What it costs
What a courier website should cost
Couriers grow on urgent one-off jobs and regular business accounts. The site catches both. Here is what it costs and what you're paying for.
From £297, live in 7 days, on your own domain.
Courier website cost
The short answer on cost
A courier website cost starts from £297 for a spec-built site on your own domain, live within seven days, with the first three months of care included, then £49 a month you can stop whenever. That sits below the agency quotes and above the throwaway builders, both of which mislead you. But for a courier the number matters less than the two ways your work grows. One is the urgent one-off: someone, a person or a business, needing something collected and delivered now, who searches and books whoever they can reach fast. The other, and the steadier prize, is the business account: a company that sends regularly and, once it settles on a reliable courier, keeps using them. So the site’s job is to catch the urgent job and to present you as dependable enough for a business to make you its regular courier. Set against the recurring value of a business account, a few hundred pounds is trivial.
What the money buys: the urgent job and the regular account
The value here is catching both kinds of work, not decoration. That price buys a fast site that catches the urgent delivery, found quickly when someone needs a courier now, easy to contact, clear on your coverage, and one that presents you as reliable to businesses, so a company weighing who to trust with its regular deliveries sees a dependable courier and sets up an account. That second market is the quiet prize, because a business account is repeat work week after week, so the site earns its keep not just per urgent job but per account won. A courier who catches only the one-off jobs misses the steady recurring revenue of accounts, and one who chases only accounts misses the urgent work that comes to whoever is found fast, so a site that does both covers the two streams a courier grows on. What you are paying for is to catch the urgent job today and win the account that sends for years.
Why cheaper and dearer both mislead
The thousand-pound-plus agency quotes bundle overheads and complex systems many couriers do not need. The near-free DIY builders go the other way, producing slow, generic sites that lose the urgent customer on a fiddly phone page and do nothing to present you as reliable to a business. Both miss the point. A courier needs a fast, findable site that reads as dependable, which is a specific thing to get right, so agency prices waste money and bargain builders undercut the speed and reliability courier work turns on.
Paid off by one account that keeps sending
Courier work pays for a website quickly and then compounds, because the accounts recur. A few urgent jobs cover the modest cost, and then the real return is the recurring work: win a single business that sends with you regularly, and the site pays for itself many times over across a year, because that account keeps coming. Set against the recurring value of the business accounts a fast, reliable-looking site wins, on top of the urgent jobs it catches, the modest cost is an easy decision for a courier whose steadiest income is the customers who send again and again.
How it works
From message to live in four steps.
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Message me
Tell me your trade and your town on WhatsApp. No forms to wade through, no call to book.
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£99 to start
A £99 deposit gets your build going and comes off your quote. It covers some of the build time.
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I build it, you see it
I build the whole site, framed around your work, and send it to you finished to look at.
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Pay the rest, go live
Happy with it? You pay the balance, it goes live on your own domain, and it is yours to keep.
What you get
What a courier site from me includes.
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Built on spec
I build it first and send it finished. You see the real thing before you decide, not a mock-up.
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Live in 7 days
From the go-ahead, your site is live within a week. No months of back and forth.
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On your own domain
It goes live in your name. You own the site and everything on it, with no lock-in.
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Genuinely fast
Static pages, no WordPress. Fast pages rank better and turn more visitors into calls.
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Found on Google
Built to be found in local search, with the plumbing done properly from day one.
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Looked after
Someone looks after it and changes it when you need. Two small edits a month, your listing kept current.
What it costs
A straight price.
From £297 to build it, first three months of Care included, then £49 a month.
You own the site outright and can stop the monthly plan whenever you like. Hosting is part of Care and Grow, so one of those keeps it online after the first three months, or you host it yourself. See the full pricing.
Common questions
Questions I get asked.
How much does a courier website cost?
From £297 as a one-off, live on your own domain within seven days, then £49 a month for hosting and small edits you can stop any time, with the first three months included. For a trade that grows on urgent jobs and regular business accounts, that is a small price for a site that catches the one-off delivery and wins the recurring account.
What am I really paying for with a courier website?
A site that catches urgent deliveries and wins regular accounts. One side is the one-off, someone needing something delivered now, found fast, and the other is the business account, a company that sends regularly and is won on reliability. You are paying for a presence that catches the urgent job and presents you as dependable enough for a business to make you its regular courier.
Why does winning business accounts affect the value?
Because a business account is not one delivery, it is repeat work week after week, so winning one is worth far more than a single job. A site that presents you as reliable and makes it easy for a business to set up an account captures that recurring work, so its value is not one delivery but a customer who sends with you again and again. That recurring value is a big part of the cost being worthwhile.
Why do some courier websites cost thousands?
Agencies bundle overheads and complex systems many couriers do not need. A lean, fast site that catches urgent jobs and presents you as reliable to businesses does the real job for a fraction of the price, so the big quotes rarely make sense for a courier whose need is to be found fast and trusted for regular work.
Is a cheap DIY courier website good enough?
Usually not. For urgent jobs a slow site that is awkward on a phone loses the customer who needs a courier now, and for business accounts a generic site fails to present you as reliable. You need a fast, findable site that reads as dependable, and a cheap DIY job tends to undercut both the speed and the reliability that win courier work.
Are there ongoing costs beyond the build?
The domain is about ten to fifteen pounds a year and stays yours. The £49 monthly plan covers hosting, backups and two small edits, so you can update services or coverage without a separate bill. A static site has almost nothing to break, so there are no surprise maintenance invoices.
How quickly does a courier website pay for itself?
Usually fast, and then it keeps paying. A few urgent jobs cover the modest cost, but the real return is the accounts: win one business that sends regularly and the site pays for itself many times over across a year, because that recurring work keeps coming.
Do I own the courier website or rent it?
You own it outright. The domain is in your name and the site is yours to keep even if you stop the monthly plan. I do not lock people in, because the site that wins your work should belong to you, not be rented back every month.
Tell me your town and I'll build you a courier site on spec, so you can see it before you pay. Or read What a website costs, see the full pricing, or get in touch.