For trades and home services

The website builder for tradespeople that makes the phone ring

Someone searching for a plumber at nine at night wants three answers: do you cover their street, what does it cost to start, and how do they reach you. Eqlo is a website builder for tradespeople that puts those three answers on the home page: you describe your trade and your area in one sentence, and it writes the site, the starting prices and the quote form.

  • 1 sentenceTo get a first version, checked before you publish
  • 0 to 100%Deposit on bookings, paid through Stripe
  • 5Projects on the Free plan, without a card
  • $19Monthly price of Plus, which adds your domain
A website builder for tradespeople at work: the Eqlo editor for Capstone Plumbing London, with the project sentence and the report of the first version on the left, and the quote form with postcode, type of work and a photo of the issue on the right
One sentence, the report of the first version, and the quote form it produced.
Report of a plumber site’s first version: four pages and seventeen sections, every check passed, with the services, prices and quote form done and the map address left to set up
What the report says after the first sentence: what is done, and what is left to set up.

The sentence you type, and what comes out

No form, no template to pick. Describe the business as you would to a customer on the phone, and the first version starts from those words.

From that sentence, Eqlo wrote four pages and seventeen sections, and ran its checks on all of them. Its report lists what is done (the services, the prices, the quote form with an optional photo, the admin) and what is left to set up, such as the street address for the map. Nothing is reported as done unless it is built.

Corrections work the same way: “move the starting price onto the home page” moves it, and “add Walthamstow and Leyton to my area” adds both towns. To change a single word, click it in the preview and retype it, with no AI involved.

The three things your customers look for

Whether you cover their street

Regular customers ring the number on the van; new ones search for the trade plus their town. Ask Eqlo to state your trade and your area at the top of the home page, and to list the towns by name rather than a vague “and surrounding areas”.

What it costs to start

A page that hides every figure loses visitors before they pick up the phone. Give each service a starting price, a call-out fee or a line saying you quote after a visit: “from $90” is honest and screens out the calls that would never have become a job.

How to reach you, and when

Your number, your real opening hours and, if you take it, emergency work belong on the page itself. The quote form asks for the postcode, the type of work and a photo. Each request is emailed to you and lands in the admin, and if you connect Slack it also arrives as a message there.

The trades we see most often

Each trade sells on something different, whether finished roofs, response times or the seasons. Name yours in the first sentence and the pages, sections and form follow it.

Plumber

Call-outs, blockages and bathrooms, with the starting price and emergency hours near the top.

Electrician

Rewiring, consumer units and fault finding, with certification and area covered in plain view.

Heating engineer

Servicing, repairs and installs, plus an automation that emails each customer a year after the last visit.

Roofer

Roofing, flashing and moss removal, shown in a before-and-after gallery, with quotes requested from photos.

Carpenter

Fitting, joinery and bespoke pieces, with past jobs grouped by kind of work.

Builder

Extensions, patios and structural work, each project dated with the time it took.

Painter

Interiors, exteriors and rendering, with areas covered and typical timings per room.

Locksmith

Lockouts, upgrades and emergencies, with response time and area on the first screen.

Tiler

Floors, walls and bathrooms, showing finished rooms and the materials you use.

Landscaper

Upkeep, garden design and tree work, organised around seasonal services and yearly contracts.

Glazier

Replacement, double glazing and boarding up, with lead times for measuring and fitting.

Handyman

Small jobs and repairs, with a clear list of what you take on and what you turn down.

If your trade is missing here, put it in your first sentence anyway, since Eqlo works from your words rather than a fixed catalogue.

Illustrative scenario

A London plumber, from sentence to live site

This scenario describes no real customer. A plumber in east London offers emergency call-outs, drain clearing and boiler replacement. He types one sentence with his trade, his city, his services and a quote form, and reads the report of the first version.

  • 4 pagesIn the first version, every check passed
  • 6 photosOf his own jobs, taken on his phone
  • 1 domainBought years ago and finally connected

He fixes three things by writing: the starting price moves up onto the home page, the stock photos give way to six jobs shot on his phone, and a line says “emergency cover until 10pm, seven days”. He adds the street address the report asked for, connects the domain he bought two years earlier on the Plus plan, then publishes.

The pages a website builder for tradespeople should give you

A handful of pages does the job, as long as they are the ones customers open before they ring.

Home

Trade, town, area and phone number above the fold, so a visitor knows within seconds that they have found the right person.

Services and prices

Every service with what it covers and where its price starts. People compare anyway, so a range on your page beats a guess made from someone else’s.

Past jobs

Six to ten jobs are enough, with a before and an after photo. Eqlo converts your pictures to WebP under 200 KB so pages stay fast, and photos taken on your phone read as more credible than stock images.

Reviews

A reviews section with three dated, named reviews beats twenty anonymous ones. Paste them in from your customers’ messages; Eqlo does not pull Google reviews in automatically.

Contact and quote

Phone, hours, area and the quote form with its photo field. The form still works on old phones without JavaScript, and every upload is checked to be a genuine image.

The features that change the week

A quote requested with a photo

A snap of the leak, two lines of description and a postcode: you arrive with the right parts, and the long diagnostic phone call disappears.

Bookings for planned work

For an annual boiler service, let customers book a slot online with a deposit from 0 to 100% through Stripe. They get an email reminder, and a text the day before if you connect Twilio.

A domain that stays yours

When you buy the name through Eqlo, you are its registered holder; an existing one connects with two DNS records. On the Plus plan, HTTPS switches on by itself.

What a trades website costs

The figures below are typical UK and US ranges, meant to help you read a quote rather than haggle over one. A website builder for tradespeople changes mostly the yearly column.

Cost comparison for a trades website
RouteUp frontThen every yearTime to live
Local web agency$2,000 to $6,000$400 to $1,0004 to 10 weeks
Freelancer$900 to $3,000varies2 to 6 weeks
Classic site builder$0 to $300$200 to $5001 to 3 weekends
Eqlo$0$228 on the Plus planWhenever you choose to publish

Agency quotes rarely cover the domain, hosting after year one, photos, copywriting or the price updates you will want halfway through the year. In Eqlo those updates are one typed sentence, with no meeting and no extra invoice.

Free gives you five projects, one seat and an eqlo.dev address. Plus, at 19 dollars a month, brings your own domain and unlimited projects; the name itself costs roughly 10 to 15 dollars a year at the registrar.

Getting found on Google and on Maps

Traffic to a trades site comes almost entirely from two places, the search results and the map, and the site supports both in different ways.

What Eqlo does automatically

Every published page is complete HTML that Google reads without JavaScript, with its own title and description and local business data on the home page. Eqlo generates the sitemap.xml and robots.txt files, and blocks publication if a page breaks a basic rule, such as an image with no description.

What stays on your side

Set up your Google Business Profile with the very same name, address and number as the site, ask every satisfied customer for a review, and give the towns you cover a proper page instead of a footer list.

A realistic timeline

Expect a few weeks before your business name shows up and several months for trade-plus-town searches, depending on rivals nearby. Be wary of anyone who guarantees a ranking.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be good with computers?

Texting skills are plenty. One sentence with your trade and town, a read of the result, then changes asked for in plain English, all in the browser.

Do I need to pay a designer?

No. The site arrives with its colours, fonts and layout, which you can change with a sentence or in the Design tab. A photo of the logo on your van can become the site logo.

Can I keep the number already printed on my vehicles?

You should. Use the identical number on the site, the vans, the invoices and your Google profile, because mismatched numbers confuse local search and cost you calls.

What if I only have a Facebook page today?

A Facebook page rarely appears in ordinary search and remains Facebook’s property. Keep posting job photos there, and point people to your site for prices and quotes.

Can I take bookings as well as calls?

Yes. The site can show available slots, take a deposit through Stripe and send reminders, by email and by text if Twilio is connected. That suits planned work such as an annual service. For emergencies, the phone still wins.

How long before I show up on Google?

A few weeks for your business name, several months for your trade plus your town. Fresh reviews and a complete Google Business Profile shorten the wait noticeably.

Can I show prices without committing to them?

Yes. Most trades show “from” prices, which bind you to nothing provided the firm quote comes before the work begins.

What happens if I stop paying?

Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. A domain bought through Eqlo is in your name, so you can point it elsewhere, and the site’s code can be sent to your GitHub repository on every plan.

Describe your trade and your town, and read the first version tonight

Start free with five projects and no card. Plus, at 19 dollars a month, puts the site on your own domain.