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Pricing

Flat-fee. In writing. Yours.

No retainers, no rent-forever. We price against what a booked retreat is worth — a venue recovering two off-season weeks at $5,000 each clears $10,000 against a $3,900 build, whether your four-day runs $2,800 or $11,500.

The philosophy

Priced like the investment it pays back.

Priced against a booked retreat

Not against a cheap template. A venue at $5,000/week recovering two off-season weeks: $10,000 against a $3,900 build. If your off-season is mostly dark right now, that's not a reason to wait — it's exactly the before-and-after we want to build.

No retainers

Flat-fee projects. You pay for the site you need — never a monthly bill just to keep your own website on.

You own everything

Your code, your hosting, your list, your bookings — all in your accounts. The keys are yours — kept wherever you like, including with us.

How it's priced

Three tiers — in pages and features.

No module menu to decode. Start with Essentials — everything you need to book — then add pages and features only if you want them.

Essentials — the 11-point build

  • Six pages — Home · The Property · Retreats · Rates · Getting Here · Inquire
  • Your booking tool connected — live availability → inquiry & deposit
  • Found on Google & in AI answers (SEO/AEO)
  • Email capture + a follow-up sequence — keep an interested host warm
  • A starter Journal — set up with seed posts, so you publish from day one
  • Proof-of-retreats gallery + capacity & floor plans
  • The Handover Kit — you own all of it
Scores 11 / 11
The bare essentials

Essentials

Founding $2,900 · 2 of 5 spotsfrom $3,900

Everything you need to hit all eleven points on our own scorecard — every single thing a host checks before booking. Nothing else needed to start taking inquiries.

Already have a site? We can build Essentials on your existing content instead of a blank page — same price.

Start with Essentials
Compare the tiers

Add pages and features — only if you want them.

Essentials already books. Upgrade is for venues going after the off-season hard, with more story to tell. Bespoke is a site shaped entirely around the property.

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What's included Most popularEverything to hit all 11 pointsEssentialsFounding $2,900from $3,900 Essentials + more reach & storyUpgradefrom $5,800 Shaped around your propertyBespokequoted to scope
Pages610+No cap
Booking & availability engine
Found on Google & in AI answers (SEO/AEO)
Email capture + follow-up email sequence
A Journal (for search depth)starterfuller
Proof-of-retreats gallery + capacity
Website copy & contentYou providewritten for youwritten for you
Per-retreat pages · Area guide · expanded galleries
Positioning & story
Brand identity (logo · palette · type)
Second booking / calendar integration
Media-Capture Day (photo · video · 3D · drone)optionaloptionaloptional
Custom design, built from zero, no page cap
The keys are yours — kept wherever you like
Start hereInquireExplore Bespoke
Scores 11 / 11 Everything to hit all 11 points Essentials Founding $2,900 · 2 of 5 spotsfrom $3,900 Everything a host checks before booking — nothing else needed to start.
  • Six pages · booking engine · get found on Google & in AI answers (SEO/AEO)
  • Email capture + a follow-up sequence · a starter Journal
  • Proof gallery + capacity · you provide the words
  • The keys are yours — kept wherever you like
Start here
Essentials + more reach & story Upgrade from $5,800 For a venue going after the off-season hard.
  • Everything in Essentials, plus 10+ pages
  • Copy & content written for you · positioning & story · brand identity
  • Per-retreat pages · Area guide · a second integration · richer design
  • The keys are yours — kept wherever you like
Inquire
Shaped around your property Bespoke quoted to scope A property with a register of its own — custom, no page cap.
  • No page limit, custom design & features, built from zero
  • Everything in Upgrade, shaped entirely around the property
  • Priced to scope, in writing first
Explore Bespoke

Want us to keep it current too? Add the fully-tended care plan to any tier — quarterly tending, $1,600/yr, cancel anytime. See how care works →

What you'll pay that isn't us

Hosting, domain, your booking tool, email — typically $30–80/month, billed in your own accounts at list price. We never mark them up. Your only possible payment to us after launch is a care plan you can cancel.

Put another way: about $700 a year in tools you control, versus the ~$7,000 a year in commission you don't.

Optional ongoing care

The Lamplighter

Your site is yours the day we hand it over — care plans are optional. They keep the proof fresh, the seasons current, and your search visibility fed, on the rhythm a venue already lives by. Cancel anytime; nothing turns off.

Annual tending
$500/yr
One refresh a year — a yearly check-up for proof, seasons & search.
Quarterly tending
$1,600/yr
Four refreshes a year — the "fully-tended" plan for an active venue, so you never think about the site.
Seasonal tending
$900/yr
Two refreshes — peak and off-season — to catch the calendar's turns.

Each visit: new past-retreats into your gallery, a seasonal & pricing refresh, an SEO/AEO health check with fresh content, a booking-and-forms check, and a short read on your calendar's health. Prepaying buys priority on our calendar and this defined list, agreed up front; unused visits are refunded if you cancel. You own your site with or without a plan — this just keeps our hands on it.

How care & updates work →

Founding venues · 2 of 5 spots open

Our first few, at a founding rate.

Founding venues: Essentials at $2,900 flat (list $3,900), in exchange for sharing your results — the before-and-after of a calendar that fills. $1,450 to begin, $1,450 at launch. We'd rather prove it than promise it.

Ask about a founding spot

Two kinds of payback

The math nobody does for you.

The rebooking math

Keep your listing — it's working. But when a host you've already vetted comes back for year three, the platform takes its cut of a relationship you built. Three repeat groups rebooked direct pays for this site every single year. Your listing never knows the difference.

The asset math

Selling someday? A venue with its own booking engine, a documented retreat history, and an owned inquiry list is worth more on the day you list it — and the website conveys with the property. You're not spending on your last seasons; you're improving the thing the next owner pays for.

How it works

Simple, and in writing.

50 / 50

Half to begin, half at launch (milestones on larger builds). No surprise invoices. Cash flow runs seasonal at every venue we know — tell us your season and we'll shape the schedule.

Two revision rounds

Per deliverable, plus a 14-day fix window after launch — so it lands right. After that, one-off asks are quoted up front, or covered by a care plan. No surprise invoices, ever.

You own the recurring

Hosting, domain, booking tool, email — all in your own accounts, never locked to us.

The whole cost, on the table

What you'll pay beyond us.

Because you own everything, the running costs are yours — and they're small. Here's every out-of-pocket expense, plainly. We never mark these up and never bill them through us.

What does it cost to run the site each year?
Your domain (about $15–20 a year) and hosting — which for a site built our way is typically $0 to us, every month — it runs on the standard free tiers of the major hosts. A venue that owns everything usually spends $20–60 a year total to keep the lights on. Both live in your accounts; we set them up during the build.
Does the availability calendar cost monthly?
No. It mirrors your own calendar — Google, Airbnb, VRBO, or any reservation system — through the universal calendar standard. No subscription, no added software, no fees.
Do I have to buy a booking tool?
Only if you want one — they're worth it when you want deposits collected automatically. The subscription is yours, in your account, and we quote its real monthly cost in your proposal before you decide. If you'd rather take deposits the way you do today, the site works beautifully without one.
What about photography?
Often nothing: we art-direct and grade the photos you already have, and that's included in the build. If the property deserves more, the optional Media Capture Day — real-estate-trained photo and video crews for photos, Matterport 3D tour, floor plans, video, and drone — is quoted flat, up front.
And email, if my list grows?
Email platforms are free at the list sizes most venues run, and roughly $10–30 a month once your list is big enough to be making you real money. Yours, in your account, like everything else.
Can I make updates myself?
Yes. Every build includes a simple editing screen — no code, no developer — where you (or whoever runs your office) can change photos, rates, dates, and copy yourself. We hold every build to the five-minute test: a non-technical owner has to be able to swap a photo, change a price, and rewrite a paragraph in under five minutes, unaided. If you'd rather never log in, that's what the Lamplighter is for.

Everything above stays in your name whether we work together for a season or for years — that's the point.

Not sure where to start?

Let the scorecard tell you.

Five minutes, an honest read on what your site needs — and which tier is the right starting line for you.

Take the free scorecard