You describe it. You watch it get built.
No template to choose, nothing to drag, no developer to brief. Three steps between your first sentence and a website your customers can use — and you watch every one of them happen.
Watch it build a real website.
What actually happens
Describe your business
One sentence — “I run a barbershop in Leeds”, “taco truck, tacos and horchata”. Or paste a link to your Google listing, your Instagram or an old site, and it reads your hours, services, photos and reviews off it so you type almost nothing.
Watch it get built
It decides the pages your trade actually needs and the design to suit it, then writes the whole thing beside a live preview — copy, images, layout, the booking form. Minutes, not an evening, and you watch it happen rather than waiting on an email.
Ask for changes
It is live on a real address the moment it is done — and every booking or enquiry lands in your inbox the second somebody sends it. After that everything is a sentence: “we open at 8 now”, “add a page for wedding packages”, “the photos are too big”. Every version is kept, so nothing you ask for is risky.
A website that works, not just pages that look right
The parts a business actually runs on are built at the same time as the pages, and they are working before you have finished reading the site.
Takes bookings
Customers pick a time and it lands straight in a database that belongs to you.
Catches every enquiry
Quote requests email you the moment they arrive, and are saved for later.
Shows your menu or catalogue
Dishes, services, prices, stock. Change one later without retyping the page.
Has a members-only area
A login, and pages only the people you choose can reach.
Gets found on Google
Titles, descriptions and share cards written for every page, without you thinking about it.
Stays yours
Cancel whenever you like and take your site files with you. You own what you build.
Ask for something nobody else has
There is no template underneath and no app store to shop in. Sonara writes your pages from scratch and builds the database behind them, so the answer to “can it do this?” is usually just yes.
“Add a page for the wedding packages”
“Put a booking button in the header”
“Let regulars log in and see their past orders”
“Make the whole thing darker”
“The prices went up 10%”
“A two-step quote form — job details, then contact”
Pages written for you, not filled in
Every layout is composed for your business rather than dropped into a theme. That is why two Sonara sites do not look like each other, and why a page shaped the way your trade actually works is no harder to get than a standard one.
The database is built too
Your own kinds of record, your own fields, forms that feed them, and pages only the people you choose can reach. A two-stage quote request, a members area for regulars, a job list your team keeps up to date — described in a sentence, built behind your site.
Is Sonara right for you?
It was built for one kind of business, and it is very good at that one. Here is how to tell whether it is yours.
People book you, hire you, or come to you
Trades, studios, kitchens, salons, cleaners, photographers, shops with a door. If your customers need to find you, see what you do and get hold of you, that is the website this builds — and the bookings and enquiries are working the day it goes up.
You would rather say it than build it
Everything is a sentence. No canvas, no drag handles, no page builder to learn on a Sunday — which is the whole point if your evenings are worth more to you than pixel-nudging, and honestly the wrong tool if that part is the part you enjoy.
You want it to keep up with you
Prices change, hours change, you add a service. Each of those is one message, answered in seconds, live immediately — instead of a job that waits on a developer or on the next free evening you have.
You want to own what you build
Your domain, your words, and every booking and enquiry your site collects — all yours, and none of it locked in. Want the site itself? Ask us and we hand over the files so you can host it anywhere.
Where something else fits better
If your business is a proper online shop — inventory, variants, shipping rules, a real checkout — a shop platform has spent a decade on that and will serve you better than we will. We build the site a business is found on and booked through, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.
Still weighing it up against doing it yourself or paying somebody? We wrote the comparison, including the parts where the other option wins. Or read what it costs — the free plan is a real plan.
Ready when you are
One sentence is enough to start.