Website handover checklist
A practical checklist for clean website handovers without lost access, unclear providers, or invisible risks.
What is included
- Access and roles
- Domains, hosting and DNS
- Backups, tracking and required signals
Audience and use case
Audience
Owners, agencies and teams taking over a website or handing it to a new provider.
Use case
Use it during handover calls and turn open items into assigned actions immediately.
Preview
Before you start
Set the scope for the website handover and note where evidence is stored.
- Define owner and system scope
- Collect current URLs, tools and access paths
Technical checks
- Check the highest-risk item first
- Record evidence, not assumptions
- Assign one corrective action