Website Development Agreement for bespoke projects. Covers IP ownership, revisions, hosting, domain, go-live and post-launch support. From £4.99.
A website development agreement governs the relationship between a client and a web developer or agency building a website. It defines what is being built, on what timeline, for how much, who owns what at the end, and what happens if the project stalls or scope changes.
Any website build of meaningful scope — typically anything beyond a single-page brochure — needs a written agreement. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 leaves the code owned by the developer by default unless transferred; payment disputes are common in this category; and scope creep is the standard cause of project breakdown.
Scope of work (pages, features, integrations), milestone and payment schedule, IP ownership on full payment (including premium-theme or framework retention where applicable), revision rounds, hosting and maintenance arrangements, warranty and defects period, acceptance criteria, change-control procedure, and termination consequences including handover of source files and credentials.
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