Comparison Tables — Questions & Answers

Basic (₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000/month, or ₱0-to-start at ₱1,699/month year one) is a complete custom website plus the core tools — review SMS funnel, Telegram update bot, booking, and a 24/7 chatbot free for four months. Business Pro (₱15,000 + ₱1,800/month, or ₱0-to-start at ₱3,175/month year one — and paying the ₱15,000 upfront saves the 10% promo premium, ₱1,500) keeps everything and adds the marketing engine: the chatbot forever, a weekly auto-blog, auto Google Business Profile posting, an auto-review responder, anniversary rebook SMS, multi-language toggle, and voice-to-content. Basic gets you online and found; Business Pro runs your marketing for you.

Web by Lods.AI gives you a custom site plus ongoing tools and support for ₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000/month (or ₱0 to start). A freelancer is usually cheaper up front but often one person with no maintenance, and gigs can stall or go quiet. A big agency delivers polish but frequently charges ₱25,000–₱60,000+ with slower timelines. We aim for the middle that matters: agency-level output, freelancer-friendly price, and a team that maintains it after launch.

A website alone gets you a professional, findable home base; adding SEO and AI visibility turns it into a customer engine. Website-only (from ₱1,000/month) is the foundation — built to be found, with review funnel and booking. The full funnel adds SEO Reports (₱500/month) or SEO Management Pro (₱1,500/month) to push you into the Google Maps top 3, plus the schema foundation that makes your business quotable by AI answer engines. The site is the base; SEO + AEO are how you climb.

A good website loads fast on mobile, uses your real photos, shows clear prices and hours, makes calling or booking one tap, appears on Google, and is maintained. A bad website is slow, generic with stock photos, hard to use on a phone, invisible in search, and abandoned after launch — so it quietly loses you customers. Web by Lods.AI builds only the first kind, and you can see yours free before deciding.

A Facebook Page is great for social reach and posting, but it's owned by Meta, buried in a feed, weak in Google search, and can't structure your prices, booking, or reviews the way buyers want. A website is your own space — found on Google, with prices, booking, reviews, and a chatbot, working 24/7. Web by Lods.AI makes them work together: your Page for discovery, your website to be found and to close.

For Basic, the first-year total is nearly identical either way — about ₱20,500 paying upfront (₱8,500 setup + ₱1,000 × 12) versus about ₱20,388 on the ₱0-to-start promo (₱1,699 × 12). The difference is cash flow and the long run: pay-upfront drops to ₱1,000/month from year two (cheaper long-term, break-even around month 12), while ₱0-to-start removes the upfront barrier. Same website, same support — you just pick how you pay.

They do different jobs, and it's not either/or. Paid Facebook ads are rented reach — they bring traffic while you pay and stop the moment you don't. A website is an asset you own that keeps working 24/7, gets you found on Google for free, and is where ad clicks should land to actually convert. Web by Lods.AI's advice: build the website foundation first (from ₱1,000/month), then any ads you run have somewhere to send people that closes the sale.

Most small businesses do great with a well-built one-page site — it loads fast, tells your whole story in one scroll (services, prices, reviews, booking), and is easy on mobile. You'd add pages when you have distinct services, a big before/after gallery, or multiple locations to detail. Web by Lods.AI builds your Basic site as one complete site, and extra pages are ₱2,500 each when you actually need them.

A Google Maps listing (your Business Profile) is a free pin showing your location, hours, reviews, and phone — it helps people find you, but you don't control its look and it can't structure services, booking, or a chatbot. A website is your own branded space that closes the booking. They work best together: Web by Lods.AI optimizes your Maps listing AND builds the website it links to, so discovery on Maps flows into a booking on your site.