Most NZ small businesses that want a website are told to wait. Brief an agency, get a quote, sign off on a proposal, go through three rounds of revisions, and launch six weeks later. That's the normal way. It doesn't have to be.
There's a faster path. You can have a professional website live today — not as a rough draft, but a real site with proper design, mobile-friendly layout, and SEO baked in. Here's how it works, and why it costs $299 instead of $5,000.
The old way takes months and costs thousands
A typical agency website project in New Zealand goes like this. You have a discovery call. The agency sends a proposal. You negotiate. You sign. They start on a brief. You review wireframes. You review designs. You request changes. They build. You test. You find more changes. They fix them. You launch.
That process takes 4 to 8 weeks at minimum. Often longer. The bill is $3,000 to $10,000 for a basic 5-page business site. And at every stage, you're waiting on someone else.
For a large company with a six-figure marketing budget, that timeline makes sense. For a plumber trying to get more callouts, or a cafe that just opened — it doesn't.
Every week without a website is a week of lost leads
Google processes over 8 billion searches per day. A significant share of those are people looking for local businesses in NZ — plumbers, builders, dentists, accountants, cafes. If you're not in those results, those people go to whoever is.
A website doesn't just help you get found. It's also the thing that converts a searcher into a lead. Someone finds your business, they want to know if you look legitimate, check your services and location, and then call or fill out a form. Without a website, that conversion never happens.
If you're getting one enquiry per week from your website, every week you delay costs you a potential customer. If your average job is worth $500, a four-week delay costs you $2,000 in potential revenue — before you've even paid for the site.
How SiteSorted builds your site in 15 minutes
SiteSorted uses AI to build your website from a reference design and your business information. Here's the process:
- You paste a URL of any website design you like — doesn't have to be your industry
- You tell us your business name, what you do, where you work, and how to contact you
- The AI builds your site in the style of that reference design, with your actual content
- You review it. If you want changes, you ask for them
- You pay $299. Your site goes live on your own domain with hosting included
This isn't a template with your name swapped in. The AI reads the reference design — the layout, the fonts, the spacing, the visual hierarchy — and builds a site that looks like that design, with your content. It's a custom website.
What you get for $299
The $299 price covers everything you need to go live:
- A custom-designed website built from your chosen reference
- Mobile-friendly layout that works on any screen size
- Fast load times — under 2 seconds on a standard connection
- SEO basics: page titles, meta descriptions, proper heading structure
- Hosting included — no monthly server bills
- Your own domain (or we connect your existing one)
- A contact form so people can reach you directly
No monthly fees after that. No platform subscription. No paying for features you'll never use. One payment and your site is yours.
What about DIY website builders?
Wix, Squarespace, and similar platforms let you build a site yourself. The problem isn't the tools — they work fine. The problem is your time.
Most small business owners spend 20 to 40 hours building their own site for the first time. That's choosing a template, customising it, writing the copy, sourcing images, figuring out how to connect a domain, and testing everything on mobile. Then paying $300 to $800 per year in platform fees, every year.
If you bill at $80 per hour — and most tradespeople and professionals do — those 30 hours of DIY work cost you $2,400 in time you could have spent on actual jobs. SiteSorted takes 5 minutes of your time and costs $299 once.
Is a same-day website actually any good?
This is the right question to ask. Speed shouldn't mean quality drops.
The design quality comes from the reference you choose. If you pick a well-designed website as your reference, your site inherits that design quality. The AI handles the translation — taking that design language and applying it to your business content.
The technical quality — load speed, mobile layout, SEO structure — is handled consistently by the build process. Every site gets the same fundamentals regardless of how fast it was built.
What you don't get from a $299 same-day site: custom illustrations drawn from scratch, a brand identity system, user research, or a 50-page corporate site. For a small business that needs to get online with a clean, professional site, those things aren't on the list anyway.
Who this is for
SiteSorted works best for NZ small businesses that need a professional website quickly and don't have the time or budget for an agency. That includes:
- Tradespeople — plumbers, builders, electricians, painters, landscapers
- Health and wellness — physios, personal trainers, massage therapists
- Hospitality — cafes, restaurants, food trucks
- Professional services — accountants, mortgage advisers, lawyers
- Retail — small shops, online sellers, service-based businesses
If you need a 3–5 page website that looks good, loads fast, and helps people find and contact you, SiteSorted is built for that.
Get your site live today
You can see a free preview of your site before paying anything. It takes about 5 minutes to set up.
Read more about what a professional website actually costs in NZ, or see why most small businesses don't need a web design agency.
Build your free preview now — no payment required to see your site.
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