If you want to allow clients to pay online, you'll need to set up either an Authorize.net, PayPal, and/or Mal's Ecommerce account. These are all free for clients to use.

Authorize.net takes the most setting up on your part, but is your best choice for tight integration with the website and a professional look for clients. Contact Valued Websites to set up Authorize.net and there will be no setup fee and monthly charge will only be $10 (normally $99 setup and $28/month). You'll also need a $125/year "SSL security certificate" and "dedicated IP," both of which Valued Websites will provide for FREE for the first year.

PayPal takes around a 3% cut of each transaction. The upside to PayPal is that it's very quick and easy to sign up for.

Mal's allows you to use your existing merchant account. It comes with a free version and a $96/year version which allows you to customize its look a little more than the free version. If you already have a merchant account and wish to keep it, this option might be best.

PayPal and Mal's are not as tightly integrated with the website as Authorize.net. This means that when a client pays with PayPal or Mal's, they go to a third party website to enter their billing information.

But with Authorize.net, they stay at your website for the entire payment process. This is usually perceived as being a little more professional.

Read more about online payment options.

Your website comes with an administrative system that allows you to easily edit the website's content (words and pictures). If you can use a word processor, you should be able to place all your initial content into your website yourself. Or email it to us and we'll take it out of your included support time (see Extra Training, Support, or Data Entry Time below).

If you need help with creating content from scratch, it's 25 cents per word.

A nice logo doesn't just express your business sensibility, it can inform the look of your whole website. If you already have a logo, Valued Websites is happy to use it. Or we can create a basic text-only logo for $25. Point here for examples.

Or you can get a more "branded" one for an extra fee from a third party. These run anywhere from $100 to $1000. For example at 99designs.com you can get one for $99, or run a "contest" and have designers bid on a logo design, starting at $225.

The more expensive, the more refined and unique it will look, and it may come with everything you need to print envelopes, business cards, and letterhead. Valued Websites can help facilitate getting a logo within your budget.

In order to keep prices low, Valued Websites packages come with a range of included visual design choices (see gallery). If you don't like any of our included templates, you may choose one of these options below for an additional fee:

• 3rd PARTY TEMPLATE
  If you want a different look but don't want to spend too much, you can get a third-party website template for free here , or around $50 to $100 from TemplateMonster.com or any other template seller. These are often very good looking, if a bit generic, and we can customize them with your color, picture, and font choices.
• CUSTOM
  If you want a website that perfectly matches your business and looks like no other, we can provide a custom visual design for our $75/hr rate (usually runs in the range of $400 to $600). Or hire your own third party designer to provide us with a look for your site.

There will be an additional $75/hr fee to integrate any 3rd party or custom template into a Valued Websites package. This usually ends up being between $75 and $150 unless your design is uncommonly complicated.

Valued Websites will discuss your needs and budget and help you decide which visual design option is the best choice for your business.

You have three options: register your own domain name, Valued Websites can register it for you, or don't get a domain name and just use a bunch of numbers.

In order for you to own your website's domain name, you should register it yourself. Valued Websites recommends Moniker.com for registering domain names. They charge around $10 a year and are a solid company. Just be careful about the multitude of services they offer in addition to domain name registration. Don't buy hosting or email services from them. Just the domain name. If you want privacy services, that might reduce some spam so that might be worth buying.

Avoid 1and1.com, RegisterFly.com and NetworkSolutions.com. How to choose a good domain name. If we register your domain name for you, we will charge $25/year per domain name (another reason for you to do it yourself).

You can also try out the site with no domain name (just a string of random numbers that we'll assign to you), and then add the name later.

In competitive markets, you might benefit from a little extra online marketing and search engine work. Pricing depends on what exactly you want done. See details.

Hard drive space is used to store website and appraiser files, email that hasn't been read yet, and reports meant for the client.

The ValuedBASIC site comes with 100 megabytes of hard drive space, and ValuedPRO and ValuedAMC come with 500 megabytes of hard drive space. This is typically enough for a busy office of three appraisers. Roughly speaking, once your website is processing more than 500 orders per year, it might be time to upgrade to more disk space.

You can upgrade to another 500 megabytes (a total of 1 gigabyte) for an extra $99 per year, or to UNLIMITED disk space for an extra $199 per year. With the unlimited disk space option, there is a limit of 250,000 individual files stored on the server -- emails, website files, client reports -- if you need more please contact us for an estimate.

The default time to allow clients to download their reports is two weeks. After that, the reports (but not the orders) are deleted from the system to make room for new reports. You can increase this time period by adding hard drive space. With the unlimited disk space option, it might be possible to never delete any reports.

Hard drive space can always be upgraded when the need arises.

You get a half hour (ValuedBASIC), an hour (ValuedPRO), or 1.5 hours (ValuedAMC) of included support time per year. We'll use up this time for any work (data importing, content formatting, or changing colors or picture)s before we charge you extra.

The training and support clock starts ticking when your site draft is ready for content entry. After the included time, training and support will be charged at $75/hr (charged in 30 second increments).

The site is very easy to use with lots of contextual help balloons, and there are several online tutorials and help files to get you going. Most companies who use one of our standard templates do not go over their included support time.

With the optional Properties Module ($97/yr), you'll have a full-featured property listing solution integrated with your appraiser website. Unlimited agents and listings. Multiple pictures, virtual tour link, flyers, and featured listing.

No other website package on the market provides appraisal functions and property listing functions at so low a cost. For a demo of the property listings module, see the ValuedBASIC demo.

If you need features that aren't already built into our website packages, pretty much anything you can think of can be added. If it's likely to be useful to some of our other clients, then it won't cost extra unless you need it soon. If you need the custom features and are unwilling to wait possibly several months, our $75/hr rate will apply.