Most small business owners do not need the biggest website plan on day one. They need a site that looks professional, loads fast on a phone, and makes it easy for customers to call, book, or visit. The hard part is figuring out which plan actually covers that — without paying for pages and features you will never use.
At Ahana, website plans are built around three practical variables: how many pages you need at launch, how many content updates you want handled each month, and whether you serve customers in multiple cities or neighbourhoods. Everything else — hosting, domain management, contact forms, and a dedicated account manager — is included at every tier. This guide walks through how to choose between Essential, Standard, Professional, and Max so you pick the right fit from the start.
Start With Your Page Count — Not the Price Tag
Before comparing monthly fees, list every page your business genuinely needs. A typical single-location business might include a homepage, about page, contact page, and three to five service or product pages. A restaurant might add a menu page and private events page. A clinic might need separate pages for each provider or treatment type.
Count only pages that belong in your main navigation or footer — the permanent structure of your site. Do not worry about blog posts yet; on Ahana plans, blog posts are published separately and do not count toward your page limit. That means you can add monthly articles for SEO without eating into your tier allowance.
Once you have a realistic page count, matching a plan becomes straightforward. If you are under five pages, Essential works. Between six and ten, Standard is the natural choice. Larger catalogs, multi-service businesses, or companies that need dedicated landing pages for each offering usually land in Professional or Max territory.
What Each Ahana Website Plan Includes
Every Ahana website is custom-built during onboarding from a reference site you choose. Your designer adapts layout, colours, typography, and content to your brand while keeping the structure that makes the reference site effective. A $300 one-time setup fee applies on every plan. Hosting, SSL, domain setup, and a contact form are included at every level.
Essential — $199/month + $300 setup. Up to 5 pages and 1 edit request per month after launch. Best for new businesses, solo operators, or anyone who needs a polished web presence without a large page structure. Think homepage, about, contact, and two service pages.
Standard — $299/month + $300 setup. Up to 10 pages and 1 edit request per month. This is the sweet spot for most single-location small businesses — enough room for a full service lineup, a testimonials or gallery page, and a FAQ without running out of space.
Professional — $449/month + $300 setup. Up to 20 pages, 2 edit requests per month, and location landing pages included. Choose this tier when you serve multiple cities or neighbourhoods and need dedicated pages for each area, or when your service catalog simply requires more depth than Standard allows.
Max — $749/month + $300 setup. Up to 100 pages, 4 edit requests per month, and location landing pages included. Built for businesses with extensive service lines, large multi-location footprints, or complex page hierarchies that would overwhelm smaller tiers.
When Location Pages Are Worth the Upgrade
Location pages are standalone landing pages targeting specific cities, suburbs, or neighbourhoods you serve. They help you rank in local search when customers search for your service plus a place name — "dentist in Oakville" or "bakery near downtown Austin," for example.
If you operate from one address and draw most customers from a tight radius, you probably do not need location pages at launch. Your homepage, a strong Google Business Profile, and well-written service pages will carry you far. Upgrade to Professional when you actively market across multiple areas and want each one represented on your site with unique copy — not just a list of city names in a footer.
Location pages are included starting at the Professional tier. Attempting to fake local relevance by stuffing city names into one generic page rarely works and can hurt trust with both visitors and search engines. Dedicated pages, each with specific content about serving that area, are the approach that scales.
How Monthly Edits Factor In
Every plan includes a set number of edit requests per month after your site goes live. An edit covers updates to existing content — new photos, revised hours, updated pricing, swapped testimonials, refreshed team bios. Edits do not include building entirely new pages; adding pages beyond your tier limit is a separate conversation with your account manager.
Essential and Standard include 1 edit per month. That is enough for most businesses that update seasonally or after occasional promotions. Professional doubles that to 2 edits, which suits businesses that refresh galleries, menus, or service descriptions more frequently. Max includes 4 edits for teams that treat their website as a living marketing channel rather than a static brochure.
If you rarely touch your site after launch, the edit count should not drive your decision — page count should. If you know you will be updating often, factor edits into your tier choice early so you are not rationing changes every month.
Reference-Site Builds vs. Templates
Many website providers sell template libraries: pick a layout, swap colours, fill in text fields, and you are live. The result often looks fine at a glance but feels generic — the same hero layout and stock photo placement as dozens of competitors in your market.
Ahana works differently. During onboarding, you share websites you admire — competitors, businesses in other industries, anything with a layout and feel that matches your brand direction. Your build team uses that reference as a structural starting point, then customizes design, copy, and imagery for your business. You get a site that performs like a proven design without looking like a copy-paste job.
This approach matters when choosing a plan because you are paying for a custom build at every tier, not a stripped-down version of a template. Essential is not a lesser product — it is a smaller page count on the same quality build process.
Common Scenarios and Which Plan Fits
Just opened, need to look legitimate online. Essential covers homepage, about, contact, and two core service pages. Launch fast, upgrade later when you add offerings.
Established shop with a full service menu and one location. Standard gives you room for every service, a gallery or reviews page, and a FAQ without cramming content onto fewer pages.
Business serving three or more distinct areas. Professional provides location pages plus enough total pages for your service catalog and area-specific content.
Multi-location brand or large service catalog. Max handles the page volume and edit frequency that comes with scale — dozens of location pages, extensive service trees, or both.
You want blog content for SEO but a small core site. Any tier works. Blog posts publish outside your page limit, so you can run Essential or Standard for your main site structure and still publish articles monthly.
What Website Plans Do Not Include
Ahana website plans cover design, build, hosting, domain, and ongoing edits. They do not include ongoing SEO services — Google Business Profile management, monthly blog writing, citation building, and ranking reports are separate SEO plans starting at $249/month. SEO requires an Ahana website package (we do not SEO third-party sites; we can forklift an existing site onto our platform as-is). Many businesses start with a website plan alone and add SEO when they are ready to invest in search visibility.
Keeping website and SEO as separate decisions lets you control budget and timing. You can launch a professional site first, prove the design converts visitors into leads, then layer on SEO when the foundation is solid.
Making the Decision
Write down your page list. Circle anything that is a location-specific landing page. Note how often you realistically expect to update content after launch. Compare that against the tier chart — Essential (5 pages / 1 edit), Standard (10 / 1), Professional (20 / 2 + location pages), Max (100 / 4 + location pages).
When in doubt, choose the tier that fits today with one or two pages of headroom. Upgrading is always an option; overpaying for unused capacity month after month is harder to justify. And remember — blog posts never count toward your page limit, so your content can grow even on a leaner plan.
Ready to see the plans side by side? Compare page counts, edit allowances, and pricing on our website plans page, or contact us if you want help picking the right tier for your business.