When many customers ask us for consultation, they often ask questions such as "Did your website buy out from ?" or "After completing it, do you still have to pay the annual fee every year?"
I have to say that unless you have run a website for a long time, ordinary people will not know how much hidden costs will be for building a website. The charging model of each company is different, some are one-time buyouts and some are annual fees. This article has compiled the website’s charging model for everyone. What fees should I pay? To whom? Let me explain it clearly at one time.
website charging model
Currently, the mainstream website construction charging model is divided into two types, one is the annual fee system and the other is the buyout system.
-year fee system charging model
-year fee system charging model is usually aimed at the official website of small and medium-sized enterprises. It mainly focuses on owning the official website of the enterprise for only 200 to 1,000 yuan per year. If you renew it for 3-5 years, you will also have a discount. However, it should be noted that for the first time, a one-time website construction fee will generally be charged several hundred yuan, and the proportion of each company may be different. Usually, adding these first-time fees to an annual fee of 3-5 years will be the final total price of a website. The advantage of
annual fee-based website is that it spreads a large amount of expenses every year. The funding pressure for small and medium-sized enterprises to build websites for the first time is low, which is very suitable for beginners who have never made a website, or the catering industry with a faster life cycle of , etc. The disadvantage is that the cost calculation is complex and it is easy to be attracted by the seemingly low annual fees, but in fact there are additional website construction fees, etc. to add.
In addition, there is another feature of the annual fee-based website, which is that the first construction and design are relatively fast, and are generally made using templates. Many companies have promises to complete the product in 7 days or 14 days, etc., which is suitable for companies that need to catch up with marketing timeliness. Of course, the degree of customization will be very low.
buyout system charging mode
buyout system means that if you pay a fee, please ask the website company to help you create a website. This website belongs to you. You don’t have to worry about losing the entire website after stopping paying the annual fee. Moreover, since the first production cost of buying out websites is high, it generally requires higher design and customization of the website company, and the first production time is also relatively long.
In addition, although the buyout website is owned by the enterprise, there are not any other expenses since then. There are still basic rental fees such as host domain names and other things to pay. This is not saved, and will be introduced in detail later. For affordable buyout websites, the production cost is roughly not much different from the annual fee system in the total price of 3-5 years. However, the buyout system will provide higher unit price brand website design services, and the price may be several times higher.
Because the buyout system has a high first production cost and a relatively high degree of customization, it is usually suitable for medium and large enterprises, or small enterprises that pay more attention to corporate brands. However, because the production schedule will also be lengthened, business owners need to evaluate whether they can keep up with their own company's marketing schedule.
In short, buyout and annual fees have their own advantages and disadvantages, and suitable companies are also different. For small and medium-sized enterprises, you can choose the right manufacturer according to your needs and design preferences. For medium and large brand companies, it may be more suitable for the buyout system. takes some time to to polish the official website design and content. Is there no worries if I buy out the
website?
Although the above mentioned that buying out is less about not having to worry about being kidnapped or hiding the cost, does this mean that after the website is completed, will everything be peaceful in the future? Not necessarily, we have explained in detail the various costs that must be spent on operating a website, so that everyone can be mentally prepared for owning a website.
annual rental fee for host and domain name
website does not automatically appear on the network after completion. To make a site operate normally, you need to have a host and domain name. The domain name is like the address and door sign of your store, so that everyone can find you. The host is like a house and a store, it is the space for you to operate.These things cannot be bought out, but they have to pay rent regularly to host or domain name dealers every year. Just like when you buy a house today, although you don’t have to pay the rent, there are still water, electricity and property fees to pay. The same is true.
Generally speaking, website manufacturers provide agency or stewardship for such fees. Business owners do not have to worry about who to pay these fees to, they can handle them at once.
Maintenance and management fees
Most companies ignore this type of fees most. Many websites set up with CMS are easily at risk of being hacked if they are not updated regularly. Even customized websites may have risks such as host disconnection, operating system crash, data loss, etc., or simply cannot operate the website and want to call for consultation. Website manufacturers usually provide annual maintenance to resolve most difficult and complicated diseases for you. The cost is usually calculated annually at 10%-20% of the website production cost. Business owners can also consider not purchasing regular maintenance services, which will turn out to be a problem with the website. A single-time repair is called repair. In addition to the high cost of temporary repair, the waiting time may also be relatively long.
Operating expenses
If the website is operating regularly, there will be content that needs to be updated from time to time. Generally, small and medium-sized enterprises may update the latest news, product content, etc. Medium and large enterprises may have various data such as investor zones, news media zones, etc. to be put on the shelves. If it is a shopping cart website, it is even more indispensable to capture goods at various expenses and put on the shelves of new products. In addition, there may be customer service work to deal with.
Most companies handle these tasks by employees, so the cost is also indispensable. If the release of certain content requires technicality, such as product image production or copywriting, some companies will outsource it to a special operation team to handle the release and customer service, etc., which is also an operational expense that cannot be omitted. There is no doubt about
regularly fine-tuning and adding functions
. After some websites are online, in order to be more useful and have more powerful functions, companies will regularly add some new functions to let the website company make the quotation. Or some websites have different theme planning and marketing activities every year, and additional features are needed to support these plans.
Simply put, if the website is an important profit channel for the enterprise, it is naturally worth investing more to make it stronger.
Conclusion
has introduced so much, you may be surprised that after the website is finished, there are so many expenses and costs. In fact, from another perspective, the website is a part of your company's business process, and it continues to make progress and growth as the company continues to improve and grow. The website does not freeze from the moment it is finished, but continues to change as your operational needs. Therefore, considering the website as a regular operating cost , spending some resources to operate and improve it will definitely have more benefits for the company.
If you want to try to run a website well and bring more performance and benefits to your company, you might as well consider doing SEO on the website. This is a good investment with greater returns over time.
