How do you get paid when you sell a website to a local business?

In short

On PinPoint Lite, PMV collects the client's payment, keeps 10% of the website price and 10% of hosting, and sends you the rest 7 days after the client pays. On PinPoint Pro, the client pays straight into your own Stripe account and PMV takes 5%. Pindrop pays sellers 90% into their own Stripe each month, but the client's subscription is with Pindrop, and Pindrop takes the client over if a seller's own plan goes unpaid for 14 days.

How do you get paid when you sell a website to a local business? The answer depends on which tool you use, and which plan you pick inside it. Some tools pay the client's money straight into your own Stripe account. Others collect the money first and send you a share later on a set schedule. If you sell websites to local businesses, or you are about to start, this is worth understanding before you set your first price, because it changes how soon you see the money and who the client's ongoing payment relationship is actually with.

How PinPoint Lite handles payment

On PinPoint Lite, you show the owner the finished site on your phone, set your price, add a domain name and a monthly hosting price, then send a secure Stripe checkout link. The client's payment goes to PMV first. PMV keeps 10% of the website price and 10% of each month of hosting, and sends you the rest, less the card processing fee, 7 days after the client pays. You still set the price and the client still stays yours; the finished site carries your name, not PMV's.

How PinPoint Pro handles payment

On PinPoint Pro, the client's payment goes straight into your own Stripe account instead of passing through PMV first. PMV receives 5% of the website price and 5% of each month of hosting. Because the money lands directly in your account, you are not waiting on a separate payout cycle the way you are on Lite. Pro also includes 10 custom AI-designed sites along with unlimited template sites, and a larger monthly search allowance, which matters if you plan to sell at volume rather than one site at a time. Either plan works through the same checkout step; the difference is only in whose Stripe account the client's card actually charges.

What happens right after the client pays

On either plan, payment is tied directly to delivery. When the client pays, PinPoint registers the domain, points it at the finished site, and turns on the secure lock by itself. You do not have to go register a domain separately or chase down SSL setup before the site goes live. From your side, you are managing the client, the site and the sale from your phone, not from a web host's control panel.

Setting your price and your hosting fee

On both plans, you set the numbers, not PinPoint:

You set the one-time website price for each client
You set the monthly hosting price, which must be at least $24 a month
The client stays your client, and the finished site carries your name

That last point is worth sitting with. The business owner is paying you, by name, for a site you sold them, not a third party they have never met. How you land on a number for the build and the hosting is covered in more detail in how much to charge for a local business website.

How Pindrop pays its sellers

Pindrop is built for a similar job: build a finished website for a local business in minutes so you can walk in, show the owner, and sell it on the spot. Pindrop's homepage says the client pays by card and 90% goes to the seller's own Stripe every month. The detail worth reading closely is in Pindrop's own help center: the client's subscription is actually with Pindrop, not with the seller. If a seller stops paying for their own Pindrop plan, a change request left unanswered for 10 days brings a warning, and at 14 days Pindrop takes that client over and the seller's share on that client ends. You can read that policy directly at Pindrop's help center.

What Pindrop's own pricing study shows

Pindrop also publishes a live pricing study where builders log what they charged. As of October 24, 2026, it showed 471 prices from 221 builders, with only 20 of those prices paid by the owner so far. The median build fee asked was $500, and the median monthly charge asked was $50 a month. Those are asking prices logged by builders, not a record of what actually closed, and the study updates daily, so check the current numbers directly at Pindrop's pricing study before you line up your own numbers against it.

Choosing where your money goes

If you want your own Stripe account handling the client's payment from day one, PinPoint Pro does that, for 5% to PMV instead of 10%. If you are starting out and would rather have PMV handle the collection and send your share 7 days later, PinPoint Lite does that instead. Either way, the client is yours and the hosting minimum is the same $24 a month floor. For the fuller side-by-side on searches, builds and payouts, see PinPoint Lite vs Pro, and for a full look at how PinPoint and Pindrop compare, read PinPoint vs Pindrop. PinPoint is on Google Play for Android and the App Store for iPhone. You can also start from /start.

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Questions people ask

How do you get paid when you sell a website to a local business with PinPoint?

On PinPoint Lite, PMV collects the client's payment and sends you the rest, less its 10% share and the card fee, 7 days after the client pays. On PinPoint Pro, the client's payment goes straight into your own Stripe account and PMV takes 5%.

What is the minimum hosting price you can set on PinPoint?

The seller sets the monthly hosting price for each client, and it must be at least $24 a month.

How does Pindrop pay the people who sell its websites?

Pindrop's homepage says the client pays by card and 90% goes to the seller's own Stripe every month, but Pindrop's help center explains the client's subscription is actually with Pindrop, not the seller.

What happens if a Pindrop seller stops paying for their own plan?

Per Pindrop's help center, a change request left unanswered for 10 days brings a warning, and at 14 days Pindrop takes that client over and the seller's share on that client ends.