Ownership, answered
The question every pay-monthly website company hopes you will not ask, answered in public. Your domain, your data and your content are yours from day one. Stay two years and the site is yours too. Leave early and there is a fair, published price. Never a ransom.
From day one
Always yours, whatever happens
None of this waits for the end of the term, and none of it depends on our goodwill.
Your domain name
Registered in your name, with you as the legal registrant. We manage it as your agent, never as its owner. Nobody can hold a domain hostage that already belongs to you.
Your content and brand
Your logo, your photos, your words and anything else you supply stay yours, full stop.
Your data
Every lead, form fill and enquiry, plus your analytics history. Exportable from the portal as a spreadsheet whenever you like, because legally and morally it is yours, not ours.
Your Google properties
Business Profile, Analytics and Search Console are set up under your Google account with us added as a manager, never the other way round.
During the subscription
What is ours, and why that is fair
While you subscribe, the website build itself (the code, the design, the arrangement) belongs to us, and you have full use of it. That is the honest trade behind £0 up front: we carry the build cost, so we hold the asset until it is paid for. Content we write for you is licensed to you while you subscribe and handed over for good when you complete the term or buy out.
What we will never do is use that position against you. The exits below are printed in the agreement itself.
Leaving
The three exits, in full
Every route out, priced and in writing before you sign anything.
Complete the 24-month term
The site becomes yours: a fully paid-up, permanent licence to the website as delivered. If you later cancel, you get a complete export of the site, your content and your data, free, within 14 days. Stay on and the fee drops to £99 a month for life.
Buy out early
At any point, pay the remaining months at 15% off, or the flat price in the schedule below, whichever is lower. You get the same export and the same permanent licence as completing the term.
Walk away
Give 30 days’ notice and stop paying. The site comes offline, and you keep your domain, your data export and everything you supplied. No debt collectors, no drama.
| Time on the plan | Buy your site outright |
|---|---|
| Months 1 to 6 | £1,495 |
| Months 7 to 12 | £995 |
| Months 13 to 18 | £495 |
| Months 19 to 23 | £249 |
Or 15% off your remaining balance, whichever is lower. Printed in the agreement, not hidden in it.
The detail
The fine print, without the fine print
What exactly is in the export?
The complete built website as it stands (every page, image and file, ready to host anywhere), plus your content and a spreadsheet of your leads and data. The one thing it is not is our component library’s source code as a development kit; you get the finished site, not the factory that made it.
What if The Monthly Studio disappeared tomorrow?
You would be inconvenienced, not stranded. Your domain is registered in your name, your data is exportable today, and your Google properties live under your own account. That is precisely why we set things up that way.
Will the price go up?
Not during your term; it is fixed in the agreement. Afterwards, any change comes with 60 days’ notice, and you are free to leave. Founding clients keep their £99 rate for as long as they stay continuously subscribed, and we mean that literally.
What happens if a payment fails?
We retry automatically and drop you a friendly note. If the account stays unpaid for three weeks the site shows a neutral holding page until it is settled; it is restored the moment payment lands. We never delete a site or its data over arrears.
Terms you can read before you ever speak to us
That is the point. If anything above is unclear, ask, and you will get the same answer in person as in print.