Provider facts
What does Elphick Digital charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
Elphick Digital (Newcastle, NSW: "Our studio is based in Newcastle." (about page; site footer "Newcastle NSW"); no street address shown. Works "Australia-wide"): Prices from $1,990 + GST, a Hunter Valley celebrant case study, and a two-person studio that says plainly it makes no ranking promises. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
Elphick Digital, from its own pages
Named by: ChatGPT (8 Oct) for "local SEO for marriage celebrants".
- Website price shown
- "Launch" "From $1,990" ("Up to 5 pages"); "Establish" "From $4,490" ("Up to 10 pages", marked "Most popular"); "Scale" "From $7,990" ("Up to 20 pages"); "Custom" "From $15k+". Cards say "AUD · one-time project fee · excl. GST" and "AUD · scoped after discovery · excl. GST"; page note: "All prices exclude GST unless stated otherwise. Hosting and domain registration are quoted separately."
elphickdigital.com.au/pricing - What a build includes
- Establish (the package named on the celebrant case study), "From $4,490 + GST": "Typical scope: up to 10 core pages", "Custom forms and enquiry flows", "CRM and booking integrations", "Limited CMS editing access", "2 revision rounds", "Launch deployment included (30 days)", "Optional monthly managed hosting", "Enhanced SEO setup", "Performance optimisation", "Analytics setup"
elphickdigital.com.au/web-design-packages/establish - Ongoing fees
- "Managed hosting from $49/month on Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean, with SSL, monitoring, and DNS included."; "Launch deployment is included for the first 30 days with every package. Ongoing managed hosting is required after that period, with ongoing support available as an optional monthly service." Prices exclude GST per the page note
elphickdigital.com.au/pricing - Local SEO or marketing
- "SEO Growth Campaigns", ongoing SEO "available exclusively for websites built by Elphick Digital". Price: "Scoped monthly based on your goals, competition, and how much content and page work is needed. We quote after a consult, with no long lock-in contracts." Every build includes SEO foundations: "performance, mobile-first design, page structure, headings, technical SEO, local setup, schema markup, and Google Business Profile integration". No separate local SEO package or price shown on the pages read
elphickdigital.com.au/seo-growth-campaigns - Platform
- Custom Laravel, as stated. Answer to "Do you build WordPress websites?": "No. We specialise in custom-built Laravel websites that provide greater flexibility, security, and long-term maintainability."
elphickdigital.com.au - Named person
- "Jordan & Sally Elphick"; "A husband-and-wife studio in Newcastle."
elphickdigital.com.au - Reviews on its own site
- Google rating shown as "5.0" (footer link labelled "5.0 out of 5 stars on Google reviews") and "5 Star Google reviews"; no review count shown. Named client testimonials (Sue McColl, White Barn Pokolbin)
elphickdigital.com.au - Example builds
- Results page shows 4 case studies: White Barn Pokolbin, Platinum Linemarking, From Anna With Love, Apex Fab
elphickdigital.com.au/results - Page for celebrants
- Case study "From Anna With Love", https://elphickdigital.com.au/results/from-anna-with-love: "Hunter Valley wedding celebrant"; "A website as personal as the ceremonies it represents."; "This is what Establish looks like for a personal service brand."; "Elphick Digital also built the White Barn Pokolbin website, so the celebrant and venue sites reinforce each other across the Hunter wedding market." Site: fromannawithlove.com.au
elphickdigital.com.au/results/from-anna-with-love - Based
- Newcastle, NSW: "Our studio is based in Newcastle." (about page; site footer "Newcastle NSW"); no street address shown. Works "Australia-wide"
elphickdigital.com.au/about
Other things its pages say
- Celebrant case study results: "Delivered structure and positioning, without inventing ranking or lead metrics we cannot substantiate." elphickdigital.com.au/results/from-anna-with-love
- Celebrant case study search section lists "Hunter Valley celebrant", "White Barn celebrant", "Pokolbin weddings", "Hunter Valley elopements" elphickdigital.com.au/results/from-anna-with-love
- "6+ years working with White Barn"; "46-page SEO architecture for Platinum Linemarking"; "Partnership since 2020." elphickdigital.com.au
- Jordan: "Chartered Professional Engineer and developer."; Sally: "Practising solicitor and co-founder."; "Two people. One studio." elphickdigital.com.au/about
- "Copy is typically developed collaboratively using AI tools, with your input and approval." elphickdigital.com.au/pricing
- "We do not sell guaranteed #1 rankings" elphickdigital.com.au/seo-growth-campaigns
- "Reply within one business day"; email hello@elphickdigital.com.au elphickdigital.com.au/contact
Is Elphick Digital right for you?
Best for: celebrants who want a custom-built site (not WordPress) at a published price.
Worth asking them: whether hosting after the first 30 days is required or optional (from $49 a month): its pricing page says required, its Establish package lists it as optional; and the price of its SEO campaigns, which are only for sites it built and quoted after a consult.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| Elphick Digital | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | "Launch" "From $1,990" ("Up to 5 pages"); "Establish" "From $4,490" ("Up to 10 pages", marked "Most popular"); "Scale" "From $7,990" ("Up to 20 pages"); "Custom" "From $15k+". Cards say "AUD · one-time project fee · excl. GST" and "AUD · scoped after discovery · excl. GST"; page note: "All prices exclude GST unless stated otherwise. Hosting and domain registration are quoted separately." elphickdigital.com.au/pricing | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | "Managed hosting from $49/month on Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean, with SSL, monitoring, and DNS included."; "Launch deployment is included for the first 30 days with every package. Ongoing managed hosting is required after that period, with ongoing support available as an optional monthly service." Prices exclude GST per the page note elphickdigital.com.au/pricing | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | "SEO Growth Campaigns", ongoing SEO "available exclusively for websites built by Elphick Digital". Price: "Scoped monthly based on your goals, competition, and how much content and page work is needed. We quote after a consult, with no long lock-in contracts." Every build includes SEO foundations: "performance, mobile-first design, page structure, headings, technical SEO, local setup, schema markup, and Google Business Profile integration". No separate local SEO package or price shown on the pages read elphickdigital.com.au/seo-growth-campaigns | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | Google rating shown as "5.0" (footer link labelled "5.0 out of 5 stars on Google reviews") and "5 Star Google reviews"; no review count shown. Named client testimonials (Sue McColl, White Barn Pokolbin) elphickdigital.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | Results page shows 4 case studies: White Barn Pokolbin, Platinum Linemarking, From Anna With Love, Apex Fab elphickdigital.com.au/results | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Vowsmith Ceremonies creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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