Your website costs nothing
until it sells something.
We design, build and host it free, and we do not take a cut of your sales either. Our $0.99 + 2% fee is built into the price your customer pays, so your payout is the full ticket price.
Applications reviewed within 2 working days
- No upfront costNothing to pay to start
- No monthly billHosting included, always
- You keep 100%The fee is paid by your buyer
- Your domain, your dataYours to take at any time
The obvious question
“Free website” usually means something is hidden. Here is what we get out of it.
A conventional agency is paid once, whether your site earns anything or not. We are paid a small fee included in the price your buyer pays, on every order, for as long as you stay. If your site never sells, we never get paid, so we only take on work we genuinely believe will convert.
That is the whole model. It means we turn projects down, and it means our interests and yours point the same direction from day one.
Side by side
A traditional agency
Charges you before anything works. Gets paid the same whether you sell nothing or sell out.
A self-service platform
Bills you monthly regardless, and leaves the building, design and fixing to you.
Owlyn Tech
Builds it, hosts it and maintains it for nothing. Earns a fee your buyer pays at checkout, and nothing when nobody buys.
How it works
Four steps, and none of them bill you
The fee never appears until an order does, and even then it is your buyer who pays it.
- 1
You apply
Tell us what you sell and roughly how much of it. Three minutes, no call required.
Free
- 2
We assess and quote the fee
If we think the site will sell, we send a written fee agreement with the exact rate. If we do not, we say so.
Free
- 3
We design, build and host it
Custom design, your domain, your payment account. Typically live in two to four weeks.
Free
- 4
You sell, your buyer covers our fee
$0.99 + 2%, built into the price your buyer sees and routed to us by Stripe Connect. Your payout is the full ticket price.
Our only income
Run your own numbers
See exactly where the fee lands
Put in your real prices. This is the same arithmetic we run on every order, including the free ones.
Fee calculator
Where the $0.99 + 2% actually lands
By default the fee is built into the price your customer pays, so your payout is the full ticket price. Put in your own numbers.
In USD. Set 0 for a free ticket.
Each checkout counts as one order.
The $0.99 is charged once per order, not per item. Two tickets bought together are one order. Free tickets carry no fee at all.
One order
$0.99 + 2% per order
- Ticket price
- $100.00
- Application fee
- +$2.99
- Customer pays
- $102.99
Advertised to your customer as $102.99, itemised at checkout as $100.00 + $2.99 fee. Stripe Connect routes $100.00 to you and $2.99 to us.
Across 120 orders
You receive
$12,000
100% of $12,000 in ticket sales
Illustrative only. Your terms are confirmed in writing before your site goes live.
Start freeWhat we build free
Three kinds of site we will build at no cost
If it takes orders, we can usually fund it. Custom software and ad campaigns stay conventional paid work, and we are clear about which is which.
Free website + hosting
A designed, built and hosted website at no cost. We earn $0.99 + 2% only on the orders it brings you.
- Custom design, not a recycled template
- Hosting, SSL and backups included permanently
- Ongoing content changes at no extra charge
Ticketing platform
Sell tickets under your own brand, on your own domain, with tiered pricing and QR check-in. $0.99 + 2% per order.
- Your own branded event pages, not a marketplace listing
- Tiered, group and VIP table tickets
- Live inventory counters that create real urgency
E-commerce store
A product catalogue, cart and checkout built and hosted free. We take $0.99 + 2% per completed order.
- Product catalogue with variants and stock
- Checkout wired to your payment account
- Order and delivery management
The honest exception
If your site will not take orders, we charge for it. Openly.
Our free model is funded entirely by a share of the orders a site produces. A brochure site produces none, so there is nothing for us to take a share of. Pretending otherwise would mean hiding the cost somewhere else.
So those are priced properly, and priced to the actual job: a five-page site and a forty-page site are not the same work. Pay once, or spread it over monthly instalments with nothing upfront. Hosting and maintenance are included either way.
Priced by size, not by package
- Essential1–5 pages$349–$749
- Business6–15 pages$799–$1,899
- Bespoke16+ pages$1,999+
Or spread any of them over 3, 6, 12 months interest free. Start taking orders later and we move you onto the free model, stopping the charge entirely.
Earned, not sold
Sell well, and we start giving things away
Pass the first threshold and we run your social media for nothing. Pass the top one and we build, publish and maintain your Android and iOS apps too.
- 1First milestone
Free social media management
We take over your content calendar, scheduling, replies and reporting at no extra cost.
Unlocked at
$10,000/ month
sustained for 3 consecutive months, in USD
- Monthly content calendar
- Post design and copywriting
- Scheduling across your active channels
- Comment and message monitoring
- Reporting tied to your sales data
- 2Top tier
Free Android and iOS apps
Native apps on both stores, built, published and maintained by us, at no cost to you.
Unlocked at
$50,000/ month
sustained for 6 consecutive months, in USD
- Native Android and iOS apps under your brand
- Published to Google Play and the App Store
- Push notifications for launches and events
- In-app checkout and ticket wallet
- Store listings, screenshots and review responses
- Ongoing updates and OS compatibility
Compared honestly
What the alternatives actually cost
Ranges are typical market figures rather than quotes. Check them against whatever you have been offered.
| What it costs | Owlyn Tech | Hiring an agency | Shopify or Wix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Free | $2,500–$15,000 upfront | Free trial, then monthly |
| Monthly hosting | Free | $20–$60 | $29–$299 |
| Design and build | Included | Charged per project | You build it yourself |
| Transaction fee | $0.99 + 2%, paid by your buyer | None, you already paid | 0.5–2% plus processing |
| If you sell nothing | You pay nothing | You still paid in full | You still pay monthly |
| Ongoing changes | Included | $75–$150 per hour | Your own time |
| Social media | Free above threshold | Separate retainer | Not offered |
| Mobile apps | Free at top tier | Quoted separately | Paid add-on or none |
| Deducted from your sales | Nothing | Nothing | Platform + processing |
| Who owns the build | We do, you licence it | You do | You rent it |
| Your domain and data | Yours, exportable | Yours | Export varies |
Straight answers
The questions everyone asks first
Including the uncomfortable ones.
Is the website really free?
If your site takes orders, yes, and it is more than free: nothing is deducted from your sales either. There is no setup fee, no deposit and no monthly hosting bill. We design, build, host and maintain the site at our own cost, and make our money from a $0.99 + 2% application fee your customer pays at checkout.
So what is the catch?
The honest answer is that there is a condition rather than a catch: we only accept projects we believe will generate sales, because that is the only way we get paid. If we do not think a project will sell, we say no. We would rather turn work down than build something that earns neither of us anything.
What if I never make a single sale?
Then we never earn anything, and you still owe us nothing. There is no minimum charge, no dormancy fee and no invoice at the end of a quiet year. We take that risk knowingly, and it is why we care so much about whether the site actually converts.
What if my business does not sell anything online?
Then the free model cannot apply, because there would be no orders for us to earn a fee on. Those sites are conventional paid work: a one-time build price, or the same build spread over monthly instalments with nothing to pay upfront. Hosting and maintenance are included either way. We would rather charge openly than invent a hidden cost.
What exactly do I own?
Your domain, registered in your name from day one. Your brand. Every piece of content you supplied. And all of your customer and order data, exportable in a standard format whenever you ask. Those are yours outright and we will never hold them hostage.
Ready to stop paying for a website?
Apply in about three minutes. If your project is a fit, we start building within a week, at no cost to you.