What it costs.
The numbersSimple or complex.
Complexity is the only thing that moves the price. It takes longer to plan and needs more attention every month, so it costs more at both ends. All prices include GST.
Simple Automations
Common software that connects easily. Xero, Gmail, calendars, forms, Shopify. Two or three systems.
- Blueprintpaid once
- from $380
- The buildusually $1,500 to $3,000
- quoted
- Keeping it aliveon our accounts
- $190 / mo
- Keeping it aliveon your accounts
- from $390 / mo
What Keeping it alive covers
- We check every automation is still running, weekly.
- You monitor for break and performance.
- Repairs, small changes, and a version history we can roll back to.
- Security keys replaced every quarter.
- We answer within three working days.
- If on our accounts
- Infrastructure and subscriptions included. Health checks run automatically because the setup is ours, and every workflow is backed up.
- If on your accounts
- You hold every subscription, pay for them at cost, and can revoke our access whenever you like. It costs more to look after, because the checking runs against your vendors which can change the shape and time needed to do our job
Complex Automations
Several systems at once, or software with no proper connection, or work that needs re-testing as you grow.
- Blueprintpaid once
- from $1,370
- The buildpriced from the Blueprint
- quoted
- Keeping it aliveon our accounts
- $390 / mo
- Keeping it aliveon your accounts
- from $490 / mo
What Keeping it alive covers
- Everything in Simple, and then:
- We check every automation is still running, daily.
- Totals reconciled on both sides of anything moving records between systems.
- Changes tested against a copy before they reach the live one.
- Security keys replaced every month.
- We answer by the next business day.
- If on our accounts
- Infrastructure and subscriptions included. Health checks run automatically because the setup is ours, and every workflow is backed up.
- If on your accounts
- You hold every subscription, pay for them at cost, and can revoke our access whenever you like. It costs more to look after, because the checking runs against your vendors which can change the shape and time needed to do our job
Changes later
- Small changes, once it is running a tweak, a new field, a report you suddenly need
- included
- Anything bigger a new automation, another system joining in
- quoted first
Nothing here is billed by the hour. Small changes are covered by Keeping it alive, and anything larger is a fixed price you see before it starts. Asking a question does not start a meter. Took the build without a monthly? You can still get us back later, by the hour or at a fixed price.
Need to pay over 6 or 12 months?
You can. It costs more that way, because we carry the cost until it is paid. Six months adds about 15%, twelve months about 22%.
On a $2,500 build
- The build - Paid once
- $2,500
- The build - Spread over 6 months
- $480 / mototal $2,880
- The build - Spread over 12 months
- $255 / mototal $3,060
The total is agreed before you start and the payments run until it is paid. It is the one thing here with a fixed term, and we call it a payment plan rather than a subscription.
Custom software needed?
We also build custom software, quoted per project. Sometimes it works out cheaper than connecting up what you already have. Sometimes it is the only way, either as a workaround or as something that sits alongside the software you already use.
