Questions, up front

The questions people actually ask.

Payment, ownership, hosting, changes, language and failure scenarios, answered before a call and linked to the full terms.

Money & scope

How can Essential be one price when others charge monthly?

Static pages cost almost nothing to keep online, so Parcha Lab does not charge monthly for static hosting. Separate recurring charges apply only to a service being actively run: Complete’s engines, the AI Chat add-on, Care Plan edits, or a managed-domain renewal from year two.

What is not included?

If you need a new domain, its first year is included; after that it renews at $20/year, tax included. That Stripe charge is scheduled about 60 days before the listed expiry, leaving about 30 days for retries before Cloudflare may charge Parcha Lab up to 30 days before expiry. A domain you already own stays at your registrar. Business email inboxes are separate, about $7 per user monthly and paid to that provider. Also outside both plans: full online stores with carts and checkout, customer accounts, member logins, on-site photography, a full brand identity, ongoing SEO or advertising campaigns, and pages beyond the plan count. Those are quoted before money moves.

When do I pay?

Nothing to compare three homepage designs in one private, limited sample before you buy. Viewing does not select one. Only “Choose this design,” its confirmation and “Submit my choice” record your choice. You then pay 50% to have Parcha build the rest: $247.50 on Essential or $397.50 on Complete. The balance is due at approval and no later than 30 days after the full draft arrives. Paying the balance does not approve a design: you approve the exact current version in your private review. Launch is queued only after that explicit approval and the matching settled balance. Stripe handles cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay with receipts.

What if I do not like the design?

You compare three homepage designs in one private, limited sample before paying. If none fits, you owe nothing and the project ends there.

What is a revision round?

One consolidated batch of feedback with as many notes as you need in it. Essential includes 1 and Complete includes 2. The limited sample stage does not count. Send the included batch within 30 days after full-draft delivery; the included round closes then, but silence never approves the design.

Ownership & continuity

Do I own my website?

If you bring a domain, it stays registered in your name at your registrar. If new registration is enabled and you request a .com, the exact person or organization you approve is submitted as registrant and becomes the Registered Name Holder only after Cloudflare confirms registration. The registration remains in Parcha Lab’s Cloudflare account, which you do not own or control; Parcha manages billing, DNS, renewal and registrar actions as your authorized manager. Its first year is included, and it renews from year two at $20/year. Basic handoff, including an available account move or authorization/EPP code for a registrar transfer, is free; optional white-glove transfer coordination and DNS-continuity help is $50, and a new domain is generally restricted from transfer to another registrar for 60 days. Parcha Lab owns the design, code, copy and operating systems while running the site as a service. If the arrangement ends after the site is fully paid and launched, you receive a complete copy of the published files plus your original photos and logo. Complete booking data already lives in accounts you own.

Is hosting really free?

Yes on Essential: static hosting has no monthly charge. Static hosting is equally included on Complete; its from $29.99/month runs the live engines, not the pages.

What if Parcha Lab disappears?

If you brought your own domain, it is already in your name. For an enabled Parcha-managed registration, the exact approved registrant becomes the Registered Name Holder only after Cloudflare confirms registration. Basic help with an available account move or registrar transfer is free, optional white-glove coordination is $50, and a new domain is generally restricted from transfer to another registrar for 60 days. Either way, you receive the published files and a plain guide to host them elsewhere, with written notice (60 days for engine sites and 30 days for the rest). If Parcha cannot deliver a prepaid recurring service through its paid period, the undelivered remainder is refunded proportionally.

Is moving from Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy painful?

No. The new site launches and is verified before the old builder plan is canceled. A domain you brought remains in your name; only its pointing changes. Email setup is checked before anything moves.

After launch

What do changes cost?

One edit request is a consolidated batch touching up to 2 existing pages and taking up to 30 minutes. With Care: 1 request a month, one-week turnaround, extra requests $35. Complete includes 2 monthly requests. Without a plan: $75 per request with a two-week turnaround. New pages, features and redesigns are always quoted first.

What is the Care Plan?

One managed edit request each month, priority handling and an annual freshness check. Essential includes the first year. After that it continues at $99/year or $15/month unless canceled, with reminder emails before a charge. Canceling never affects the website.

If I cancel Care, does it stop immediately or get refunded?

Neither. It stays active until the end of the period already paid for, and customer cancellation normally does not refund that period. During the included first year nothing was charged, so there is nothing to refund. The narrow exception is if Parcha cannot deliver a prepaid recurring service through its paid period; then the undelivered remainder is refunded proportionally.

What happens after AI Chat uses 2,000 messages?

It keeps answering through a 500-message grace while Parcha emails an optional link for 500 more messages at $10. Then it rests and shows the business WhatsApp. No overage is automatic. Accepted prompts and the exact answers or resting responses returned are encrypted in Parcha One without direct identifier fields and removed from the active database within 90 days. To generate AI answers, message text is processed by our AI provider, which the Privacy Policy names.

Language & timing

Can the site be in Spanish?

Yes. Essential includes English or Spanish; both cost a flat $100 more. Complete includes both. Each language is written and reviewed as a real page search engines can index, not a machine-translation button.

When does Complete launch?

It is coming soon. Booking, payment and scheduling engines are still being finished rather than sold early. The pricing page has a one-email interest list.

Legal detail

The same answers, line by line, in the public terms.