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Custom website for churches
A custom website for a church costs from $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio, or $499/mo for 24 months with maintenance and hosting included. Unlike a template, it's designed around how a church actually operates — removing the manual touchpoints (Updating service times, events, and announcements by hand (or not at all)) that template sites force on you.
A church website serves two audiences with different needs on the same pages. The newcomer, often deciding whether to visit at all, needs a warm, clear 'plan your visit' path — service times, location, parking, what happens with their kids, what to expect. The member needs the practical hub: giving, events, sermons, and how to get involved. A good build makes both obvious without either drowning the other.
Just as important is that the site be easy for staff and volunteers to update, because a church site that only a developer can change inevitably goes stale — and a stale site quietly tells newcomers the church isn't active. We build it so the people who run the church can keep it current themselves.
The reality for most churches
Newcomers can't easily plan a first visit
A first-time visitor wants service times, location, what to expect, and where to park or drop off kids. If that's buried or missing, they may not come. A clear 'plan your visit' section removes the anxiety and increases first visits.
Online giving is clunky or absent
Giving is central to a church's operations, and members increasingly give online and recurring. A simple, integrated giving flow — one-time and recurring — makes generosity easy instead of routing through a hard-to-use tool.
Events and registrations are managed on paper
Retreats, classes, VBS, and volunteer sign-ups run on paper forms and spreadsheets. Online event registration and sign-ups save staff and volunteers hours and reduce errors.
What does it cost?
One scoping pass, one fixed number — no hourly billing. Most churches need an easy-to-update website with giving and event sign-ups, not a logged-in platform — a members portal only matters for large congregations with heavy internal workflows.
- Website — from $4,500 one-time (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included.
The monthly plan totals somewhat more than paying up front — that's the honest trade for spreading the cost and having us operate everything for two years. Details in the payment plan guide and on the pricing page.
Start a project — one scoping pass, a fixed number within one business day.
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Common questions
- How much does a website for a church cost?
- From $4,500 one-time at Nabee Studio (standard from $7,500), or $499/mo for 24 months with the Maintenance Plan and hosting included. One scoping pass produces a fixed number — no hourly billing.
- What should a church website include?
- Beyond presenting the business: the workflows that remove manual work — plan-your-visit + service info and online giving (one-time & recurring) — plus the integrations churches actually use.
- Who maintains the website after launch?
- We do. The Maintenance Plan ($299/mo, included in the payment plan) covers hosting, SSL, security, backups, updates, and small content changes — you never inherit a server login you didn't ask for.
- Is a template or website builder good enough instead?
- Sometimes — if the site just needs to exist and you're happy doing the manual work a template can't remove. The honest comparison is in our custom vs website builder guide.