Groundwork · Now taking Morgantown businesses A website for your Morgantown business. No build fee.
For businesses that would rather not put a few thousand dollars down up front. A solid foundation, written for your business and looked after by a local studio, that you can build onto as you grow. Start with your first and last month, and stay twelve months to keep the site.
How the 12 months workHow the 12 months work
Pay your first and last month. Stay the year, and keep the site.
Months 1 to 3: the minimum
- 1Paid up front
- 2$297
- 3$297 · minimum ends
- 4$297
- 5$297
- 6$297
- 7$297
- 8$297
- 9$297
- 10$297
- 11$297
- 12Already paid
Months 1 to 3
The minimum. Your 12 months start the day you make your first payment. We build your site, and it goes live once you approve it. Leave before month 3 and the rest of those three months is still due.After month 3
Cancel any time, effective at the end of the paid month, and owe nothing more. The prepaid last month isn't refunded, and the site comes down. Your domain, text and photos are always yours.Stay all 12
Month 12 is already paid. You get the finished site's files to keep and host anywhere for your business. Stock photos we licensed may not transfer; we'll tell you which.Month 13 onward: keep it with us on the Care & Hosting plan of your choice, from $250 a month, charged automatically each month until you cancel. If you don't choose, it stays on Essentials. Or take your site elsewhere and we'll help you move it.
Everything included
One monthly price, plus tax.
- 01
A one to three page website
Built on a Velcrest design, then written about your business. No page builders.
- 02
Care & Hosting Essentials
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, and security and uptime monitoring, all year.
- 03
A request form
Customers can send you a question or a request at any hour, even after you've gone home, and it comes straight to you.
- 04
Two changes a month, done for you
Addressed within three business days. Outages always come first.
- 05
Search setup
Page titles, descriptions and the business details Google reads.
- 06
No tracking of your visitors
No ad pixels, analytics or third-party tracking scripts. Your customers' privacy stays intact.
- 07
Your domain, in your name
Always. It is never held back.
- 08
A local studio, here in Morgantown
The studio that builds your site is the one that looks after it.
Add-ons
Need more? Add it once.
Groundwork covers one to three pages and a request form. If your business needs more, add any of these at the start or later on. Each is a one-time fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, plus any sales tax and card fee that apply. Your $297 a month doesn't change.
Extra pages
Each page after the first three, for another service, a location, or your story.
Online booking
Customers ask for a day and time on your site, and you confirm. It's built into the site, not an outside booking service, so it adds no tracking.
A photo gallery
Up to 40 of your own photos, in one place.
A second language
Your pages in a second language, for customers who read it more easily than English.
Logo redraw
If all you have is a small or blurry copy, we redraw it so it stays sharp.
Not available on Groundwork: online shops and order forms. To sell online, you'd need a custom site, starting at $1,200.
The math
Less than a custom site with our Care plan, in year one.
Groundwork
No build fee + 12 × $297
$3,564
Care & Hosting Essentials included all year.
Custom site with our Care plan
$1,200 build + 12 × $250 Care Essentials
$4,200
Care & Hosting is optional on a custom site.
The difference
In year one
$636
Less with Groundwork, and nothing to pay for a build up front. Both before tax, card fees and domain registration.
How it compares
Three ways to pay monthly for a website. Ask each one what you keep when you stop paying.
What's typical of each kind of plan. Every provider is different, so ask each one what you keep, what you pay on top, and who answers when something breaks.
Groundwork
$297/mo, no build fee
Do-it-yourself builder
You build it on their platform
Software-bundle agency plan
A site packaged with their software
Typical arrangements as of 2026, not any particular company. Plans change and every provider is different; check their terms.
Examples
Three businesses, three different sites.
Shown on a phone, because that's where your customers will see it. All three businesses are fictitious, made by Velcrest to show what Groundwork looks like.
These three are from a library of 26 starting designs.
They cover the kinds of business we hear from most: trades and home services; health, beauty and wellness; professional offices; and shops, cafés and local services. Tell us what you do and we'll send you the one that suits you best. If yours isn't listed, we start from the closest fit, and if another look suits you better, pick that one instead.
Ask to see the designsStraight answers
The questions owners ask us.
What if I want out early?
The first three months are the minimum: leave before month 3 and the rest of those three months is still due, so the least anyone pays is the $594 first payment plus months 2 and 3, plus tax. After that, cancel any time, effective at the end of the month you've paid for, and you owe nothing more. If you cancel before month 12, the last month you prepaid at the start isn't refunded, and the site comes down. Your domain, text and photos stay yours.
Is it a template?
It starts from one of our 26 existing designs, chosen with you to suit your business, so it's quick to set up. Then everything on it is about you: your name, your town, your services, your photos and your colors. If you want a design nobody else has, that's our custom service, starting at $1,200.
Can I add booking or more pages later?
Yes. Booking, pages after the first three, a gallery and the other add-ons can go in at the start or later. Each is a one-time fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, and your $297 a month stays the same. An add-on is new work, so it doesn't use up one of your two changes a month, and it becomes part of your site, so it comes down with the site if you leave before month 12 and is yours with it after. Groundwork can't take an online shop or an order form; those need a custom site.
Do I own it?
Stay twelve months, or pay out the year, and you get the finished site's files with a permanent license to use, change and host them anywhere for your business. The design underneath stays ours, so it can't be resold or reused for another business. Your domain is in your name from day one, either way.
Can you promise more calls or a spot on Google?
No one honestly can. We set up everything Google reads about your business, make the site fast on phones, and give customers a simple way to send you a request. You'll see every request that comes in.
What happens after twelve months?
Keep it with us on the Care & Hosting plan of your choice, from $250 a month, charged automatically each month until you cancel. If you don't choose, it stays on Essentials. Or take it elsewhere and we'll help you move it.
Can I earn anything by referring a business?
Yes, an extra page. When a business you send our way names you as it signs up for Groundwork and pays through its first three months, we add one new page to your site, written and built for you. This is for active Groundwork clients. The reward is a page of website work, with no cash value and no plan credit, and it can't be transferred. If you recommend us publicly, say that you may receive a reward. Full terms are in our Terms, section 21.
Get started
Ready when you are.
Leave your details. If you give an email address, the Groundwork terms land in your inbox straight away. Then we'll get in touch to talk through your site. Asking doesn't commit you to anything.