Rentsite

Pricing

Every price. On this page. In full.

Three plans, 8 monthly add-ons, and 9 one-time products. Each one has a number beside it. Nothing is billed by the hour, and nothing says “contact us for a quote”.

  • $0 up front, every plan
  • $89 a month to start
  • 12 months minimum, then monthly
  • +GST/HST on every price

The three plans

Everything each one includes, written out

These lists are complete. If something is not on the list, it is not in the plan, and it has a price further down this page.

Starter

A one-person business that needs to exist online and be findable.

$89/month

$0 to start. Plus GST/HST.

  • Up to 3 pages, written into a layout built for your trade
  • A design chosen from our library and set to your colours and logo
  • Mobile layout, checked on a real phone before launch
  • Hosting on a global network, included, no separate bill
  • SSL certificate, renewed automatically
  • Your own domain connected (you keep the domain in your name)
  • A contact form that lands in your inbox, with spam filtering
  • Click-to-call and click-to-email on every page
  • Your hours, address, and service area, kept current
  • Page titles and descriptions written for search
  • Business schema markup, so search engines and AI answers read your site correctly
  • Sitemap and robots file submitted to Google
  • Google Business Profile linked and mapped
  • One content edit a month (text, photos, hours, prices)
  • Uptime monitoring, so we find out before you do
  • Daily backups
  • Security patching and updates
  • Email support, answered in two business days
Live
10 business days
Edits
1 content edit a month
Support
Answered in 2 business days
Start on Starter

Most businesses pick this one

Business

A business with several services, competing for local searches.

$149/month

$0 to start. Plus GST/HST.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Up to 8 pages
  • A dedicated page for each service you sell, so each one can rank on its own
  • Photo gallery, with your images cropped and compressed for speed
  • Local SEO set up for one city, including local business schema
  • Google Business Profile set up or cleaned up, categories and services filled in
  • Google Analytics installed and connected
  • Google Search Console connected, so you can see what you rank for
  • A blog section, ready to publish into
  • Frequently asked questions section with FAQ schema markup
  • Up to four content edits a month
  • Email support, answered in one business day
Live
10 business days
Edits
4 content edits a month
Support
Answered in 1 business day
Start on Business

Growth

A business serving more than one town, or booking work online.

$249/month

$0 to start. Plus GST/HST.

  • Everything in Business
  • Up to 15 pages
  • Location pages for up to three cities or towns
  • Online booking connected to your calendar
  • Email signup form connected to your mailing list
  • Customer reviews displayed on the site
  • Up to eight content edits a month
  • A monthly traffic report in plain language, one page, no dashboard login
  • A quarterly check of speed, page titles, and broken links, with what we fixed written down
  • Email support, answered the same business day
Live
15 business days
Edits
8 content edits a month
Support
Answered the same business day
Start on Growth

Add-ons billed monthly

Bolt these onto any plan

Added to your monthly price. Remove one at any time and the price drops the next month.

Rentsite add-ons billed monthly
Add-onPriceWhat it is
Extra page$19/moEach page beyond your plan, built to match the rest of the site.
Online store, up to 25 products$79/moProduct pages, cart, and card payments. Payment processing fees are charged by the payment company, not by us.
Each extra 25 products$29/moAdded to the store above, in blocks of 25.
Online booking$29/moA booking system connected to your calendar, with reminder emails.
Extra city page and local SEO$39/moOne more town, with its own page and its own local listing work.
Second language$49/moYour whole site in a second language, with the right tags so search engines serve the right one.
Email marketing, one campaign a month$99/moWe lay out and send one email a month to your list, and report what it did.
Five extra content edits a month$59/moAdded to the edits your plan includes. Unused edits do not roll over.

One-time products

Paid once, priced up front

A fixed price for a fixed piece of work. You approve the price before we start, and it does not move.

Rentsite one-time products
ProductPriceWhat it is
Logo$395onceThree concepts, two rounds of changes, and every file format you will be asked for.
Copywriting, per page$145onceWe interview you for 20 minutes and write the page. You approve it before it goes up.
Blog post, 800 to 1,200 words$135onceResearched, written, and published with a title and description built for search.
Stock photo selection for the whole site$95onceLicensed photos chosen for your trade, cropped and compressed.
Your photos edited and sized, per 20$95onceStraightened, colour corrected, cropped, and compressed so pages stay fast.
Google Business Profile setup$195onceClaimed, verified, categories and services filled in, photos uploaded. Included free on Business and Growth.
Move your old site's content across, up to 20 pages$245onceText and images from your current site, plus redirects so your old links keep working.
Rush launch, live in 5 business days$295onceWe clear the decks. Needs your text and photos on day one.
Domain registration and setup$45onceFirst year. The domain is registered in your name and you renew it yourself after that, usually about $20 a year.

The market, published

What the same site costs elsewhere

Every figure below is taken from that company's own public pricing page. Prices change, so check theirs before you decide.

Published Vancouver website pricing compared with Rentsite
WhoUp frontMonthlyNotes
A Vancouver web design agency$1,500 to $5,000$100 to $250 for upkeepThe published band for a five to ten page build across western Canada.
Vancouver Web Designers$499 to $2,299$79 to $139Their own published pricing. Extra pages are $149 to $249 each.
WebPulse$0 on their starter plan$99 to $349Their own published subscription pricing.
Rentsite$0$89 to $249Everything above is included in the monthly price. Nothing is billed by the hour.

The terms, in plain words

What you are agreeing to

  • Prices are Canadian dollars. GST or HST is added.
  • Nothing up front. No setup fee, no deposit, no first-and-last.
  • The first term is 12 months. After that it runs month to month.
  • Cancel any time after month 12 with 30 days notice. No cancellation fee.
  • You do not own the website. That is what makes it cheap.
  • You own your domain, your text, your photos, your logo, and your customer list. Always.
  • Cancel, and we send you your text and images within 5 business days, then the site comes down.
  • Your plan price does not change for the first 24 months.
  • One overdue payment does not take your site down. We email you first, twice.

Read the full terms

Pick a plan. Nothing is due today.

Tell us what the business does and which plan looks right. We will tell you honestly if a cheaper one would do, or if renting is the wrong answer for you.

Start a site