Websites for local businesses

A website that gets built for you,
then looked after every month.

For shops, clinics and trades. We build the first version from your own photos and Google reviews before you pay anything. If you keep it, one monthly fee covers hosting, changes in plain words and a check of your Google listing. No setup fee, no contract, and the site is yours.

Examples

Three sites you can open and tap through.

These are demo businesses we made up, with licensed photos, so you can see how a finished site looks and works on your own phone. Your draft is built the same way, from your photos, your logo and your wording.

Demo website for a physiotherapy clinic, desktop The same demo on a phone Demo · Clinic

Physiotherapy clinic

Booking button first, phone second. Treatments in plain words, and opening hours that say whether the clinic is open right now.

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Demo website for an electrician, desktop The same demo on a phone Demo · Trades

Electrician

Six services, each with what is actually included. Quote and call buttons that work with one thumb, and the areas covered listed for local search.

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Demo website for a restaurant, desktop The same demo on a phone Demo · Restaurant

Restaurant

The menu with prices, laid out to scan. Table booking up top, then photos of the room and the food.

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We do not publish drafts made for real businesses. If you got an email from us, the link in it goes to your own draft, with your current site next to the new one.

What the monthly fee is for

Not a file you get once. Someone looking after it.

A website is only useful while it stays current. Every month we do four things, without you having to remember any of them.

01

Changes in plain words

Reply to any email: “use the other photo up top”, “add Saturday 9 to 1”, “new price for the cut and colour”. Live the same working day, no ticket system.

02

Google listing check

Hours, photos, categories and new reviews on your Google Business Profile, checked every month so the listing people see first is right.

03

A one-page report

How many people visited, where they came from, what they tapped, and what changed this month. One page, no jargon.

04

The boring but essential

Hosting, SSL, domain renewal reminders, backups, speed. The things nobody thinks about until the site is down.

Plans

One monthly fee. No setup fee. Cancel any month.

Prices in US dollars; we bill in USD, CAD or AUD. Annual billing is ten months for twelve.

Keep
US$49/ month
A proper front door that someone keeps open.
  • Up to 3 pages: home, about, contact
  • Hosting, SSL, your domain connected
  • 2 changes a month
  • Google Business Profile set up or claimed
  • Contact form to your email or WhatsApp
  • Monthly one-page report
Start with a free draft →
Most shops pick this
Book
US$99/ month
Customers can book, order or ask without calling.
  • Up to 6 pages: adds services or menu, work, FAQ
  • Everything in Keep
  • 5 changes a month
  • Online booking (your existing tool or ours) or menu with ordering links
  • Google listing checked monthly: hours, photos, reviews
  • Report includes what changed this month
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Run
US$199/ month
Website, Google, content and payments, all handled.
  • Up to 10 pages
  • Everything in Book
  • Changes within fair use (about 10 a month)
  • Online payments: Stripe or Square links
  • A second language (English plus French, Spanish or Chinese)
  • Review reply drafts, two local articles a month, quarterly written check-up
Start with a free draft →

More than 10 pages, an online shop, or custom features are quoted separately from US$300. The domain is registered in your name. Leave any month and the whole site goes with you.

How it goes

From the email to a live site in about a week.

Day 0

You open the draft

It is already built from your photos, reviews and current site. Nothing to decide yet.

Day 1–3

You say what to change

Reply in plain words. We send a new link each time until you say it is right. Still free.

Day 4–6

Pick a plan, we go live

First month's fee is the only payment. We connect your domain, set up SSL, point the forms to you and set up the Google listing.

Every month

We look after it

Changes, Google listing check, report. You get on with the business.

Who you are dealing with

One person builds it. The same person looks after it.

FreeCo is a small studio in Taipei, Taiwan, run by Chris Hsieh. You email Chris, Chris replies. No account managers, no ticket queue.

  • 11 years building websites and systems, 2015 to now
  • Core team at Buy123, one of Taiwan's largest e-commerce sites
  • Built DimOrder, a restaurant ordering and POS system used in Hong Kong
  • Runs FreeCo's own online store and AI products, so every recommendation has been tested with our own money
  • We work in writing, in English, and reply within one working day

“I would rather show you a draft than tell you what I could do. If it is not for you, no problem, it comes down and you have lost nothing.”

Chris Hsieh, FreeCo

Questions owners ask

Straight answers.

You made a website for me before I asked. Why?+
Because a draft you can open on your phone says more than a pitch. It is built from what is already public: your Google Business Profile photos and reviews, and the services on your current site. Nothing is decided by opening it, and if it is not for you, we take it down.
What does the monthly fee actually cover?+
Hosting, SSL and your domain connected; the changes you ask for; a monthly check of your Google Business Profile; and a one-page report. There is no setup fee. The first month's fee is the only payment before you go live.
Do I own the website?+
Yes. The domain is registered in your name (we help you set it up or transfer it) and the site files are yours. If you leave, you take the whole site with you, and we hand over everything needed to host it elsewhere.
Can I cancel?+
Any month, by email. No contract, no exit fee. If you paid annually, the unused months are refunded. The whole agreement is one page: the terms, in plain words.
I already have a website. Can you just look after that one?+
Usually yes, if it is on WordPress or a static host. Send the address and we will tell you within a day whether it makes more sense to look after it or to move it onto the new draft.
Where are you, and how do we talk?+
Taipei, Taiwan. We work in writing, by email or WhatsApp, and reply within one working day, usually the same day. Working in writing means every change you ask for is on record and nothing gets lost.
How do you charge?+
Card, through Stripe, in USD, CAD or AUD. Monthly or annually (ten months for twelve). You get an invoice each time.
I got your email and I don't want it. What do I do?+
Reply with “no thanks” and that is the end of it. We take the draft down and you will not hear from us again.

Get a free draft

Send your business name and town.
We'll build the first version.

Within two working days you get a link to open on your phone. No payment, no call, nothing to install. If it is not for you, it comes down.

We only use this to send you the draft. No newsletter, no list, no sharing.