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We accept all major design programs, so design in whichever is most comfortable for you! Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD are typically the easiest and fastest for our coding team to work with. We’re happy to use tools like Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign but may need a bit more time during development.

We test every project in the following browsers to ensure cross-browser compatibility:

• Chrome (desktop and mobile)
• Safari (desktop and mobile)
• Edge (desktop)
• Firefox (desktop)
• Opera (desktop)
• Samsung Internet (mobile)

This list is periodically updated as guided by the browser market share.

Yes, we add rollovers/hovers to any clickable elements in your design. If you have specific rollover or hover effects in mind, just let us know. Some clients choose to include a style guide with their project designs to show what should happen when links, buttons, etc., are hovered or clicked. If you don’t specify, we’ll take care of this at our discretion and go for something tasteful and in-line with your design.

If you have something very specific in mind for the mobile and tablet versions of your project, feel free to send separate mobile and tablet designs over.

Otherwise, we can take care of the mobile and tablet breakpoints at our discretion using just your desktop designs.

We’re happy to use the CSS framework of your choice and have experience with popular ones including but not limited to Bootstrap, Bulma, Tailwind, and Foundation. Just mention which one you’d like us to use when you reach out for your proposal and make sure your designs are compatible with the framework grid.

You don’t need to worry about using a particular grid system or template in your designs unless you’re looking for a specific framework such as Bootstrap, in which case, your designs need to be compatible with the Bootstrap or framework grid before we can get started.

We work with a wide range of JS frameworks, including React, Vue.js as well as related popular frameworks such as Next.js, Gatbsy and many others. Our team is constantly up-to-date with the latest developments in the JavaScript world and we’re always expanding our knowledge base to provide the best solutions for our clients.

We love coding animations and transitions. By default, we add a super smooooooooth fade in and up effect to all projects. If you have something more custom in mind, let us know what you’re envisioning, and we’ll be thrilled to bring your ideas to life.

We currently do not offer email development services to the general public. While we understand the importance of email marketing, email development is complex and often requires extensive testing to ensure a consistent experience across all email clients. Unfortunately, the investment of time and resources required for this level of testing is not always aligned with the value that many people place on email development services. However, we do offer email development to our established clients and agency partners on a case-by-case basis.

We’re happy to use your choice of Advanced Custom Fields, Elementor, Gutenberg, or Oxygen.

Yes! Making text or image changes on your website will be as simple as updating your status on Facebook or posting a photo to Instagram.

We exclusively build themes from scratch and start all projects with a super light minimal framework that we created ourselves. We do not find pre-existing themes to be the best choice for most clients and do not take on theme customization projects at this time.

Advanced Custom Fields is a lightweight WordPress plugin that makes your dashboard very easy and intuitive to update and maintain. We use a feature with ACF called flexible content. This splits your design up into content blocks that can then be used on any page of your website.

However, ACF is not a drag-and-drop page builder, and you can’t design in the browser. If you’re looking for this type of interface, we recommend asking for Elementor when you reach out for a proposal.

One free site migration to standard web hosts is included with every project. We launch sites Monday – Thursday (excluding holidays) and usually just need notice at least 1 business day in advance.

While we’re happy to send you your site files on Fridays, we do not offer site migrations on Fridays as we are closed on weekends and don’t want to be unavailable to you in case of an emergency or issue after launching.

We’re big on privacy here, which means no branding on your site and strict confidentiality. Given our non-disclosure agreements, we can’t showcase all our work. But, if you’re itching to see what we do, shoot us an email! We’ll send you some projects that are okay to share and even let you play around with some demo sites. This way, you can experience our user-friendly WordPress tools first-hand. We’re confident you’ll be impressed with what you find!

We’re always here for you whether it’s weeks, months, or years after your project is complete.

If you chose Advanced Custom Fields for your project, yes – after writing and testing the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for your project, we’ll send you a link to review and approve it before we start WordPress development.

If you chose Elementor or another page builder tool, no, as we jump straight into WordPress development (skipping the front-end phase).

We always try to keep the number of plugins installed to an absolute minimum, but actual plugins used can vary from project to project. Some we use often (although not on every project) include:

• Advanced Custom Fields Pro
• Gravity Forms, Forminator, or Contact Form 7
• Elementor Pro
• Fly Dynamic Image Resizer
• Safe SVG
• Smush Pro
• Post Duplicator
• Yoast SEO

We love Gutenberg and find it works best when paired with Advanced Custom Fields – check out this article to learn more, and let us know you’re interested in Gutenberg when you reach out for a proposal.

Yes, we create fully custom WooCommerce themes (we do not work with pre-existing themes).

WooCommerce is a highly flexible platform that can be used for a wide range of e-commerce needs beyond standard storefronts. It offers many extensions and integrations that allow for advanced features, such as membership sites, subscriptions, bookings, and auctions. With WooCommerce, you can also create custom product types, set up personalized pricing and discounts, and integrate with various payment gateways, shipping providers, and tax systems. Additionally, its open-source nature allows for endless customization options, making it a great choice for businesses with unique e-commerce requirements.

You have full creative control over your WooCommerce site. Simply send us your designs.

If you don’t have specific designs in mind for all of the WooCommerce templates, such as my account, login, etc., we can style default WooCommerce layouts to have the same fonts, colors, and spacing as the rest of your project.

Absolutely! Our team has extensive experience working with third-party APIs and integrating them seamlessly into WooCommerce projects. Whether it’s integrating with popular services like Mailchimp or Google Maps, or more specialized APIs, we have the expertise to help you achieve your goals. Just let us know what you’re looking to do and we’ll work with you to make it happen.

We can help you connect with popular shipping carriers like USPS, UPS, and FedEx, as well as other shipping services that may better suit your business needs.

Whether you need to set up custom shipping rates based on weight, location, or other factors, or integrate your store with a third-party shipping management platform, we have the expertise to help you find the best solution for your unique needs. Our team will work with you to ensure that your shipping integrations are configured correctly and that your customers are provided with accurate shipping rates and delivery estimates.

Our team has extensive experience working with popular payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, and eProcessingNetwork in custom WooCommerce configurations.

The WooCommerce templates we use in your project depend on your specific needs. But don’t worry, we can help you determine which templates would be best for your products. Some common templates we can use include simple product, variable product, grouped product, external product, and downloadable product. And if there’s a custom option you need, we’re happy to create that for you too! Just let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll make sure your WooCommerce storefront is tailored to your needs.

WooCommerce and Shopify are top e-commerce solutions, but they differ. WooCommerce is open-source, fully customizable, offering a host of features and extensions without expensive plugins.

Shopify is a hosted, all-in-one platform for online stores, with a user-friendly interface, built-in payment processing, and shipping options. It’s ideal for businesses wanting a simple, ready-to-go solution.

The best choice depends on your project needs. At Hey Reliable, we’re WooCommerce experts, ready to craft a custom e-commerce solution just for you.

We totally understand the appeal of Shopify, and it’s a great platform for many, but we don’t offer Shopify development. Our reason? It’s not as customizable as we’d like. Unlike WooCommerce, which is open-source and highly flexible, Shopify often requires expensive plugins for each function. This can limit how much we can tailor the platform to your specific needs. So, we’ve chosen to focus solely on WooCommerce development, where we can really dig in and create a truly custom e-commerce solution for you.

We only offer annual payments for our maintenance plans. This helps us cover the extensive work we do in the first month, like speed optimization, and ensures we can keep your site running smoothly all year.

After managing WordPress websites for the last 10+ years, we designed our maintenance plans to include everything we consider absolutely essential to your website’s health, continuity, uptime, security, site speed, and more. With a free site transfer and set up in 1 business day or less, you can sit back, relax, and rest easy knowing that your website is in the very capable hands of our expert development team. While you must be a maintenance client to have your site hosted with us, you do not have to host your WordPress site with us to be a maintenance client.

You can use your support hours on everything from changing images or text on your website to adding blog posts or even new pages or features. Our annual-only plans offer the most flexibility by giving you an entire year to use your hours whenever and however you like.

For our maintenance clients, we process a security scan of your website once per month, use an uptime monitoring tool, keep your website up to date, and utilize best practices for site safety and security.  If you add our annual hosting to your maintenance plan, we secure your website with WP Engine’s Global Edge Security, which includes a web application firewall and advanced DDoS mitigation.

While it’s rare for a website to get hacked, no website is 100% bulletproof. If you’ve added annual hosting to your annual maintenance plan, we go to great lengths to protect your site through state-of-the-art tools like firewalls, SSLs, whitelisting, and more.

In the unlikely event your site is hacked despite these efforts, we’ll quickly patch up any vulnerabilities and clean any infected files, and/or quickly roll your site back to a backup.

If you aren’t signed up for a hosting plan, not to worry! We can still help you clean your site. Reach out to us at info@heyreliable.com.

We’ll email right away if this happens and ask you to upgrade your hosting to a customized plan so we can accommodate your popularity. 🙂

After 10+ years of hosting WordPress websites, we ourselves use and recommend WP Engine. From their simple control panel to their migration plugin to their truly amazing support team and more – we can’t sing their praises enough. As a WP Engine Agency Partner, you can use our link for 4 months free.

You can check out the minimal fine print for Reliable’s maintenance and hosting services on our terms page.

Yes, if your site runs PHP 7.4 or higher, the upgrade is included for free. For older versions, there’s an hourly charge. Upgrades generally take about an hour, but less maintained sites might need more time. Need a quote for an older version? Reach out to us.

A Hey Reliable unlimited retainer provides you with your very own go-to dev team at your fingertips, so we can get started on your projects or tasks right away whenever you need us. Depending on your retainer package, you can take advantage of priority service for ongoing HTML/CSS, React/Vue, and WordPress development work without having to ever worry about tracking billable hours.

You can sign up for a web development retainer on our retainer page or by emailing us at info@heyreliable.com. After signing up, you can start sending in your front-end HTML/CSS, React/Vue, or WordPress tasks right away.

You have two choices for your unlimited web development retainer. The “Unlimited Front-end & WordPress” plan covers all of our development services including HTML/CSS, React/Vue, and WordPress, WordPress maintenance, speed optimization, core web vitals and more.

We also have an “Unlimited Front-End Only” plan perfect for those just with HTML/CSS and/or React/Vue needs (no WordPress or content management system coding services included).

We’ve made a strategic choice to specialize in web development. As a result, we’ve primarily discontinued our design services as part of the retainer.

A Hey Reliable Web Development Retainer will automatically renew. We understand you may not have enough development work to fill up an entire month. That’s where pausing your monthly retainer comes in handy.

Monthly retainer billing cycles are based on a 31-day period. Let’s say you sign up and use the service for 21 days and then decide to pause your subscription. This means that the billing cycle will be paused, and you’ll have 10 days of service remaining to be used in the future.

No, there is no long-term commitment to our web development retainer program. Retainers are non-refundable.

A web development retainer is non-refundable. You can read the minimal fine print for our subscription plan on our terms page.

A web development retainer is non-refundable. 

Our support team is available 24/7 Monday through Friday. We’re closed weekends and holidays.

After paying the deposit for your project, we’ll reach out with any outstanding questions as well as an ETA for the first milestone.

For HTML, we’ll send the first page of your project for you to review as soon as it has been completed and tested. From there, we’ll send additional pages as we finish them.

For WordPress, we’ll send a link to your project as well as login credentials as soon as WordPress development is complete.

The best and fastest option for reaching our support team is by emailing us at info@heyreliable.com. Our support inbox is monitored 24/7, Monday – Friday. You can also reach us at 404-458-8285. If you are a retainer client, we also have options for Slack Connect.

You can reach your project management team by emailing info@heyreliable.com.

We can help with sites we didn’t code originally on a case-by-case basis. Reach out to us info@heyreliable.com – we’ll be happy to take a quick look at your site and point you in the right direction either way.

We’re always here to help with your project, whether weeks, months, or even years after your project launch. Reach out to us anytime at info@heyreliable.com for help with maintenance, security, adding new pages, or anything else you may need.

We primarily use Teamwork Projects for our internal project management. However, we understand that everyone has their preferences, so we do not require our clients to use Teamwork. We’re happy to communicate via email or any project management system you prefer. Feel free to invite us to join you on Asana, Jira, Trello, Monday, Wrike, etc.!

You’ll have a friendly, dedicated project manager based in the U.S. who is available to chat via email, phone call, or Zoom. You’ll also have a second dedicated project manager who oversees your project in the U.S. overnight hours. This way, your project is covered 24/7 during the workweek.

We offer three flexible pricing options to suit your needs:

1. By the Project: Ideal for clients with specific, one-time projects. Get a custom quote for your project and pay only for the work you need. Learn more
2. Volume Discounted Hours: Perfect for those who need ongoing support or have multiple projects. Purchase a block of 100+ hours at a discounted rate, with a two-year window to use them. Learn more
3. Retainer: Best for clients with continuous, high-volume work. Secure a monthly retainer to ensure you have dedicated resources available when you need them. Learn more

It’s true we’re a bit more expensive than some other companies (though we’re definitely not the most expensive option out there). That’s because our main focus is high quality code and amazing customer care. In fact, we hear from clients all the time that they end up saving far more because of all of the time and hassles we help them avoid.

We price development proposals at $50 per hour.

If you have regular, ongoing development needs, check out our retainer plans — they give you unlimited development and other services without hourly rates.

For maintenance and updates, we charge $75 per hour, or you can get a discounted hourly rate by signing up for a maintenance plan.

We also offer a reduced hourly rate with advance purchase of hours in 100-hour increments.

Our proposals are fixed price or sometimes a range based on the number of unique templates included in your designs. 

We accept credit/debit, Zelle, PayPal, direct bank transfer, and crypto. To arrange Zelle, bank transfer, or crypto, please email our billing team at billing@heyreliable.com.

Reliable requires full payment before starting each phase of your project. For example, to begin HTML development the total possible cost for HTML development is due. After approving the HTML for WordPress, the total possible cost for WordPress development is due before WordPress development can begin. For more information, please see our terms and conditions.

Email your designs to info@heyreliable.com or fill out our quote form. We’ll have your proposal ready in 1 business day or less.

Proposals expire after 30 days unless otherwise noted.

Yes, we offer volume discounts for clients who purchase over 100 hours of our web development services. This allows you to save on the hourly rate and ensures you have the necessary support for larger or ongoing projects. These hours come with a two-year expiration date from the purchase date.

We also offer retainers that provide the most savings and are ideal for clients with significant ongoing monthly needs. Retainers renew every month, making them perfect for continuous, high-volume work.

To see our packages for discounted hours and to purchase your hours, visit our Volume Discounted Hours page.

No, the purchase of volume discounted hours is non-refundable for any reason or at any time.

Yes, hours expire two years from the purchase date.