Patchlamp

Pricing

Every price, published on purpose.

Pick how much Patch does each month. A website comes with every plan: Hosting keeps the site you have up, or rents you the one we build; Light and up include a site filled in by text. 6 plans, from $25 a month. No setup fee, no minimum.

6 plans, cheapest first. Scroll sideways for Standard, Elite and Elite+.

Hosting

$25/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Patch keeps your site up: the one you have, or the one we build, yours after a year.

  • Your site kept up on your own domain.
  • About four small changes a month by text.
  • Patch for changes, a person by email.

1x usage: the plan the others are measured against

Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Support
Patch and email
Keep it up on Hosting

Light

$50/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Patch updates your hours or prices; a template site comes included.

  • A template site filled in by text.
  • Text Patch to change your hours or prices.
  • More room for changes than Hosting.

4x the usage of Hosting

Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Support
Patch only
Start on Light

Starter

Recommended

$99/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Patch handles changes and repeat jobs, with a template site included.

  • A template site filled in by text.
  • More room for changes than Light.
  • Give Patch repeat jobs, like posting an update every Monday.

10x the usage of Hosting

Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Support
Patch only
Start on Starter

Standard

$250/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Three people text Patch; a site built for you comes included.

  • A site built for your business in the first month.
  • Three people can text changes.
  • Support on call, with more room for changes than Starter.

33x the usage of Hosting

Sites
1 sitemore at $75/mo each
Who can text
3 people
Support
Support on call
Start on Standard

Elite

$400/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Routine changes included.

Your team texts Patch, with up to three built sites included.

66x the usage of Hosting

Sites
3 sitesmore at $50/mo each
Who can text
Anyone you authorize
Support
Support on call
Start on Elite

Elite+

$1,000/mo

no setup fee · no minimum

Routine changes included.

Patch works across your businesses, with up to ten sites included.

250x the usage of Hosting

Sites
10 sitesmore at $25/mo each
Who can text
Anyone you authorize
Support
Support on call
Talk to us

Pay $250 once with a year of Hosting included, and the site is yours right away; or rent it for $25 a month and it's yours after twelve paid months. What $250 buys, and what renews when →

Your site comes with a free address like highlandpool.patchlamp.site on every plan, yours to use while you're on a plan. Put it on a QR code, share the link or use it on your Google listing. If you want your own domain, like highlandpool.com, you buy it and Patch helps you connect it.

When you run low, Patch offers a top-up or a bigger plan on Light and up, and nothing is added unless you say yes. Hosting has no top-ups: once you've used this month's allowance, the next change waits until next month unless you move up a plan; your website stays up either way. Nothing to install, no logins, no dashboard. Text "undo that" and it's gone. Upgrading is a text; this month's top-ups are credited to the new tier.

Standard, before and after

What "a site built for you" means.

Before: a template, filled in by text

A template site, filled in by text. A bespoke build is a Standard job. You pick the closest of the six kinds of site, Patch fills it with your details — what you do, your hours, your phone, the photos you text it — and it's live that day. Every change after that is a text. It's a real site on real hosting; it just starts from our shape rather than yours.

The six templates, each on a live demo →

After: a site built for you

A site built for you. The first month's allowance is the build. If you already have one, Patch reads it — your words, your photos, the pages you have — and rebuilds it as a site it can change by text, page for page. You get a link to the new one and your old site stays exactly as it is until you say move it. If you don't have one, the build starts from what you tell Patch.

Then it's the same as every plan: you text, Patch changes it, loads the live page to check, and you get "Patched." Support is on call while the build happens, and Patch can bring in the bigger model when a change needs it.

Either way the repository leaves with you once the site is yours: by the $250 build or after twelve paid months on any plan. A full redesign of a built site, or a feature that needs an account or money, is quoted separately as a project.

Side by side

Every plan, compared.

All 6 plans, cheapest first, with the usage each one includes. The table scrolls sideways on a phone.

Hosting $25/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Usage
$10 a monthabout four small changes a month by text; $20 in your first month
Top-ups
Nonewhen it's used, next month or a plan up
Support
Patch and email
Usage, compared
Yes: 1x, the measure
The site
Yes: The one you have, or the one we build
Changes by text
Yes: About four small ones a month
The model
Yes: The everyday model
Standing instructions
No: None
Web tools
Yes: The standard ones
Light $50/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Usage
$40 a month$80 in your first month
Top-ups
$50 eachonly when you say yes
Support
Patch only
Usage, compared
Yes: 4x Hosting
The site
Yes: A template, filled in by text
Changes by text
Yes: Included
The model
Yes: The everyday model
Standing instructions
No: None
Web tools
Yes: The standard ones
Starter $99/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
1 sitea second site is a second plan
Who can text
1 person
Usage
$100 a month$200 in your first month
Top-ups
$50 eachonly when you say yes
Support
Patch only
Usage, compared
Yes: 10x Hosting
The site
Yes: A template, filled in by text
Changes by text
Yes: Included
The model
Yes: The everyday model
Standing instructions
Yes: Up to 3
Web tools
Yes: The standard ones
Standard $250/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
1 sitemore at $75/mo each
Who can text
3 people
Usage
$200 a month$600 in your first month
Top-ups
$50 eachonly when you say yes
Support
Support on call
Usage, compared
Yes: 33x Hosting
The site
Yes: Built for you
Changes by text
Yes: Included
The model
Yes: The one the job needs, up to the biggest
Standing instructions
Yes: Up to 10
Web tools
Yes: Built for you
Elite $400/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
3 sitesmore at $50/mo each
Who can text
Anyone you authorize
Usage
$400 a month$1,000 in your first month
Top-ups
$50 eachonly when you say yes
Support
Support on call
Usage, compared
Yes: 66x Hosting
The site
Yes: Up to 3 built for you
Changes by text
Yes: Included
The model
Yes: The one the job needs, up to the biggest
Standing instructions
Yes: Up to 10
Web tools
Yes: Built for you
Elite+ $1,000/mo
Minimum
None
Sites
10 sitesmore at $25/mo each
Who can text
Anyone you authorize
Usage
$1,000 a month$1,500 in your first month
Top-ups
$100 eachonly when you say yes
Support
Support on call
Usage, compared
Yes: 250x Hosting
The site
Yes: Up to 10 built for you
Changes by text
Yes: Included
The model
Yes: The one the job needs, up to the biggest
Standing instructions
Yes: Up to 10
Web tools
Yes: Built for you

Usage, compared is how much work a month holds against Hosting, for the same kind of change. Bigger plans count usage at a lower rate, so Standard's $200 holds 33x the work of Hosting's $10, not 20x. It is like for like, not a count of changes: a bigger job uses more of it, and on Standard and up a change that needs the bigger model costs more of it.

Money questions

The fine print, in plain words.

What does a plan include?

Hosting for your site on every plan, and Patch on every plan: on Hosting for about four small changes a month by text, from Light up on call (support on call from Standard up). Each plan has its usage every month, more in your first month: $200 a month on Standard, $600 the first. Routine changes are included on every plan: dates, hours, wording, photos, menu items, new pages of the kind you already have; Hosting about four a month, Light and up a month's worth. Patch adds a store by text on any plan; to take payments, connect your own Stripe account. A full redesign, a members area or customer logins is quoted separately as a project.

What counts as usage?

Usage is measured in dollars, not messages. It's what the AI actually consumed doing your changes: a small change costs cents of it, a big one costs more, and most sites use a fraction of their allowance once they're settled. Each tier has its own rate, and the higher the tier, the further a dollar goes. It's the same number Patch shows you when you ask "how much have I used this month?"

What happens when I run low?

Patch tells you in the thread and offers a top-up ($50 on Standard) or the next tier up, with this month's top-ups credited. Nothing is added unless you say yes. On Hosting there are no top-ups: when the month's usage is spent, Patch tells you your plan and how to move up, and the next change waits for next month. Your website stays up either way. Unused allowance doesn't roll over; usage you buy doesn't expire.

Where is the record of what I used?

Every message and every generated photo is one line on a usage ledger with what it cost. That ledger is the record; ask to see yours any time, and if you think an entry is wrong, say so within 30 days and we review it against the log of what Patch did. The usage terms set out the whole of it.

Is there a setup fee, or a minimum?

No setup fee on any plan — the first month's bigger allowance is where the build happens. No minimum either: no plan has a contract, and you can cancel any time.

What are Hosting and Light?

Hosting ($25 a month) keeps a site we already serve up on your domain, forms and sign-ups still working, with about four small changes a month by text: $10 of usage a month ($20 the first), one person texting, no top-ups. That is about four, not exactly four: a bigger change uses more. When it's used, a text gets one line back naming your plan and how to upgrade, and the next change waits for next month. It's for a site that rarely changes. Light ($50 a month) is Starter's rate with a smaller allowance, $40 a month, one person texting and no standing instructions: for a menu or a price list that changes now and then.

What's the difference between Starter and Standard?

Starter is a template site you fill in by text, changed by the everyday model, one person texting. Standard is a site built for you in the first month, support on call, three people texting, and Patch can bring in the bigger model when a change needs it. If you start on Starter and ask for something that needs the bigger model, Patch says so plainly; upgrading is a text.

Can I have more than one site?

On Standard and above, yes: each extra site is a monthly line on your plan ($75 on Standard, less on Elite and Elite+, which include several). Hosting, Light and Starter are one site each; a second business is a second plan.

Refunds?

On Hosting: If a Hosting charge catches you off guard, tell us within five business days of the charge (Monday to Friday, Utah time) and we refund it in full; after that, we refund the unused part of that month, pro rata by day, and the plan ends. No argument and no retention pitch. On the other plans, in your first month, yes, by formula: what you paid, less Stripe's processing fee (Stripe keeps it on any refund), less the usage on your ledger at your tier's rate. Text Patch "cancel" and it shows you the number first. After the first month those plans are billed in advance and a partial month isn't refunded; cancel takes effect at the next billing date. Usage you buy doesn't expire and isn't refunded once the engagement ends. If you think a usage entry is wrong, say so within 30 days and we review it against the log of what Patch did.

Does Hosting renew?

Yes, every month at $25 until you cancel: after the included year if you bought the site, after the free week if you rent. We say it before you pay, there's a "don't renew" box at sign-up and on your account page, and we email you before the first charge (30 days and 1 day before, for an owner). Cancel with one text. If you opt out, a bought site stays up as a plain static site; a rented one ends and your files come to you. What $250 buys, and what renews when.

How do I upgrade?

Use Upgrade on your account page, or text UPGRADE to Patch. You get a quote — the next tier, what's due today for the rest of this period (prorated), and any unused top-ups credited — and reply YES. It's on within the minute: the bigger allowance, the bigger model, more people texting. Moving from Starter to Standard brings Standard's build month with it. Moving down a plan, Hosting included, is Change plan on the same page and takes effect at renewal. Cancelling offers Hosting first, so the site can stay up.

What happens when I leave?

Patch helps you leave. Your own photos, text, lists, bookings and notes leave with you on any plan, always: they come back in one file, in the same conversation, with your conversations with Patch and what it knows about your business. The built site leaves with you once it's yours, by the $250 or by twelve paid months; before that it stays with us. A site that's yours comes with its history, the repository moves to a GitHub account you control if you want it, and we keep serving it for thirty days while you move it; if you own it and just stop, it stays up on our hosting as a plain site. Your domain and your Stripe account were always yours. How leaving works is on its own page, linked below.

Who am I paying?

Plateful LLC, Taylor's company, through Stripe. The statement says PATCHLAMP.

The usage terms in full · How it works, the long version · Leaving, and what you take with you