A website for your café in Lyon
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
France's gastronomic capital lives for its bouchons and market-driven cooking, with an independent food-and-drink culture spread between the Presqu'île, Croix-Rousse and the old town.
Café culture is straightforward and terrasse-friendly, with a strong specialty-coffee wave settling into the Croix-Rousse and Guillotière, home to roasters and brunch spots. Lyon's own sweet is the pink praline tart and brioche, and a mid-morning café accompanied by a praline bun is a very local habit. Whatever your café is known for, Clay turns your Google listing into a real website, photos, hours, reviews and a map, so people in Lyon find you and know what to expect before they visit.
A bouchon city that took to filter late
Lyon's reputation is food, and coffee arrived here after it arrived almost everywhere else. That is an advantage: a specialty café on the Croix-Rousse or in the Presqu'île is still explaining itself to a city that eats extremely well and drinks coffee out of habit, and the ones that explain it clearly get the whole neighbourhood.
The hills are the practical part. A customer at the top of the Croix-Rousse is not walking down and back for a flat white on a guess, so open-or-closed has to be right.
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.
Is a website worth it if we are mostly regulars?
Honestly, sometimes not this month. If everybody who buys from you already knows your hours you can wait. It starts paying the day somebody who has never been types your name into a phone, and in a city with as much food press as Lyon, that happens more than owners expect.
I have a bouchon with a fixed formule that changes every day. Can the page keep up?
Yes, and it is meant to be changed daily. The menu is part of the page, so the formule du jour is one edit from your phone between services, not a document to re-export and email to whoever holds the website password.
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.