A Beacons alternative for real businesses
Beacons is built for creators. Clay is built for real-world businesses, and turns your Google listing into a full site.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Beacons is a solid creator link-in-bio. But if you run a café, shop, salon or studio, you want your menu, products, hours and location, built from your Google info. Clay does exactly that, and still works as a clean link-in-bio.
Clay vs Beacons
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Real sites, made with Clay
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
Which is better for a local business?
Clay, because it starts from your Google listing and includes local-business blocks like menus, a shop, booking and a map. Beacons leans more toward creators and content links.
Is it built for creators or for businesses with a door?
For a business with a door, and it says so honestly: hours, a map, a menu and Google reviews are what it does best. A creator page works too, as a link in bio with a real site behind it.
Can I take payments?
A basket that hands you the order on WhatsApp or by email, with no cut of a sale, because the sale never comes near us: a website with a shop in it.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.