1. Your rate
2. Your three packages
Count every hour honestly: meetings, messages, chasing photos, testing and launch. Beginners usually guess half the real time.
3. Your monthly care plans
About an hour a month for updates, a backup, checks and a short report, plus the small changes each plan allows.
The example ranges come from Lessons 14.1 and 14.5 of the course. They show how the packages relate to each other; they are not market research and not a promise of what clients will pay. Check your prices against two or three designers near you, and against what the site is worth to the client.
How the calculator works
Each price is your hours, times your hourly rate, plus a buffer, rounded up to a clean number, the starting point we teach in Lesson 14.1.
Three packages make “how much?” easy. You send the same sheet every time, the client picks, and anything extra becomes an add-on with its own price.
For the reasoning behind each number, read what to charge for your first website. To see how many clients your prices need, try the income planner.
Questions
How much should I charge for a website in Ghana?
Work it out from your own hours and rate, not from someone else's number. In our course's example, a small Starter site is GHS 1,500 to 3,000 and a Business site that takes orders is GHS 4,000 to 8,000. Those are examples to show the method, not market research.
What hourly rate should a beginner use?
Start from what other skilled work pays in your city and what you need to live on. The course's worked example uses GHS 150 an hour (US$45). Many designers price their first two or three projects lower in exchange for a testimonial, and say so openly.
Why add a buffer?
Every project has things nobody planned for: a late photo, an extra message thread, one more fix. A buffer of about 20% pays for that time instead of taking it from you.
Who pays for the domain?
The client, every year, on their own account. It is their property. Keep it out of your package price.
Should I charge a monthly fee too?
Offer one, as a care plan with clear limits: updates, a backup, checks, a few small changes and a short report each month. Care plans pay you every month, long after the build is paid.
Module 14 turns these numbers into a one-page package sheet, a proposal, a deposit and a handover. The 13 modules before it teach you to build the sites. GHS 399, paid once.