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How many clients does it take to pay your website back?

The short answer: divide the price of the website by what a client brings you. A Business website at EUR 12,000 excl. VAT, for a company whose average client is worth EUR 3,000, is paid back with the fourth client; on gross margin rather than revenue, count about ten clients. The calculator below runs the numbers with your own figures, then tells you in how many months the website is paid back depending on how many clients it brings you.

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3 000 €
Refine with your gross margin
40 %

What is left of each client's revenue once your direct costs are paid. Leave it as is if you do not know.

20 days

At 600 € excl. VAT per day: design, development, project management. The options below add days.

What you want in it
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12 000 €HTVA

of revenue per month
of revenue per year

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    Projections use your own assumptions; they are not a promise of results. Amounts exclude VAT.

    What the website changes, beyond the maths

    The number of clients to sign is the simplest figure, not the only one. A custom website works on several levels at once, and most of them do not fit in a formula.

    • How your brand is perceived: the first impression happens on your website before your first meeting. A design that looks like you builds trust; a template builds doubt.
    • Reassurance: visitors find your work, your reviews, your answers to the questions they do not dare ask. They call you already convinced.
    • Visibility: a website built for search captures, month after month, the people looking for what you do, with no advertising budget.
    • Enquiries: every page leads to a clear action. A website that converts turns visits into forms, calls and bookings.
    • Availability: it answers at 11 pm on a Sunday, during your holidays, to a client comparing three providers.
    • Ownership: on Wagtail, the code and the content belong to you; the website follows your company, not the other way round.

    That is why we say a website is not an expense, it is an investment: your best salesperson, one that never sleeps and costs a fraction of its figures.

    Frequently asked questions about website return on investment

    It depends on what a client is worth to you. With an average client at EUR 3,000 of revenue, it takes 4; at EUR 1,000, it takes 12; on gross margin rather than revenue, about twice as many. The calculator above runs the numbers with your own figures, margin included if you know it.

    It does when it is built for that: pages that answer what your clients search for, proof that reassures them and a contact request at every step. A brochure site left alone and never updated does not. Our packages include SEO foundations and enquiry tracking from delivery, with no ranking promise: search visibility is worked on, not promised.

    A Business website at EUR 12,000 excl. VAT, spread over three years, comes to EUR 333 a month, first-year hosting and training included. A Start website at EUR 5,000 comes to EUR 139 a month. After that, yearly hosting and, if you wish, ongoing maintenance.

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