A website for chocolatiers, live in minutes
Easter and Christmas are most of your year, and both of them are decided weeks before they happen.
A chocolate shop makes the majority of its money in two short windows, and the orders that matter are placed a long time before either of them.
So the page is built for October. Clay builds it from your Google listing, and on it go the boxes with what is in them, a corporate order form with a notice period, and a line about personalising for a wedding. What you sell on a Tuesday in June looks after itself.
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 is in them, and what it costs
Nine, sixteen, twenty five. A photograph and a list of what is inside is the whole product page, and the list matters more than the photograph: allergens, alcohol, and what to avoid.
Naming the flavours is also what puts you in a search, because somebody looking for a salted caramel box types salted caramel.
The corporate order is the one worth chasing
Fifty branded boxes for a company's clients is worth a month of the counter, and it is decided in October by somebody who will use whichever chocolatier has a form they can fill in without a phone call.
A notice period and a minimum quantity on the page saves you both the conversations you did not want.
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
- Box sizes and what is in each
- Allergens and alcohol, stated per box
- A corporate order form with a notice period
- Personalising for weddings, and the cut off
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.
When should the seasonal pages be up?
Weeks before the season. Corporate Christmas orders are placed in October and wedding favours months earlier, so a page that comes alive in December has already missed the orders that pay for December.
Do I need a checkout?
For local collection, a form is usually enough. If you post boxes, a shop band with real products and prices is the better fit: a website with a shop in it.
Should I list what is in every box?
Yes, and name the flavours. It answers the allergen and alcohol questions before somebody asks, and it puts you in the search of the person typing salted caramel.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.