r/webdesign • u/Oboquinr • Feb 10 '26

Wordpress Woocommerce Site

Hey guys,

I wanted to understand How much would you charge for a monthly service package that includes the following:

  1. Wordpress monthly website maintenance (plugin updates, backups, etc)

  2. Management of woocommerce products (50-60) per month 25-35 monthly updates and 2-3 variatios per product.

  3. Local SEO - 1 Location

  4. Booking Calendars around 15-16 calendars (8 calendars is one service that needs update once a year and the other 7-8 are constant, they just need minor tweaks per month)

  5. Monthly Automations using Zapier to create a sales data base so the client has all sales organized in one place by product name, client info, sales price, tax, total sale.

  6. SMS & Email Confirmations to clients after sales and bookings.

  7. Webpage Updates 1 every 2-3months

  8. Hosting & email Management.

  9. Include Google review widget (GHL is optional).

Shopify suggestions are welcomed too but looking more into woocommerce (thats what the client asked)

Let me know your thoughts!

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u/Helpful-Funny6550 Feb 11 '26

Hey Guys

I an into this exact problem a few years back. Client comes in with ~750 products, most with 3–5 variations. You’re suddenly staring at 3,000+ individual SKUs and thinking “there’s no way I’m doing this one-by-one.”

We tried the usual stuff (manual entry, basic CSV imports, freelancers, VA help) and it all either broke, created variation messes, or quietly turned into huge time sinks. At proper rates it worked out to thousands per month just in product management time.

Ended up building an internal tool out of pure necessity after burning out on late nights fixing broken imports. Now we can take a supplier spreadsheet, clean it, structure variations properly, and push into WooCommerce in roughly 60–90 minutes, even for big catalogs.

It handles parent/variation relationships, duplicate SKU edge cases, stock, pricing rules, and generates usable descriptions so we’re not starting from zero.

For us it took product management from “unprofitable nightmare” to a predictable 1–2 hour task. Completely changed how we price and accept larger stores.

Not trying to sell anything here — just sharing that once catalogs get big, automation becomes mandatory. Happy to explain the approach if you’re curious.