For electrical contractors

What an electrician
website costs.

Most agencies will not give you a figure until you have sat through a call. Here is the figure. The three bands every quote falls into, what actually separates them, the things that get added later, and what I charge. If you want, I will then build you a free working demo of your own site to look at first.

The demo is a real page you can click through, chat with, and book a time on.

The market

Three bands. Every
quote you get sits in one.

Quotes look wildly inconsistent because three different things are sold under the same two words. Identify which one is in front of you and the range makes sense.

Band one
$0 to $500
Plus a monthly builder fee

A template you put together yourself on Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy. Services listed, licence number in the footer, your mobile at the top. A weekend of work and it looks respectable.

What you are really buyingProof you exist, which for a lot of one van sparkies is genuinely all they need. It will not sort a panel upgrade enquiry from a broken socket enquiry.
Band two
$1,500 to $5,000
One time, sometimes plus hosting

A custom build. Your work, your service area, separate pages for rewires, panel upgrades, EV chargers and emergency call outs. This is where most established electrical contractors land.

What you are really buyingA site that reads as a real company rather than a man with a van. What it produces still depends on what was wired behind the form, and that is rarely on the quote.
Band three
$8,000 and up
Plus a monthly retainer

The full stack. Call tracking, CRM, quote follow up sequences, review automation, landing pages built for paid traffic, reporting. Almost always sold with a monthly management fee.

What you are really buyingA lead machine. Correct if you have several vans and a commercial arm to feed. Far too much apparatus for a residential one man operation.
What drives it

A socket and a rewire
are not the same customer.

Electrical is the trade with the widest spread between its smallest job and its largest one. The same website has to serve somebody who wants a light fitting moved and somebody about to spend several thousand on a panel upgrade or a full rewire.

Those two people behave nothing alike. One wants a price and a date and will book the first person who replies. The other is nervous, is getting three quotes, and is quietly checking whether you are licensed and insured before they let you near their consumer unit.

A cheap site treats them identically, which means it converts neither well. Separating them is most of what you are paying for in the middle band.

Licence and insurance, visible. A homeowner about to spend four thousand on a rewire is checking that you are real. Licence number, insurance and a genuine address do more for conversion than any hero image.
Sorting small jobs from big ones. If every enquiry lands in the same inbox with no context, you spend your evenings triaging. Routing the panel upgrade differently from the dead socket is build work and it is worth paying for.
EV charger installs are their own search. People search for that specifically, and they are usually ready to buy. A page written for it captures a demand that a general services list does not.
Emergency call outs. Lost power, a burning smell, a tripped board that will not reset. Those calls arrive at bad hours, and whether the site answers or takes a message decides if you get them.
Quote follow up. Big electrical jobs are rarely won on the first contact. A site that hands you the enquiry and then does nothing is leaving the work in the follow up that never happens.
Photos of your own work. A tidy consumer unit, neat cable runs, a finished job. Other trades can get away with stock photos. Electrical customers are specifically judging whether your work looks careful.
Before you sign

The four questions
that change the price.

Put these to every quote you are comparing, mine as well. They move the real cost more than the headline number.

1
Who writes the service pages? Rewires, panel upgrades and EV chargers each need writing properly. If the answer is that you write them, budget your own evenings, because that cost never appears on a quote.
2
Does it separate emergency from quoted work? One needs answering now, one needs following up for two weeks. If both land in the same inbox with no distinction, the site is only doing half a job.
3
What does a change cost after launch? A new licence number, a new service, a new suburb. If every small edit is billable, the cheap build stops being cheap within a few months.
4
Who owns the domain and the Google profile? Both belong in your name. Recovering them later from an agency you have parted ways with is the expensive kind of mistake.
Free, before anything
See yours built
before you pay.

You cannot judge a website from a proposal document, so I do it in reverse. I build a working electrical site with your company name on it, you click around it yourself, and price comes up afterwards.

Build my free electrical demo
  • A real page you can scroll and tap, not a picture of one.
  • The chat assistant handles a panel upgrade enquiry the way it would handle yours.
  • It offers times and takes the booking, so you can see exactly where a lead lands.
  • No card, no discovery call, no contract to read first.
  • If it is not what you want, nothing happens. It cost you a click.
The arithmetic

Work it out with
your own numbers.

Every agency page will tell you a website is an investment and not an expense. That is a cheap thing to say about money that is not theirs, so do the arithmetic with figures I do not have.

Take the profit you keep on one panel upgrade or one rewire, not the invoice total. Divide the price of the website by it. That is how many extra jobs of that size the site has to bring you in a year before it has paid for itself. For most electrical contractors the answer is one, possibly two.

Then the part almost nobody does. Count what you are already losing: the quote you sent in March and never chased, the missed call while you were up a ladder, the enquiry that came in on a Friday night and got answered on Monday. You already paid to attract those people. Recovering them costs less than buying new ones, and it is the part of the build most quotes ignore.

If both numbers come out small, do not buy anything yet. That is a legitimate answer, and it is why the demo is free.

Compare it against your other lead costs. A checkatrade style listing, ads, a lead app, or the hours you spend on referrals. The site competes with those, not with zero.
Big jobs are won in the follow up. The value is often not the first enquiry, it is the second and third contact you never got round to making.
Nobody can promise you a number. Anyone quoting an exact return on a website they have not built yet is guessing, and it tells you how to read the rest of their quote.
Judge it on enquiries, not compliments. Three months in the only question that matters is whether more of the right people are contacting you. Everything else is taste.
What I charge

No quote needed.
Here it is.

Start at the bottom and move up only when the site is genuinely the thing holding you back. Most electrical contractors never need band three.

Review Machine
$99/mo
Keep your site, fix the reviews
  • Review request after every job
  • Sent by text and email, with a follow up
  • One tap through to your Google page
  • Works with the website you already have
See how it works
Most electricians start here
Starter
$297/mo
Site and follow up, built for you
  • A electrical website built and hosted
  • Missed call text back
  • Automated review requests
  • Online booking
  • Monthly report
Start with a free demo
Custom System
$3,000+
One time, plus $297/mo hosting
  • Everything in Starter
  • Fully custom design, and the site is yours
  • Longer follow up sequences
  • Ready for Google Ads traffic
Talk it through

There is a larger managed package as well. It is on the main page, and most electrical contractors reading this do not need it yet.

Questions

Straight answers.

How much should an electrician spend on a website?
Enough that it wins you one more panel upgrade or rewire a year, which is a low bar. A one van residential sparky booking work off referrals does not need an eight thousand dollar build. A contractor running several vans with a commercial arm is losing more than that to enquiries that never get followed up. Start at the bottom and only move up when the site is the bottleneck.
Do I need separate pages for rewires, panel upgrades and EV chargers?
Over time yes, because people search for those things separately and arrive ready to buy, particularly for EV charger installation. But every page adds to the build, so start with the two services that make you the most money and add the others once you can see which ones actually bring enquiries.
Does putting my licence number on the site matter?
More than most design decisions. A homeowner deciding whether to let a stranger work on their consumer unit is looking for evidence you are legitimate. Licence number, insurance and a real address do more for your conversion rate than the hero image does.
How long does an electrician website take to build?
About a week for a Starter build once I have your service area, your licence details and a handful of photos of your own work. A Custom System takes longer because there is more wired behind it. The free demo is quicker than either, because it is built from what is already public about your company.
Will a new website get me ranking for "electrician near me"?
Not by itself, and anybody promising it is guessing. That search is dominated by the map results, which run on your Google Business Profile, your review count and how recent the reviews are. A good site supports that and converts the visitors once they arrive. It does not replace it.
Can I see it before I pay anything?
Yes, that is what the free demo is for. You get a working electrical site with your company name on it, including the chat assistant answering a customer, before any money changes hands or anything is signed. If you do not like it, that is the end of it.
Get started

Get your electrical
demo built free.

Tell me about your company and I will build it, then message you on WhatsApp when it is ready to look at.

If you have one I will look at it first, so the demo is a straight comparison. If you do not, that is fine too.

No card. No contract. You see it before you decide.

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