Hey Dawn,

Let's talk about what something like this has to cost to get 'er done. Here's the full picture, clear and simple.

What You're Getting

The whole build, start to finish.

This isn't a patch. It's a complete rebuild of how registration and waivers happen on your site. Here's the actual work, grouped into three phases:

Phase 1 · Setup
Building the foundation
Designing your registration form based on what you currently collect
Building the actual form in Google Forms with your waiver baked in
Setting up the spreadsheet where every submission lives
Creating your Google Drive folder for automatic PDF backups
Phase 2 · Build
Making it all work together
Configuring automatic PDF generation with your logo and branding
Setting up the email notifications you'll receive on every signup
Building the "one quick step!" page parents land on after they pay
Updating your confirmation emails so they point to the form
Phase 3 · Launch
Clean-up and handoff
Removing the old attachment code so nothing conflicts
End-to-end testing with fake checkouts, so we know it works before a real parent uses it
Handoff to you with your bookmark links and a quick walkthrough
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The Number

Here's what this costs.

Your Investment
$275
One-time. All of it. No hidden fees.
$0/month ongoing.
We start on the free tier. More on that below.

That's the whole quote. A flat number for the complete build, from planning through launch, including testing and handoff. No hourly billing surprises, no "oh, that's extra." It's done when it's done, and I can get it done with priority once you give me the go-ahead.

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For Context

What this would cost anywhere else.

Not to pressure you, just so you have the reference:

The same work, priced elsewhere
For context, not negotiation
$1,200
Digital agency quote
$550
Average freelancer rate
$275
Marc · friend rate
This is genuinely the friend rate.
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About That $0/Month

We start free. You decide later if you want more.

The auto-generated PDF feature (the one we talked about in the proposal, the one that sends you a branded, signed document every time someone registers) runs through a Google add-on called Form Publisher. Here's the real picture:

Where we start
$0
forever, free tier
Auto-generates up to 20 branded PDFs per month. For most months of the year, this is plenty.
Only if you need it
$9
per month, cancel anytime
Unlimited branded PDFs. Only worth it if you're consistently getting more than 20 registrations a month.

What happens if you go over 20 in a month?

Everything still works. Every submission still gets fully captured in your spreadsheet with the parent's signature, timestamp, IP, and email. Nothing is lost. You just don't get the auto-emailed branded PDF for the 21st submission onward that month.

For those extra submissions, you can open the spreadsheet, find that family's row, and print it to PDF in about 30 seconds. You'd get a "plain Jane" version of the same information. Same legal proof, same evidence, same data. Just not as pretty.

Here's what I'd suggest: Once this is built and you've received your first 20 beautiful branded PDFs, I'll show you what the "manual" version looks like for one submission that came in after the first 20. You'll see them side by side, and you decide whether the gorgeous auto-PDFs are worth $9/month or whether the plain version is good enough for the handful of overflow submissions you'd see in a busy month.

You get to make that call after you've seen both. Not in the abstract, in real life.

My best guess: you'll hit the 20-cap maybe twice a year, during peak enrollment. Most months you'll be nowhere near it. You likely will never need to upgrade to paid subscription.

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Why This Is Worth It

This isn't a website project. It's a business upgrade.

The $275 isn't for a feature. It's for fixing something that's been quietly costing you time (and therefore money) for a long time.

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Hours Back
No more chasing parents. No more tracking who returned what. That's hours every session, gone.
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Liability Down
No kids showing up (heaven forbid!) without a signed waiver on file. Real records, every time.
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Less Breaking
Fewer moving parts means fewer things that break, which means fewer future charges for patching it up down the road.

Right now, you're losing time every single session cleaning up what this project eliminates. Factor that in, and $275 isn't really the cost. It's the savings.

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Fair To Mention

The attachment itself, if it's a bug on my end, is free.

If I dig into the confirmation email and find an actual bug in the code I wrote a few years back, I'll fix that for free. That's on me. No charge.

But Dawn, I believe — and I think you'd agree — that the attachment isn't the real problem. The real problem is that even when it works perfectly, you still aren't getting the forms back. This build fixes that. That's the work this quote covers.

You and I actually talked about doing something almost identical to this a few years back. Remember? At the time, the cost of building it was way higher than what made sense, so we went with the setup we have now. What's changed is the tools. The tools I work with now do the heavy lifting on the code, and I already know what to do with their output and how to integrate it into your site. That's why I can offer you this for under $300 in 2026. A few years ago, this would've been four figures easy. Being able to do it for this price is, frankly, pretty spectacular.

Ready when you are.

Just say the word and I'll start. I'd respectfully ask for $125 via Venmo to get going, and the balance ($150) once it's ready to go live. Your summer camp registrations are already rolling in, so the sooner we flip this switch, the sooner you stop chasing forms and start getting them filled in automatically.

Any questions, I'm here. No rush, no pressure — this page sits here as long as you need it to. I have office hours Wednesday all day (4/21) for exactly this kind of work, so if you want to kick it off then, perfect. If not Wednesday, no worries — just let me know when you're ready, we'll work it out...

— Marc