Project agreement.
v5.4 · September 2026 · last updated September 1, 2026 · The Digital Welcome · Hawaiʻi, USA
This is the standard agreement, shown blank. It is the same document that arrives as a PDF with your name, your business and what you picked already filled in.
You don’t need to sign anything to get started: paying the invoice or payment link is what makes it real (that’s §11). If a single line of this isn’t what you expected, say so before you pay: hello@thedigitalwelcome.com.
Two pages, plain English on purpose. This agreement is between The Digital Welcome (Dani McMahon: “we,” or honestly just “Dani”) and you, the client named below.
Client Business Date
1The project.
Check what we’re doing together. Prices as published on thedigitalwelcome.com:
- Website build: $2,500 flat. Everything in §2, live in 7–10 business days.
- Care plan: Care $199/mo Growth $399/mo Authority $799/mo
- Plan at signing: $500 off the build (build billed at $2,000).
- Extras (flat-quoted before any work):
2What the build includes.
Up to fifteen pages designed around getting you booked. Every word of copy written for you. A booking or quote flow, not a dusty contact form. Local SEO foundations, mobile-first design, and a handoff doc so any developer could pick it up cold. Two full rounds of refinements are included. A genuine change of direction gets a flat quote before any work starts. Additional pages beyond the fifteen are quoted separately: a flat price agreed in writing before the page is built, whether that’s mid-build or long after launch. There is no hourly meter anywhere in this agreement.
3What we each do.
You: send your materials (logo, photos, access) within 5 business days, give about an hour for content questions, turn feedback around within 48 hours, and name one decision-maker. Dani: designs it, writes it, builds it, and keeps you posted without being asked. If we can’t reach you for 10+ business days, the project pauses and rejoins the queue when you’re back. Same price, no penalty.
4Timeline.
Your site goes live 7–10 business days after the later of your payment settling and your materials arriving. If a date slips on our side, you get an explanation and a new date within 48 hours.
One honest exception: delays nobody controls. Some platforms lock a domain against moving for 60 days, and the move itself can take one to two weeks; if the company holding your domain slows things down, your site is still finished on schedule and live at a preview link you can share, and it moves onto your domain the moment your provider allows, at no extra charge. If we can spot this before you pay, we’ll say so. The same goes for illness, natural disasters, and outages at services we all depend on: events outside anyone’s reasonable control extend the timeline by the length of the delay, and the 48-hour rule above still applies.
5Money.
The build is paid in full before work starts: $2,500, or $2,000 if a care plan starts at signing. Your payment holds your slot and your launch window. Refunds: a full refund any time before design work begins; 50% once copywriting has started, up until your draft link is sent; no refund once you’ve seen your draft. Two full rounds of refinements are included either way. If any taxes apply, they’re itemized on the invoice, never buried in the price.
6The guarantee.
Your site scores 90+ on Google PageSpeed (mobile) at launch, or we keep working on it free until it does.
7Care plans.
Month-to-month, always. Cancel with one email: no termination fees, no “please call to cancel” maze. If you ever leave, you get a free 30-day friendly handoff to whoever comes next. A plan is a service, not a bank of build hours.
8Ownership.
Everything transfers to you on payment: the design, the copy, the code. Your domain is registered in your name from day one; we never hold it. You confirm the materials you give us are yours to use; we confirm the work we deliver is original. We may show the finished site in our portfolio unless you’d rather we didn’t. Just say so.
Hosting. While you are on a care plan, hosting, SSL and backups are part of the plan. Without a plan, your site is handed over at launch to hosting in your own account: it is a static site rather than a database-driven app, which is why it sits comfortably inside the free tier most static hosts offer. Your only standing cost is your domain renewal, usually about $10–15 a year, paid directly to your registrar. Either way the site is yours and it keeps running.
9The sober paragraph.
We can’t promise rankings, traffic or revenue; nobody honestly can. If something goes wrong, our total liability is capped at the fees you’ve actually paid us, and neither of us owes the other indirect or consequential damages.
10Practical bits.
Dani is an independent contractor, not an employee. This agreement follows Hawaiʻi law and any dispute lands in Hawaiʻi courts. Changes need writing; email counts. If a court knocks out one clause, the rest stand.
11Saying yes.
Sign below, or simply pay the invoice or payment link; either one makes this agreement real.