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Website maintenance and support retainer proposal template

Website maintenance is easier to sell when a client can distinguish routine care from a new development project. This website maintenance and support retainer proposal template describes one monthly cycle for a supported WordPress, Webflow or Framer site. It combines a health check, supported updates, backup verification, small content changes and post-update quality checks with a monthly care report. The included content allowance is up to two hours, not an unlimited request queue. An extra content-hours pack and a speed optimization pass let the client approve additional work explicitly. The proposal also separates agreed business-hours support from emergency availability, avoiding a service expectation that the listed monthly investment cannot sustain.

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What’s inside

  • Website maintenance and support retainer for [Client name]
  • Why this project
  • What you get
  • Phased timeline
  • Investment per monthly cycle (USD)
  • Assumptions and what is not included
  • Payment terms
  • Ready to move forward?

Suggested pricing

Example library prices, not market rates. Adjust for your scope and costs; optional add-ons and taxes are excluded from the base total.

  • Health checks and maintenance planning

    $100.00

  • Supported updates and backup verification

    $200.00

  • Small content changes (up to two hours)

    $200.00

  • Post-update QA and monthly report

    $100.00

  • Extra content-hours pack

    Optional add-on

    Two additional hours of content edits during this cycle; no new page designs.

    $180.00

  • Speed optimization pass

    Optional add-on

    Image and cache tuning on the existing supported site; infrastructure changes excluded.

    $300.00

Base total$600.00

When to use it

Choose this template for a stable website whose owner needs a dependable maintenance contact and a modest flow of content edits. Inspect the platform, licenses, access and backup arrangements before accepting responsibility. The sample cadence reserves week one for checks, week two for planning, week three for updates and week four for verification and reporting. An already compromised site, unsupported software or a major redesign needs a separate assessment. Agree the maintenance window and how urgent incidents will be handled outside this scope. Each new monthly cycle must be confirmed in writing; the template does not promise automatic renewal.

Tips for winning this kind of proposal

  • Record the supported site and software before kickoff; flag obsolete plugins or integrations that require replacement instead of routine updating.
  • Translate the two-hour allowance into an approved task queue, and warn the client before a request exceeds the remaining time.
  • Agree which forms and customer journeys to check after updates, and document backup verification instead of implying every failure is covered.
  • Put support hours, incident exclusions and renewal approval beside the deliverables so routine care is not mistaken for a 24/7 service agreement.

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