What's the fastest way to set up a trade business website
The fastest way to set up a UK trade business website is to let the office team build it from the services, towns and reviews it already holds, with chat and booking on the page. A builder or a designer still leaves you writing the pages and answering the visitors. Checkatrade's 6 March 2023 guide says a typical small business site takes two to three months that way.
Source: Checkatrade: How to make a website for a new business (6 March 2023)
Your options
1. Build it yourself
Wix, WordPress or Squarespace will give you a blank site. You still write every service page, add every town, and answer every visitor. Checkatrade says a typical small business website takes two to three months to build this way.
Source: Checkatrade: How to make a website for a new business (6 March 2023)
2. Hire a designer
A designer can make the pages look finished. You still supply the services, prices, towns and photos, and you still pick up the enquiries the site creates. The site does not book the job on its own.
3. A directory listing
A Checkatrade or similar profile is not your website. Customers find you on someone else's site, and you still do the quote, the diary and the chase.
4. The office team builds it
Tradehand puts your services, areas and reviews on a site the office team runs, and answers every visitor in the chat. You do not hire a designer or learn a builder. The website is free. The office team earns 5% of invoices it collects.
A shopfront the office team already runs
The office team builds the site from your real services and reviews, then answers the chat, quotes the job and books it. No monthly fee. It earns 5% of invoices it collects.
See it run a jobFrequently asked questions
What's the fastest way to set up a trade business website?
The office team at Tradehand builds it from your services, areas and reviews and puts chat and booking on it. You do not hire a designer or learn a builder. It is free. Checkatrade's own 2023 guide says a typical small business website takes two to three months to build if you do it yourself or hire a designer.
Source: Checkatrade: How to make a website for a new business (6 March 2023)
Can I keep the website I already have?
Yes. Tradehand's chat and booking can sit on a site you already own. You do not have to throw the old site away to get every visitor answered.
What does a Tradehand website cost?
Nothing monthly. The office team earns 5% of the invoices it chases and collects, and only when money lands. The website is part of that office team, not a separate bill.