What happens if I leave VerySEOly

Most agency exits are messy on purpose. The agency owns the domain, the hosting, the CMS login, the analytics, and the customer database, so leaving means rebuilding from zero. VerySEOly is set up the opposite way. You own everything from day one. Leaving is a checklist, not a crisis.

There is no lock-in. You can cancel any time. If you change your mind soon after signing up, you are covered by the 14-day cooling-off period under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013.

What you already own (whether you stay or leave)

• Your domain. Registered in your name, at your chosen registrar. We never own a client domain.
• Your CRM data. Held in an account in your name.
• Your newsletter list. Held in an EU account in your name.
• Your customer database. Anything captured via forms is yours.
• Your bookings and payments. These run through your own accounts, so you own the customer relationship, not us.

If you walk away tomorrow, those are all still yours. There is nothing for us to “release”.

What gets handed over when you cancel

Within 14 days of cancellation, you receive:

1. A zip of the rendered static site. Every HTML page, CSS file, JS bundle, and image. Drop it into any host (Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, even a low-cost shared host). It works without us.
2. The full Astro source code on GitHub. The repository is transferred to your GitHub account. Any developer can pick it up. Astro is a popular open-source framework with good documentation.
3. CRM export. A CSV with every contact, note, and tag.
4. Newsletter subscribers. A CSV with subscriber emails, opt-in dates, and segments.
5. Form submissions archive. A CSV of every contact form submission ever received.
6. DNS export. A text file with all current DNS records so a successor can rebuild the setup.

We do this work whether you ask for it or not. It is part of the subscription, on every plan.

Where to host afterwards

Two routes most clients take:

Cheapest. Cloudflare Pages or Netlify free tier. Drop the zipped site in, point your domain, done. The hosting is £0 per month. You do not get the ongoing edits, CRM, newsletter, or articles, just the site as it was when you left.

Hand it to another developer. Give them the GitHub repository. Any agency that knows Astro can pick it up. The build is documented, and there is no proprietary technology to learn.

What you lose by leaving

An honest list:

• The ongoing content edits and updates, which are part of your monthly retainer.
• The CRM and newsletter setup as a managed service. You can keep the accounts, but we stop maintaining them.
• The ongoing care, such as keeping the site current and watching for issues.
• Email and contact-form access to us.

The site keeps running indefinitely as long as you host it somewhere. You just stop getting the human behind the keyboard.

“What if I want to come back?”

Within 30 days, the site spins back up at the URL it was on, and we simply restart your monthly retainer. After 30 days, it is treated as a fresh build, so you start again with a free audit at /audit, or the paid Marketing and Automation Deep-Dive at /marketing-automation-audit, and we quote the new build and retainer to your business from there. Either way, there are no hard feelings.