month.

Silver

I start work within 2 working days. Email and WhatsApp. Three changes a month.

Gold

I start work the same day, seven days a week. Phone support, 6am to 6pm — you get my number once you're a customer. Changes as often as you need them, up to four hours a month.

On every tier, including Bronze

If it's down, that's not a maintenance job — it's an emergency, and I'm on it the same day whatever you pay. The response times above are for ordinary work: new photographs, changed prices, a page that needs rewriting.

And on every tier

Requests in writing so the clock is measurable. Cancel with 30 days' notice, no exit fee, and whatever I've built stays yours either way.

Looking after a website

Not much can break. It's a static site, so there's no database to corrupt and no payment to fail. Most of what you're paying for is somebody being on the end of an email when you want a photograph swapped.

Bronze

£25/mo
I start work
Within 5 working days
  • Hosting and security kept current
  • Weekly backup, kept 3 months
  • Uptime checked every few minutes
  • One small change a month
  • Weekday email

Silver

£45/mo
I start work
Within 2 working days
  • Everything in Bronze
  • Three changes a month
  • Google listing kept current
  • Monthly note on enquiries
  • Email and WhatsApp

Gold

£85/mo
I start work
Same day, 7 days
  • Everything in Silver
  • Up to four hours of changes a month
  • A new page each quarter
  • Search rankings reviewed monthly
  • Phone, 6am–6pm any day

Looking after a shop

More than double, and here's exactly why. A shop has a payment integration that can break when Stripe changes something at their end, stock and orders that have to stay accurate, and a checkout that has to be tested rather than just pinged. When a website goes down you lose enquiries. When a checkout breaks you lose money that day and often don't find out until somebody tells you.

Bronze

£60/mo
I start work
Within 5 working days
  • Everything in the website Bronze
  • Checkout tested weekly with a real test order
  • Stripe integration watched for changes at their end
  • Alert if payments start failing
  • Daily backup of orders and stock
  • One product or price change a month

Silver

£110/mo
I start work
Within 2 working days
  • Everything in shop Bronze
  • Checkout tested twice a week
  • Up to ten product or price changes a month
  • Monthly note on orders, takings and abandoned baskets
  • Seasonal banner or offer set up
  • Email and WhatsApp

Gold

£185/mo
I start work
Same day, 7 days
  • Everything in shop Silver
  • Checkout tested daily
  • Up to four hours of product and price changes a month
  • Bulk updates from your spreadsheet
  • A new category or campaign page each quarter
  • Phone, 6am–6pm any day, including weekends

Looking after an application

The most of the three, because software carries real data and real dependencies. Libraries get security patches that have to be applied and tested. Your data has to be backed up daily and the restore has to be proven, not assumed. If it's running on a server, that server needs watching. This isn't optional maintenance in the way a website's is — an unpatched application is a genuine risk.

Bronze

£85/mo
I start work
Within 5 working days
  • Security patches applied and tested
  • Daily backup, with a restore tested quarterly
  • Server and error monitoring
  • Bug fixes on anything I built
  • Weekday email

Silver

£150/mo
I start work
Within 2 working days
  • Everything in application Bronze
  • Restore tested monthly rather than quarterly
  • Up to three hours of small changes a month
  • New reports or fields added on request
  • Monthly note on usage and errors
  • Email and WhatsApp

Gold

£260/mo
I start work
Same day, 7 days
  • Everything in application Silver
  • Up to six hours of changes a month
  • A new feature each quarter, within reason
  • Priority over everything else in the queue
  • Yearly review of where it should go next
  • Phone, 6am–6pm any day

Which of these do you actually need?

A website

A plan is genuinely optional. The site keeps working whether you take one or not, and plenty of people don't. Take Bronze if you'd rather somebody else remembered the backups; skip it if you're happy emailing me when something needs changing and paying by the hour.

A shop

I'd push you towards one, and I'll say why rather than just insist. A broken checkout is invisible until a customer complains, and every day it stays broken costs you orders. Weekly testing catches that. If you'd rather not, that's your call and the shop is still yours.

An application

This one I'd genuinely rather you didn't skip. Software with no security patching becomes a liability over time, and if it holds customer data that liability is yours, not mine. If the monthly is more than you want to spend, tell me — sometimes the right answer is a simpler build that needs less looking after.

Changing your mind

Move up or down a tier whenever you like, with 30 days' notice either way. Plenty of people start on Gold through a busy season and drop to Bronze after.

Paid by direct debit so neither of us has to think about it. Off-plan work is £45 an hour, quoted before I start. A domain is about £12 a year on top, bought in your own name.

Want a fixed figure for your job?

Email me what you're after and I'll come back with one number in writing, a list of what's included, and what isn't. No obligation, and nobody chasing you afterwards.

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