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Maintain a Dependency Register for Outsourced Web Design
Track external services, packages, accounts, owners, failure effects, and renewal risks throughout delivery.
**Published: September 1, 2026**
A website may depend on hosting, fonts, forms, analytics, maps, payment tools, libraries, and vendor accounts. If those dependencies are invisible, handoff risk appears only when a service expires or an owner leaves.
Inventory operational dependencies
Capture the dependency name, purpose, production location, account owner, billing owner, data handled, renewal date, version or plan, access method, failure effect, substitute, and review cadence. Link credentials through an approved secrets system rather than placing them in the register.
Prioritize by business impact
Manage risk and ownership
A package list alone is not an operating register. Include non-code services and content accounts. Never expose secret values, recovery codes, or personal billing information.
Define acceptance
At handoff, the client can identify every critical service, control the required accounts, and act before renewal or end-of-support dates. Accepted single points of failure need named owners.
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Frequently asked questions
Who should own this record?
A named client owner should approve business rules and access. The outsourced team maintains implementation detail and supplies repeatable evidence.
When should the team review it?
Review it before implementation, at acceptance, and whenever a related service, policy, account, or production component changes.
Does a template prove the work is complete?
No. The completed record must match the implemented website and be supported by checks that another reviewer can repeat.