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Website ownership for manufacturers.

We set up your website and every account behind it in your company’s name, and you pay us nothing each month.

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  • $6,000one timeFor the complete website
  • 4Google accountsAnalytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, and Business Profile
  • $0a monthOur fee after launch

Sound familiar?

Most manufacturers we talk to are dealing with at least one of these.

  1. 01

    Nobody at your company can get into the website

    The domain, the hosting, or the website login sits with an old agency or a web person who has since moved on. Every request for access waits on someone who no longer works for you.

    How we fix it. We open the hosting account in your company’s name before we build anything, and your domain stays registered to you. At launch you receive the complete source code, so any developer can take the site over without asking us for anything.

    TodayAfter handover
    DomainAgencyYour company
    HostingAgencyYour company
    Website codeAgencyYour company
    AnalyticsAgencyYour company
    Search ConsoleAgencyYour company
    Business ProfileAgencyYour company
    Who holds each part of the website, before and after we hand it over.

  2. 02

    Changing a phone number takes a week and an invoice

    A new phone number, a new certification, or a new machine means emailing whoever built the site and waiting. A small edit turns into a week and a bill, so the website falls further behind the shop.

    How we fix it. The code and the hosting are yours, so your own team, any developer, or we can make the edit. New pages after launch are $270 each, written and built, and for 30 days after launch we fix anything that does not work as specified at no charge.

    Today

    1. You email the old agency
    2. You wait for a reply
    3. You pay the invoice
    4. The number changes

    About a week, and an invoice

    After handover

    1. The code and hosting are in your name
    2. Your team, any developer, or we make the edit
    3. The number changes

    Nobody has to ask the old agency

    Changing a phone number on the website, before and after handover.

  3. 03

    Switching agencies means starting your data over

    When Google Analytics and Search Console, Google’s free report on how your site shows up in search, were set up under the agency’s own login, they stay with the agency. You change agencies, and years of traffic and search history stay behind.

    How we fix it. We set up Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, and your Google Business Profile in your company’s name from day one, with you as the administrator. If you ever change agencies, every year of history stays with you.

    Account under the agency’s login

    You change agencies, and the history stays behind with the old login.

    Account in your company’s name

    You change agencies, and every year of data stays with you.

    Years of Google Analytics and Search Console history when you change agencies.

  4. 04

    You pay every month for a website that is already built

    The old agency bills hosting and maintenance every month for as long as the site is live, whether or not anything on it changes. The domain renewal often runs through them too.

    How we fix it. After launch you pay us nothing for the website. Your domain renewal and hosting are billed to you directly by those suppliers, and the AI assistant runs on an account in your company’s name, so the provider bills its usage to you. What a website costs after launch elsewhere is in our guide to manufacturing website cost.

    Each month, today

    Hosting feeAgency
    Maintenance feeAgency
    Domain renewalAgency

    Each month, with us

    Our fee$0
    Domain renewalYour registrar
    HostingYour host
    Assistant usageThe AI provider
    What you pay each month for the website after launch, and to whom.

How the handover works

Every account is in your name before the first page is built, so there is nothing to hand back at the end.

  1. 01

    Accounts in your name first

    Before we build anything, we open the hosting account and set up Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, and your Business Profile in your company’s name.

  2. 02

    Built where it will live

    We build the site on your own hosting account, so nothing has to be moved or transferred at the end.

  3. 03

    Handover at launch

    You receive the complete source code, administrator rights on every account, and a walkthrough for your team.

  4. 04

    Nothing to us each month

    You pay us no hosting or maintenance fee. Monthly services such as SEO are separate, and stopping one leaves the website untouched.

What you own at launch

All of this comes with the $6,000 website, paid once.

Website ownership at a glance.
What you ownThe source code, the hosting, the domain, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Search Console, and your Google Business Profile, all in your company’s name.
Price$6,000, one time, for the complete website.
Our fee after launch$0 a month
Running costsYour domain renewal and hosting are billed to you directly by those suppliers, and the AI provider bills the assistant’s usage to you.
When accounts are set upBefore we build anything, we open the hosting account and set up every Google account in your company’s name.
New pages after launch$270 each, written and built.
  • You own the complete source code: every page, component, stylesheet, and script that makes up the site.
  • The hosting account is opened in your company’s name, and you pay the host directly.
  • Your domain stays registered to your company.
  • Google Analytics and Tag Manager are set up in your name, with you as the administrator.
  • Search Console is verified on your own domain, so it never sits inside an agency account.
  • You are the owner of your Google Business Profile, and we are added as a manager only where we run it for you.
  • The AI assistant runs on an account in your company’s name, and the Excel lead sheet of every inquiry is yours to keep.

The same website includes the process pages, the quote form that takes drawings, and the AI assistant, as set out on our manufacturing website design page. A group with several divisions owns every one of its division sites the same way, and every price is on our pricing page.

Leaving an agency that holds your website

Moving your website out of an agency’s hands takes five steps, and we handle each one.

  1. 01We find out who controls the account where your domain is registered, and move it into your company’s name. This comes first, because a domain held by someone else can hold up everything else.
  2. 02We export your content, your images, and the full list of page addresses, which is the list that protects your rankings later.
  3. 03We rebuild the site on code you own, on hosting in your company’s name.
  4. 04We point each old page that has a new equivalent to its new page with a permanent redirect, so the rankings those pages have earned carry over.
  5. 05We switch the domain to the new hosting, and from then on nothing depends on any agency, including us.

Websites we have handed over

We have built and handed over 7 websites for 3 Ohio companies, on the same terms as every Shopfloor Agency website. The Search Console figures in each case study come from the client’s own account.

Questions owners ask about website ownership

Do I own the source code of my website?
Yes. You receive the complete source code at launch, and the hosting, Google Analytics, Search Console, and Google Business Profile are set up in your company’s name. You can host the site anywhere, hire anyone to work on it, or bring it in-house, and there is no hosting or maintenance fee from us. If you ever stop working with us, the website keeps running exactly as it did.
What happens to my website if we stop working with you?
Your website keeps running exactly as it did. The code, the hosting, and every account are already in your company’s name, so any developer can take the site over without asking us for anything.
Who owns the Google Analytics and Search Console accounts?
You do, with administrator rights. We create both in your company’s name at the start, so there is nothing to transfer at the end, and years of history stay with you if you ever change agencies.
What does a website cost to run after launch?
We charge no hosting or maintenance fee. You pay your domain renewal and your hosting plan directly to those suppliers, and the AI provider bills the assistant’s usage to you directly. Monthly services such as manufacturing SEO at $675 a month are separate, and you can stop them without affecting the website.
Can our team edit the website after launch?
Yes. The code is yours, so your own developer can change anything, and we can add a content management system for news, jobs, and simple page edits. New pages written and built by us are $270 per page.

Get a website your company owns.

Send us your website address and tell us who holds the domain and hosting today. We will reply with the scope, a fixed price, and a launch date.

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Written by Shopfloor AgencyLast checked 10 years in manufacturing marketingthe accounts named and the handover terms