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Website handover guides
Practical guides for agencies and freelancers handing websites over to clients. What to write down, who owns what, and how to close a project so nobody has to reconstruct it from memory a year later.
Start here
The pillar guide: what a handover document is for, what it must contain, and whether it should be a PDF or a live page.
The guides
Each one answers a single question properly, and links to the others where they overlap.
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Website handover checklist
Everything to give the client before a project closes, in seven groups you can work through in one sitting — and printable.
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Website handover template
The eleven sections a handover document needs, what to record in each, and a plain-text skeleton to copy into any tool.
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Domain & DNS handover checklist
Registrar, registered owner, expiry, where DNS really lives — and why moving nameservers can stop a client’s email the same day.
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Handing over passwords safely
Why credentials do not belong in the handover document, what to record about each account instead, and how to move the logins.
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Client offboarding checklist
The five stages between launch and a project that is genuinely finished: checks, transfers, documentation, money, confirmation.
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Using Handover itself
These guides are about the practice, not the product. If you are looking for how the app works — the editor, the DNS section, publishing, languages — that is the help page.
Hand over your next website properly
One form in. A client-ready manual out — live link, printable PDF, your branding, English or Spanish.
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Drafts are unlimited on every plan. Archived manuals stay online and don’t count.