A homeowner plans to paint a room or the outside of the house. They look up local painters, check photos from before and after the job and ask for an estimate. This is what a painter's website needs to help them make that call.
What a painter website needs
- Your phone number at the top, as a tap-to-call link on a phone.
- The work you take on: interior painting, exterior painting or both. Name only the jobs you do.
- Real photos of your own jobs, before and after, not stock photos.
- A simple way to ask for an estimate and say what needs painting.
- The towns you serve, named, so a homeowner in Menifee or Corona knows you come to them.
- Your contractor license number. California's contractor board (CSLB) says the license number belongs in your advertising, and its bulletin names websites.
- A link to your Google reviews, so a stranger can see what your customers say.
Two rules from the contractor board
CSLB reminds licensed contractors to advertise within their classification, and not to advertise that they are bonded. It says breaking the advertising rules can lead to discipline and fines. Read its notice, and check your own site against it.
Three ways to get a painter website
- Build it yourself on a site builder. It is cheap, but you do the work and the upkeep, and it is easy to leave out the license number or the towns.
- Hire a web design agency. You get a custom site. Ask what it costs every month, who owns the domain, and who makes the edits.
- SnappLocal. A free hosted website for your trade, with a contact form, leads inbox and owner login. Chat, Reviews, Phone (with booking) and Site Care are optional paid add-ons; Complete includes Site Care.
What happens when you have a brush in your hand
You cannot always answer the phone with paint on your hands or while you are up a ladder. If the call goes to voicemail, the homeowner may try the next painter. SnappLocal offers AI Phone as an optional paid add-on to answer calls, gather job details and book jobs on your calendar.
Call the demo line and talk to it the way one of your customers would.
Painter web design across Riverside County
SnappLocal builds websites for painters in Riverside, Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Perris, Hemet and the towns around them, with the towns you serve named on the site.
Source: CSLB bulletin #20-21, Sept. 17, 2020. This is general information, not legal advice.
Start with your free website
$0 · hosted site
- Website files you can take to any host, or free hosting on a SnappLocal address
- Contact form and leads inbox
- Owner login
- The free website includes 1 free update a month: a small change we make for you. More changes in the same month are quoted before work starts.
- Take your website files to any host for free, or use free hosting at yourshop.snapplocal.com. A free site cannot use its own domain or remove the footer on SnappLocal hosting. You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too.
- A free site on SnappLocal hosting must keep the "Website by SnappLocal" footer link.
- The free website has no end date. If you have not logged in for 12 months, we email you first. We pause your site only if you do not answer.
Your website is $0. Add AI Chat for $49/month, Reviews for $49/month, or AI Phone for $149/month. Site Care is $29/month or $290/year. Complete is $219/month and includes Site Care. AI Phone includes 250 minutes a month; Complete includes 500. Extra minutes cost $0.30 on AI Phone or $0.20 on Complete, only if you switch overage on. Otherwise, calls go to voicemail at the limit. Tell us about your shop. We build your free website and email you when it is ready to check.
Questions
What is included in the free website?
Website files you can take to any host, or free hosting on a SnappLocal address. Contact form and leads inbox. Owner login. The free website has no charge and needs no card. The free website includes 1 free update a month: a small change we make for you. More changes in the same month are quoted before work starts. Take your website files to any host for free, or use free hosting at yourshop.snapplocal.com. A free site cannot use its own domain or remove the footer on SnappLocal hosting. You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too. A free site on SnappLocal hosting must keep the "Website by SnappLocal" footer link. The free website has no end date. If you have not logged in for 12 months, we email you first. We pause your site only if you do not answer. Paid add-ons are optional.
What are the paid add-on terms?
No setup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime from the owner portal. Your add-on stays on until the end of the billing period you already paid for. No refunds for a billing period already started. You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too. When your last paid add-on ends, free hosting uses a SnappLocal address with the "Website by SnappLocal" footer link. You can keep this free hosting or take your files to another host for free. You keep your domain, website files and leads.
Who pays for my own domain?
You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too.
What happens when I use my phone minutes?
AI Phone includes 250 minutes a month; Complete includes 500. Extra minutes cost $0.30 on AI Phone or $0.20 on Complete, only if you switch overage on. Otherwise, calls go to voicemail at the limit.
How does Complete compare with the separate add-ons?
Complete is $219/month, less than AI Chat, Reviews, AI Phone and Site Care bought separately ($276/month). It includes 500 phone minutes instead of 250, with optional overage at $0.20 per minute.
What does Site Care include?
$29/month or $290/year. Site Care includes Your own domain connected; No "Website by SnappLocal" footer; SSL, backups and uptime monitoring. We fix anything broken on your site, any time. Plus up to 2 updates a month that you ask for, like new photos or new text. Complete includes Site Care.
Can I take my free website elsewhere?
Take your website files to any host for free, or use free hosting at yourshop.snapplocal.com. A free site cannot use its own domain or remove the footer on SnappLocal hosting. You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too. A free site on SnappLocal hosting must keep the "Website by SnappLocal" footer link.
What does Reviews do?
It sends Google review requests through our RaveReply partner.
What does it cost?
Your website is $0. Add AI Chat for $49/month, Reviews for $49/month, or AI Phone for $149/month. Site Care is $29/month or $290/year. Complete is $219/month and includes Site Care.
Can I use my own domain?
Take your website files to any host for free, or use free hosting at yourshop.snapplocal.com. A free site cannot use its own domain or remove the footer on SnappLocal hosting. You buy and renew your domain with your own registrar. Your own domain and no footer come with Site Care. Complete and the other paid add-ons include them too.
Do I need my license number on my site?
California's contractor board (CSLB) says the license number belongs in your advertising, and its bulletin names websites. This is general information, not legal advice.
Which towns do you build painter websites for?
Riverside County and Southern California, including Riverside, Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Perris and Hemet.