WordPress maintenance for agencies, priced so you keep the margin
Ship the design. Keep the retainer. We run the maintenance, WooCommerce support, migrations, and emergency queue for your client sites, entirely under your brand. Our founder manages a 150 plus site WordPress fleet. NDA signed day one, no client poaching, ever.
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SEO delivery under your brand
Need search work alongside maintenance? White label SEO services cover technical priorities and reporting for your agency clients.
+$4k,$12k / mo
Recurring margin you keep on white-labeled care plans, priced 2 to 3x what you pay us.
0 nights on call
We take the emergency queue so your team stops carrying pagers.
48h onboarding
From signed NDA to first site under management, including access audit and staging setup.
30 day guarantee
Not happy in the first month, full refund. No lock-in on any tier.
Which agencies hire us
Any agency whose team is better at winning and shipping WordPress work than at carrying an on-call rotation for 40 client sites. If that is you, keep reading.
SEO agencies with 10 to 50 WordPress client sites
You rank clients, but plugin conflicts, hosting migrations, and 2am downtime tickets are not your scope. You lose senior hours to work you cannot bill. We take the maintenance queue so you keep the retainer.
Design and web studios shipping WordPress builds
You launch beautiful sites, then get pulled back forever for tiny fixes. We unbundle post launch maintenance. You keep the design work, we own the ongoing engineering, under your brand.
PPC and performance marketing agencies
Broken landing pages, drifted tracking pixels, page speed drops that kill Quality Score. Not your team's skillset. We keep the ad destination healthy so your campaigns keep converting.
Local marketing and franchise operators
Managing 20 to 100 location microsites is fleet ops, not maintenance. Flat retainer past 25 sites, one dashboard, one lead engineer. Same playbook we run for 150 sites.
For design and branding studios
Building a New Website? Keep Your Current Site Safe With 90-Day Pre-Redesign Life Support ($199/month)
If you are launching a brand-new website in three to six months, you should not pay to rebuild your current WordPress site twice, and you cannot afford to let it get hacked or go offline while your new build is in progress.
I offer a fixed 3-month Pre-Redesign Life Support term at my standard Care Plus ($199/month) rate for business owners and creative agencies:
- I keep your live WordPress or WooCommerce site safe, tidy, and running while your new site is being built elsewhere.
- Every necessary security patch and plugin update is tested on a staging copy first, with backups verified by test restores.
- No redesign work, no unnecessary structural changes, and zero long-term lock-in once your new site goes live.
How I Update Your Site Without Breaking It
- 1.
Clone to Staging: I copy your live files and database to a private staging server so no untested update ever touches your production site first.
- 2.
Update and Check Key Flows: I run all core, theme, plugin, or PHP updates on staging and manually test your checkout, forms, mobile menu, and GA4 tags.
- 3.
Verify the Offsite Backup by Test Restore: Before touching your live site, I take a fresh offsite backup and test-restore it to confirm we have a working rollback point.
- 4.
Push Live and Send the Written Report: I deploy the verified updates to your live site, re-check your key pages, and email you a short written report of everything done.
Why WordPress agencies hire us, in one screen
White label by default
Reports, dashboards, and even email replies go out as your agency. Your client never sees us. NDA signed on day one.
8 to 12 hour emergency reply
Downtime, hacked, broken checkout, dead forms get a senior engineer reply within 8 to 12 hours on every plan.
No client poaching, ever
In writing. We do not upsell, we do not put our footer on their sites, we do not solicit. Your recurring revenue stays yours.
Founder managed 150+ WordPress sites
We run this playbook every day across brochure sites, WooCommerce stores, LMS, and membership platforms. Same senior engineers, every ticket.
Agency partner pricing, per site, month to month
You pay this. You charge your client 2 to 3x. Volume tiering starts at 10 sites, flat retainer past 25. All tiers include white-labeled reporting and the no-solicit clause.
Agency Care
Brochure and small business client sites
$79 per site / month
- Tested plugin, theme, core updates
- Daily offsite backups with verified restores (30 day retention)
- Uptime and security monitoring
- 8 to 12 hour response, emergencies handled first
- White labeled monthly report
Agency Care Plus
Lead gen and growing client sites
$149 per site / month
- Everything in Agency Care
- 8 to 12 hour response 7 days
- Performance and Core Web Vitals tuning
- 30 min / mo included edits per site
- Permanent staging environment
Agency Commerce
WooCommerce, LMS, membership, high traffic
$279 per site / month
- Everything in Agency Care Plus
- 8 to 12 hour response, nights and weekends included
- Checkout, payment, login flow monitoring
- Quarterly security and speed deep review
- Migration and hosting help included
Agency Fleet
Agencies with 10-100 client sites
Custom 10+ sites
- Volume pricing that scales as roster grows
- Dedicated agency channel (Slack or WhatsApp)
- Named lead engineer, backup engineer
- Unified dashboard across all client sites
- Flat retainer past 25 sites, unlimited small fixes
30 day money back guarantee. NDA day one. Cancel any time.
WordPress maintenance for agencies: the economics
GoWP publishes $39 a site for Pro and $99 for Business, plus $49 a month for its white label dashboard. On paper their Pro tier is cheaper than our $79 Agency Care, and we would rather show that than hide it. The difference is what you get per site: a human tests every update on staging before it reaches a client site, a named engineer replies within 8 to 12 hours, there is no dashboard fee, and the client keeps their own hosting.
| Sites | WebCare Agency Care ($79 a site) | GoWP Pro ($39 a site + $49) | GoWP Business ($99 a site + $49) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $790 | $439 | $1,039 |
| 25 | $1,975 | $1,024 | $2,524 |
| 50 | $3,950 | $1,999 | $4,999 |
GoWP figures: As published on each provider's own site, checked Nov 2026. Our per site price drops past 10 sites; this table uses list price so it never flatters us.
Margin maths for a 10, 25 or 50 site agency
You set your own client price. As a worked example, suppose you charge clients $199 a month per site for care, which is in line with mid tier care plans on the market. Here is what stays with your agency on Agency Care.
| Sites | You bill clients | You pay us | Monthly margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | $1,990 | $790 | $1,200 |
| 25 | $4,975 | $1,975 | $3,000 |
| 50 | $9,950 | $3,950 | $6,000 |
Partnership terms
- Month to month, no minimum roster
- NDA signed before kickoff
- We never contact or pitch your clients
- Per site price drops past 10 sites; flat retainer past 25
- White label reports under your brand
- Design and build work stays with you
Want the service detail rather than the numbers? Read white label WordPress maintenance, or hand over the whole roster with outsourced WordPress maintenance. Other ways to work together are on partnerships.
How the WordPress agency partnership works, step by step
1. Discovery call
20 minutes. Bring your client list, roster size, and current pain (usually emergencies or migrations). We quote a tiered price on the call.
2. NDA + partner MSA
One-page NDA plus a partner MSA with the no-solicit clause. Signed inside 24 hours.
3. Access audit + onboarding
We audit access, tighten user roles, snapshot backups, and stand up staging on every site inside 48 hours.
4. White-labeled ops go live
Monthly reports, uptime dashboard, and emergency queue all ship under your brand. Your client never sees us.
WordPress agency partner FAQ
How is /for-agencies different from your /white-label page?+
This page is the top-level agency partner overview: who we help, why agencies hire us, what the outcome looks like on your P&L. /white-label is the product spec for the pure reseller model. Most agencies read this page first, then dig into white-label pricing.
Why should a WordPress agency hire another agency for maintenance?+
Because maintenance is not a design problem, it is an on-call, tooling, and process problem. Agencies that try to bolt it onto a design team either burn out senior staff or drop tickets on Saturdays. We already run the on-call rotation, the staging discipline, and the malware playbook across a 150+ site WordPress fleet. You get all of it under your brand on day one.
What does the WordPress agency partner arrangement include?+
Tested updates, verified restores, uptime and security monitoring, malware cleanup, WooCommerce checkout monitoring, staging workflow, and emergency reply within 8 to 12 hours across your entire client roster. Everything ships under your brand with your logo on the report. We sign an NDA, we do not contact your clients unless you ask.
Do you work with agencies outside WordPress?+
Yes. Our fleet covers Webflow, Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace as well. Same white-label rules, same NDA, same senior engineers. Most partner agencies come to us for WordPress and add other CMS work over time.
What is your average partner agency roster size?+
Roster sizes range from 3 to 80 client sites. Sweet spot is 10 to 25 sites, which is where our volume tiering starts and where agencies see the fastest margin lift.
Can you handle overflow project work too, not just retainer?+
Yes. Migrations, speed rescues, malware cleanups, and one-off dev sprints are quoted per project. Most partner agencies keep us on a monthly per-site plan and add projects on top as they land.
How do you protect our clients from being poached?+
Contractually. Every partner agreement includes a no-solicit clause with liquidated damages. We have zero business incentive to poach: our unit economics work because we run at fleet scale, not by picking off individual retainers.
Evidence · agency partner case study
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Core services
- Website maintenance servicesUpdates, backups, security, monitoring.
- Website support servicesOn-demand fixes and change requests.
- WordPress support servicesNamed engineer, 8 to 12 hour response, from $99/mo.
- Unlimited WordPress supportUnlimited requests with published fair-use rules, from $199/mo.
- WordPress maintenance contract & SLAFree 10-clause contract template.
- Website care plansFixed monthly plans from $99.
- Ecommerce website maintenanceStore, checkout, and inventory care.
- Website repair serviceFix broken, hacked, or crashed sites fast.
- Website hosting and maintenanceOne relationship across hosting + app care.
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Field guides
Stop pulling senior devs into 2am WordPress fires.
Book the 20 minute agency call. Bring your client list. Leave with a tiered per-site quote and a white-labeled report sample the same day.
For agencies and partners
Underneath the white-label layer, the same engine and playbooks power every site we ship.
Migration service
White-label migrations from Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, or Webflow. SEO safety built in.
Care plans compared
The scorecard against GoWP, WP Buffs, and Maintainn. Give it to your clients.
Shopify vs WooCommerce fees
Standalone calculator to justify the move to your ecom clients.
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