What a Tradesman Website Costs in 2026: Free, Cheap, Monthly and Custom
Someone who has just decided their trade business needs a website usually asks the price first. Here is the full range, from nothing to a few thousand pounds, and what you get at each point. Prices were checked in September 2026 and will move; check before you buy.
Free
Google Business Profile. Not a website, but the most important free thing you can do. It is what appears in the map box when someone searches for your trade near them. Set it up today whatever else you decide, and keep it current.
A Facebook page. Fine as a place to post photos. Rarely appears when someone searches for "plumber in Poole", so it is a supplement, not a site.
Wix's free plan. A real website builder, but the address is something like yourname.wixsite.com, there is Wix branding on the page, and you cannot use your own domain. Fine for trying the editor. Not something to put on the van.
What free gets you: a presence, not a website. Enough to be found by name if someone already has it.
Cheap: £9 to £30 a month
Wix, checked September 2026: Light £9, Core £16, Business £25 a month on annual billing. Squarespace: Basic £12, Core £17, Plus £29 on annual billing, or £16, £24 and £36 month to month.
For that you get your own domain, no platform branding, and an empty editor. Every page is yours to write and build. Most tradesmen who go this way end up with a homepage and a contact page, because that is what an evening produces, and a two-page site does not get found for the searches that bring work.
What cheap gets you: a proper site, if you put the hours in. The cost that is not on the invoice is the evenings.
Job software with a website attached: £34 a month per user and up
Tradify, checked September 2026: £34, £37 or £44 per user per month. Jobber prices in US dollars even on its UK page, from $29 a month for one user billed annually, more month to month. Both are job-management tools first (quoting, scheduling, invoicing) with a simple website available alongside.
The thing to notice is "per user". Three people is three subscriptions. For a sole trader that is fine; for a small team it adds up faster than it looks.
What this gets you: the running of the jobs, done well. The website is not the point of these products and it shows.
One monthly fee, everything in: £99 a month
MyTradeSite is £99 a month, everything included. The site is built before you pay, with no card to start.
What the £99 covers:
- The website itself, generated for your trade: a page for each service, a page for each area, about, gallery, contact, fifteen or more pages.
- A free .co.uk domain when you subscribe, registered and set up for you.
- Enquiries to your phone as a text and an email.
- Quotes with a link the customer taps to accept, and invoices with your bank details on them, deposit and final.
- Job costing and a monthly profit and loss.
- Your five most relevant Google reviews on your homepage, updated daily, once you connect your Google profile.
- A review request emailed to the customer 24 hours after a job is marked paid, when they left an email.
- A team feature with no per-user fee.
- A directory helper with your details ready to paste into 18 UK directories.
- The person who built it, on WhatsApp.
What £99 gets you: a site that exists and stays accurate, plus the tools to run the work it brings in. It costs more than Wix because more of the work is done for you. It is not the cheapest option and does not try to be. For the reasoning on that, see the builder comparison.
Custom: £1,000 to £2,500 up front
A web designer or small agency typically quotes £1,000 to £2,500 for a five-to-ten page trade site, then hosting at £5 to £20 a month, then changes by the hour. Four to eight weeks from first call to live.
What custom gets you: a site that looks like yours alone, and a person who knows it. Worth it for a company with a brand to protect or a trade that sells on photographs. The full picture is in what a web designer costs and when you need one.
The one-year view
The monthly figures hide the real comparison, so here it is over twelve months for a sole trader, using the prices above.
| Route | Year one, roughly | Your evenings | Who keeps it accurate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | £0 | A few | You, or nobody |
| Wix or Squarespace | £110 to £350 plus a domain | Many | You |
| Tradify or Jobber, one user | £270 to £530, Jobber converted from dollars | Some | You, in their editor |
| MyTradeSite | £1,188 | None to speak of | It is generated and you edit what you like |
| Web designer | £1,000 to £2,500 plus hosting | A few, plus the waiting | The designer, by the hour |
The cheapest number on that table is not the cheapest website once your own time is on it. The right question is which one you will still have, working and accurate, this time next year.
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