Boise, Idaho · websites for local businesses
Your website gets built first. Then you decide.
$0 today. $99 a month once it’s live. Cancel by email any time — the domain stays yours either way. Based in the Treasure Valley.
Austin Ross, Collister Computing. Boise, Idaho. Built and supported locally.
Service area
The Treasure Valley is the focus.
Boise · Meridian · Nampa · Caldwell · Eagle · Star · Kuna · Garden City · Middleton
Working close to home is what makes local mean anything here: the same time zone and the same working hours as you, and the person who builds your site is the person who picks up the phone about it.
How it goes
Three steps, and you pay at the end of them.
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The site gets built
Before Collister Computing contacts you. Not a mockup — the real page.
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You look at it
You get the link. You open it on your phone. Nothing is charged while you look.
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You decide
Yes, and it’s $99 a month. No, and it gets deleted. $0 either way.
The price
$99 a month One page · $0 today · Cancel by email
One price, one page. There’s no second plan to compare it to, and nothing you get moved onto later.
Nothing is charged during the build, or while you’re looking at it.
It’s a written month-to-month agreement — one agreement, a few pages, and you cancel by email whenever you want. Hosting runs to the end of the month you’ve already paid for; after that the site needs hosting somewhere else to stay online.
The site files become yours at your sixth monthly payment. Cancel before that and you can still have them — you pay the balance to six payments, $99 for each month remaining. That is a choice and not a bill: cancel early, skip the files, and you owe nothing at all. Your domain and everything you supplied come back to you free either way.
What $99 a month buys
- One page, with your services on it
- Hosting, and an SSL certificate kept valid
- A copy of your site kept off the server it runs on, so it can be put back
- If it goes down, getting it back up is included and costs you nothing extra
- Changes to your site, three a month, back within five business days
- One email on the first of the month telling you how it went
Want more than that page?
- Then it’s an add-on, quoted to you before it is built
- An extra page, a quote form, a booking system, a store, a redesign, an integration
- The quote gives you both numbers: what it costs once, and what it does to your monthly. Never one without the other.
- You say yes in writing before anything is built or charged
- Say no and nothing changes. You stay at $99.
Changes to your site are included. Here’s where the line falls.
| Included, no charge | Add-on, quoted first |
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| Text | A whole new page |
| Photos | A redesign |
| Hours | A quote or contact form |
| Prices | An online store |
| Services | A booking system |
| Your phone number | An integration |
| Staff | A logo |
| Holiday closures | Writing your content from scratch |
| Running your ads |
Both numbers, in writing, before anything is built. You’ll never get a bill for work you didn’t agree to first.
How fast: within five business days. Usually the same day or the next one. Five business days is the number in the signed agreement.
This plan covers the website itself: building it, hosting it, keeping it working. It’s not a ranking service, and it does not promise you a Google ranking. Nobody honest can.
Who pays for the domain, and whose name is on it
A domain name costs about $15 a year, and that’s the only thing you pay that doesn’t go to Collister Computing. You pick how it’s handled: register it yourself in your own name, or have Collister Computing register it for you with your name on it as the owner. If Collister Computing registers it, it gets handed over within five business days of you asking, free, and cannot be held back over money. Both ways, in writing →
Why some add-ons change the monthly and some don’t
Work done once and finished — a redesign, an extra page of your words — is a one-time cost, and your monthly doesn’t move. Something that keeps running after it is built, like a booking system or a store, costs something every month to keep running and keep secure, so it carries a monthly amount as well. Either way the quote shows you both lines before you decide.
The price is locked for twelve months — and what that lock does and doesn’t cover
There’s no introductory rate that quietly climbs later. The price you sign at is fixed for your first twelve months, and after that it can only change with sixty days’ notice — and you can leave before it does, owing nothing. An add-on you asked for and agreed to is not a price increase. Your $99 base stays $99 and stays locked for the whole twelve months; an add-on is its own line on top of it. In those twelve months your bill can only move if you saw both numbers and said yes in writing. How that works, in writing →
Changes: what’s included, the three a month, and five business days
Changes are included. Text, photos, hours, prices, services, your phone number, staff, holiday closures. Send it over and it gets done. No clock, no counting minutes, no per-change fee.
Three a month, and the agreement says three. That’s about one every ten days. The count starts again on the 1st and unused ones don’t carry over. Three is meant to be used, and using all of it in a month is what it’s there for.
If a month comes along where three isn’t enough, ask. You get a clear answer on where things stand, and then you choose what happens next — keep going for the rest of the month, quote the extra work, or let the rest wait for the 1st. Reaching three isn’t a breach of anything, and it doesn’t suspend your site, raise your price, or end your plan.
Fixing something Collister Computing got wrong isn’t a change request and never counts against your three. Neither does the work of keeping your site up and secure — that’s part of the plan, not your allowance.
Getting out
The part nobody else puts in writing.
If you say no, it gets deleted. It never goes live under your name, and it does not get shown to anybody else.
There’s one agreement and it fits on a few pages. There is no second document.
To cancel, email or textemail — or cancel the subscription yourself in the Stripe billing portal linked from every receipt. Both count the same. You don’t have to call. You don’t have to talk to anyone or explain why. There’s no notice period and no cancellation fee.
The domain is yours from day one, whichever way it is set up — you register it, or Collister Computing registers it with your name on it as the owner and hands it over within five business days whenever you ask, free, with nothing you owe able to hold it up. That is unconditional and the six-payment rule below does not reach it.
Everything you supplied is yours from day one too — your photos, your words, your logo, your prices. Ask and it comes back inside 7 calendar days, free, however long you stayed.
The site itself — the pages Collister Computing built, and any icon made for you — becomes yours at your sixth monthly payment. From then on, cancelling gets you the whole site as a zip file inside 7 calendar days, free, without asking. Cancel before your sixth payment and you can still have it: you pay the balance to six payments, $99 for each month remaining. Cancel after two months and that is $396.
If you do not want the files, you owe nothing. No invoice gets sent, nothing goes to collections, and nothing is reported to anyone. The offer stays open and does not expire. What stays with Collister Computing either way is the template underneath, which gets reused for other people, the same way two houses can share a floor plan.
Month seven
What are you paying for in month seven?
Straight answer: in any given week, probably nothing you’d notice. Here’s what you get anyway, and here’s what goes wrong in six months if nobody does it.
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The site stays up. Hosting, an SSL certificate kept valid, and a copy of your site kept off the server it runs on. If it goes down, getting it back up is included and costs you nothing extra. Sites that nobody maintains go down quietly, and the owner finds out when a customer mentions it three weeks later.
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The certificate stays valid. When an SSL certificate lapses, the browser puts a full-page red warning in front of your business. Almost nobody clicks past one of those.
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Your changes get done. Send them any time. Text, hours, prices, photos, a new service, somebody new on the staff page. There’s no allowance of minutes to ration and no clock running — the agreement gives you three changes a month, about one every ten days, back to you within five business days. Need more in a given month? Ask before sitting on it.
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You get one email on the first of the month. Whether it stayed up, what broke and how fast it was fixed, what changed, and when your domain comes up for renewal. If nothing happened, the email says nothing happened.
Nothing else is included. If somebody’s selling you a $99 website plan and promising you rankings on top of it, one of those two things isn’t real.
The proof
You look at the actual site before you pay anything.
If Collister Computing got in touch with you, your site is already built. Not a mockup and not a sketch — the real thing, with your services on it, ready to open on your phone. You get the link and go look.
Nothing is charged while you’re looking at it. If you say no, it gets deleted.
If you found this page on your own, this page is the sample. It’s built the same way yours would be: no trackers, no ad scripts, nothing loaded from anywhere else. Email Collister Computing and you can decide after you’ve seen the first version.
Three sample builds. All three businesses are made up.
Redtail Auto & Tire, Halvorsen Plumbing & Drain and Cutwater Floor Co. do not exist. I invented the businesses, wrote the words, and built the pages. The phone number on each one is a reserved number that cannot be dialled, and every page opens with a banner saying it is a sample.
The build is the real part. Same files, same structure, put together the same way a paying client’s page is put together. Open one on your phone and you are looking at the thing you would be buying.
- Redtail Auto & Tire — sample build. A fictional auto repair and tire shop in Meridian.
- Halvorsen Plumbing & Drain — sample build. A fictional plumbing and drain company in Boise.
- Cutwater Floor Co. — sample build. A fictional flooring company in Nampa.
Where things stand
Early customers get the clearest terms.
Collister Computing is early enough that the offer has to stand on the preview, the written terms, and the ability to leave cleanly.
The price you sign at is fixed for your first twelve months — after that it can only change with sixty days’ notice, and you can leave before a new price ever starts, owing nothing. That’s a clause in the agreement, not a line on a website.
Here’s what you’re risking. Nothing on day one, because the site already exists before anything is charged. And nothing on the way out, because leaving is an email.
Who is behind it
Austin Ross. Boise, Idaho.
Austin Ross owns Collister Computing and is responsible for the work that ships under the name.
Collister Computing focuses on the Treasure Valley. Working close to home is on purpose — it keeps the work close enough to support well.
Questions
Straight answers.
Is the $0 down real? What’s the catch?
The catch is that Collister Computing takes the risk up front to get a meeting. The site is built before the call, and if you say no it gets deleted.
The site is already built and you haven’t paid anything. That part isn’t a trick — it’s just the order of the offer.
What happens if I cancel?
The site comes down at the end of the month you already paid for. Billing stops. There’s no fee and no notice period.
Cancel by messaging Collister Computing or in the Stripe billing portal — either one, whichever reaches first. Your domain isn’t affected either way. If you registered it, nothing happens to it at all. If Collister Computing registered it for you, cancelling starts the transfer to you on its own, inside five business days, free, and it cannot be held up over anything you owe. Your own photos and words come back inside 7 calendar days, free, whenever you ask.
The site files are the one part that depends on how long you stayed. At six monthly payments they are yours, emailed as a zip inside 7 calendar days without asking. Before six, you can have them by paying the balance to six payments — $99 for each month left. Don’t want them? Then you owe nothing and nothing else happens.
Do I own it?
Three parts, and the third one is the honest one most shops leave out.
Your domain is yours. Two ways to do it and you pick. Register it yourself and Collister Computing never touches your registrar account — you just point the domain at the server, which is one setting and takes five minutes. Or Collister Computing registers it for you, with your business name in the owner field at the registrar, and hands it over inside five business days any time you ask, free, no conditions, and expressly not withheld over a bill. Collister Computing never registers a domain in its own name as the owner.
The honest catch on the second one: it sits in a Collister Computing registrar account, so access depends on registrar recovery if account access is ever unavailable. That’s why your name goes in the owner field — so you can go to the registrar — and why you get the registrar, the account email, your expiry date, and the registrar’s own recovery steps the day you go live. If you’d rather not carry that at all, register it yourself. The full version →
Your content is yours. Your name, your photos, your prices, your words. Cancelling doesn’t change that.
The template underneath stays with Collister Computing. It can be reused for other people — same way two houses can share a floor plan. What makes the site yours is what’s layered on top of it. You get the finished files either way, and any web person can put them back up.
What if all my work comes from word of mouth?
You’re not wrong, and a website doesn’t replace that. It finishes it.
Somebody says your name at a barbecue. The person they said it to pulls out a phone and looks you up. What they find is the part you don’t control.
Search your own business name on your phone right now, the way that person would. If what comes up is fine, you probably do not need this.
How fast can it be live?
If Collister Computing called you, the site is already built — you’re looking at it. What’s left is the domain. If you want to register it yourself, that’s about fifteen minutes on your card and then one setting to point it at the site. If you’d rather have Collister Computing do it, it gets registered with your name on it as the owner and there’s nothing for you to do. Either way it’s usually same-day, sometimes the next day if the domain is slow to switch over.
If you found Collister Computing instead of the other way around, give it five business days to build the first version, then you look at it the same as anybody else.
Where does Collister Computing work?
The Treasure Valley, mainly — Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle, Star, Kuna, Garden City and Middleton.
That is where the work is close enough to support well. This plan does not cover work outside those towns. A business somewhere else is handled as a quoted engagement instead, described on the managed operations page.
Contact
Call or email. Either one reaches Collister Computing.
Email Collister Computing.
Ask about the website plan, a preview, or a larger quoted project.