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In 2026 a window and door contractor website runs four ways: DIY builders like Wix or Squarespace cost $16 to $39 a month, a freelancer build is $1,800 to $8,000 one time, an agency project is $3,500 to $14,000 one time, and a monthly marketing retainer driving booked window and door estimates runs $1,500 to $5,000 a month.
The real ranges
Window and door contractor websites range from $200 a year on a DIY template to $60,000 a year on a managed marketing program, and most of that spread has nothing to do with how the site looks. It is about whether it shows up when a homeowner starts researching replacement windows or a new exterior door and starts calling the three names on page one.
$16-39/mo
You build your own site on a monthly plan with hosting included. For a one-page brochure with a phone number and a gallery of installed windows it gets the job done at minimal cost. Where it breaks down for a window and door contractor: casement windows, double-hung windows, sliding doors, French doors, entry doors, storm doors, and patio doors are each searched separately by buyers who are in different stages of decision. A template gives you one generic page where you need separate pages for each product category and each town in your radius. No integration with review platforms, no energy-efficiency calculator, no call tracking, and no local page structure that search engines use to rank contractors beyond the home-city zip code.
$1,800-8,000
A solo designer builds your site once and delivers it. A newer freelancer charges $1,800 to $3,500 for a five-to-eight-page site with clean product photography integration; a senior specialist runs $4,000 to $8,000 with more product category depth and energy efficiency copywriting. You get a site that looks far sharper than most window and door competitors right after launch. Where it falls short: it is a one-time snapshot. Nobody adds suburb pages as your territory expands, requests reviews after each install, or tracks which pages and search terms sent each estimate request. A window contractor competing in a suburban market needs that ongoing momentum.
$3,500-14,000
A studio builds a fully custom site with copywriting, product photography direction, and on-page SEO built into the structure. The $3,500 to $6,000 tier gets you a solid site covering your main window and door product lines with suburb-aware local SEO; $7,000 to $14,000 buys broader product coverage, brand-partner pages for Andersen or Pella, and deeper geographic page structure. Where it falls short: same ceiling as a freelancer build. Once the project ships, the site does not grow unless you negotiate a separate support contract, which most agencies quote at $300 to $600 a month for upkeep only.
$1,500-5,000/mo
Instead of a one-time project, you get an ongoing program: the site plus continuous SEO, product-category pages, suburb coverage pages, review collection after each install, and monthly performance reporting. Local home-services retainers run $1,500 to $5,000 a month, with national firms charging more. For window and door contractors, this is the model that matches how the trade wins work at scale: homeowners replacing 15 windows or a set of French doors invest weeks in research and compare multiple contractors before calling, and the contractor with the most reviews and the strongest page presence for each product wins the list.
$25-75 per lead
Not a website, but it is where most window contractors start spending, so it belongs in this comparison. These platforms charge $25 to $75 per window or door lead and sell that same lead to three to eight competitors at once. You pay every time to enter a bidding contest, and you own nothing afterward. Fine for filling gaps in the calendar, but the economics change once your own site generates calls at a lower cost per booked job than the platform charges per lead.
What moves the price
A contractor who installs only standard double-hung replacement windows needs fewer pages than one covering casement, awning, bay, bow, slider, and picture windows plus entry doors, storm doors, French doors, and sliding glass doors. Each product line attracts a different buyer using different search terms, and each needs a dedicated page with product-specific copy, energy ratings, and photo sets. More product categories means more copywriting and structure, and that is the biggest single price driver in a window and door site quote.
Contractors authorized to sell Andersen, Pella, Marvin, or Milgard have a real advantage in search because homeowners research those brand names before contacting installers. A brand-partner page for each major manufacturer you carry, built to capture searches like Andersen 400 Series installer near me, adds meaningful pages to the site and requires specific product knowledge in the writing. Each brand page adds to the quote but also adds a concrete ranking target most competitors skip entirely.
Window buyers in cold-climate states are actively searching for U-factor ratings, triple pane options, and energy rebate information before they contact anyone. A site that answers those research questions with clear, accurate content captures buyers at the top of their decision process before competitors even know they are shopping. Building that educational layer requires real writing, not templates, and it changes the scope of any honest quote.
Google local rankings are tightly geographic. Your address gets you visibility in your city; every surrounding suburb needs its own landing page to appear in searches happening there. A window contractor serving a metro with dozens of distinct suburbs can need 50 to 150 town-specific pages to cover the full territory. Town page count is the second biggest cost driver after product depth, and it is the variable most commonly omitted from low-ball quotes.
Homeowners spending $8,000 to $40,000 on a full window replacement project read every Google review before calling. A site that exists without anyone requesting reviews after each job is cheaper than one with an active review program, and the difference in calls generated is significant. Active review management, responding to reviews, sending review requests after installs, and keeping the Google Business profile current is the most common difference between a one-time build price and a retainer price.
The math
Start with real job revenue. Replacing 10 windows on a mid-size home at $400 to $700 per window installed puts the average job at $4,000 to $10,000. A full-house replacement of 20 windows can run $12,000 to $30,000 or more for premium brands like Marvin or Andersen. A new entry door with installation averages $1,500 to $5,000; a patio door set runs $2,000 to $8,000. A DIY builder at $39 a month costs $470 a year. A single 10-window job covers the tool for nearly a decade. The question was never whether a window contractor can afford a website. It is whether the cheap version ever surfaces when a homeowner starts comparing quotes for a whole-house window replacement.
Now scale to a full program. A retainer at $1,500 to $5,000 a month is $18,000 to $60,000 a year. A single full-house window replacement job at $20,000 gross clears the low-end annual retainer cost before spring rush closes. A program booking even two extra full replacements a month is generating multiple times its fee in gross revenue, before counting any entry door, patio door, or storm door add-ons that tend to attach to window jobs once the relationship is established.
The frame that matters is cost per booked estimate, not cost per website. A $400 freelancer site that produces no calls costs you every window project it failed to capture. In a trade where a full Andersen window replacement can carry $25,000 or more, the right measurement is how many booked estimates per month your website generates divided into what you pay for it. That is why we put call tracking on every site from day one.
Our honest take
If you are a small crew booked solid through builder relationships and general contractor referrals, and you are not trying to expand your service area or your product mix, a DIY builder at $16 to $39 a month is genuinely enough. You need a professional page that confirms you are real when someone Googles your company name before mailing a check. Do not pay $2,000 a month for a program you do not need yet. A fast-loading page with your license number, a photo grid of your best window installs, and a direct phone number beats an elaborate site with a dead inbox every time.
If you want a sharp custom site once and you already have strong referral volume from builders or remodelers, a freelancer at $1,800 to $8,000 is the honest middle. You get something that looks far better than most window contractor sites and you own it from day one. Be clear-eyed that it is a point-in-time build: no suburb pages added next year, no reviews compounding after each install, and nobody measuring which product pages generated the most estimate requests. For plenty of contractors that is exactly the right amount of website, and we will tell you honestly if we think it is yours.
A managed program makes sense when your market is competitive, you are losing window replacement jobs to contractors who appear above you in local search, and you have the installation capacity to handle more work than your current referrals fill. That is what we build, priced plainly: $500 to set up, then $1,500 a month flat, billed quarterly at $4,500 a quarter, cancel any quarter. You own everything in writing from day one, the domain, the site, the Google Business profile, every review, and the tracking numbers. If you cancel, you take it all. See the pricing page for the full breakdown, and reach us at [email protected].
If you want the line-by-line breakdown of what we include for $500 setup plus $1,500 a month, it is all on the pricing page. No call required to see the numbers.
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