Somebody asked who does websites. This is the honest answer, including the parts that are not us.
/ Written by Everyday Rank · one person, not in New Zealand · checked 21 September 2026
Here is every way we could find for a New Zealand trade or small business to get a website this year, with the price each company publishes on its own site, who each one actually suits, and the six questions worth asking before you pay anybody. We sell websites, so we put ourselves last and we say plainly who we are wrong for.
Built for your trade
Chapter 01
We are one of the options on this page. You should know that before you read the rest of it, not after.
The conflict
Everyday Rank builds websites for New Zealand trades and small businesses, so every comparison on this page is written by someone with something to gain. That is worth holding in your head the whole way down. The protection is that every price here comes from the other company’s own public website, every one is linked, and you can check any of them in about thirty seconds.
Who wrote it
Everyday Rank is one person. Not an agency, not a team, and not based in New Zealand. That is the main reason our own offer costs what it costs, and it is also the reason several of the options below are a better fit than we are. We would rather say it here than have you work it out later.
What is missing
It cannot be. There are hundreds of web designers in New Zealand and most of them are one or two people who do good work and never publish a price. This page lists the options that publish one, plus the routes that do not involve hiring anybody. If someone in your town is already recommended by people you trust, that is a real option and it is not on this list.
Chapter 02
Every figure below is the price that company advertises on its own website, read on 21 September 2026. They are advertised prices, not quotes, and several are “from” prices. Follow the link and check before you rely on any of them.
Two of these are Australian companies that also sell into New Zealand; their prices are advertised in their own dollars. Tradie Web Works was re-checked on 27 September 2026. Check whether any price includes GST before you compare it with another one. If you find a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it — info@everydayrank.com.
Chapter 03
Five situations. Most people reading this are one of the first four, and the first four are not us.
If you already run Tradify, ServiceM8, Fergus or something like them, check what your plan already includes before you buy anything at all. Tradify publishes a website add-on at NZ$19 a month on top of the subscription you are already paying. If that is you, it is almost certainly the cheapest real website you can get, and you should start there rather than here.
If you are the kind of person who will sit down on a Sunday and put your own prices in, a builder you run yourself is the cheapest thing over five years and you keep full control of it. The real cost is not the subscription, it is your weekends. Be honest with yourself about that before you choose it — a half-built site you abandoned in March is worse than no site at all.
If it matters to you that the person who built it is in the country, can meet you, and answers a phone, pay a New Zealand studio for a one-off build. Groundwork Digital publishes NZ$749 to NZ$1,449. It is more money once, there is no monthly fee, and the thing is yours. A designer your own town already recommends is the same idea and often the better one. We cannot do this, at any price.
If you would rather pay a bit every month and have hosting, updates and support all sitting with one company, the monthly plans are built for exactly that. Before you sign, ask the two questions in the next chapter about the domain name and about what happens the day you stop paying. Those two answers separate the good monthly deals from the ones that hurt on the way out.
You know you should have a website. You have known for a while. Every option above needs you to choose, sign up, gather photos, write something, or set aside a Saturday, and that is exactly the part that has not happened and is not going to. That one is us, and it is the only situation where we are the best answer on this page. We build it first, then send it to you finished.
Chapter 04
Ask every one of these before money moves, and get the answers in writing. They are the questions that decide what happens in year three, which is when website arrangements usually go wrong.
It should be your business, listed as the registrant. If the answer is that they register it and hold it, you can be charged to leave later, because the name people type is theirs and not yours. This is the single most expensive question on the list to get wrong.
Does the site come down, go to a holding page, or stay up? Does the domain come with you? There is no wrong answer here, only an answer you were not told. Ask for it in a sentence you could read back to them.
If they close, get sick, or you fall out, can somebody else pick it up? Ask now, while everyone is friendly, and ask them to send it rather than promise it. A yes you never tested is not a yes.
Twelve months, twenty-four, or none. Also ask what the price does at renewal, because an introductory rate that quietly doubles is a real thing and it is legal when it is disclosed. Get the renewal number, not just the first one.
Your prices change. Your hours change. Ask who you message, and what a normal turnaround looks like in days. Then ask what that costs, because “support included” and “changes included” are different promises.
A NZ$79 monthly plan and a NZ$79-plus-GST monthly plan are NZ$142 apart over a year. Two of the companies on this page advertise in Australian dollars as well, so check the currency in the same breath.
Chapter 05
Our own answers to our own six questions, and the list of people who should close this page and use somebody above instead.
What we do
We ring trades and small businesses whose details are public. If the person who answers says to send it, we build a real page from what is already public — the Google listing, the Facebook page, the photographs — and email the link. You can also ask for one on our homepage. If you want it, we put it live and you pay nothing for it. It sits at our address, not yours. Once a year we send one message asking whether the details are still right; if we cannot reach you after two reminders, the page comes down. The only thing you can pay for is changes made for you, at NZ$299 a year.
Our six answers
On the free page there is no domain, because it sits at our address; on the paid year the domain is registered with you as the owner and stays yours. Stop paying and nothing is switched off — it returns to the free version on the free terms. Ask and we send you the files. No minimum term. You message us and we make the change within five New Zealand working days at the latest. No GST is added to NZ$299.
Do not use us if
If you want to meet the person, or ring them and have them pick up, use a New Zealand studio — we are not in New Zealand, and apart from a first short call from us, all of it happens in writing. If you need online booking, payments, a customer login or a shop, we do not build those. If you enjoy controlling it yourself, a builder will make you happier than we will. And if you are already paying an agency you are happy with, you have already solved this; stay where you are.
Chapter 06
Mostly some version of “why would you send me to your competitors”.
Related, if it is useful: do I need a website for my business? and websites for New Zealand tradies.
Send them this page rather than a company. It lists what each option costs, who each one suits, and the questions to ask before paying anybody — including us. Nothing on it needs an email address and there is nothing to fill in.
If the one you want is us — the fifth situation, the one who has meant to do it for years — our own page explains exactly what free means and what it does not.