Hello fellow redditors,
I work as a volunteer for a foundation that has a WordPress website. An external website builder made the website for **one-time payment of 2.000 euro**.
He also extends via the hosting parties the yearly license of…
**1) webhosting 2) SSL certificate 3) Custom company e-mail domain**
We get yearly charged **200 euros** by the website builder for these three things. I estimated that the actual costs for these three things is **82 euros**.
Since we want to make changes ourselves to the website, I asked him to give us the login details for the CMS . He refused and said the CMS module of the website was never agreed upon in the contract and that he made additional costs using Elementor Pro that haven’t been calculated in the price (contract doesn’t mention anything about this).
Then he gave two options:
1. **Pay 500 euros** and receive the login details for WordPress to manage the website on our own
2. Continue letting him make adjustments
We chose option two. For awhile he changed everything went well, he changed some small things on the website that we asked for without any demands. Recently though, he asked us to take a maintenance subscription of **€ 35 per month** for the changes that we want… The requested changes are really only one block of text that has to be changed once in awhile. Nothing complicated.
Now we want to manage the website by ourselves again but neither do we have the WordPress login details nor any hosting provider login details to take over control.
**How should we proceed with this website builder that enables us to manage the website by ourselves without paying him more than we already did?**
*TL;DR: Website builder has all login details of WordPress and wants to charge us 35 euro per month for small text changes.*
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Pay him 500, get full access then delete his account.
Make sure he lists all the subscriptions that are needed, including Elementor, plugins, hosting etc then pay for these yourself.
Then realise it actually was easier just to continue paying him 35 a month …
He charges you 200 a year for all the work he put into it. And keeping the site safe by updating and checking in on the website.
it’s always “smol text chanangez” yea.
You clearly don’t know what it all involves, the prices quoted are fairly standard & would say reasonable for the work involved.
The only bit that gets my back up is charging for WP, we build it in by default now and always give access when asked. All I can think is he’s using a developer license for the plugin and is moving you off of it? Or it’s time to move it out of his hosting into your own account?
I would be very nice and friendly either way as you might need his help to get you out of a hole of your own making.
Continue having them manage and make changes.
Your company wants to cut the web contractor out to save money but if your company really could perform all the things that contractor does they wouldn’t have hired them in the first place.
35 euro is dirt cheap. Everything you’ve listed is dirt cheap. Spend that cash elsewhere.
He charges you 200 yearly
You worked it out to 82
Great – you can save 112 a year!!
But remember, now if anything breaks on the site you’re fixing…not him. Likewise for hosting issues, email issues, WordPress updates, theme updates etc etc…
The 112 a year to him is probably worth it for peace of mind
To be fair, these are quite good prices… As others told you, you can save something else by doing it on your own, but does it worth it? If you are not a professional, it doesn’t
This guy is cheap. Keep him.