A website for delis, live in minutes
The counter pays the rent and the platters pay for everything else, and almost no deli website mentions the second.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
A deli is three businesses standing in one room: a shop, a lunch counter and a catering service, and the third is the one nobody can find.
So the page carries all three and puts the platter where it can be seen. Clay builds it from your Google listing, and on it go what is on the counter, the lunch menu, and an order form for the board somebody needs on Friday afternoon with a day's notice.
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 on it, and where it came from
Cheese, charcuterie, olives, the things in jars. Naming producers is what a deli is for, and it is the reason to pay three times a supermarket price without feeling foolish.
It changes, so it lives on the page as a short list you edit rather than as a printed catalogue nobody maintains.
The platter is the order worth having
A cheese board for twelve is worth a week of sandwiches, and it is almost always ordered by somebody who rang three places and used whoever answered.
A form with sizes, a day and a notice period takes that order at ten at night, which is when the person organising Friday actually thinks about it.
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
- The counter as a short list you edit yourself
- The lunch menu, with what is on today
- A platter order form with a notice period
- Office deliveries, said plainly
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.
How do I take platter orders?
With a form that asks the size, the day and roughly how many people. The person organising Friday thinks about it at ten at night, and a form takes the order then instead of losing it to whoever answers the phone first.
Should the counter list every product?
No. A short list you actually keep true beats a catalogue nobody maintains. Name the producers rather than every jar, because the producers are the reason somebody pays a deli price.
Can I put the lunch menu on it?
Yes, as a real menu you change from behind the counter rather than a photograph of a board: how the menu band works.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.