The Booksy alternative that sends nobody to a rival
A marketplace brings you strangers and shows your regulars everybody else. One of those is worth paying for.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Booksy is good at what a marketplace is for: somebody new searching for a barber near them, who finds you and books. The cost is that every regular you send there sees the same list, with the shop two streets over on it and a lower price beside your name. Clay gives you a site of your own, built from your Google listing, with the same booking on it and nobody else's name anywhere.
Clay vs Booksy
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.
Should I leave Booksy?
Most shops keep it for new customers and send their regulars to their own site. That way the marketplace does the job it is good at and stops taxing the bookings you already had.
What about my reviews?
The ones on your Google listing come across with the site, because that is what Clay builds from. The ones inside Booksy stay with Booksy, which is worth knowing before you rely on them.
Can I take deposits?
A deposit is stated on the page rather than charged: how the booking works covers the rest.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.