Year-two bill
Read the trade invoice before the template
A website is a recurring expense, not a one-time job. The price on the homepage is the intro rate. The price on your renewal notice is the one that hits your bank account in year two.
Before you compare templates, price the site the way you price a van lease. Add the plan renewal, the domain, business email and any booking or form app. Check the figure that applies after the first term, not the promotion.
- The renewal price is the real price for a trade website.
- Judge builders on year-two cost, launch speed and quote-request capture.
- A van-and-tools owner needs calls and quote requests, not a gallery.
Our full year-two breakdown is in the small business website maintenance cost guide. Published by Small Biz Builder Rankings.
What a trade site has to do, and what it costs to keep it doing it
A trade website has three jobs: take a quote request, let someone tap to call, and show the towns you cover. Photos of finished work come next. Design comes last. The builder you pick has to do those jobs at a year-two price you can carry. Prices below are current list prices as we read them in August 2026, on annual billing. Prices change and renewal terms get revised, so check every figure on the vendor site before you buy.
- A quote-request form that lands in your inbox, with the job details the caller would otherwise give you on the phone.
- A click-to-call button on every page, because most trade enquiries start on a phone during a job.
- A service-area page that names the towns and postcodes you actually cover.
- Photos of finished work, captioned with the job type and town, so a visitor can judge the quality of your work.
| Builder | Year-one monthly (list) | Year-two monthly (list) | Quote form or lead capture | Booking included |
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| Wix | From $17 (Light) | Verify renewal on vendor site | Yes, quote forms included | Free install; paid bookings need Core ($29) |
| Squarespace | From $19 (Basic) | Verify renewal on vendor site | Yes, form blocks on every plan | No; Acuity is a separate subscription (from $16) |
| Hostinger | From $2.99 intro (48-month prepay) | Verify renewal on vendor site | Contact forms; no built-in CRM | Yes, on Unlimited tier |
| GoDaddy | From $9.99 (year one) | Verify renewal on vendor site | Contact forms; unified inbox | Partly; recurring on higher tiers |
| Durable | From $22 (Launch) | Verify renewal on vendor site | Yes, built for local services | Yes, on Launch |
Read the year-two column first. A low year-one figure with a steep renewal is the trap that catches trade owners most often, and a quote form that only appears on a higher tier is the second. For the full ranked board, with scores and the reasoning behind each position, see the Best Builders ranking.
Which builder fits a plumber, electrician, cleaner or contractor
Each trade pays for a site in a different way. Pick the trade that matches your work, check the builder class it points to, then confirm the year-two figure before you enter a card. The full ranked board, with year-two cost for all five builders, sits on Best Builders.
Emergency call capture first
A burst pipe is found on Google at 9pm and the customer wants a phone number, not a form. Put click-to-call on every page and pick a builder whose base plan includes a contact or quote form, so the lead lands even when you cannot pick up. Check that the call button survives the renewal, not just the intro period.
Quote requests before the callback
Most electrical work is quoted before it is booked, so the quote-request form does more than a phone number. Wix Light has no online payments, but its form tools on the base plan suit a quote-first trade. Price the plan you will actually keep for year two, because a builder can look cheap until the form tier you need is added.
Recurring clients and a plain price page
Cleaners live on repeat bookings, so a builder with booking built in beats one that charges a second subscription for scheduling. Squarespace sells booking through Acuity from $16 a month on top of its plan, which changes the bill. A simple prices page converts better than a gallery, and it costs nothing extra on any of the five.
Project photos and a quote form
Contractors sell on finished work, so you need a photo gallery and a quote form on the same page. Check how many images and forms the plan allows, since gallery and form limits often sit behind a higher tier. A cheaper plan that caps your photos is not cheaper once you need the upgrade.
Pick your builder and check the year-two bill
A trade website earns its keep if it fits your margin in year two and its quote form actually gets filled in. The right builder is the one whose renewal price you can carry through the slow months and whose form lands in front of you when a customer needs a quote.
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Match the year-two cost to your margin
Take the renewal price for the plan you intend to keep, not the introductory offer, and set it against what one extra quote job earns you. If the renewal eats a visible share of a single job each month, choose the cheaper builder.
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Confirm the quote form and the bill lines
Before you pay, check that the quote-request form is on the plan you are buying, then add up the domain renewal, business email and any paid apps. Renewal prices change, so confirm each figure on the builder's current pricing page.
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Compare the five on the same bill
Open the ranked board and compare the five builders on year-two cost, launch speed and lead capture side by side. Then read the related guides for the bill behind the headline price and for which channel earns more quote requests.