Support retainer

Support Retainer — Pro

The plan we put our own busy WordPress clients on.

From $290 per month · Turnaround: Setup in 2-3 business days
Same-day response Priority reply within business hours
2 hours dev time Real WordPress work each month
Staging-tested updates Nothing untested hits the live store
No per-incident fees Flat fee, no lock-in

The Pro retainer is for a WordPress site that actually matters to the business: a store taking orders, a lead-generating site, a membership or booking system that cannot sit broken for a day. It is the plan we put our own higher-traffic clients on.

You get everything in the Starter plan, run more carefully, plus two hours of hands-on WordPress work every month and a same-business-day response when something breaks. Updates are tested on a staging copy before they touch the live site, because on a busy WooCommerce store a bad plugin update is lost sales, not just an annoyance.

It is still a flat monthly fee. No per-incident charges, no long lock-in. If a month is quiet, you are not billed extra; if a month is busy, you are not nickel-and-dimed for every small fix inside your hours.

What's bundled

Services we combine

What's in the bundle

What you receive

Pro covers everything in Starter, run on a tighter schedule, plus the work a busy WordPress site actually needs.

Weekly core, plugin and theme updates, tested on a staging copy before going live
Daily offsite backups with on-demand restore, plus a monthly verified test restore
Uptime monitoring where we respond, not just forward you an alert at 2am
Monthly security scan and hardening review, with Wordfence or equivalent kept current
Monthly performance pass: cache check, database cleanup, slow-query and image review
2 hours of hands-on WordPress and WooCommerce work each month, rolled into the fee
Priority email and ticket support with a same-business-day first response
A quarterly deeper review: what is aging, what to upgrade, what to retire
Who it's for

Who it's for

This fits a WooCommerce store, a booking or membership site, or any WordPress site where downtime costs real money or real reputation. If a broken checkout for half a day would hurt, you want the faster response and the staging-tested updates that come with Pro.

It is not a full development retainer. If you need ongoing new features, a redesign, or many hours of build work each month, we scope that as a separate project rather than pretend it fits inside a care plan. And if your site is small and rarely changes, the Starter plan will serve you for a third of the price.

The WooCommerce store

Orders come in daily and a broken checkout is lost revenue. Pro keeps updates safe and responds fast when something slips.

The lead-generating business site

Your forms and landing pages drive the pipeline. We keep them working and patched, and fix issues the same day.

The membership or booking site

Logged-in users and payments mean more moving parts. Pro gives you the hours and the monitoring to match.

How it runs

How it runs

Onboarding is the same as Starter, with one addition: we set up a staging copy so updates can be tested before they go live. After that, updates run weekly, monitoring runs constantly, and your two hours are yours to spend on whatever needs doing. We send a monthly report and sit down with you every quarter to plan the bigger items. Anything beyond your hours is quoted first, never billed by surprise.

1

Onboard and stage

Access, backups, monitoring, and a staging copy so updates are tested before they go live.

Days 1-3
2

Update weekly, safely

Core, plugin and theme updates each week, tested on staging, rolled back fast if anything breaks.

Weekly
3

Monitor and respond

We watch uptime and security and act on alerts ourselves, with a same-business-day reply to you.

Same business day
4

Review and plan

Monthly report, quarterly planning session for upgrades and retirements.

Monthly / Quarterly
Pricing

Price and what happens after

The Pro retainer is $290 a month for a single WordPress site, including two hours of hands-on work. A standard WooCommerce store fits this tier. Very large stores, multisite, or sites needing more than a couple of hours a month sit higher, and we quote those after a look at the site. Smaller sites that do not need this much should take the Starter plan at $90 instead.

Tech we use

Tooling we lean on

WordPress WooCommerce WP-CLI UpdraftPlus Wordfence LiteSpeed Cache UptimeRobot MySQL
Where this fits

Where this fits

Pro is the heavier tier of our website maintenance and support retainers, tuned for WordPress support specifically. Need a one-time speed overhaul rather than ongoing care? That is the WordPress Performance Pack. Running something simpler that just needs patching and backups? The Starter plan covers it.

Support Retainer — Pro

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