GoDaddy Pricing and Plans for Small Businesses

Before you purchase a plan, it’s important to take the time to carefully consider how you want to structure your site to help prevent missteps later on. You also may find it helpful to get a general sense of the various options GoDaddy offers before digging in. Here’s an overview of GoDaddy’s pricing and plan tiers:

The GoDaddy Basic plan provides almost all of GoDaddy’s core, social media, and email marketing offerings plus limited online appointment scheduling. This plan is versatile and competitive when compared to other plans from similar website builders.

While these features may seem pretty conventional, it’s still important to understand what each plan provides. That’ll help you make an informed decision about which plan best suits your business.

• An SSL Certificate for Website Security: Again, SSL is installed onto every site GoDaddy hosts to deter hackers and keep your customers safe.
• A Custom Domain Connection: If you want to switch to GoDaddy, but already have your own domain name, this allows you to connect that custom URL to your GoDaddy website or online store.
• On-the-Go Editing: This feature makes it easy to manage and edit your website from a mobile phone, tablet, or computer.
• Online Pay Links and Virtual Terminal: GoDaddy allows you to create online pay links and offers a virtual terminal so you can easily take payments directly from your website.
• 24/7 Customer Support: You’ll find a handy chatbox on your GoDaddy dashboard, connecting you to helpful GoDaddy Guides ready to answer your questions. The chatbox also provides a phone number if you’d rather speak to someone live.
• Website Marketing and Analytics Dashboard: This plan includes analytics that let you see how your site ranks when compared to similar businesses. If you want to learn how to improve your site’s ranking, it also provides a customized action plan.

The GoDaddy Basic plan comes equipped with social media and email marketing offerings, making it a better option than entry-level plans from some other competitors.

• Create and Manage Business Listings: GoDaddy will help put your business on the map by helping you create and manage your business listings across popular platforms, including Google Business Profile and Yelp.
• Post to Social Media: GoDaddy assists you in scheduling social media posts, allowing you to post at times that are convenient for you and align with the peak traffic times for your audience.
• Up to 100 Marketing Emails per Month: Using your GoDaddy dashboard, you can send emails directly to 100 customers each month. 

  More and more website builders now include this type of offering. The GoDaddy Basic plan lets you try it out in a minimal capacity with one-time appointment scheduling.

• One-Time Appointments: With this plan, customers can book a single appointment via your website. You can easily set up the available blocks of time with specific team members from which they can choose.

The regular price for the GoDaddy Basic plan costs $9.99 per month when billed annually for a yearly total of $119.88. It’s more affordable than entry-level plans from some GoDaddy competitors, despite providing a wider range of features.

Artists who want to host their curriculum vitae in a distinctive way or build an online portfolio will find this plan useful. Busy freelancers looking to meet with clients also could benefit from its one-time appointment scheduling tool.

Smaller businesses seeking social media guidance will find this plan’s limited social media and email marketing tips a great starting point as they work to build a strong brand. This very affordable plan also can benefit entrepreneurs still growing their client base with email newsletters.

However, this plan’s lack of search engine optimization (SEO) and ecommerce tools means it’s not ideal for anyone who wants to sell goods or services directly from their site.

The GoDaddy Standard plan provides all the same core and online appointment offerings as the GoDaddy Basic plan, with the addition of an SEO tool and an expanded set of social media and email marketing offerings.

The GoDaddy Standard plan comes with one extra core offering that can prove extremely useful.

• SEO Tool: This built-in website optimizer helps your site climb to the top of the list on Google and other search engine result pages (SERPs).

In addition to what the GoDaddy Basic plan provides, the GoDaddy Standard plan includes a few offerings designed to help you expand your social networking capabilities. It also includes the same content creation tool plus these additional offerings:

• Up to 500 Marketing Emails per Month: Increasing your email marketing capacity helps you keep in touch with more customers and provides the potential to run multiple marketing campaigns, depending on their size and scope.

The GoDaddy Standard plan includes the same online appointment offering as the GoDaddy Basic plan.

• One-Time Appointments: Customers can book a single appointment via your website. You can easily set up the available blocks of time with specific team members from which they can choose.

The regular price for the GoDaddy Standard plan costs $14.99 per month when billed annually for a yearly total of $179.88. This mid-range plan boasts a competitive price given its set of helpful features.

This plan would greatly benefit an artist or freelancer with a growing client base looking to boost their online presence and streamline the management of their social media activity on multiple platforms. A sole proprietor or blogger who wants to distribute newsletters on a regular basis also may find this plan a good fit.

The GoDaddy Premium plan provides all the core offerings included in the Basic and Standard plans, as well as even more social media and email marketing offerings. It also gives you access to all of GoDaddy’s online appointment offerings, increasing its value.

The GoDaddy Premium plan includes all the same core offerings as the Basic and Standard plans:

• An SSL Certificate for Website Security
• A Custom Domain Connection
• On-the-Go Editing
• 24/7 Customer Support
• A Free Business Email Account for a Year
• Analytics and Guidance
• An SEO Tool

Adding more to what the lower-tier plans provide, the GoDaddy Premium plan helps you expand your social networking capabilities even further. It also includes the same content creation tool plus these additional offerings:

• Boost Social Posts: GoDaddy can help you boost your social media posts to help get them in front of a wider audience, increasing your exposure and conversions in the process.
• Create and Launch Social Ads: GoDaddy will help you create targeted ads for your audience and enable you to post them directly to multiple social media platforms at once without ever leaving your GoDaddy dashboard. 

• Up to 25,000 Marketing Emails per Month: This dramatically increased capacity not only allows you to further expand your reach, but also conduct multiple marketing campaigns and distribute multiple newsletters.

The GoDaddy Premium plan comes with one-time appointments as well the rest of GoDaddy’s appointment scheduling offerings.

• Recurring Appointments: With this plan, you can allow your customers to schedule recurring appointments with various members of your team.
• One-Time Group Events: Host a webinar, class, workshop, or any type of event — either in person or virtually — and use this feature to allow multiple attendees to sign up. This can help you increase your business’s visibility and reach.
• Online Payments for Appointments: With this feature, you can let your customers pay for their appointments when they book them on your website. It supports credit card, PayPal, and Apple Pay payments.
• Email and Text Appointment Reminders: This feature provides an easy way for you to remind customers of their upcoming appointments.

The regular price of the GoDaddy Premium plan costs $19.99 per month when billed annually for a yearly total of $239.88. The extra appointment scheduling features included with this plan make it easier to expand your business, offsetting the price hike.

This plan suits business owners offering a service that requires or encourages appointment scheduling. Personal trainers or anyone in the massage or acupuncture field also can benefit greatly from this plan because it makes it easy for customers to book and pay for appointments online.

An artist or art collective seeking to offer classes or tutorials also may find this plan an ideal fit as they work to reach a broader audience. In addition, a popular blogger could benefit from this plan’s cross-platform promotional features.

The GoDaddy Commerce plan includes all of GoDaddy’s core, social media, email marketing, and online appointment offerings, but its ecommerce offerings make it truly stand out.

The GoDaddy Commerce plan includes all the same core offerings as the Standard and Premium plans:

• An SSL Certificate for Website Security
• A Custom Domain Connection
• On-the-Go Editing
• 24/7 Customer Support
• A Free Business Email Account for a Year
• Analytics and Guidance
• An SEO Tool

The GoDaddy Commerce plan also comes with all the same social media and email marketing offerings as the GoDaddy Premium plan:

• A Business Page
• Social Media Post and Response Tools
• Up to 25,000 Marketing Emails per Month
• A Content Creation Tool

In addition, the GoDaddy Commerce plan includes a Shoppable Social Media Posts tool, allowing potential customers to purchase products directly from your social media pages.

The GoDaddy Commerce plan includes all the same online appointment offerings as the GoDaddy Premium plan:

• One-Time Appointments
• Recurring Appointments
• One-Time Group Events
• Online Payments for Appointments
• Email and Text Appointment Reminders

The GoDaddy Commerce plan is the only GoDaddy plan with any ecommerce offerings. During your free trial, you can easily use these features to perfect your website, add product listings and select your shipping and payment options. That way, you can ensure your website’s ready to launch before you sign up for this top-tier plan.

• Detailed Product Listings: Add product images, descriptions, and prices to your site’s ecommerce pages.
• Flexible Payments: GoDaddy won’t charge you any additional fees when you accept payments from your website. However, standard credit card processing fees will still apply. You can choose to accept payments via credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, and/or Google Pay.
• Online Inventory and Product Sync and Online Marketplace and Social Selling: This useful feature allows you to automatically sync your orders so you can manage everything from your GoDaddy dashboard. You can also sync your products with Google so they appear in Google Shopping price comparison listings for free. However, the biggest benefit of this feature is that it can connect your products to online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart, Facebook, and Instagram.
• Flexible Shipping Options: You can set up your website to either offer free shipping with all products or to charge for shipping certain items. There’s even a feature for curbside pickup.
• Discount and Promotional Features: With this plan, you can create banner displays to alert site visitors about your promotions or featured sales. The sale price adjustment tool also enables you to offer special promotions or deals for specific holidays.
• Gift Cards: Allow customers to purchase gift cards directly from your website. These can be sent to the giftee’s inbox to be used in your online store in accordance with your terms and conditions.
• Abandoned Cart Recovery: If a customer gets disconnected from your website, GoDaddy will save their cart so they can easily resume their transaction when they return.

The regular price of the GoDaddy Commerce plan costs $24.99 per month when billed annually for a yearly total of $299.88. Its ecommerce features make this price point affordable for its ambitious offerings, especially when compared to other website builders offering similar amenities.

Any type of ecommerce store or online seller of physical goods or digital products should find this plan both useful and versatile. The inclusion of a GoDaddy social media team that helps small business owners sell across platforms can prove incredibly convenient. Moreover, this plan can enable ecommerce entrepreneurs to focus on perfecting their products vs. spending time developing and managing social media campaigns.

When you begin creating a website with GoDaddy, you can start for free. This allows you to familiarize yourself with this website builder before purchasing a plan. Alternatively, you can continue using GoDaddy’s Free plan if you’re not ready to upgrade or if that plan has enough of what you need for now.

The GoDaddy Free plan is a no-cost version of its Websites + Marketing suite, but it doesn’t include everything in that premium offering. It also renews monthly without charging you.

Here’s what the GoDaddy Free plan includes:

• One Website With Web Hosting: With GoDaddy’s reliable hosting, your site will load quickly and run smoothly.
• Access to Designer-Made Templates: While this plan doesn’t include access to all GoDaddy templates, the available options look professional and are easy to use.
• Analytics and Guidance: GoDaddy’s analytics tools help you track your website’s traffic and gain insights on how to enhance its performance. This can prove highly useful because GoDaddy may opt to turn off your site if it remains inactive for more than a year.
• Limited Social and Email Marketing Offerings: Many of these offerings expire within 30 days of when you sign up for the free plan, encouraging you to upgrade your account.
• A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate for Website Security: GoDaddy auto-installs an SSL certificate on all user websites. This encrypts your website data and displays a padlock icon before your site’s URL in a web browser so people know it’s safe to visit.
• Customer Support: With the GoDaddy Free plan, customer support may be limited.
• A Content Creation Tool: This plan includes the free version of the Over app, which you can access through your GoDaddy account. Use Over’s free Content Creator to create gorgeous logos, promotional material, images, social media posts, and more.

You can choose to keep your plan free for as long as you need. However, some features will expire after 30 days because they fall under the “one-month free trial” period of certain GoDaddy plans. It’s easy to upgrade to a paid plan at any time, but you can’t revert to the GoDaddy Free plan unless you start over with a new website.

If you add any other Website + Marketing features or any extra services to your GoDaddy Free plan, it’ll automatically convert to a paid plan. If you choose to cancel your GoDaddy Free plan, any content you added to your website will expire within 30 to 60 days.

Now that you know what each GoDaddy plan can offer your business, you’re ready to move forward and create a professional and accessible website. To make this process even easier, follow the steps in our step-by-step How to Make a GoDaddy Website guide.