Managed websites

A website you do not have to manage yourself.

Open Choice Digital builds the site, launches it, and keeps the hosting, deployment, technical maintenance, and website support handled through a monthly managed plan.

What “managed website” means here

It is not website financing and it is not an unlimited development subscription. The setup fee covers building the website and implementing the agreed project scope. The monthly plan covers keeping the live website and any ongoing systems we manage hosted, maintained, monitored, supported, and operational after launch.

Your domain, business accounts, content, customer data, and business information stay yours. We handle the website infrastructure while you are on a managed plan.

Hosting and deployment

We manage the environment your website runs on, including deployment and the technical pieces that keep the live site available.

SSL and technical maintenance

SSL, routine technical upkeep, broken-site issues, and deployment-related fixes stay on our side instead of becoming another dashboard you have to learn.

Monitoring and support

The managed plan covers ongoing checks and support when something on the site or its hosting needs attention.

Optional update time

Higher Core price points add light routine support, while Care, Growth, and Pro add progressively more update time, monitoring, SEO work, conversion improvements, and proactive website support.

Managed website plans

Managed around what your website actually needs.

Every plan includes core technical management. The right monthly level depends on both the support you want and the systems, integrations, usage, and operational responsibility we are taking on.

Core

$25-$45/month

Managed hosting and technical care, with optional light support.

Typical system fit

Best fit for simple websites, basic contact forms, and very little ongoing backend responsibility within the agreed managed scope.

Foundation

No routine content edits included

$25/mo

Support

Up to 15 minutes per month of simple routine updates

$35/mo

Flex

Up to 30 minutes per month of simple routine updates

$45/mo

Care

$60-$80/month

Ongoing content maintenance for websites that change more regularly.

Typical system fit

Can fit light backend needs such as forms, notifications, and lower-complexity integrations when those systems are included in the managed scope and ongoing responsibility stays modest.

Light Care

Up to 30 minutes per month of broader content maintenance

$60/mo

Standard Care

Up to 45 minutes per month of website updates

$70/mo

Active Care

Up to 60 minutes per month of website updates

$80/mo

Growth

$99-$119/month

Content care plus monitoring, SEO, and ongoing conversion improvements.

Typical system fit

Booking, payment integrations, databases, calendars, authentication, and similar ongoing systems often fall around this level when included in the managed scope, depending on complexity and usage.

Insight

Up to 60 minutes per month of website work

$99/mo

Optimize

Up to 75 minutes per month of website work

$109/mo

Active Growth

Up to 90 minutes per month of website work

$119/mo

Pro

$149-$199/month

Priority support and more hands-on website optimization.

Typical system fit

Staff dashboards, portals, automations, multi-system workflows, and other operational platforms may start here when included in the managed scope or require custom managed pricing.

Priority

Up to 2 hours per month of website work

$149/mo

Pro Plus

Up to 2.5 hours per month of website work

$174/mo

Pro Max

Up to 3 hours per month of website work

$199/mo

Six-month initial commitment

New managed website engagements begin with a six-month commitment unless the signed proposal says otherwise. That initial term reflects the work involved in launch, deployment, technical configuration, monitoring, and maintaining the environment after the website goes live.

After the initial term, service continues month to month. If a client wants to leave early, source-code handoff and migration are not included automatically unless the remaining commitment is satisfied or a separate written early-termination agreement is made.

Referral benefit for managed clients

Managed clients can earn account credit equal to one month of their current plan when a referral becomes a managed Open Choice Digital client. The referred business receives the same dollar amount off setup, capped at 50% of the setup fee.

What is not included automatically

Managed plans cover the website and systems included in your agreed ongoing scope. A large new feature is still a separate project, even if you are already on a monthly plan. If that feature adds an ongoing booking system, database, dashboard, payment integration, automation, portal, API, or similar responsibility, the monthly plan is reviewed before the feature goes live.

  • Major redesigns or rebrands
  • Entirely new large pages or page systems
  • New booking, CRM, ecommerce, or payment implementations
  • Customer portals, databases, or custom APIs
  • Large SEO or content campaigns

Why businesses choose managed service

Most small business owners do not want to manage hosting, SSL, deployments, broken links, technical maintenance, or website software. They want the site working while they run the business.

The managed model gives you one place to go when the website needs attention, with clear limits on what is included so the service stays predictable on both sides.

Website setup and ongoing management

Website setup

Custom website setup starts at $300 and changes based on the scope, design, content, pages, integrations, migration needs, and custom functionality.

Monthly management

Managed service starts at $25 per month for simple websites that mainly need hosting and technical upkeep. Standard website support is often around $35, while sites with booking, payments, databases, authentication, dashboards, automations, or other backend systems may require a higher managed plan based on infrastructure, usage, support, and operational responsibility.

Need a contractor site?

We also build websites specifically around contractors, trades, and service businesses that rely on calls and estimate requests.

Want the website handled after launch?

Tell us what your business needs from the site, what systems it needs to run, and how often it will change. We will separate the one-time build scope from the ongoing managed plan that fits.