A website for your café in Amsterdam
Search your café and Clay builds a real website, your photos, hours, reviews and a map, ready in minutes.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
A city of narrow canal-house storefronts and fiercely independent operators, where a good koffie verkeerd, a borrel on a bruin café terrace, and bakfiets-first living define daily life.
Amsterdammers order koffie verkeerd or a flat white and pair it with a wedge of appeltaart met slagroom, ideally on a terrace along a gracht. Third-wave roasters cluster in De Pijp, Oud-West and Noord, but a proper bruin café with a stroopwafel over the cup is still the local default. Whatever your café is known for, Clay turns your Google listing into a real website, photos, hours, reviews and a map, so people in Amsterdam find you and know what to expect before they visit.
The terrace decides your year
A café in Amsterdam lives and dies by its terras. The city's terrace permit fixes how many tables you may put on the pavement and until what hour, so April to September is when the money is made and the winter is when the inside has to be worth sitting in. Most owners run two different businesses in one room and never say so on their website.
The other constant is the bakfiets. A parent doing the school run at half eight wants one thing: whether you are open and whether they can park the bike. Both of those are on the page above the fold before anybody scrolls.
Why Clay
It pulls your info from Google
No blank page. Clay reads your Google business listing and fills in your name, photos, hours, map and reviews automatically.
A real website, not just links
Menus, bookings, a shop, a gallery, contact, Clay is a full site that also works as a link-in-bio, not a list of buttons.
Live in minutes, free to start
Search, pick a style, publish. No signup to see it, no credit card, and a free live address at name.clay.site.
Yours to grow
Bring a custom domain, add pro widgets, run multiple sites. It scales from a bio link to a full business site.
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 you can switch on
Every one of these is part of your site, not a plugin to install. Turn on what you use and leave the rest off.
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.
What you get
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.
Half my customers do not read Dutch. Which language should the café page be in?
Clay writes it in Dutch, because the business is in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam most café owners then rewrite the headline and the menu in English by hand and leave the hours, the address and the map as they are, those read fine either way. It is one edit and there is no second site to keep in step.
Will my site be in Dutch or in English?
In Dutch, because the business is in the Netherlands, that is what Clay generates from. Amsterdam serves a lot of people who do not read Dutch, though, so plenty of owners rewrite the headline and the menu in English and leave the practical parts as they are. Both are one edit.
Can I show my menu?
Yes, Clay has a menu widget with sections, prices and photos. A café that generates from Google gets a menu block pre-filled, ready for you to tweak.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.