KANSAS CITY · WHAT A SMALL-BUSINESS SITE COSTS
What a website costs in Kansas City, and what you get for the money.
Kansas City studios that publish prices charge anywhere from about $500 to $25,000 to build a small-business site, and $35 to $300 a month to keep it running. Ours are $1,200 or $2,750 to build, and $100 a month to run. Below is what's inside each of those numbers, ours included.
What other studios in town say they charge.
$499, $999 or $1,499; larger builds quoted
hosting from $35 (from $75 with a database)basic informational site $2,000 to $5,000
maintenance $50 to $200most Johnson County small businesses $5,000 to $25,000
not published (support by the hour)not published
$99, $199 or $299$1,200 (Launch) or $2,750 (Static)
from $100A lot of good studios don't publish a number at all, and that's their call. Ours are on this page because we'd rather you compare us on paper than on a sales call.
Two ways to build, one way to keep it running.
Proven layouts with your content in them. Five pages, live in seven days from the day we have your content. Every day late is a month of Care on us. Two revision rounds, and a refund if you're still not happy.
A custom five-page site you own outright the day it launches. Your go-live date goes in writing on day one, inside two weeks. Walk after the first revision round and your full deposit comes back.
Hosting, SSL, nightly backups, monitoring and one small change a month. Tend ($250/mo) adds unlimited changes to the pages you have. Grow (from $750/mo) adds a new page, offer or test every month.
Selling something online? Basic checkout is a $2,250 add-on to Static, $5,000 total with the build.
Checked September 30, 2026.
WHY ONE SITE COSTS $800 AND ANOTHER $25,000
Five things decide the number, wherever you buy.
- 1
Template or custom.
A template with your words in it is quick and cheap. A layout designed around how your customers decide takes longer and costs more. Launch is the first; Static is the second.
- 2
How many pages.
Most local service businesses need five: home, services, proof, about, contact. Studios that charge per page usually charge $100 or more for each one after the package.
- 3
Who writes it.
If you hand over finished text and photos, the build is faster. If the studio has to write it, that's time, and it shows up somewhere in the price.
- 4
What it has to do.
Taking payments, booking appointments or showing client galleries adds work. We connect the booking and gallery tools you already use (Square, Vagaro, Acuity, Calendly, Pixieset) instead of rebuilding them, which keeps that cost low.
- 5
What happens after launch.
Hosting, security and changes cost money every month somewhere. Some studios fold it into a bigger build price; some charge per change; some leave it to you. Ask before you sign.
Hamilton Solutions, Appleton City, Missouri.
A roof-coating and exterior-painting crew with years of before-and-after photos and a site the owner had built himself. We rebuilt it as a Static site so it looks as professional as the work does. It went live on September 19, 2026.
THE FIRST SCREEN, THEN AND NOW
Working with Wabbit was a great experience from the beginning. They took the website I had pieced together myself and turned it into something polished and professional that represents Hamilton Solutions exactly the way I wanted! I couldn't be happier with the care they put into my company's image and genuinely look forward to our continuing working relationship.
Bret H.Owner, Hamilton Solutions
Why every site we build has a monthly plan.
A live site needs a home, a lock on the door and someone watching it. That's Care, and it's $100 a month on every site we ship. It covers hosting, SSL, nightly backups, security and uptime monitoring, plus one small change a month: new text, hours, prices or a photo. If you change things often, Tend at $250 makes changes unlimited on the pages you have. The site stays yours either way.
Questions
- Q.01
How much does a small business website cost in Kansas City?
Published prices from Kansas City studios run from about $500 for a packaged site to $25,000 for custom agency work, and $35 to $300 a month to keep it running. Ours are $1,200 (Launch) or $2,750 (Static), plus $100 a month.
- Q.02
Why is there a monthly fee at all?
Hosting, security, backups and small updates cost something every month, wherever the site lives. We charge for it openly instead of hiding it in the build price. Care is $100 a month with a twelve-month minimum, then it simply continues.
- Q.03
Do I own the website?
A Static site is yours outright the day it launches. A Launch site runs on our layouts and our hosting; your content and your domain stay yours either way.
- Q.04
How long does it take?
Launch is live in seven days from the day we have your content, guaranteed. Static gets a written go-live date on day one, inside two weeks and usually sooner. If your content arrives late, the date moves with it, day for day.
- Q.05
Can the site take bookings or show client galleries?
Yes. We connect the booking or gallery tool you already use, like Square, Vagaro, Acuity, Calendly or Pixieset, and it works inside your site. If you need booking built into the site itself, that's a bigger build, and the fit call is where we'd scope it.
- Q.06
I already have a Wix or GoDaddy site. Is it worth replacing?
Sometimes it isn't. If it's fast on a phone, says clearly what you do and brings in calls, keep it. If customers check it and then call someone else, that's the site costing you work, and that's when a rebuild pays for itself.
Tell us what you do. We'll tell you which number fits.
Most calls end with a clear answer: Launch, Static, or "you don't need us yet." We reply the same day to set a time.