How it works

Put your business in. Publish it. Hand it out.

Three steps, free, done from a phone or a laptop. You end up with a ready-made website at an address with your name in it, a contact card, and your QR codes on your phone.

Where the three steps end: a business name typed, and its ready-made website, card and QR code filling in with it. An example business.
Where the three steps end: a business name typed, and its ready-made website, card and QR code filling in with it. An example business.Nails by Jess, an example business
A ready-made website to send people tohelpfol.com/l/nails-by-jess/
A contact card to hand overhelpfol.com/@nailsbyjess
A QR code to showYour phone shows it with no signal.
Swipe for the card and the QR code. An example business; yours is drawn from what you put in.Its ready-made website, its card and its QR code. An example business; yours is drawn from what you put in.

Sunday night, the same three questions.

"How much for a full set?" "Are you open Saturday?" "Where are you?" Every week, typed out again. Here is how those three answers become one link that shows what you last saved.

Illustrative: the kind of thread an owner answers every week. Not a real conversation.
1

Put your business in

Five short questions on four cards first (whether you are an individual or a company is a switch in the name card): your business name, whether you are an individual or a company, your category, your specialty, and the city or suburb you work in. Your category decides which of Helpfol's lists by trade and area your site appears in once you publish. Your specialty is what your site prints beside your suburb.

Then as much as you have: your services and prices, a logo and a cover photo, how to reach you, a few lines about you. Every answer saves as you go, in this browser, until you make your account at the end. Anything past the first five can wait.

Nothing is public yet. You do not need an account to start. You make one at the end, with Google or a link sent to your email, and there is no password.

What you have after itYour details, in one place, and not public yet.

The screen says about three minutes for these.

A simplified drawing of the first questions for Nails by Jess, an example business: three answered and folded, the city still to answer.
2

Publish it

Your workspace opens with your details in it. Add your opening hours (switch Opening hours on in Add features first), look over your details in the workspace, then switch it from Draft to Published. It is public from that moment, at helpfol.com/l/your-business-name/, with a copy button beside the address.

Once it is published, it also appears in Helpfol's lists by trade and area, next to other businesses, as a link to your site. Nothing there scores you, and no spot is for sale.

The message form is off until you switch it on. On a phone, the open-now line shows once your hours and your number are in. With no logo or photo yet, the logo spot shows your first letter and the cover is drawn in colour: Helpfol's blue and green until you pick your own in Brand and Design.

What you have after itA ready-made website at an address with your name in it.

A minute or two for your hours. Publishing is one switch.

Simplified drawings: the example site on a phone, and the switch that publishes it.
3

Hand it out

Paste the link into your bio. Send it in a text. Put it under your name in your emails. Make your card at helpfol.com/@your-name, and let people tap Add to contacts, which puts your name, your number and your card's address into their phone. Keep your QR codes on your phone and hold one up when someone asks for your details.

None of this brings people to you. You hand it out yourself, and whoever you hand it to sees the right number, the right price and today's hours.

What you have after itA link, a card and a QR code, each opening today's details.
Simplified drawings: a QR code held up on the owner's phone, and the card it opens, with Add to contacts beside the message button.
.../nails-by-jess/In your bioWhere 'DM for prices' used to be
all here x
helpfol.com/l/...In a textFrom the couch at 10 pm
On your phoneHold up the QR code
JWJessNails by JessIn their contactsSaved from your card, with its address
helpfol.com/l/...Under your nameIn an email, or at the foot of a quote
.../nails-by-jess/In your bioWhere 'DM for prices' used to be
all here x
helpfol.com/l/...In a textFrom the couch at 10 pm
On your phoneHold up the QR code
JWJessNails by JessIn their contactsSaved from your card, with its address
helpfol.com/l/...Under your nameIn an email, or at the foot of a quote
Five ways in, and one site behind them. The ways in are the ones you use already.

Change it any time. Save it, and your site has it.

A price goes up or a day changes: open it, press Edit details, change it and press Save changes. A new number saves as you leave the box. Your site has it within seconds. Colours and layout choices save themselves.

Thursday's closing time changed in the workspace and saved, then the foot of the site on a phone: the open-now line in its bar reads the new time.
Thursday's closing time changed in the workspace and saved, then the foot of the site on a phone: the open-now line in its bar reads the new time.Nails by Jess, an example business
Thursday changed to 8:00 PM, then Save changes. The bar at the foot of the site now says until 20:00. Simplified drawings of an example business.
4Coming

Your own website, when you want one

A website designed for you from the same details, at your own domain name, with a business email at it, set up for you. It is not ready or priced yet, and you do not need it for steps 1 to 3.

It suits you if

  • it is just you, or a few of you
  • you are on the tools or with clients all day, and answer the same questions at night
  • customers ask your prices and hours before they ring
  • you work from home and would rather your street stayed off the internet
  • you have been meaning to get a website and have not

It is not built for big companies or franchises, even one outlet.

Want to see every screen first?

The step-by-step guide shows every question it asks, what each answer turns into on your site, and what you can leave for later.

See every step

Put your business in.

It asks for what you already know: your business name, what you do and where you work, then as much as you have of your services, prices and how to reach you. Your hours go in afterwards, in your workspace. Nothing goes public until you publish it. You can change every line afterwards, from your phone.

Put your business in

Free. No payment details, no trial.

It is new, and it is built here in Australia. Tell me what is missing and I will read it.