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Monthly vs Once-Off Costs

Which Digitalx services you pay for once, which are monthly or yearly, and how cancelling works.

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Quick answer: Registrations and website builds are paid once. Hosting, monthly hosting packages and software support are monthly and can be cancelled. Domains renew yearly, and every company files a company annual return every year.

Once-off costs

  • Company registration, from R990
  • Website design and build, from R3,990
  • Custom software builds, paid per milestone as set out in your quote
  • One-off filings, such as a beneficial ownership declaration after a change (R450)

Monthly costs

  • Web hosting, from R150 a month
  • Business Hosting Plus, R350 a month: hosting, business email, SSL, DNS management, backups and support
  • Software hosting and support, priced with the build

Yearly costs

  • Domain names renew once a year, from R250 for a .co.za.
  • company annual returns are a legal requirement for every company, every year, in the anniversary month of registration. We file them from R650. The government fee itself depends on your turnover. See annual returns explained.

Cancelling monthly services

Hosting and monthly hosting packages are month-to-month. Tell us before your next billing date and no further payment is taken. Before cancelling hosting, plan where your website and email will live next, so nothing goes offline unexpectedly. We will help you move.

What is never hidden

Your quote lists every once-off, monthly and yearly cost separately. Third-party fees, such as government or registry fees, are shown as what they are.

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