Times Six VA, brand design, illustration, motion, websites and virtual assistance in Johannesburg

A small senior team in Linden, Johannesburg, working with businesses across South Africa and the UK. We are creatives with a knack for building things: brand identities and logos, custom illustration and artwork, print and social design, product and packaging concepts, photo retouching, motion graphics and video editing, WordPress websites, web apps and custom tools, and dependable virtual assistance. Every price is published below. Build your own estimate in about forty seconds, no forms, no sign-up, no salesperson.

Services and prices

Websites

The site, then what goes in it

• Web address + a year of hosting, R950. Registered, protected and kept online for a year. Skip it if you already have your own.
• Website, up to 3 pages, R7 800. The base build. Designed, built on WordPress, and handed over so you can change words and pictures yourself. Everything below is built into it.
• Extra pages, R1 400 per page. Beyond the first three.
• Add a form: simple enquiry, R2 500. Name, email, message, and the enquiry lands in your inbox tidy.
• Add a form: guided steps, R5 000. Asks one question at a time and only shows what is relevant to the answers so far.
• Add a form: live calculator, R7 800. Works out a price as the customer types, and takes file uploads. The form this quote was built with.
• Custom plugin or web app, from R4 200. When a form is not enough: a booking system, a members area, a calculator with real logic behind it. Built as a WordPress plugin inside your site. Always quoted after we have talked.
• Project discovery session, R1 800. Before we build anything, we sit down and write the brief together: what it must do, what it must not, and what done looks like. You sign it, and the scope stops moving.
• Care sessions, R1 800 per session. Backups, updates, fixes and small changes. Per session.

Brand & design

Logos, art, socials, print

• Logo only, R3 600. Just the mark. Two or three directions, then three rounds of changes on the one you pick, and the files for every use.
• Full brand identity, from R5 800. The logo, plus the colours, the type and a written guide for using them. We agree what the brand must say before we draw anything.
• Extra rounds of changes, R1 400 per round. If three rounds is not enough.
• Social media posts, R920 per post. Designed for the platform, sized correctly, ready to publish.
• Social posts: ten-post batch, R6 900. Ten posts, planned and designed as one run. Works out to R 690 a post.
• Carousel sets, R3 800 per set. Three to four swipeable slides that tell one story.
• Posters & print, R1 400 per design. A4 up to A2, sent to you print-ready.
• Illustration: single subject, R2 800 per piece. One character, object or mascot, drawn on a plain background. Hand-drawn by our resident artist, so allow two to three weeks.
• Illustration: full scene, R5 800 per piece. Several subjects in a built environment, with background, lighting and depth. A book cover, a poster, a mural. Allow three to four weeks.
• Product & packaging mockup, R1 400 per item. One item, shown from every angle it needs. A t-shirt front and back, a label wrapped on its bottle, a box flat and built. Priced per item.

Motion & photo

Animation, video, retouching

• Logo animation / intro banner, R4 500. Your logo brought to life, for the front of a video or the top of a page.
• Short motion video, R8 800 per video. Fifteen seconds of animated titles and elements, built to stop the scroll.
• Video editing, R4 500 per video. Your footage, cut and stitched, with music and titles. Up to three minutes.
• Photo edits: standard, R920 per image. Retouching, clean-up, backgrounds removed. Per image.
• Photo edits: complex, R1 400 per image. Images combined, reality bent. Per image.
• Photo edits: ten-image batch, R6 500. Ten standard edits, done together. Works out to R 650 an image.

Content & tools

Blogs, writing, AI chat

• Blog built into your site, R2 500. Matched to your design, with the search plumbing set up properly. Then it is yours to write in.
• Author profile + tidy dashboard, R1 200. A stripped-back editor so publishing a post is not an ordeal.
• Written blog posts, R700 per post. When you would rather not write them yourself. Researched, formatted, published. Per post.
• AI assistant on your site, R4 200. Answers your customers at 2am, in your tone of voice.

Extra hands

Admin and support

• General admin, R320 per hour. Documents, spreadsheets, data capture. Per hour.
• Virtual PA, R380 per hour. Diary, inbox, correspondence. Per hour.
• Website updates, R420 per hour. Content changes and upkeep, so you do not have to. Per hour.
• eBay support, R450 per hour. Listings, bidding, negotiations. Per hour.
• Accounts payable, R480 per hour. Invoices in, reconciled, paid. Per hour.
• Monthly retainer: 20 hours, R6 800 per month. Any mix of the above, every month. Cancel whenever.

Selected work

Monte Baunk, Websites

A property brand that had to feel established before it was.

A new name in a market where nobody trusts a new name. They needed a site that looked like it had been there for a decade. Built the identity and the site together, so nothing felt bolted on. Enquiries land in a form that asks the right follow-up questions and nothing else. Enquiries arrive qualified. The team stopped chasing people who were never going to buy.

VIP Honors Club, Websites

Membership should feel like being let in, not signed up.

A members club whose website felt like a form queue at Home Affairs. Rebuilt the entry as a guided sequence: one question at a time, each one earning the next. Identity restrained enough to feel exclusive. Applications completed instead of abandoned halfway.

FurntexSA, Brand & design

Furniture sells on feeling. Feeling needs consistency.

Great product, scattered social presence. Every post looked like a different company. One design system, then a rhythm of posts and carousels that hold the line whoever is publishing. The feed finally looks like the showroom.

Casino motion, Motion

Fifteen seconds that had to feel expensive.

An industry where every competitor is loud. Being loud was not an option. Motion built on restraint: weight, timing, a single flourish where it counts. Delivered ready to post everywhere. The only asset in the campaign people asked to see twice.

Online gaming platform, Websites

An interface people use for hours, not seconds.

A platform designed by developers, for developers. Everyone else was lost. Reorganised around what players actually do, then made the frequent things fast and the rare things findable. Support questions dropped. Session length went up.

CardlessClub, Our own

We built a product, not just a promise.

Local businesses were still punching paper cards. Loyalty apps nobody downloads were not the answer. Designed and built the whole thing. Customers collect stamps from a link, businesses run it from one dashboard. No plastic, no app store. Live and running across South Africa. We maintain it ourselves.

Questions people ask

Is the price on this app the real price?

It is our actual pricelist, so treat it as a firm estimate. We confirm the final number after one short conversation. If your project turns out simpler, you pay less. We do not invent extras afterwards.

How does payment work?

Half up front, half on delivery, always agreed in writing first. Bank transfer for South African clients, PayPal or similar from abroad. Prices exclude VAT where it applies.

Why do the forms and plugins need a website first?

Because they are built into one. A smart form, a custom plugin, a blog: none of them float on their own, they live inside a WordPress site we build or already look after. So the website is the base price, and everything technical is an add-on on top of it. If you already have a WordPress site we can work in, say so on the call and we will price it differently.

Why is there a discovery session on my quote?

Because the most expensive thing in any project is a brief nobody wrote down. For R1 800 we sit down, work out exactly what the thing must do, and put it in writing that you sign. Scope stops moving, you stop paying for extras, and we stop guessing. On websites and artwork it is not optional. We have learned that one the hard way.

Do international clients pay more?

Yes, and we show you exactly how much. The work costs the same. International delivery adds a stated line to the quote, covering the time-zone overlap, the longer revision cycles that come with it, and currency handling. It is on the estimate, in the open. We do not quietly show different people different prices.

What if I only need one small thing?

Then buy one small thing. A single social post, one care session, three hours of admin. Nothing here has a minimum.

How long does a website take?

Seven to fourteen working days for a typical three to five page site, counted from the day we have your deposit and your content. Whichever of those arrives last starts the clock.

And a logo?

Five to ten working days. We show two or three directions, you pick one, we refine it. Three rounds of changes are already in the price.

What do you need from me to start?

A yes, the deposit, and whatever you already have: old logo files, photos, the words you want on the page. We send a short questionnaire so we do not guess.

What are you actually best at?

Making things look and feel excellent, and building the tech that holds them up. Brand identities, logos, illustration, print, social content, product concepts, photo work, motion and video, websites, web apps and custom tools. We are creatives with a serious knack for building things.

Will you get us ranking on Google?

No, and anyone promising that should worry you. What we do is build the blog into your site, set the search plumbing up properly, and hand it over so you can publish. Ranking comes from publishing consistently over time, that part is yours, and we will show you exactly how.

Why does artwork take three weeks?

Because it is drawn, not generated. Our resident artist works part-time and takes the time a hand-made thing takes. If you need something next Tuesday, we will tell you honestly that artwork is the wrong service and point you at something that fits.

What kind of animation do you do?

Motion graphics: titles, logos and elements animating in and out, cleanly and with good timing. Plus video editing: cutting, stitching, music and titles. We do not do character animation, and we will say so rather than take the job and disappoint you.

Can I change the website myself afterwards?

Yes. Every site is handed over so you can edit words and swap pictures without touching code. If you would rather not, our team does it for you by the hour.

What platforms do you build on?

WordPress, mostly. It is where we build websites, web apps and custom plugins, and it is what we hand over to you. For online stores we use Shopify. We have worked in Webflow too. We do not take on work in platforms we do not know well, because a steep learning curve on your budget is not fair to you.

Do you build online stores?

Yes, on Shopify. The build is our fee. Shopify then charges you a monthly platform fee directly, which is theirs, not ours, and it keeps your store running. We will tell you what that costs before you commit to anything.

Can you work on my existing website?

If it is WordPress, usually yes. If it is something we do not know well, we would rather tell you honestly than learn on your budget. Often the cleanest answer is to rebuild it properly, and we will say so if that is what we think.

Do you do wedding invitations?

No. We work with businesses and brands. It keeps us good at one thing instead of average at everything.

Who actually does the work?

A small senior team in Linden, Johannesburg, working remotely with clients across South Africa and the UK. Illustration and custom artwork come from our resident artist. The person you talk to is the person doing it.

How our website pricing works

A website is the base build, at R 7 800 for up to three pages. Everything technical is an add-on that lives inside it: a smart form from R 2 500, a custom WordPress plugin or web app from R 4 200, a blog at R 2 500, extra pages at R 1 400 each. Web address and a year of hosting is R 950 unless you already have your own. We do not sell bundles that quietly repeat work you have already paid for.

How we quote

Every price on this page is our real pricelist. Websites and artwork include a R 1 800 discovery session, where we write the brief together before anyone starts, so the scope cannot drift. International clients pay the same for the work, plus a stated international delivery line covering time-zone overlap, longer revision cycles and currency handling. We do not show different prices to different visitors.

Talk to us

WhatsApp +27 81 394 3273 or email hello@timesixva.com. Linden, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. We reply within 24 hours on weekdays.