Website Maintenance

Website maintenance with Morris & Co includes a hands-on review of your site every month: plugin updates installed with post-update compatibility checks, a review for visible plugin conflicts, Cloudflare DNS oversight with the account in your name, verification of your Google Tag Manager, Search Console, and Analytics properties, technical verification of your Termageddon and Usercentrics consent tooling, managed access to the approved premium plugin licenses, and a written maintenance report after every window. Plans that carry implementation time also cover approved minor changes inside that same window.

The steps in a website maintenance engagement with Morris & Co are:

1. Complimentary discovery call and plan scoping
2. Agreement signed and setup fee paid
3. Access handoff through a secure link
4. Maintenance environment setup and baseline recorded
5. Your first monthly maintenance window
6. Change requests submitted and run in that window
7. Written maintenance report delivered

Steps five through seven repeat every month, so the rhythm is the same from your first month to your last.

Website maintenance with Morris & Co starts at $147 per month, with a one-time $450 setup fee that covers onboarding and technical setup of your maintenance environment. The plan that fits depends on your platform, the size of your site, and how much change work you expect, so every engagement is custom quoted after a complimentary discovery call. Engagements run on a 12-month term, and you will know the full number before you sign anything.

Getting started takes as long as the access handoff takes. Once you sign and the setup fee processes, Morris & Co sends your onboarding request within one business day; setup begins the moment your credentials arrive, and your first maintenance month starts once the environment is configured and your baseline is recorded. Most engagements move from signature to first maintenance window inside a couple of weeks, and the timeline is scoped on your discovery call.

Paying for maintenance and never seeing what you got is the most common complaint about this category, and it is the reason the report exists. Every Morris & Co maintenance window closes with a dated written record of what was updated, what was checked, and what was changed. You do not have to ask what happened, and you do not have to take it on trust. The proof arrives on its own.

You could run these updates yourself, and if you have the time and the comfort level, that is a reasonable call. What most owners find is that once client work takes priority, updates become the thing that does not get done, and six months pass, then a year. Morris & Co removes the decision entirely: the window runs on schedule whether or not you thought about it, and the report tells you it did.

Choosing between the Essential Plan and the Standard Plan comes down to how often your site changes. Essential covers the maintenance layer and nothing else, and it fits a site that genuinely sits still. Standard adds up to one hour of approved implementation every month, and it is the plan most Morris & Co clients land on, because most live sites do change: a new page, a gallery swap, updated seasonal copy, a staff change. If your site has moved at all in the past year, Standard is the plan that matches how you actually work.

If you need something changed on the Essential Plan, the request is quoted and billed hourly at the time you need it, outside your maintenance window. That works fine once or twice. What it does not do is make the small updates easy, so they tend to keep waiting. The Standard Plan puts an hour inside every month at a rate you never have to think about again, and in any month you need something changed, Standard costs less than Essential plus one request. You can move up to Standard at any point in your term.

The 12-month commitment exists because maintenance compounds. A single update is a task; a year of scheduled reviews is a record, and it lets Morris & Co spot drift patterns, keep licenses and tooling in sync, and hand you a site whose history is documented rather than guessed at. A year in, you have twelve dated reports and a foundation nobody has to reconstruct.

Cloudflare, Google Tag Manager, and consent tooling are the required infrastructure for maintenance with Morris & Co, and each one earns its place. Cloudflare keeps your domain records controlled and readable, on the free tier, in your name. Tag Manager is the safest place to hold analytics and conversion scripts so a platform change never wipes them out. Termageddon and Usercentrics keep your consent layer current with privacy law. Morris & Co configures all three during setup and verifies them every month, so the stack behind your site is standard, auditable, and yours.