Small business website guides
Every guide here was written from a real website built on Ginta for the purpose, with its real time and cost, and says plainly where something else is the better choice. Pick the job you need your website to do.
Take bookings and deposits
- How to add online booking to your website: three ways, what each costs, and a piano teacher's booking site built in 69 seconds.
- How to take deposits for appointments: how much to ask, a fair cancellation rule to copy, and a hairdresser's £20 deposit.
- Is Wix Bookings free?: what Wix's own pages say, and a free option with deposits.
- Which AI website builders take bookings and payments on the free plan?: Wix, Durable, Zarla, B12, GoDaddy and Ginta, checked on their own pages.
- Add online booking to a website Claude or ChatGPT made: why the AI's form doesn't book, and a bike workshop's booking added from Claude.
- By business: massage therapists, lash techs, dog walkers, driving instructors, makeup artists, hair salons, yoga studios.
Sell online
- How to sell online without Shopify: four ways, what each costs, and a coffee roaster's shop with grind options, delivery and pickup.
- Stripe is asking for a business website: what Stripe checks, and a free website that passes.
- How to take Christmas pre-orders online, with collection days.
- A supper club website that fills your seats: places, a waiting list and paid seats.
- By business: candle makers, meal prep, food trucks, bakeries.
Get quote requests
- A landscaping website that gets photos before the site visit.
- By business: caterers, plumbers, electricians, cleaning companies, car repair.
Get found
- How to get your business on Google for free: the profile, the website, the first weeks.
- How to make a bilingual website: one address per language, a switch, hreflang.
- How to connect your own domain, with steps per registrar.
- Do I need a website if I have Instagram?
- Can a website built with AI rank on Google?: 13 AI-built websites measured.
- Free website checker: your site's speed on a phone, in plain words.
Costs and free options
- How much does a small business website cost in 2026?
- How much does it cost to build a website with AI?: 19 real builds, measured.
- Can a small business get a website for free?
- A small business website in 10 minutes: a timed walkthrough.
Build with Claude or ChatGPT
- Website builder MCP: Ginta's MCP server and its tools.
- Build a website with Claude · with ChatGPT · host from Claude Code · deploy from Codex or Cursor
- From a Claude artifact to a real website on your own domain
- Build and host a website from Claude with MCP, a real run.
- How to publish a website you made with ChatGPT or Claude
- Can you build a website with Claude for free?: what works on Claude's free plan.
- Claude Design closes on 14 December: how to keep your website online.
- ChatGPT Sites: what it does, what it costs, and when a website builder fits better.
- For agencies and freelancers: client websites under your own name.
Compare website builders
- All comparisons in one table: Wix, Squarespace, Google Sites, GoDaddy, Hostinger, Webflow, Carrd, Big Cartel, Lovable, Durable, Framer, 10Web, Zarla and B12, each checked on its own website.
- Ginta vs Lovable vs Wix for small businesses
Websites by type of business
All business types, each with what customers look for and a real example website.
Questions
Are these guides only for Ginta users?
No. Each one explains the job first (booking, selling, getting found) and says when another tool is the better choice; the Ginta example shows one way to do it.
How were the example websites made?
Each was built on the live Ginta from one message, on a new free account, and timed; the credits are the real ones charged. The businesses are made up.