Summary
What you pay each month
| Cost | A$ per month |
|---|---|
| ServiceM8 Starter, including GST | 29.00 |
| Cursor and Grok Bot | 60.00 |
| Google Workspace Business Starter, including GST | 12.98 |
| Phone plan | 30.00 |
| QuickBooks Online Simple Start, including GST | 33.00 |
| Cloudflare Workers Paid | 7.25 |
| Tally Free, Google Business Profile, Google Meet | 0.00 |
| Total per month | 172.23 |
Cost per website
The monthly bills above are shared. This is one website’s share at 100 websites, plus the costs that belong to that website.
| Cost | A$ per website each month |
|---|---|
| Share of the monthly bills | 1.72 |
| Domain, years 1–3 | 1.22 |
| Card fee on the A$77 payment | 1.60 |
| Cost per website | 4.54 |
From year 4 the domain renewal is A$1.83 a month, so the cost per website becomes A$5.15. ServiceM8 stays on Starter at A$29. One job card per client, created once during signup, then no further jobs. The monthly invoice is sent again from that same job, or from QuickBooks. Workers Paid is in the monthly total.
Cost of each workflow step
| Step | What costs money | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| All steps | ServiceM8 step boxes firing webhooks to Grok Bot | Needs a paid ServiceM8 plan (Free has no API access) |
| 1. Discover the tradie | Searches; Grok Bot time | Inside the Cursor/Grok Bot budget |
| 2. Enter into ServiceM8 | Adding the client | Inside ServiceM8 |
| 3. Build the sample site | Cursor builds the site, hosted on Cloudflare | Cursor usage; hosting A$0 (one Cloudflare project) |
| 4. Preview email | Branded email | Google Workspace |
| 5. First sales call | Phone call | Phone plan |
| 6. Agreement and working demo | Quote form, tap-to-call, Book Now | A$0 (Cloudflare free form handler) |
| 7. Close and first payment | ServiceM8 Pay | 1.69% + 30c per payment |
| 8. Domain eligibility | Research | A$0 |
| 9. New Client Intake form | Tally | A$0 on Free |
| 10. Customise the website | Cursor and Grok Bot | Cursor usage |
| 11. Domain + hosting | .com.au at GoDaddy, Cloudflare, SSL | Domain about A$43.95 for 3 years. At 100 sites, hosting is Workers Paid, A$7.25 a month for the whole account |
| 12. Google Business Profile | Profile and verification | A$0 |
| 13. Final test | Test call, form, booking | Phone plan |
| 14. Digital business card and handover | Card page and app icon | A$0 if the card lives inside the client’s site |
| 15. 30-day check-in | Tally photo form, call | A$0 (Tally Free allows 10 MB per photo); phone plan |
Tally: Free is enough for now
Free covers unlimited forms and submissions, file uploads up to 10 MB each, email notifications to you, and webhooks/integrations (which let a finished intake form alert Grok Bot).
Pro (US$29, about A$42 a month) adds: no Tally branding, a custom form address (for example forms.house10x.com), confirmation emails sent to the client, and uploads over 10 MB. Worth revisiting only if you want the forms fully branded.
Setup charge (one-off, per client)
| Item | A$ | Status |
|---|---|---|
| .com.au domain, 3 years (if not spread into the monthly fee) | about 43.95 | Not verified |
| Card fee on the setup payment | 1.69% + 0.30 | Verified |
| GST on the setup fee | +10% | Registered |
| Your time and margin | to be set | Your call |
Not in the numbers yet
- Accountant fees, business insurance, bank account fees, ASIC yearly company fee.
- Your time.
Removed: VentraIP (finished). Tally Pro (not needed now). Accounting is QuickBooks Simple Start.
Questions for Jefferson
- ServiceM8 is still billed in US dollars until they confirm the switch emailed on 7 Nov 2026. These figures use Australian Starter at A$29 including GST.
- Apart from the domain (about A$43.95 for 3 years), what should the setup fee cover?
Sources
- ServiceM8: servicem8.com/au/pricing checked 7 Nov 2026 (Starter A$29 / 50 new jobs, Growing A$79 / 150, card fee 1.69% + 30c on Starter); invoice #5698458 (27 Oct 2026) for the current US-dollar bill
- Cloudflare: developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits (100 Pages projects; Workers Paid allows 500 Workers), developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-for-platforms/workers-for-platforms/reference/pricing
- GST registration: ato.gov.au, Registering for GST, updated 14 Sep 2026. Threshold A$75,000 current or projected turnover. A new business that expects to reach it in the first year registers at the start.
- Google Workspace AU: workspace.google.com/intl/en_au
- Tally: tally.so/pricing
- QuickBooks Online AU: australiansmallbusiness.com.au and c4site.com.au readings of quickbooks.intuit.com/au/pricing (17–18 Oct 2026)
- Cursor: cursor.com/pricing (legacy Pro US$20)
- GoDaddy .com.au: webtoolguide.com.au (checked 28 Oct 2026); GoDaddy’s own page blocked the check
- Exchange rate: rba.gov.au, 6 Nov 2026