Every number, in the open.

Monthly plans for sites we look after, published rates for when something breaks, and a fixed quote for everything else: agreed in writing before a line of code is written.

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Australian team

Based here, working your hours, not a timezone away

144+

projects delivered

Over 10+ years building and maintaining sites for Australian businesses

One developer, start to finish

The same person every time: no re-explaining your site

Straight answers, on your terms

We only take work we can finish. Ask us anything first: no obligation

Plans that scale by developer time

The maintenance is identical on every rung. The only thing that changes as you move up is how many hours of build time come with it.

Essential

$159 /mo AUD

Keeping a site secure, updated and online. No development time included.

What is covered

  • WordPress core, theme & plugin check
  • Weekly off-site backupsA full copy of your site and database taken every week and stored on separate infrastructure, not on your own server, so a failure, a hack or a bad update cannot take the backups with it., restorable on request
  • Uptime & SSL monitoringYour site is checked from outside every few minutes. If it goes down, or the security certificate is about to expire, the alert reaches us: you are not the monitoring system.: alerts come to us, not you
  • Malware checkFiles and database are scanned for injected code, so anything that has been planted is found rather than waiting to be noticed. maintained
  • Broken-link and 404 checks
  • Monthly report of site status
  • Email support included
  • Free Cloudy Chatbot plugin included, answers visitors from your own Q&A
Start with Essential

Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time: no lock-in.

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Dev

$700 /mo AUD

Your site stays up, stays secure and stays current, and when something breaks, a developer fixes it rather than logging it.

What is covered

  • Critical security & performance checksThe checks that catch the things that actually take a site down: outdated core and plugins with known vulnerabilities, injected code, error rates, and pages that have become slow enough to lose visitors. every week
  • Uptime & SSL monitoringYour site is checked from outside every few minutes. If it goes down, or the security certificate is about to expire, the alert reaches us: you are not the monitoring system.: alerts come to us, not you
  • Weekly off-site backupsA full copy of your site and database taken every week and stored on separate infrastructure, not on your own server, so a failure, a hack or a bad update cannot take the backups with it., restorable on request
  • Your developer emails you every month with what changed and what needs attention
  • Staging site for development changesA private copy of your site where changes are built and checked before anyone else sees them. Updates, new sections and design work go there first, get looked at on phone, tablet and desktop widths, and only reach the live site once you have said so. It matters most on page-builder sites, where a bad update does not error: it re-renders, and the page looks subtly wrong on a screen size nobody checked.: nothing reaches the live site unapproved
  • 10 hours of developer time a month
  • Fixes and small changes, not a build. Content, layout and design edits, plugin and integration setup (included in dev hours)
  • 1 basic page built to match your existing design (included in dev hours)
  • Weekly WordPress core, theme & plugin updates (included in dev hours)
  • Weekly malware and virus check, and fix (included in dev hours)
  • Speed & Core Web VitalsCore Web Vitals are the three loading and stability measures Google uses as a ranking signal: how fast the main content appears, how quickly the page responds to a tap, and whether it jumps around while loading. We measure and fix all three. check and fix (included in dev hours)
  • Priority queue: a developer is assigned and contacts you within 48 hours
  • Urgent issues covered for 1 hour of immediate debugging: you are told what we found, while we work and once it is fixed
  • Free Cloudy Chatbot plugin included, answers visitors from your own Q&A
Choose Dev

Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time: no lock-in.

Master

$1,300 /mo AUD

Where Dev fixes and maintains, Master builds: pages, integrations, and the email and domain problems nobody else will own.

Everything in Dev Plan included +

  • Staging site for development changesA private copy of your site where changes are built and checked before anyone else sees them. Updates, new sections and design work go there first, get looked at on phone, tablet and desktop widths, and only reach the live site once you have said so. It matters most on page-builder sites, where a bad update does not error: it re-renders, and the page looks subtly wrong on a screen size nobody checked.: nothing reaches the live site unapproved
  • 20 hours of developer time a month
  • Everything in Dev: the same checks, monitoring, backups and monthly email
  • Up to 3 pages designed and built (included in dev hours)
  • CRM, accounting and API integrationsConnecting your site to the systems you already run (a CRM like HubSpot, accounting like Xero, or any service with an API) so data moves between them without anyone retyping it. (included in dev hours)
  • Email deliverability problemsWhen forms stop arriving, or your mail lands in spam. We work through the sending records: SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and the mail service itself, rather than telling you to check your junk folder. diagnosed and fixed (included in dev hours)
  • Domain and DNS issuesExpiring domains, records pointing at the wrong place, certificates that will not renew, a migration that left half the traffic behind. The infrastructure layer most agencies hand back to you. handled (included in dev hours)
  • Custom features and functionality (included in dev hours)
  • WooCommerce & payment gateway work (included in dev hours)
  • Same-day response on anything urgent: a developer will work outside business hours if needed
  • Quarterly performance and security checksEvery three months we re-run the full audit: load times and Core Web Vitals, plugin and PHP versions, user accounts and permissions, backup restores, and anything flagged since the last review. You get the findings in writing. (included in dev hours)
  • Free Cloudy Chatbot plugin included, answers visitors from your own Q&A
Choose Master

Billed monthly in AUD. Cancel any time: no lock-in.

Ultimate

Quoted scoped to the work

When the roadmap needs more than Master, or the work is better run as a project.

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Everything in Master Plan included +

  • 20+ hours a month, or a fixed-price project
  • A standing slot in our schedule
  • Multi-site and white-label arrangementsWe look after several sites under one agreement, and (if you are an agency or consultancy) we can work under your brand, so your client only ever deals with you.
  • Architecture, infrastructure and hosting work
  • Direct access, no ticket queue
  • We will tell you honestly whether a retainer or a fixed quote costs you less
  • Free Cloudy Chatbot plugin included, answers visitors from your own Q&A

All plans are month-to-month with no lock-in. Developer hours are for work you want done, if something breaks on a site we maintain, fixing it is covered either way. Hosting is not included: you keep your own hosting account in your own name, so you can leave whenever you like and nothing is held hostage. We will set it up and manage it for you. Every plan includes our free Cloudy Chatbot plugin (basic): it answers visitors from your own Q&A. Every plan is delivered by our Australian-based team, in Australian business hours, billed in AUD. Want someone to look after the site every month? See website maintenance and care plans in Melbourne.

We work on the stack you already have

WordPress
WooCommerce
Shopify
Elementor
Zapier
n8n
Make.com
PHP
MySQL
AWS
Cloudflare
Stripe
HubSpot
Xero
Mailchimp
Google Analytics
Automattic

A chatbot that answers in your words.

Cloudy Chatbot answers your visitors word for word from the questions and answers you write, lists your prices, takes enquiries inside the chat and hands people to you when it is not sure.

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  • Your answers, word for word
  • Prices from your own answers
  • Contact form inside the chat
  • Hands over when it is not sure
  • Home cards and promotions
  • Light and dark chat

Example business, made up to show the chatbot. Yours answers with your own questions, answers and prices.

Incident pricing, no plan required

You do not need to be on a plan for us to help. One-off fixes are quoted before we start, and you get the cause in writing as well as the fix.

Standard

$100AUD

Covers the first hour, then $100/hr

Business hours, started the next business day. For something broken that is not costing you sales today.

Book this fix: $100

One-off payment. Not a subscription.

Same day

$449AUD

Covers the first 2 hours, then $225/hr

Your store is down or cannot take orders. We drop planned work and start today.

Book this fix: $449

One-off payment. Not a subscription.

After hours

$649AUD

Covers the first 2 hours, then $295/hr

Evenings, weekends and public holidays: when a retail site is often at its busiest.

Book this fix: $649

One-off payment. Not a subscription.

What it actually costs

If it takes Standard Same day After hours
1 hour $100 included $449 included $649 included
2 hours $200 $449 included $649 included
3 hours $300 $674 $944
4 hours $400 $899 $1,239

A standard callout covers the first hour; same-day and after-hours callouts cover the first 2 hours. We tell you before we pass them: you will never find out from the invoice. If it looks like more than four hours we stop and re-quote it as a fixed-price job, so an incident can never turn into an open-ended bill.

Planned work rather than an emergency? Ad-hoc development is $100 AUD an hour, or prepay a block: $500 for 5 hours ($100/hr) or $1,000 for 10 hours ($100/hr). Blocks do not expire. If you need hours every month, the Dev plan works out cheaper.

Who actually does the work

01

An Australian-based senior team

Your work is done here in Australia by senior developers, not juniors learning on your budget, and not handed offshore to a subcontractor you never meet. You speak to the person doing the work, in your own business hours. The rates on this page are senior rates, which is why a job takes the hours it takes instead of three times as many.

Project work, fixed quoted

Every build is scoped and priced individually, so you only pay for what you need. Below is what a typical engagement covers: ask for a quote and you get one number.

WordPress development

Fixed quote · from $300 · typical build $2,500 to $5,500

Hand-coded themes and plugins, WooCommerce, membership and multi-language builds: Core Web Vitals optimised, SEO foundations included.

  • Custom theme & plugin development
  • WooCommerce & membership sites
  • PageSpeed 90+ performance target
WordPress development

Shopify development

Fixed quote · from $300 · to $20,000

Custom Shopify themes, app development and Australian payment gateways: from single-product stores through to Shopify Plus and B2B configuration.

  • Custom Shopify theme & app work
  • WooCommerce → Shopify migration
  • Conversion & speed optimisation
Shopify development

Business automation

Fixed quote · from $300 · to $6,000

n8n, Make.com, Zapier and custom integrations: forms to CRM, leads to follow-up, invoices to accounting, plus AI chatbot development.

  • CRM & lead-capture automation
  • Invoice, quote & reporting workflows
  • AI chatbot design and build
Automation services

Technical SEO & blog posts

Fixed quote · project, or monthly to $5,000

Technical SEO on sites we also build and maintain, plus automated blog posts that are drafted and checked, then left for you to review and publish. We report exactly what we shipped.

  • Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals
  • Structured data & AI-answer visibility
  • Automated blog posts, drafted for your review
SEO services

Development rate card

Every build is quoted in writing before it starts. The range is where jobs of that kind actually land: a one-page job sits at the floor, a platform build at the top.

Work Fixed-quote range What that covers
WordPress website & custom development $300: $30,000 Most business sites land at $2,500 to $5,500. Custom themes and plugins, WooCommerce, memberships.
Shopify store development $300: $20,000 Single-product stores through to Shopify Plus and B2B configuration.
Website design $300: $12,000 Design-led builds where the layout is the deliverable, not the CMS.
Framer development $300: $12,000 Marketing sites with CMS collections and interactions.
Shopify automation $300: $12,000 Orders, inventory and fulfilment wired to the systems behind the store.
CRM & marketing automation $300: $8,000 Lead capture through to follow-up, reporting and handover.
Business & workflow automation $300: $6,000 n8n and custom integrations: quotes, invoices, onboarding, reporting.
AI chatbot build $300: $6,000 Trained on your own documentation, with a defined escalation path.
Website chatbot $300: $4,000 Scripted assistant for triage, booking and common questions.
Make.com automation $300: $4,000
Zapier automation $300: $3,200

All figures in AUD and exclude GST. Quoted in writing before any work begins: the range is a guide, the quote is the number.

Pricing questions

The things clients ask most before requesting a quote.

Why are project prices not listed as one figure?
Because no two projects are the same. A five-page brochure site and a WooCommerce store with custom integrations sit at very different price points. We scope your requirements and give you one fixed number, so you never pay for padding.
Is the quote really fixed?
Yes. Once we have scoped and quoted, that is the price. If you later want to add scope we agree the change in writing before doing the work: there are no surprise invoices.
Do I need a plan?
No. Plans are for owners who would rather we handle updates, backups, security and monitoring. You can start one at launch or any time after, and cancel whenever you like. One-off incident pricing is published above for everyone else.
What happens if I do not use my developer hours?
On the Dev plan unused hours roll over one month, so a quiet month is not wasted. They do not accumulate indefinitely, if you consistently do not use them, we will tell you to move down a tier.
Why is hosting not included?
So that nothing is held hostage. Your hosting account stays in your name and you keep the keys, which means you can leave at any time and take the site with you. We will still set it up, tune it and manage it for you.
Are prices in AUD, and do they include GST?
All prices are in Australian dollars. Figures shown exclude GST; your quote and invoices show GST separately where it applies.
Do the plans include a chatbot?
Every care plan (Essential, Dev, Master and Ultimate) includes our free Cloudy Chatbot plugin (basic). It answers visitors word for word from the questions and answers you write, and does not use AI. AI replies are a separate paid add-on, Cloudy AI Chatbot Pro.
Can I change plans later?
Any time. Plans are month-to-month with no lock-in, so you can move up or down as the site changes.

Tell us what is going wrong

Describe the site and the problem. You get a written scope and one fixed number back, not a discovery call you have to sit through first.

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Published prices for WordPress care plans (each with the free Cloudy Chatbot plugin), support hours, incident callouts and project work. Fixed quotes.

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From first call to live: four steps, no surprises.

Every CloudyWP project runs the same way, whether it is a one-page site or a store with a thousand SKUs. Here is exactly what happens.

01

We map what you actually need.

A single scoping call, then a written plan: what gets built, what it costs, and when it ships. No discovery-phase invoices, no moving targets.

  • Free scoping call
  • Written scope document
  • Fixed price, no hourly creep

48 hrs to your quote

02

We design and build it properly.

Custom WordPress or Shopify on clean code you own outright. Every build ships fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and is handed over documented.

  • Design signed off before build
  • Core Web Vitals passed
  • Full code ownership

95/100 average PageSpeed

03

We automate the busywork.

Your site talks to the tools you already run: CRM, invoicing, email, stock. The repetitive admin stops being someone's job and starts running itself.

  • CRM & invoicing connected
  • Stock and orders in sync
  • Alerts when something breaks

15 hrs saved every week

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