# We’d rather keep earning your business than charge you thousands upfront.

Kohmera isn’t a cheaper web agency. It’s a different deal: we build first, you decide second, and then we stay. We only get paid while the website keeps being worth it.

## Most web companies ask you to pay first. We think that’s backwards.

Then the website slowly goes out of date, and a few years later you pay for another one.

### The usual website

1. Pay A deposit before you see anything. Year 1
2. Build Questionnaires, meetings, weeks of waiting. Year 1
3. Launch Version 1.0. Also the last version. Year 1
4. Forget No updates. The copyright year gives it away. Years 2–4
5. Outgrow New services, new staff, same old website. Year 4
6. Rebuild Start over. Pay again. Repeat. Year 5

Last updated: a long time ago.

### A Kohmera website

1. Build We build it first, from what you already have online.
2. See it You click through the real website. No mockup.
3. Launch Version 1.0 goes live on your own address.
4. Measure We watch what visitors actually do.
5. Improve 1.1, 1.2, 1.3: changes when there’s a reason.
6. Evolve Your business changes. The website keeps up.

Still getting better.

## What that means in practice.

- **See it before you buy it.** You look at the real website first. Not a mockup, not a promise.
- **No massive build invoice.** The build costs nothing up front. We earn our keep month by month.
- **Your domain stays yours.** It stays in your name, where you bought it. We connect it; we never hold it.
- **We stay involved after launch.** Launch is the start of the work, not the end of the invoice.
- **Your website keeps evolving.** It gets better as your customers and your business change.
- **Plain-English pricing.** One monthly price for the website. Anything bigger is quoted before it starts.
- **No unnecessary technical nonsense.** You will never need to learn what a DNS record is. Unless you want to.
- **Real people you can contact.** Write to us and a person answers. A person checks every change before it goes live.
- **Technology should make business easier.** If it adds work for you, we built it wrong.

## Traditional web design vs Kohmera.

| What | Traditional web design | Kohmera |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Upfront cost | $2,000 to $5,000+ before you see anything | No build fee |
| Seeing it before you pay | Mockups and promises | The real, finished website |
| Hosting and security | Often a separate bill | Included |
| Changes | Often billed one by one | Routine changes included |
| After launch | You’re on your own | Measured and improved |
| When your business changes | Time for another rebuild | The website evolves with it |

## Stop replacing your website. Start improving it.

Designed to be the last website you need to start over with.

Most business websites slowly age until someone decides it’s time to spend thousands replacing them. Kohmera keeps your website actively managed instead, so it never falls that far behind.

- If the company changes, **we update it.**
- If visitors behave differently, **we improve it.**
- If new services launch, **we add them.**
- If search behaviour changes, **we adapt.**
- If visual standards evolve, **we modernize.**

**Version history** One website, three years. An example.

1. 1.0 Launch Launch Built first, launched on your own address. Month 1
2. 1.0.1 New holiday hours Patch Sent by text on a Tuesday. Live the same week. Month 2
3. 1.1 Call button moved up Update Visitors were scrolling to find it. Month 4
4. 1.2 A page for the new service Update The business added one. So did the website. Month 9
5. 1.2.1 New team photos Patch Two new faces, one new van. Year 2
6. 2.0 Design refresh Refresh Standards moved on. The website kept up, no rebuild invoice. Year 3
7. 3.0 Online store Quoted first New functionality, so it was quoted before anything started. When you’re ready

### What’s included, in plain words.

Routine changes and reasonable evolution are part of the relationship. Big new functionality is quoted first. No surprise fees.

### Patch: Included

The small stuff that keeps a website true.

- New hours
- A staff change
- A new photo
- An updated service
- A new promotion
- Rewording
- A new testimonial

### Update: Included

Improvements with a reason behind them.

- A new location
- A better call to action
- A layout change the data supports
- A page for a new service
- Faster pages
- Keeping the design current

### Major: Quoted first

New functionality, priced before any work starts.

- An online store
- Booking that takes payment
- Customer accounts
- Custom software
- Big connections to other software
- A second website

## Your business stays yours.

Kohmera manages the technology. Everything that makes it your business stays with you.

### Yours, always

- **Your domain** Registered in your name. Point it anywhere, any time.
- **Your business data** Enquiries, customer messages and lists collected for you are yours.
- **Your brand** Your name, logo and reputation. We just make them look good.
- **Your photos and words** What you or your business published or sent us stays yours.
- **Your business information** Hours, services, prices, locations. Yours to change whenever you like.

### Kohmera looks after

- The code and design system behind your site
- Hosting, security and backups
- Updates, monitoring and improvements

### If you ever leave

- Cancel any time by replying to any of our emails. No cancellation fee.
- Your website stays online until the end of the period you already paid for.
- Your web address stays in your name. Point it wherever you like.
- Ask, and we send back your photos, text and business information.
- The website’s code and design stay with Kohmera. If you want a copy to host somewhere else, you can buy one, priced before you decide.

No lock-in tricks. We’d rather you stay because it’s good.

## When the front office and back office finally talk to each other.

Most small businesses run on pieces that never meet: a website here, a calendar there, invoices in one app and receipts in a shoebox. Kohmera connects them.

1. Website inquiry
2. Customer information
3. Quote
4. Booking
5. Invoice
6. Payment
7. Bookkeeping records
8. Reporting

Front office: how customers reach you Back office: how the money and records stay straight

The exact systems differ by business. The idea doesn’t: information entered once, flowing to where it’s needed.

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Kohmera builds small-business websites before the owner pays, then hosts, manages, measures and keeps improving them for one monthly price. It also automates repetitive business work and provides bookkeeping support. Caribeam Inc., trading as Kohmera, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Contact: hello@kohmera.com. See your website before you pay: https://www.kohmera.com/see-my-website/

Source: https://www.kohmera.com/why-kohmera/