Framer will import a Figma frame, and the result is a picture of your design rather than a website. Layers arrive absolutely positioned, auto-layout becomes approximate, and nothing is responsive. The work is rebuilding it as real layout with real components — which is the job whether you paste it in first or not.
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If the design is not finished yet, Framer development covers building in Framer from the start, which is usually cheaper than designing twice. If the site is already live and the problem is leads not reaching your CRM, see Framer CRM integration.
Copying a Figma frame into Framer preserves the visual: type, colour, spacing and images land close enough that it looks like it worked. What does not come across is structure. Elements arrive positioned rather than laid out, so nothing reflows; auto-layout translates loosely and breaks at sizes you did not test; text styles arrive as one-off values rather than as a type scale. The import is a starting point, not a conversion.
A Figma file built rigorously on auto-layout, with proper constraints and consistent spacing, converts fast because the intent is already expressed in a way Framer can mirror. A file where things were nudged into place looks identical on the artboard and has to be rebuilt from scratch, because there is nothing to translate — the layout only exists in the designer's head. The first thing we do on any quote is open the file and check which one it is.
Both tools have components; they mean different things. A Figma component is a design instance with variants. A Framer component is a live element with properties, states and behaviour. Mapping one to the other is a decision per component — some become Framer components, some become CMS-driven, and some were only ever a design convenience and should not survive the move at all. Doing this deliberately is what makes the finished site editable.
Most Figma files carry a desktop frame and a mobile frame. The website has to work at every width in between, and at the sizes real Australian traffic arrives on — a lot of it a mid-size Android in portrait. We decide what happens in the gaps: what stacks, what scales, what gets dropped, where the type scale steps down. If those decisions are not made by someone they get made by default, and the default is usually cramped.
Figma prototypes describe intent — this opens, this slides, this reveals on scroll. Rebuilding them in Framer means deciding which are worth their cost in page weight, which need a reduced-motion fallback, and which were a way of explaining an idea in a design review rather than something a visitor should meet on every page load. We go through the prototype with you rather than reproducing all of it and billing for the difference.
Every breakpoint against the design, keyboard navigation and focus order, colour contrast on the combinations that actually got used, image weight and formats, Core Web Vitals on a throttled connection, and the CMS filled with real content rather than the placeholder that made the design look good. Designs tend to hold up until someone enters a product name that is four words longer than the mockup.
A single page from a clean, auto-layout Figma file is fixed-quoted from $300 AUD. A full marketing site typically lands between $2,500 and $5,500 AUD, and large builds with extensive CMS work run to $12,000 AUD. We look at the file before quoting, so the number reflects how the design was actually built rather than how many frames it has.
We can paste it in, and we usually do as a reference layer. But the imported result is not a working responsive site — it is absolutely positioned artwork. Handing that over would look finished and break the first time someone opened it on a phone, so the rebuild is the job either way.
It helps enormously. Auto-layout throughout, real components rather than copies, a defined type scale and colour styles, and named layers. A file built that way converts faster and costs less. If yours is not, that is common and fine — it just means more of the quote is rebuild rather than translation, and we would rather say that up front.
At the widths you designed, yes. In between, it will look like the design would have looked if it had been designed at that width — which involves judgement calls, and we walk you through the ones that matter rather than making them silently. Where something genuinely cannot work as drawn, we will say so before building it.
Yes. Most Figma files arrive covering the pages that were exciting to design and missing the ones that were not — the 404, the empty states, the long-form legal page, the blog post template. We can design those to match rather than improvising them during the build.
Small changes during a build are normal and we absorb them. A change of direction is a change of scope and we requote that part rather than quietly running over. Either way you hear about it when it happens, not at the invoice.
Why CloudyWP
Pasting a Figma frame into Framer gives you a picture, not a website. We rebuild it as responsive layout with real components, tested at every breakpoint. Fixed quotes from $300 AUD.
Get a fixed quote02 — How we work
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.
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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.
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Custom WordPress or Shopify on clean code you own outright. Every build ships fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and is handed over documented.
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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.
Scope
A fixed quote, in writing
Deliverables, price and dates agreed before a line of code is written.
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