Make your own business
You do not have to be a web developer to build a business around professional websites. If you understand your local market, communicate well and can build trusted relationships with businesses and organisations, there is an opportunity to turn that into something of your own. You can build completely independently using Provelopment Foundation, or become a Provelopment reseller and let us handle the technical website work behind the service you sell.
Two ways to make the business yours
Both paths let you build under your own name, choose the customers you want to serve and decide how you want the business to grow. The difference is whether you want to provide the technical website capability yourself or have Provelopment provide it for you.
Build independently with Foundation
Use the open-source Foundation platform as the technical base for your own website business. You provide or arrange the technical capability, decide how you work, choose what you sell and build the business without needing a commercial relationship with Provelopment.
Work with Provelopment as a reseller
Build the customer relationships and sell professional websites in your own market while Provelopment handles the technical website work you commission. You concentrate on understanding customers, winning the work and growing your local business. We provide the technical delivery behind it.
Build independently with Foundation
If you already have technical skills, developers you trust or your own delivery team, Foundation gives you a professional open-source starting point without tying your business to Provelopment.
Use it commercially
Foundation is published under the Apache-2.0 licence and can be used for commercial work. You can build websites for customers, modify the platform and shape your own services around it.
Run the business your way
Choose where you host, how you work, what you charge and which customers you serve. Your commercial model is yours to define.
Provelopment stays optional
Building independently does not close the door on working with us later. If you ever want Provelopment to help with technical website work, you can commission that help separately.
Where to start
If the independent path suits you, begin with the open-source project itself.
- Start with Foundation
The Foundation getting-started guide explains how to obtain the platform, set up a site, validate it and take it live.
- The public repository
Explore the source code, documentation and Apache-2.0 licence directly.
Build a local website business without having to become the developer
The reseller path separates the part of the business that depends on local relationships from the part that requires technical website expertise. You build the business in your market. Provelopment provides the technical website delivery behind it.
No web-development skills required
You do not need to learn programming or become a website developer before you can start building the business. Provelopment handles the technical website work you commission.
Your strengths are the ones that matter locally
Knowing how to talk to people, understand what a business needs, explain an offer clearly and follow up properly is more important than knowing how to write code. Those are the skills that help you win and keep customers.
The customer relationship belongs with you
You find the customer, understand what they need and remain their local point of contact. You decide how you present your services and what you charge for the work you provide.
Serious website capability behind your offer
You are not limited to selling a rigid small-business template. The websites are built on Provelopment Foundation, giving you access to the same professional platform that can support straightforward local sites, multiple languages, multiple locations and more sophisticated requirements as a customer's needs grow.
Work in the market you understand
Build the business around the people, language and local business culture you already know. The reseller programme begins in selected jurisdictions rather than trying to operate everywhere at once.
You build the relationship. We handle the technical delivery.
The model is deliberately simple. You stay close to the customer and the local market. Provelopment provides the website expertise behind the work you sell.
What you do
- Promote your business and website services in your own market.
- Find and speak with prospective customers.
- Understand what they are trying to achieve.
- Explain the service and agree what they need.
- Stay responsible for communication, expectations and follow-up.
- Coordinate the wording, images and other customer material needed for the website.
- Offer any additional services you want to provide around the website.
What Provelopment does
- Build the professional website you commission for the customer.
- Set up the pages, structure and technical website configuration.
- Carry out agreed changes and website work.
- Prepare and deploy the site where deployment is part of the commissioned work.
- Provide additional technical website work when a customer needs something beyond the original scope.
Your business should look like your business
A reseller website represents you, not Provelopment. Your customers should see your name, your brand, your services and the business they are choosing to work with.
Your brand comes first
Your business name, colours, wording and services are presented as your own. The public website does not need to carry Provelopment branding.
A professional starting point
Your reseller website starts from a standard configuration built on Provelopment Foundation. That gives you a professional website of your own without having to commission a completely bespoke site before you have even started building the business.
You approve what represents you
Provelopment prepares the site, but you review the real website before it goes live. You confirm that the branding, wording and services accurately represent the business you want customers to see.
Your business identity remains yours
Your reseller website presents your business under your name. How you register, structure and operate that business remains your responsibility.
Start with a professional website of your own
Provelopment will configure and rebrand the standard reseller website for you at no charge. That gives you a credible online presence to start building the business around without an upfront website-development bill for the standard setup.
Included at no charge
- Your business identity and branding applied to the website.
- The standard reseller website configuration.
- The standard website content and structure.
- Preparation of the standard site for launch.
Quoted separately
- Additional pages beyond the standard website.
- Custom sections.
- Non-standard design or layout work.
- Custom features.
- Other changes outside the standard setup.
The standard starting point is included. If you want to take the website beyond that standard setup, the additional work is scoped and quoted separately.
Your name, on your domain
The reseller website should sit under a domain you control. You can arrange that yourself or ask Provelopment to help.
Use your own domain
Register a suitable domain with the provider of your choice and use it for the business.
- You are free to choose the registrar.
- The registration remains yours.
Ask Provelopment to arrange it
If you would rather not handle the setup yourself, Provelopment can organise the domain setup for an additional fee.
- Provelopment provides the setup service; we are not the registrar.
- The domain remains yours.
Your domain is part of your business identity. The model is designed to leave that control with you.
Build more around the customer relationship
The website does not have to be the only thing your business sells. Once you have a relationship with a local customer, you may be in a good position to help them with other things they need as well. Those additional services are yours to choose, price and deliver.
Translation and localisation
Help customers communicate with people in another language or adapt their material for the local market.
Graphic and design work
Provide logos, branding, graphics, printed material or other visual work yourself or through people you work with.
Photography and videography
Offer professional images and video for the customer's website, social channels or wider promotion.
Other services that support your customers
Build additional services around the needs you see in your own market, whether you deliver them personally or through suppliers you trust.
These are your services, under your business, with pricing and delivery decided by you.
Starting in five markets
The reseller programme begins in a deliberately limited group of markets so that the model can be developed around real local relationships rather than treated as a generic worldwide programme.
- Australia
- Germany
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Malaysia
These are the initial reseller jurisdictions. If your jurisdiction is not listed, contact us and we can discuss whether it makes sense to extend the programme there next.
How a customer job moves through the partnership
The customer works with your business. When website work is needed, you decide who is best placed to do it: you, a contractor you trust, or Provelopment. You can compare the options and quotes before deciding how the job should be delivered.
Choose the best way to deliver the work
You are not required to send every job to Provelopment. You can do the work yourself, use a contractor, or ask Provelopment to quote. Good business means choosing the option that gives the customer the right result at the right cost.
If you do the work yourself or use a contractor
You remain free to deliver the change your own way. If the website is hosted by Provelopment and a specific change is needed on the hosted site, you can ask us to quote only for that targeted change. Because the request is limited to the specific work needed, it will generally be a relatively economical piece of work.
If you commission Provelopment
Once the required work is clear, you ask Provelopment to perform the technical website work for that customer. We build and prepare the work that has been commissioned using the same professional platform behind Provelopment's own website services.
You stay the customer's point of contact
Whichever delivery option you choose, you remain the customer's commercial and local contact and continue managing the relationship.
You decide what you charge your customer
If Provelopment performs the work, you pay us for the work we deliver. What you charge your customer — and what you charge for your own additional services — is your decision.
Choose the path that fits the business you want to build
If you already have the technical capability and want complete independence, Foundation gives you the platform to start from. If your strengths are sales, communication and local relationships, the reseller path lets you build the customer-facing business while Provelopment handles the technical website work behind it. Either way, the goal is the same: build something that is genuinely yours.