Post Summary: No Contract, and a Few Days’ Notice Is the Whole Exit Process
Yeet Websites has never used contracts. You can hire a website designer here month to month, cancel when you choose, and stay only as long as it’s working.
The decision came from one experience rather than a strategy. I signed up for a cell phone plan years ago without being told it carried a three-year commitment, and found out when a better option came along and the early termination fees appeared. What stuck wasn’t the fee. It was that the company lost the account permanently, and every dollar I’d have spent with them afterward.
Removing the lock-in hasn’t produced the churn people expect. Fewer than five clients have left since the company started, and most of those were business closures.
The exit process is the whole policy: tell us you’re done, billing stops. The one request is a few days’ notice before your billing date so the charge can be canceled in time rather than refunded after the fact. No early termination fees, no penalties, no retention call.
A term agreement is a legitimate model and plenty of good companies use one. What’s worth doing before you sign anywhere is reading the cancellation clause rather than the term length, since that’s where the real commitment usually lives.
Two ways to work together: $130 a month, or $4,000 to own the site outright. No contract on either, and you can move from one to the other whenever you want.
What You’re Signing Up For
Yeet Websites has never used contracts. Not as a promotion, not as a limited-time offer, not as something that changed when the market did. It’s how the company has operated since it opened.
When we tell a prospect there’s no contract, the reaction is usually surprise and relief, followed by skepticism. Most business owners have been conditioned to expect a commitment period, because nearly every proposal they’ve reviewed includes one. So the natural next question is what the catch is.
There isn’t one, but there is a boundary worth stating plainly, and the rest of this post covers it: where the decision came from, what happens when nothing holds a relationship in place except the work, and what to ask any company before you sign.
Where the Decision Came From
This wasn’t a strategy developed from market research. It came out of getting burned.
Years ago I signed up for a cell phone plan without being told it carried a three-year commitment. The salesperson was friendly and I trusted what I was told. When a better option came along and I went to switch, that’s when I learned about the early termination fees.
The lasting effect wasn’t the fee. It was that they lost the account permanently, along with everything I’d have spent with them as they expanded into other services over the years that followed. Whatever the commitment protected in the short term, it cost them more than it saved.
So when Yeet Websites started, the decision followed from that. If a client wants to leave, they leave.
What Happens When There Is No Lock-In
The assumption is that clients would churn constantly without a commitment period. That hasn’t been our experience.
Fewer than five clients have left in total since the company started. A few closed their businesses. One moved on without giving much detail. There was no wave of cancellations and no exodus after removing the barrier.
What a month-to-month arrangement does change is how fast problems surface. A client who can’t leave often waits until renewal to raise something. A client who can leave says it in week two. That creates ongoing pressure to stay responsive, and it means a single bad month carries more weight than it otherwise would. That pressure is the point, and it’s what post-launch support is meant to hold up under.
What the Catch Is
You pay for the month. If you want to stop, you stop.
The one request is a few days’ notice before your billing date, so the charge can be canceled in time rather than refunded after the fact. That’s the entire boundary. No early termination fees. No penalties. No notice period that runs another billing cycle.
What to Ask Before You Sign Anywhere
A term agreement is a legitimate model, and plenty of good companies use one. We’re not going to guess at their reasoning, because we haven’t run their businesses and we don’t know their numbers. What we can say is that the contract question alone won’t tell you whether a company is good.
The more useful thing to read is the cancellation clause, not the term length. That’s where the real commitment usually lives. A month-to-month plan that requires 30 days’ written notice still costs you another billing cycle after you decide to go.
Worth asking on either model:
- What is the term length, and what happens when it ends? Does it auto-renew?
- How much notice is required to cancel, and in what form?
- Are there early termination fees, and how are they calculated?
- Who owns the site, the content, and the domain if the relationship ends?
- What is included each month, and what is billed separately?
- Is the monthly rate lower because of the term length?
A company that answers those clearly is a reasonable bet regardless of which model it uses. A company that gets vague on the exit terms is worth a second look.
Clean Exits
If you decide to leave, the process here is short: you tell us you’re done, billing stops, that’s the end of it. No retention call, no penalty, no fine print to work around.
For a fuller picture of what a clean exit involves, including what happens to your site and your access, read how our no-lock-in model works.
At Yeet Websites it’s $130 a month, or $4,000 to own the site outright, with no contract on either option. If a month-to-month arrangement fits how you prefer to work, we’re available to talk it through.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I really have no obligation to stay?
Correct. You can cancel your website subscription at any time. We ask for a few days’ notice before your billing date so the cancellation processes cleanly. There are no early termination fees and no penalties.
What happens to my website if I cancel?
If you’re on the $130 a month subscription and cancel, the site comes down, since it’s hosted on our infrastructure. If you purchased the $4,000 ownership option, the files are yours to take to a new host or developer. Whether that provider picks it up is their decision to make, but nothing on our end stops you.
Has anyone ever taken advantage of the no-contract policy?
Not in a meaningful way. Fewer than five clients have left in total since the company started, and most of those were business closures. A no-contract model does carry more churn risk on paper, and that risk sits with us rather than with the client.
Is the quality lower because there is no contract?
There’s no inherent link between contract length and quality. What a month-to-month model changes is the timing of feedback, since concerns surface immediately rather than at renewal. Retention here sits at 98%.
What if I need changes or support after signing up?
Same-day edits are the standard. Calls are typically returned within the hour, and next business day at the latest.
Can I switch from subscription to ownership later?
Yes. If you start on the $130 a month subscription and later want to own the site outright, you can pay the $4,000 ownership fee at any time. Monthly payments don’t count toward the ownership price, since it’s a separate option. Once you own it, it’s yours.