White-label development: what should an agency agree before quoting?
Winning the project is only half the job. Your offer also needs a delivery plan that protects the deadline, the client relationship and your margin.
Before sending a fixed quote, agree the deliverables, assumptions, approval stages and support responsibilities with your development partner. White-label delivery lets your agency remain the client-facing brand while an external team handles the agreed technical work. The partnership works best when both sides know what is included and who makes decisions.
Price a complete customer journey, not a collection of screens.
Three agreements that make a quote useful
Make the important decisions before promising a launch date.
What are we delivering?
Name the pages, languages, customer journeys and connections. Include content preparation, migration and testing where needed. Separate launch essentials from later improvements.
Who approves the work?
Choose one agency contact to collect client feedback. Agree review stages, revision rounds and how a new request changes the price or delivery date.
What stays under your brand?
Agree confidentiality, meeting participation and communication. Define access to hosting, code and business accounts without sharing one password across the whole team.
A finished homepage is not a finished shop
For an e-commerce brief, walk through finding a product, choosing a variation, paying and receiving an order update. Decide who supplies photographs, translations and product data. If an existing system needs investigation, scope that review before committing to a fixed build price. Keep client feedback separate from defects and newly requested features.
Include the handover in the offer
Specify the accounts, files, documentation and team training to be handed over, alongside the agreed code and usage terms. Separate launch fixes from ongoing updates and new development. Identify recurring hosting, software and support costs. Your agency should know who handles an urgent issue and how to request the next improvement.
OUTstore: more than a new storefront
Our OUTstore rebuild brings together activity-led browsing, product filters, variations, customer accounts, checkout and store management. It shows the range of work an e-commerce brief may contain. Naming those journeys makes both the proposal and the finished result clearer.
Explore the OUTstore rebuild Explore our white-label agency partnershipsClear answers, without the jargon.
01Will LineWeb contact our client directly?+
Not by default. Your agency stays in front. We join a client conversation only when you ask and we have agreed our role.
02Can we bring our own design?+
Yes. Share the designs and required interactions. We review mobile layouts, missing states and technical requirements before agreeing the build.
03Can support continue after launch?+
Yes. Maintenance and further development can be scoped separately, with clear responsibilities and communication through your agency.
Andrew Matia - LineWeb
Founder of LineWeb. I write about the practical side of websites, systems, automation and search: the decisions that make a business easier to run and clearer to find.
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Send the project requirements, designs and target date. We will help define the technical scope and delivery plan behind your agency's offer.