How do I hand a website and domain to a client?
You already built it. Now it's on their name. Get paid first, your own way. Then choose Give a domain to someone, enter their email, and the site becomes theirs when they claim it.
Your AI can publish. It can never spend your money.
Built it with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Replit, v0, Windsurf or by hand? Same steps.
Last updated: 26 September 2026.
Get paid, then hand it over
DropTheHassle does not invoice your client and does not send you their payment for the build. Send your invoice however you already do. When that is settled, the handover below moves the site off your account.
- Publish the built folder first, on the free link or on the domain. A free link with no domain cannot be given. Buy a domain here, or connect one you already own, before you give it.
- In the dashboard, choose Give a domain to someone. Pick one name, or the whole group of names on that site. Giving a single name out of a group splits that name onto its own site first, then sends it.
- Type their email and send it. They get a code at that address. The name stays on your account until they claim it, and you can cancel until then. You are not charged again for the time you already paid.
- They log in with that same email, enter the code, and see the renewal price and date. They add a card, or we use the card already on their account. The screen says they are not charged now.
- If the site has email, they can take the mailbox too. If they do not, email pauses. A mailbox they take over stays free until the month you already paid ends, then the first inbox is EUR 5 per month and each extra address is EUR 3 per month.
When they claim it, the site leaves your account. A connector that was publishing that site stops with the handoff. If they want their own AI to update it, they connect theirs from Connect your AI. The agent on your side cannot give the domain away.
What moves, and what does not
A .com bought here is EUR 19 a year including VAT in the EU, or USD 19 elsewhere, the same every year, on their card from the next renewal. They see that price before they take it over. The site is theirs as soon as they claim it. The registration contact for a domain bought here is updated afterwards. It is not finished in that same click. If it has not moved, mail hello@dropthehassle.com.
A domain you connected from another company moves the site on DropTheHassle. It does not move the registration at that other company. The client still needs that login, or you transfer the name there yourself.
Questions
Can I hand over the free link only?
No. Give a domain to someone needs a domain on the account. The free link is how you show the work before that.
Can my AI do the handover?
No. Your AI can publish the folder. Giving the domain away is your click, after you have been paid.
Who pays the renewal?
They do, on the card they add, starting at the next renewal. A .com bought here stays EUR 19 a year including VAT in the EU, or USD 19 elsewhere, the same every year. They are not charged for the period you already paid.