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Common questions

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Who is WorkspaceCMS for?
Busy owners and professional teams who want a real agency behind their site, without paying a real-agency retainer. You want the site handled: fast, on-brand, ranking. You don't want to spend nights inside a page-builder, and you don't want to write a five-figure check just to fix a typo. We make your updates for you on a turnaround you can count on, our pricing is published, and you can take the keys yourself whenever you feel like it.
Is the initial site build included? What about migrations and custom work?

All plans include a free new-build with your 12-month commitment (Essentials: a 6-page site — 3 pages designed for your business; Growth: 10 pages — 7 designed; Premium: 15 pages — 12 designed; every plan adds a blog, Terms, and Privacy styled to match): a brand-new site based on one of our reference designs, filled with your content, your brand voice, and a solid SEO foundation.

Standard marketing-site takeovers are covered by the free rebuild: your plan's page counts, with your content and photos moved over, at the same monthly price. Online stores (like Shopify), custom features, third-party integrations, and data migrations always get a written quote first. No surprise bills.

The monthly plan fee ($89 / $199 / $449) covers hosting and us running the site for you after it's live: content edits, photo swaps, blog, SEO tools, AI visibility, and AI content tools. That starts from day one of your subscription.

What is Growth?
Growth is for teams who want us to run the site for them: content edits, photo swaps, location updates, blog publishing, and new pages from your templates are all handled for you. Changes ship in 2 business days. Blockers (site down, login broken, payment broken, forms not submitting) get handled the same business day (≤ 8 business hours). You get AI-powered writing and auditing tools, fast secure hosting, up to 2 team members, and your site stays up 99.9% of the time.
What is Premium?
Premium is our fastest, most hands-on plan. Same managed-updates service as Growth: you send changes, we make them. But changes ship in 1 business day on a priority queue, and blockers (site down, login broken, payment broken) get handled in 4 business hours. AI-powered writing and auditing tools, fast secure hosting, up to 4 team members, and capacity for up to 3 domains: one primary plus up to 2 aliases for the same site.
Is the AI content tooling self-serve, or does your team do it for me?
Self-serve by default, so every plan gets the same AI toolkit (blog drafts, page-title rewrites, image descriptions, AI-visibility tracking) to run yourself from your dashboard. Want it fully done for you? Add a Campaign and our team drives the strategy and the work. Either way, nothing auto-publishes without a review step, which also keeps your site clear of Google's AI-content penalty rules.
What counts as a "blocker"?

A blocker is something stopping your site from working: the site is down, login or payment is broken, forms aren't submitting, or Google suddenly can't find or read the site. Visual nits, typos, content additions, and custom builds don't qualify. You mark a ticket as a blocker in your dashboard; we honor every reasonable call.

Blocker turnaround scales by plan: 1 business day on Essentials, same business day on Growth (≤ 8 business hours), 4 business hours on Premium. The full definition lives in our turnaround policy.

What stops my site from going stale a year after launch?
The monthly rhythm does. On every plan, we make your updates for you on your plan's turnaround: content edits, photo swaps, blog publishing, location updates, new pages from your templates, business-detail refreshes, so the site keeps a heartbeat instead of quietly aging. Send a ticket from your dashboard and we ship the change on the turnaround you bought (4 business days on Essentials, 2 business days on Growth, 1 business day on Premium). The site stays current with your business, so Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini keep seeing a fresh, well-kept site instead of a stale one.
Can our team log in and manage the site ourselves?
Yes, on every plan. You get full admin access for everyone you add (1 seat on Essentials, 2 on Growth, 4 on Premium). Need more people than your plan includes? Extra seats are available on Premium at $15/seat/mo. Hand off as much or as little to us as you want. Some clients run it themselves and ping us for occasional updates; others never log in and let us drive. Same platform either way.
How is this different from hiring an agency for a custom build?
You get the same operators, because we are an agency, but on a predictable monthly fee instead of a project quote with retainer politics. A traditional agency build for a comparable site is typically $15k–$50k up front, then a $1.5k–$5k/mo retainer, then $150–$250/hr for changes. Our equivalent is built in days on a flat monthly fee that includes the platform, the SEO tools, AI content tools (AI-visibility tracking on Premium), and a team that makes your updates for you on a turnaround you can plan around. No retainer politics, no $250/hr invoices to change a phone number.
What's included in the monthly fee, and what isn't?

Included on every plan: fast, secure hosting, the technical SEO details (handled for you), AI content tools, a team that makes your updates for you on your plan’s turnaround (4 business days on Essentials, 2 on Growth, 1 business day on Premium), a form builder, and full admin access for your whole team. AI-visibility tracking across ChatGPT + Claude + Perplexity + Gemini is included on Premium.

Also included: upkeep, tuning for Google’s speed scores, and security-certificate renewals, so you’re not chasing a developer every time something expires.

Not included, quoted separately in writing:

  • Custom page designs beyond your plan’s semi-custom scope
  • Custom functionality and third-party integrations (e.g., a custom booking engine, ERP sync)
  • Online stores and e-commerce
  • Ongoing SEO, PPC, social, or email campaigns (separate agency services)

Every out-of-scope item is quoted in writing before any work starts. You’ll never open an invoice and see a surprise line item.

Can we cancel? Do we own our content?

30-day money-back guarantee on Essentials, Growth, and Premium. If it's not for you in the first 30 days after we deliver your first design, you get everything you've paid back in full. Ultra and Enterprise include unlimited revision rounds while your design is being agreed instead, so we keep revising rather than refunding; on any plan, cancel before we deliver your first design and you get every dollar back with no time limit. Plans run 12 months, then month-to-month.

After the initial 12 months, cancel anytime. No intro rate that triples in month four.

Refund policy: Outside the guarantee window, plans cancel at the end of the current billing period. No partial-month refunds. Monthly payments are non-refundable. Annual prepayments (an optional way to pay) are also non-refundable. If you cancel during the first 12-month initial term, a one-time build fee may apply. See Terms for the amount specific to your plan.

Every plan includes a free website build with your 12-month commitment (Essentials: a 6-page site — 3 pages designed for your business; Growth: 10 pages — 7 designed; Premium: 15 pages — 12 designed; every plan adds a blog, Terms, and Privacy styled to match). Build capacity is limited.

Your content: You own it. Export content (HTML + JSON), media (raw files), and redirects (CSV) anytime. Full detail in What exactly can I export if I leave? below. Domain is always yours. We hold exported data 30 days after cancellation then permanently delete it. Full terms at Terms of Service.

What exactly can I export if I leave?

What you can export, anytime: your written content (HTML + JSON), your media and image assets (raw files), and your redirect map (CSV). Your domain is always yours.

What export is not: a one-click, deployable copy of your live site, and not the WorkspaceCMS platform itself. The CMS, the admin, the dynamic features, and the hosting stay with WorkspaceCMS. Export hands you your content and assets to take elsewhere and rebuild, not a turnkey clone of the running site.

This is standard for every managed platform (Squarespace, Wix, and Shopify work the same way). The difference: many managed-website shops won't let you export at all. We always will.

What's the timeline to launch?

Standard builds: your first draft lands a few days after you finish the questionnaire. Essentials is a 6-page site, Growth 10 pages, Premium 15 pages. From there most sites go live within a few business days. Timing is response-driven, not a fixed promise. It depends on how quickly you send content and design feedback (target: 24–48 hours). Delays on your end move the date by the same amount.

Custom scopes (online stores, custom features, third-party integrations, data migrations): Timeline is scoped in writing via your dashboard questionnaire once we've evaluated the existing site and scope. These are never quoted blind. You'll see the timeline and price before any work starts. Standard marketing-site takeovers are covered by the free rebuild at your plan's page counts.

What if we just want managed hosting + admin, not the full done-for-you build?
That's Essentials: the same run-for-you service, on a 4-business-day turnaround instead of Growth's 2-day. You can log in and make changes yourself on any plan, but you never have to. Blockers (site down, login broken, payment broken) get a 1 business-day response on Essentials, and you get the same admin, the same SEO + AI-visibility tools, and the same uptime infrastructure as our white-glove clients.
Where does my content and images come from?
For a new site, our AI copywriters (trained on our SEO and conversion strategy since 2012) write your copy, and we source images from our own licensed accounts. No stock-photo shopping required on your end. Want to write your own copy or supply your own photos instead? Say so in your questionnaire and we'll use what you send. After launch, request a free edit any time to swap out text or images, or log into your dashboard and replace them yourself.
What happens to my existing content on a takeover?
By default we pull over what you already have: copy, photos, the works. Not happy with your current copy? Our AI agent rewrites it (every rewrite is checked by a human project manager before it goes live), or you can supply new copy yourself. Same for images: send us new ones any time you're not happy with what's there. We don't use human writers for this. That's a separate paid engagement outside your plan.
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