Which hosting plan for a salon, gym or workshop: opening hours, prices and bookings

The short answer: a local service business needs a site that answers four questions quickly: where it is, when it opens, what it costs and how to book. It is a light site, and one of the first shared plans is enough. What counts most in being found is the Google Business Profile, not the plan.

What weighs, and what does not

Part of the site What to do
Hours and address As text, at the top and the bottom, and the same as on Google. When the hours change (holidays), change them in both places.
Prices A simple table, in text. A photo of a price list cannot be read on a phone or by Google.
Bookings By phone, WhatsApp or a form. An online booking system is an extra, not a beginning: Putting WhatsApp on your site.
Photos Of the space and the work done. Use your own, with permission from whoever appears: Photos for your website.
Reviews They are what convinces a new customer: Reviews and reputation.

How to choose, step by step

1 Create the Google Business Profile first, with hours, address and phone: Being found on Google.
2 Make a one-page site (or a few) with the four answers at the top.
3 Put call and WhatsApp buttons, big, on the phone.
4 Create an e-mail on your own domain for quotes and suppliers.
5 Review the plan only if the site starts having online sales or a customer area.
An outdated site does more harm than no site: wrong hours, an old price, a promotion from two years ago. Review it when what you offer changes and at least once a year.
For businesses that live on customers from the area, what brings most people is showing up on the map and in “near me” searches. Focus on that before spending on a complicated site.

Want a simple site for your local business? Tell us what you do and how customers contact you today.

Open a support ticket

SEE ALSO

Being found on Google: Business Profile, Search Console and the basics

Reviews and reputation: how to ask for them and how to answer the bad ones

Putting WhatsApp on your site: the link, the button and the ready-written message

Which hosting plan for a small company website with its own e-mail

RECOMMENDED PRODUCT

Web hosting with cPanel

Domain and SSL included, daily backups and the panel you already know. from R118.80/mo (3-year plan, with coupon)

See plans
  • 0 Users Found This Useful
Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

Shared hosting vs VPS: which one does your project need? The difference is not "better" and "worse": it is who administers the machine. On shared hosting, we do. On a VPS, you d...
Shared hosting vs dedicated server: when the jump is worth it These are the two extremes: on one side, everything handled by us on a shared machine; on the other, an entire physical...
Shared hosting vs Cloud: what actually changes "Cloud" is so worn out in advertising that it has stopped meaning anything. In our catalogue it means something concrete...
VPS vs Cloud: the difference is the network, not the marketing They are close relatives: in both cases you get a virtual machine of your own, with root access and administration on yo...
VPS vs dedicated server: virtual resources or the whole machine On a VPS the resources are yours, but the physical machine is divided between several virtual machines. On a dedicated s...
Affiliate or reseller: which suits someone who builds sites for clients The short answer: if you build sites, shops or e-mail for other people, you have two ways to earn from hosting: recommen...