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Twenty bikes, booked from your own page

A real Clay site — built from a Google listing

For the shop by the canal or the beach that hires out a rack of bikes all summer and keeps it in a book.

Takes less than a minute · no sign-up or credit card required

In July the rack is empty by ten and the book on the counter has two names against the same Saturday. Everybody in that queue had already found you — they searched the shop by name, cycled over, and stood there while somebody checked whether the step-through was back yet.

Clay builds a page from your Google listing and puts the hire on it: a row per kind of bike, each with its own count and rates, the days already gone, and the total worked out before anybody commits. The hour is where it stops — a hire goes by the day, the week or the month, so an afternoon rate is a price you print on the page and take at the counter.

What you get

Day, week and month rates
Twenty bikes counted, so the twenty-first is refused
A hire blocks every day it covers
Hours, map and phone on the same page
Nine days · city bike
Per dayAny bike in the rack
€12
Per weekSeven days or more
€60
9 days1 week · 2 days
€84
How a hire is priced

A week and two days

Give a row a rate per day and a rate per week. Nine days is then not nine days at the day rate — it is a week and two days, whichever combination comes to least, and never a fortnight rounded up.

The bill shows its working, one line each, so nobody has to trust a total. A price written with a comma is read as a decimal mark, which matters most on a number that gets multiplied by ten.

What you get

A range, not a slot

A hire blocks every day it covers, and a day goes full when the last bike is out.

A row per kind of bike

City, kids, e-bike, small and large — each a row with its own count, its own rates and its own shortest and longest hire.

The one somebody rang about

Write it in yourself and it blocks those days for everybody else, exactly like a booking taken on the site.

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.

Can I take a deposit online?

No. A deposit is a field on a restaurant table, not on a hire, and nothing in the booking ever charges a card — you take the money at the counter, the way you do now. What the page does is make sure the bike is actually there: how the rental engine works.

How do I handle sizes and helmets?

Sizes are rows, because a row is what the count is kept on — a small, a medium and a large, six of each. Helmets are not a tick box; there are no add-ons on a booking, so either say what is included in the words or hire them as a row of their own. If you sell them rather than lend them, they belong in the shop.

Do customers need an account to book?

Yes — an email and a password of at least six characters, so they can come back and cancel it themselves inside whatever notice you set. There is no guest booking. Booking is on the paid plan; the rest of the page — hours, map, photographs, reviews — is free.

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Twenty bikes, booked from your own page

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