Terms & conditions

These are the terms we work under. They cover what a quote means, what you pay and when, who owns the finished site, and how either side ends it. Read them before you book a build.

1. Who you're dealing with

LITEMODE is a business name of The Cafe Specialists Ltd, a company registered in Ireland.

In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean The Cafe Specialists Ltd. "You" means the person or business we're building for.

2. When these terms apply

They apply once you accept a written quote from us, or once we start work with your agreement, whichever happens first. Using the quote builder on this site doesn't put you under them.

If we've signed a separate written agreement with you, that agreement wins where the two disagree.

3. Quotes

The price you build on this site is an indication, not an invoice. It's based on the boxes you tick.

Sending the form costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. Nothing is payable at quote stage. We confirm the final figure in writing after a short chat, and that written figure is the one you pay.

The figure won't go up mid-build unless you ask for something outside what we agreed, and then only after you approve the extra in writing.

4. Prices

• Website, €750 one-off. Up to five pages. Design is included, every time, including a fully bespoke look drawn from scratch. It is never an extra.
• Extra pages. Add €200 for six to ten pages, or €400 for eleven to twenty.
• Logo, €400. Optional.
• Copywriting, €200. Optional.
• Hosting, €20 a month.
• We manage it, €150 a month. Includes hosting and unlimited changes. Free while you're on SEO.
• SEO, €500 a month. Includes management and hosting.

Bundle discounts come off the one-off total: 5% over €1,750, 8% over €2,500, 12% over €3,500. They apply to the build, not to monthly fees.

We are not currently registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged and the price you're quoted is the price you pay. If that changes we'll tell you in writing before it affects any invoice, and VAT will then be shown as a separate line.

We can change our published prices at any time. A price we've already confirmed to you in writing doesn't change.

5. Payment

Payment terms for the build are agreed in writing before we start, and they're on your invoice. Invoices are paid by card or bank transfer through Stripe.

Monthly services are billed monthly in advance.

Invoices are due within 14 days unless we've agreed otherwise in writing. On overdue business invoices we can charge interest at the rate allowed under Irish late payment law.

If an invoice goes unpaid we can pause work, and pause monthly services, until it's cleared. We'll email you before we do.

6. Monthly services and notice

Hosting, management and SEO run month to month. There's no minimum term and no contract to sign.

Cancel any of them by email with 30 days' notice. The month you're in still gets invoiced.

"Unlimited changes" on the €150 plan means text, images, prices, opening hours, new sections and new pages within your existing site. It doesn't mean a second website, a shop build, or a full redesign. Those get quoted separately.

If you stop paying for hosting, your site comes down. We'll give you the files first so nothing is lost.

7. What we need from you

The build clock starts when your content is with us, not when you pay. That means your copy, logo, images and any logins we need.

If those arrive late, the launch date moves by the same amount. We'll tell you exactly what we need up front so there are no surprises.

We'll ask you to approve the design and the final site before it goes live. If we don't hear back on an approval within 14 days, we take it as approved and carry on.

8. Timelines

A standard five-page build goes live in about two weeks from the day your content lands. Shops and bigger sites take longer, and we'll tell you how long before you commit.

Delays caused by you, by a third party, or by a domain or hosting account we can't get into aren't on us.

9. Revisions and extra work

Two rounds of design changes are included in the €750.

Beyond that, or if you change direction after approving a design, we quote for the extra work and wait for your yes before doing it. You'll never get a bill for work you didn't approve.

10. Your content and other people's rights

You're responsible for having the right to use everything you send us. Photos, logos, copy, fonts, reviews, the lot.

If you ask us to source images, we licence them properly and tell you what the licence covers.

We won't publish anything unlawful, misleading, or anything that infringes someone else's rights. If you ask us to, we'll say no and explain why.

Claims made on your site are yours. Prices, opening hours, service areas, qualifications and registrations all have to be accurate, and keeping them accurate is your job.

11. Domains

Your domain is yours. If you already have one, we point it at the new site. If you need one, we can register it in your name.

Domain registration and renewal fees are paid to the registrar and aren't included in the €750.

12. Who owns what

Once the final invoice is paid, you own the design, the code and the domain outright. No licence fee, no lock-in, no monthly rent on your own website.

Until that invoice is paid, the work stays ours. That's the only reason we hold it.

Third-party parts stay under their own licences. Fonts, stock photos and open source components belong to whoever made them, and you use them on the same terms we do.

If you want to move the site somewhere else, we hand over the files and help you do it. We don't charge for that.

13. Our portfolio

We keep the right to show the finished site, your business name and your logo in our portfolio, on social media and in case studies.

If you'd rather we didn't, say so and we'll take it down. No argument.

14. Hosting and uptime

Sites are hosted on Netlify. Netlify run the servers, so uptime is theirs and we don't guarantee it.

Forms on your site are received through Netlify. If something breaks on our side, fixing it goes to the top of the list.

15. What we don't promise

We build sites to rank and we're good at it. We don't own Google, so we can't guarantee any ranking, any amount of traffic, or any number of sales.

Search engines change how they work without notice. Results vary by trade, by county and by how much competition you're up against.

Turning enquiries into paying customers is your side of it.

16. Cancelling a build

Cancel before we start and you owe nothing.

Cancel after work has begun and you pay for the work done to that point, invoiced at the stage we reached.

We can cancel too, and if we do we refund anything you've paid for work not yet done.

17. If you're a consumer

Most of our clients are businesses. If you're buying as a consumer, you have a 14-day right to cancel a contract agreed online or by phone.

If you ask us to start inside those 14 days, you're agreeing we can. If you then cancel, you pay for the work already done. Your statutory rights aren't affected by anything on this page.

18. Ending it from our side

We can end an agreement for three reasons. An invoice stays unpaid, we're asked to publish something we won't stand over, or the working relationship stops working.

We'll finish the month you've paid for, hand over the files, and stop billing.

19. Liability

We're liable for the work we do. We're not liable for lost profits, lost business, lost data or knock-on losses.

Our total liability for any claim is capped at the total fees you've paid us in the twelve months before it.

We're not liable for third-party outages or account decisions outside our control, such as Netlify, Google or your domain registrar going down or suspending an account.

Nothing here limits liability for death, personal injury or fraud, or any other liability that Irish law says can't be limited.

20. Things outside anyone's control

Neither side is in breach for delays caused by events beyond reasonable control. Power cuts, network failures, strikes, fire, flood and the like. If it drags past 30 days, either side can walk away and we settle up for work done.

21. Legal costs

If a third party sues us over content or instructions you gave us, you cover our reasonable legal costs.

22. Changes to these terms

We can update this page. The date at the top changes when we do. The version that applies to your job is the one in place on the day you accepted the quote.

23. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the Irish courts have exclusive jurisdiction.

If a court finds one clause unenforceable, the rest still stands.

24. Questions

Email hello@litemode.ie and we'll answer in plain English. If you've a complaint, send it to the same address and we'll come back to you within five working days.