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Inquiries from your site's forms land in your inbox, tagged by the kind of form they came from.
That includes forms you build in the editor chat and forms that come with our templates, on your live site, with nothing to republish.
Zarla now recognises window tinting as its own trade, so a tint shop or film installer gets a quote-led site with tinting photos instead of a car-detailing one.
Type "window tinting", "auto tint", "home window tinting" or "window film" when you describe your business and your site is built for a tinting business: a way to ask for a quote up top, your tint options and film types as services, the areas you cover on a map, and photos of tint work rather than car washes. Residential and commercial film installers get the same treatment, with office and home glass in the mix, and Google is told you are a local business rather than an auto repair shop.
There is a window tinting template to start from too, if you would rather pick a look first and describe your shop after.
If a renewal payment doesn't go through, your dashboard says so and takes you straight to a secure page to update your card, then retries right away.
Your website stays live while a payment is retried, but until now the only clue was an email, and the Billing page didn't show the plan it was about. Now a notice on your dashboard and in the editor names the site, and one button opens a secure page to update your card. When you come back, we retry the payment immediately and the notice disappears the moment it goes through. The same button sits on the Billing page and in Site settings.
Zarla now has 8 tutoring website designs, so math tutors, test prep coaches, reading specialists, Spanish teachers and online tutors can each start from a site built for them.
A dyslexia tutor and an SAT prep coach talk to very different parents, so we built a design for each kind of tutoring instead of one generic tutoring template.
Each design is written for its specialism — the subjects or programs that tutor offers, how the first lesson works, the questions parents ask, and a form to book that first lesson, consultation or assessment. Change the name, the city and the details, and it reads like your tutoring business.
Zarla now recognises trash can and wheelie bin cleaning as its own trade, so a new site starts with bin photos and copy written for monthly plans.
Tell Zarla you run a trash can cleaning, bin cleaning, wheelie bin cleaning or garbage can cleaning business — in the words you use at home — and the build knows the trade: the services read as plans and schedules, not one-off jobs, and the photos come from a set of bins at the kerb and clean wheelie bins rather than driveways.
The Trash Bin Cleaning template now leads its own gallery, so you can start from it in one click.
Every quote now ends with the reasons to choose you — your past work, reviews and credentials, matched to the job — so it sells for you.
Open a quote and you'll find a new section already laid out: photos of similar jobs from your library, your Google rating with a link to your reviews, the testimonials on your website, the reasons to choose you, your licence, insurance and memberships, and the documents a customer wants to see before they pay. Zarla picks what fits the job — a kitchen quote leads with your kitchens — and you can swap a photo, tick which testimonials show, or switch a part off for just this quote.
The first time, Zarla shows what it found on your website and asks you to tick what's true. Only the facts you tick are ever used. The same section goes into the PDF as its own page when there's enough to show, so a quote that gets printed or forwarded still makes your case.
Zarla now opens every menu link to another website in a new tab, so visitors keep your site open.
That includes links tucked under a dropdown, in the More menu on a long menu, and in the phone menu's groups. Add a Client login or Book online link to your portal or booking app by asking the editor, and your site stays one tab away.
Sites already live pick this up when you next publish.
Zarla now lets you point a menu link or a button at a section of any page, and gives each section a link you can copy into an ad.
Wherever you pick where a link goes — a menu item, a button, a footer link — the list now shows the sections of every page, in plain words: Home › FAQ, Contact › Booking form. Pick one and the link scrolls visitors straight there, from any page.
A section’s settings now end with its own link. Copy it to use in an ad, an email or a QR code, or rename it to something that reads well — the old name keeps working, so links you’ve already shared don’t break. Type a name no section has and Zarla tells you before anyone clicks it.
Zarla now has eight florist website designs, one for each kind of flower business — from the wedding studio to the shop that delivers today.
The seven new designs cover wedding florists, funeral and sympathy flowers, same-day flower delivery, flower farms, luxury event florists, dried flower shops and build-your-own flower bars. Each names what it does and the city in the headline.
The delivery design puts a quick order form in the first screen with cutoff times and delivery fees close behind. The sympathy design walks people through what to send and where, the wedding and luxury designs lead with real work and starting prices, and the farm design shows what is blooming each season. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now keeps each menu dropdown's own links when you add or delete a page, so one list's links stop appearing in another.
If your website's menu had two dropdowns of the same kind, such as Service Areas and a second areas list you made yourself, adding a page could copy one list's links into the other. Deleting the page a dropdown opened could also take the whole dropdown out of your menu.
Each dropdown now keeps its own links. A new service area page joins the areas dropdown named for it, so a Window Cleaning Noosa page goes under Window Cleaning Areas. When you delete the page a dropdown opens, the dropdown stays in your menu with its list.
This applies to every page you add or delete from now on.
Zarla now has eight doctor website designs, up from one, for family practices, pediatricians, urgent care and specialty medicine.
Beside the family practice there are designs for a pediatrician, a walk-in urgent care clinic, a concierge practice, direct primary care, internal medicine, sports medicine and senior care. Each puts the kind of practice and its city in the headline, the words patients type when they look for a doctor.
Every design answers the insurance question early and has an appointment form that asks patients not to send medical details, and the seven new ones say plainly when to call 911. The membership designs explain plainly what the fee covers and what insurance still pays for. Pick one and your practice name, city and contact details go straight in.
When a quote with a deposit is accepted, the invoice email now leads with the deposit, not the full price.
Your customer sees the deposit as the amount due now, the full total underneath it, a note that the balance is invoiced at completion, and a button that pays the deposit. Once the deposit is in, a re-sent invoice leads with the balance instead.
Reminders follow the same rule, and before you press Send, the dialog tells you which amount the email will ask for.
Zarla now builds Christmas light installers a site of their own: a quote-led layout, photos of lit-up homes and the right Google business type.
Christmas light installation is a real trade with a short, busy season, and until now it had no home on our list, so a new site started from our general layout. Type "christmas light installation", "holiday lighting" or "permanent christmas lights" and your site now starts from a layout built for quote-led home services, with free-quote buttons up front and photos of houses lit for the season.
The same build gives Google the right kind of business for your listing, and your logo ideas lean on string lights and a warm glow instead of generic tools. Everything stays editable, and your own photos can replace ours in a tap.
Zarla now shows where every menu link goes and lets you add links and dropdowns, or hide links on phones, from the header's Navigation panel.
Click the menu on your site, or the Navigation row in the header settings, and every link shows where it goes: a page, a section, or an outside address. Open a link to rename it, point it somewhere else, or hide it on phones or on desktop.
Add a link or a dropdown right there, and put links inside a dropdown with one tap. A dropdown with nothing in it stays off your site until it has a link. You can also type “edit my navigation” in the chat and the panel opens.
Zarla now checks each domain name live before suggesting it, and keeps checking while it's on your screen.
If your business name is taken, we say so and recommend the closest name you can get, like the name with your city on the end. Names that are taken show greyed out, so you can see what's gone.
When you pick a name, we check it again before asking for your details, keep checking while you fill them in, and check once more before any payment. If it's gone, we keep your details for the next name you choose, and suggest the nearest available name when there is one.
If we can't check names right then, we ask you to try again in a minute, and nothing is charged.
Zarla now builds your site from everything you describe, so it starts from your real phone number, prices, hours and service areas.
When you describe your business in a few sentences, everything you mention now goes into building your site, not just your business name, trade and town: your phone number, the areas you serve, and details like same-day service or a starting price. We treat what you wrote as fact, ahead of anything the AI would otherwise fill in.
If you're asked "Does this look right?" before your site is built, that check now also shows the phone number, street address and areas found in your description. You can correct the phone number or address, and remove any area you don't want listed. The areas you keep are the ones your site lists.
Zarla now shows each person's name, or their email, on your team page and in Site collaborators, so you can see who has access.
Your team page and the Site collaborators list in Settings could show people as Unknown, sometimes even you. Each person now shows their name, or their email if their sign-in has no name.
Your To-do list also shows who each teammate is when you assign a task or mention someone in a comment.
You do not need to do anything.
Zarla now fills the tall story photo on a new site from your trade's own photo collection, so a plumber's page shows plumbing work.
The tall photo beside the story section on a new site was the spot most likely to go to a general stock search, and for some trades it came back with an odd picture while the gallery below looked right. That spot now draws from the same collection the gallery uses. You can still swap or re-frame any photo in the editor.
Zarla now recognises more ways of describing your business, including many other languages, so more new sites start from their own trade's layout.
When the words you typed for your business weren't on our list of trades, like "pastelería", your site usually started from our general layout. Now we check those words against the trades we build for, so a pastelería starts from our bakery layout and bakery photos.
We look for the same kind of business, not just a similar one. When nothing fits, your site starts from the same layout and photos it would have before. Your own words stay on your site, and you can change anything in the editor.
Zarla now writes the pages added after your home page, and their menu links, in your chosen language, so a Spanish or German site stays in that language.
When you build a site in a language other than English, the home page came out in that language, but the About, Services and Contact pages and the pages for each service and area could come back in English, and the menu switched to English names for them.
Those pages, and the menu links to them, now follow the language you picked. The same goes for blog posts and landing pages you ask for later. Sites already built keep their pages as they are; add a page and it comes out in your language.
Zarla now lets you design your quotes and invoices on one screen, so every document your customer gets looks like your business, not a form.
Open Design from Quotes or Invoices and you'll see a sample quote drawn with your real logo, colours and fonts. Pick one of four templates, resize or move the logo, swap which side your details sit on, choose a heading font and text size, set the accent colour, and decide which details print. Every change shows at once and saves on its own.
You set it once. The same design is used on the page your customer opens, in the email they get and in the PDF, for quotes and invoices alike. PDFs print on A4 or US Letter, and an open quote ends with a sign-and-accept section for anyone who'd rather put pen to paper.
Zarla now puts a before and after slider on your top photo, your About photo and your service cards, so the transformation shows first.
Until now the slider lived only in the Before & After section. For a detailer or a pressure washer the result is the whole pitch, and it belongs at the top of the page.
Add a before photo under your main photo, your About photo or any service card and the slider appears right there, with the same drag on phones. If you only have the after, make a typical before with AI; it stays labelled honestly on your site.
Photos that are not your own stay as they are. We leave the layouts where a card overlaps the photo alone, because the handle would have nowhere to go.
Zarla now makes a 22-second launch video when your own domain goes live, so you can announce your new website on social media.
When your own web address finishes connecting, we make a short vertical video of your new site: an "Our new website is live" opener, your business name, your site scrolling from the top, and what your site now lets people do. It arrives by email with a caption ready to paste, and it waits on your Domains page and your dashboard to download.
Post it on TikTok, Instagram Reels or Facebook and add your own music. The video carries a small Built with Zarla badge.
Zarla now sends your quotes as one link your customer opens on their phone, picks an option and accepts online, so you hear back sooner.
Build the quote in a few minutes, then send it by email or copy the link. Your customer sees the options, the photos from your visit and the price broken down, ticks any extras they want and watches the total update, then accepts with their name. If they'd rather ask a question first, or say no, that takes one tap too, and you hear straight away.
The moment they accept, we draft the invoice for exactly what they chose, mark the job as won in your contacts and send you both a record of the yes. Quotes live under Get Paid, beside Invoices. The Free plan includes five quotes and invoices a month to try it.
Zarla now adds each section's photos as it appears while your site builds, so the site you watch take shape is the site you get.
A new site used to build with empty spaces where its photos belonged, then fill them all in at the end — and the photos that flashed in were often not the ones you had just seen. Now the top of your page gets its photo a moment after it appears, then your services, your gallery and every section after them, while the rest of the page is still being written.
The page you watch build is the page you keep. The photos you see land are the photos on your saved site, and the finishing step at the end is shorter, because the work is already done.
Zarla can now make a typical before photo from your finished-job photo, so your before and after slider works with only the result in hand.
Most pressure washers, detailers, cleaners and junk removers only photograph the finished job, so the slider has nothing to compare. Now an empty before slot offers to make one for you.
Pick what the scene looked like before in your trade's own words — a mossy driveway, a packed garage — or describe it yourself. Zarla edits your own photo from the same angle so the pair lines up, in about fifteen seconds, for a few credits.
Honesty is built in: the photo is labelled “Typical before” on your site, never “Before”, and publishing asks you once before the first one goes live. Swap in a real before whenever you have it. Trades that work on people never get the option.
Zarla now tells you when your site still needs publishing, so claiming a domain or checking your shop's orders doesn't leave you thinking it's live.
Claiming a domain doesn't put your site live; publishing does. The screen after you claimed one used to say your site would be live there shortly, even when it wasn't published.
That screen now says when your site still needs publishing, for a new domain or one you already own, and so does the Domains page while a domain sets up. Buttons there that take you to publish open the editor's publish menu.
The shop's orders page no longer calls your shop live while your site isn't published, and points you to publishing. And if you're signed in, the plan buttons on the pricing and home pages no longer start you on a brand-new site when you already have one.
Zarla now shows website dropdowns in full on iPad, and keeps a phone menu's call and booking buttons in view on an upright phone.
On an iPad, a dropdown list under a website's menu could show for a moment, then vanish behind the top of the page.
On a phone, a long menu could push the call and booking buttons below the screen, and links in an open group sat off centre.
Dropdown lists now stay on screen on iPad. On an upright phone, the call and booking buttons stay at the bottom of the menu while the links scroll, and every link sits in the centre. The editor's phone Preview now shows a group's links in your live site's font.
You do not need to do anything. The next time you press Publish, your live site picks it up.
Zarla now shows your before and after photos in one frame with a handle visitors drag to reveal the difference, so your work speaks for itself.
Pressure washing, detailing, cleaning, junk removal, landscaping, painting, renovation — the proof is the transformation. Side by side, two photos ask the visitor to compare. In one frame, with a handle to drag, the difference shows itself.
Add your own before and after photos to a Before & After section and the slider switches on. It works with a mouse, a finger or the keyboard, gives a small nudge when it first comes into view, and keeps the comparison in one frame on phones, where two photos used to stack.
Stock photos stay side by side until your own are in — a wipe between two unrelated pictures would look broken. If you prefer the side-by-side look for your own photos, the Comparison switch in the section's settings keeps it.
Zarla now shows your AI credit balance in Site settings on every plan, so you can check how much AI work you have left.
It's in the Plan section, on a computer or a phone. And when you ask the chat for new pages on your phone, the card shows what they use next to your balance before you press Create.
In the editor, your balance appears near the publish button once you're running low. Click it to see what a chat edit and a new page use or, when you're nearly out, how to get more. If your plan's last payment didn't go through, it tells you that instead, and how to reach us. Ask the editor's chat about your plan or credits, and it looks up your site's own plan and balance before it answers.
Zarla now keeps a private price book of your services and what you charge, so every invoice starts from your own prices.
Give each service one price, a range or a starting price, per job, per hour, per square foot or your own unit, with a private note on why. One tap puts it on an invoice; a range leaves the figure for you to pick.
Not sure what to charge? If you're in the US, invoice in US dollars and work in a trade we have a pricing guide for, like pressure washing, the price book can add the guide's figures beside your services as suggestions. Each shows where it came from, with the source and the date it was read a tap away, and only becomes your price when you choose it.
It's private and never appears on your website.
Zarla now adds each payment you record to what's already been paid, so your invoice shows the balance due until the full amount is in.
When you mark cash or a bank transfer as paid, it's added to anything already paid, and the invoice shows as Paid once the full amount is in.
Until then, your customer's invoice leads with the balance due and gives them one button to pay the rest.
Zarla now fits long website menus to the screen on phones, tablets and computers, so visitors can scroll to every link.
On a phone, a website menu taller than the screen could lose its first links off the top. On a tablet or laptop, a long dropdown list, like the extra links under More, could run past the bottom.
Long menus now start at the first link and scroll to the last, with the close button pinned in place. Dropdown lists stop at the bottom of the screen and scroll inside.
If your menu's dropdown style is Full Width, More now opens as a full-width bar too. In the editor, the bar now lines up with the edges of your page.
You do not need to do anything. The next time you press Publish, your live site picks it up.
Zarla's Help Center chat now keeps your conversation together and gives a different request its own ticket, so your questions stay easy to follow.
The Help Center chat now keeps better track of what you ask.
Zarla now names the record at your domain company that's stopping your domain from being secured, and how to fix it.
When another record sat beside the ones we ask for, like a forwarding or parking address from your domain company, your domain could wait on "Securing your connection" with no sign of what was wrong.
Setup now checks that your domain points only at Zarla. If something else is in the way, the Domains page names the record to delete or change, and what to do if your domain company won't let you edit it.
Zarla now runs your forms in the editor's Preview, so you can step through them and check required fields before you publish.
In the editor's Preview, the Next button on a form with more than one step went nowhere, and pressing send gave no answer.
Your forms now behave there the way they do on your live site: Next and Back move between steps, a missing answer gets its message, and sending shows a short note instead. Nothing is sent from the editor's Preview, and your live site keeps collecting inquiries as before.
Each step's title now shows above its questions too, and the step bar on a form at the top of your page now runs across the whole form. You'll see both in the editor's Preview, and on your live site from your next publish.
Zarla now keeps everyone you work with in one Contacts list and imports your customers from Xero or a spreadsheet, so they're ready to invoice.
Contacts is now one place in your sidebar. It opens on new inquiries, with your pipeline one tab over, and its Everyone tab lists everyone you deal with, one row each: people who asked for a quote, booked, subscribed, paid you or bought from your shop. Each is tagged Customer, Lead or Subscriber. Filter by tag, search, or download it as a spreadsheet.
Import takes a CSV from Xero, Google Contacts, Outlook or any spreadsheet. Check who's coming in, untick anyone you don't want, like suppliers, and say whether they've paid you before. Anyone already here with the same email isn't added twice, and you can undo an import for 7 days. Paid in cash? Mark them as a customer.
Zarla's templates for junk removal, pressure washing, moving and nine other trades now take up to five photos on the quote form.
Pick a template for junk removal, car detailing, pressure washing, handyman work, moving, tree service, landscaping, carpet or window cleaning, painting, roofing or fencing, and its quote form now asks for photos of the job, the same as a site Zarla builds from your description.
Your customer taps Add photos, picks up to five from their phone, and the photos land on the lead in your inbox and in your new-lead email. The form doesn't work out a price; you look at the job, often price it from the photos, and send the quote yourself.
Already built your site? Ask Zarla in chat to let customers send photos, and it adds the field to your quote form.
Zarla now brings the section a visitor picks from your website's menu to rest just below the menu bar, so its heading stays in view.
When a visitor tapped a link in your website's menu, like Services or Reviews, the page scrolled that section's top edge under the menu bar pinned to the top of the screen, so its heading could end up hidden.
The section now comes to rest just below the menu bar, including when the link opens it from another page. The topic list that stays in view beside a long questions section sits below the menu bar too. And when you edit on a phone, the editor stops at a section you just added or changed without tucking it under the bar.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
On your phone, one tap on Publish now opens the menu right after your site is built, with every step to going live ready to tap.
Small fixes if you build and publish from your phone.
Zarla now has 24 dog groomer website designs, from a mobile grooming van to a cat-only salon and a grooming school.
There is a design for a neighborhood salon, a mobile van, an in-home groomer, a cat-only groomer, a dog spa, a doodle specialist, a hand-stripping groomer, a self-serve dog wash, a walk-in salon, a cage-free salon, a creative color studio, grooming with boarding, a boutique, a grooming school and more. Each names what it does and the city in the headline.
Many show prices by size up front and explain what happens with a matted coat, and every one ends with a request form. Pick one and your salon's name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla's support now answers in the language you write in, so you can ask for help without switching to English.
Write to us in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Korean or another language, from the Help Center or by email, and the answers come back in it. Our AI assistant writes its answers in your language.
When someone on our team replies, the reply is translated automatically and says so. If you asked in the Help Center, you can open the original English there too.
Zarla now links a service card to that service's page when it can tell which page the card means, so tapping the card opens it.
A service card without a link of its own went nowhere when tapped, even when your site had a page for that service. It happened most on the Services page Zarla builds, and on the home page of some sites brought over from another website.
Most cards whose service has its own page on your site now open that page. A card you linked to another page or section stays put, and when we can't tell which page a card means, we leave it for you rather than guess.
There is nothing to set up: your live site picks the links up the next time you press Publish.
Zarla now grades any business website for free, showing whether visitors can call or book, Google finds you and AI names you.
Paste your web address and in a minute or two you get three plain answers, each with how many checks passed: a number visitors can tap, a quote form, how fast the page shows up on a phone, your Google listing and reviews, and what ChatGPT and Google's AI answer when someone asks for your trade in your town.
Every miss says what we saw, and anything we couldn't check isn't counted against you. There's no email to give. Sign in with Google to save the report and we'll check again every month.
Zarla forms now take up to five photos, so a customer can show you the job and you can price it without a site visit.
Every new quote request form has a photo field on the second step. A customer taps Add photos, picks them straight from their phone, and the photos upload while they finish the rest of the form. If one is too big or the wrong type, the form says so, and a photo that fails to upload can be dropped so the request still goes through.
The photos land on the lead in your inbox as thumbnails you can open full size, and your new-lead email shows them too. Photos are stored privately and the camera's location data is stripped. Any other form can take photos as well: add a Photo upload field in the editor, or ask the assistant to let customers send photos.
Zarla now has eight eye care website designs, up from one, for optometry practices and optical shops.
Five are built for a specialty — family eye care, pediatric eye care, dry eye clinics, vision therapy and contact lens specialists. Two are optical shops — an independent optician with its own lens lab and a same-day glasses store with prices on the wall — and one does both exams and designer frames. Each names what the practice does and its city in the headline, the words patients type when they look for an eye doctor.
Every design answers the insurance question early, walks through what a visit looks like and has a booking form on the page, and the text is set large and high-contrast for visitors who can't see well yet. Pick one and your practice name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has 24 life coach website designs, one for almost every kind of coaching people search for.
There are designs for career, relationship, ADHD, executive, dating, divorce, public speaking, mindset, confidence, parenting, Christian, holistic, recovery, grief, wellness, accountability and retirement coaches, plus general life coach sites in modern, elegant, bold, minimal, online and bright looks. Each names its kind of coaching and the city in the headline, the words a client types.
Almost every design leads to a free first call, shows what working together looks like and what it costs, and says plainly where coaching stops and therapy, legal or financial advice begins. Pick one and your name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has eight garage door website designs, built for the homeowner whose door won't open this morning and the one planning a new door.
The six new designs cover emergency garage door repair, opener repair, commercial overhead and dock doors, custom wood and carriage-house doors, broken spring repair and a classic family-run garage door company. Each names what it does and the city in the headline.
The repair designs put the phone number in the first screen with prices close behind, and explain what to do while you wait — like leaving a door with a broken spring alone. The install designs show door styles and walk through how a new door gets chosen and fitted. Every one has a form to book a repair or a visit. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has eight dumpster rental website designs, each built around what renters ask first: which size, what it costs, and when it arrives.
Five are built around a specialty — residential, construction, same-day, commercial service and small mini dumpsters — and three are general roll-off companies in three different looks. Every headline names the service and the city, the words a customer types when they need a dumpster this week.
Each design lays out the sizes with what they hold and a price, what's included, what can't go in and where the dumpster can go, with a form that asks for the size and the delivery address. Tell Zarla you run a dumpster rental or roll-off business and these are the designs you'll start from.
Zarla now has 8 consultant website designs, so marketing, HR, IT, financial, operations and independent consultants can each start from a site built for them.
A marketing consultant and an IT consultant sell very different things to very different clients, so we built a design for each kind of consulting instead of one generic consulting template.
Each design is written for its specialism — the services that consultant typically offers, who it's for, how an engagement runs, the questions clients ask, and a form to book that first free call. Change the name, the city and the details, and it reads like your practice.
Zarla now suggests your business's own country when you connect Stripe, and brings you back to your payment settings when you finish.
Small fixes if you take payments through your site.
Zarla now has five tax preparer website designs, ready before the next tax season starts.
There is a design for a neighborhood tax preparer, an enrolled agent who helps people with IRS problems, a small business and self-employed tax office, a walk-in tax office and an online tax service. Each names what it does and the city in the headline.
Most show prices up front and list what clients should bring, the enrolled agent design walks through how an IRS problem gets resolved, and every one ends with a form to book an appointment, a consultation or a free review. Pick one and your office's name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has five designs for sports coaches and five for local nonprofits, each built around what that business actually does.
The coaching designs cover baseball and softball lessons, basketball skills training, golf lessons, speed and agility training, and volleyball lessons. Each shows who can join, what a lesson includes and how to book a first lesson or evaluation.
The nonprofit designs cover a food bank, a youth mentoring program, an adult literacy group, an emergency shelter and a volunteer-led community group. Each puts getting help, volunteering and giving where people look for them. Pick one and your organization's name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now shows your customers a plain message when they can't pay you online, and your sale emails open straight to your orders.
Small fixes if you sell through your site.
Zarla now has five home care website designs, each written for the worried family member who is looking for help for a parent.
There is a design for a general senior home care agency, one for dementia and Alzheimer's care at home, one for companion care, one for 24-hour and live-in care, and one for a skilled home health agency. Each names its kind of care and the city in the headline, the words a family types.
Every design explains how care starts, what a caregiver helps with and how families usually pay for care, and ends with a form to book a free assessment or call back. Pick one and your agency's name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now sizes the big headline at the top of a page to the space it has on a wide monitor, so every word stays on one line.
On a large monitor, the big headline at the top of a page that has a form or photo beside it kept growing after its column had stopped, so a long word could break in two, with one letter dropping to the next line. On a phone, tablet or laptop it fit.
The headline now stops growing at the point where its column does. Nothing changes below a large-monitor width, and on wider screens the headline settles at its laptop size with every word whole.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla now has five flooring company designs and five designs for homeowners associations and other community groups.
The flooring designs cover a general flooring contractor, hardwood floor refinishing, epoxy garage floors, carpet installation and a modern vinyl plank and laminate installer. Each one offers a free in-home measure and ends with a quote form that asks which floor and how much of the house.
The community designs cover a homeowners association, a condo association, a neighborhood association, a civic association and a townhome association. They are built for residents rather than customers: requests go to the right committee, and the pages cover meetings, amenities, the rules and who to contact. Pick one and your association's name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla's editor chat now backs up your site before big changes and reads whole sentences before replacing a word across your pages.
The chat now takes more care with your site.
Zarla now has 12 towing and roadside website designs, each built for the driver who is stuck right now and wants a number to call.
Nine are built around a specialty — 24 hour towing, flatbed, heavy duty recovery, roadside assistance, motorcycle towing, long distance transport, off-road recovery, private property towing and emergency accident towing — and three are general towing companies in three different looks. The nine name the specialty in the headline and all twelve name the city, the words a stranded driver types.
Every design puts the phone number at the top of the page, walks through what happens after the call and includes a request form, so a driver can ask for help without calling. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has 12 solar designs, so a rooftop installer, a battery specialist, an EV charger electrician and a commercial contractor each get a site of their own.
The twelve cover the way solar is actually sold: home solar, battery backup, EV charger installation, commercial rooftops and carports, ground mounts for farms and acreage, off-grid cabins, repair and maintenance, a solar-and-electrical contractor, and four general installers in modern, classic, bold and friendly looks.
Each one leads with what a customer searches for — the service and the city — and carries what homeowners decide on: a free quote or estimate, credentials, and what happens after they ask. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has 24 pet-care website designs, adding groomers, cat sitters, boarding kennels, pet taxis, hydrotherapy and more to the training, walking, sitting and daycare designs.
Pet businesses are not one business. A mobile groomer, a cat hotel and a pooper-scooper service each need a different first screen, so we built a design for each of them instead of stretching one pet template to fit.
Every design comes with the words already written for its trade — prices laid out the way that trade quotes them, the questions owners actually ask, and a form that asks for the right details. Change the town, the prices and the photos, and it reads like your business.
Zarla now saves your business plan to your account in every industry, including when you keep the suggested services and startup costs.
In twenty industries — moving companies, pressure washing and day spas among them — keeping the suggested services or startup costs made "Save to my account" stop with an error. Those suggestions now fit, so the plan saves the first time, and you can open it from Documents, share it or polish it.
Try the business plan generator →Zarla now opens your invoices and payment links straight to the bill, so your customer can see it without creating an account.
Until now, a customer who wasn't signed in to Zarla landed on our sign-in page instead of your invoice, and had to sign in or create an account before they could see it. The same happened to clients opening an agency's shared performance report.
Invoices, reminders and payment links now open directly on your customer's phone or computer, with your business name and the amount. When you take payments online, the Pay button is right there too. A shared performance report opens the same way for anyone you send it to.
Zarla now has 24 dance studio website designs, so ballet schools, hip-hop crews, ballroom teachers and family studios can each start from a site built for them.
A ballet school, a hip-hop crew and a wedding-dance teacher each need a different first screen, so we built a design for each style instead of stretching one dance template to fit — ballet, hip-hop, ballroom, salsa and bachata, tap, contemporary, Irish, K-pop, swing, tango, belly dance, dance fitness and more.
Each design is written for its kind of studio — the classes and ages it teaches, what a first class or lesson is like, the questions its students or parents ask, and a form to book that first visit. Most also lay out a weekly timetable the way that studio runs its week, and the kids' and competition studios cover recitals and season costs. Change the town, the times and the photos, and it reads like your studio.
Zarla now lets you zoom every photo on your site, including the full-width heroes, slideshows and banners that sit behind your text, so the same Adjust controls work everywhere.
Until now the layouts that stretch a photo behind your headline — the full-width heroes, the slideshow, the banner above your contact details — could be moved but not zoomed, and a zoom slider that showed on one section and not the next read as broken.
Now every photo gets the same Adjust: click the section, press Adjust, drag the photo until the right part shows, and zoom in as far as you like. The text stays exactly where it was and nothing is cut from the photo.
On a slideshow or carousel the editor shows the first slide; adjustments to the others show on your live site. Ask the editor instead if you prefer — "zoom in on the van" works on every layout too.
Zarla now lets you move and zoom the photos on your site — heroes, side-by-side sections and galleries — so the person or detail that matters stays in view.
Every photo space has a shape, and a photo that doesn't match it used to show whatever landed in the middle — a portrait with the face out of frame, a shopfront with the sign off the edge.
Now you click the section, press Adjust next to the photo, drag it until the right part shows, and zoom in if you want it tighter. Nothing is cut from the photo, and the same spot stays in view on desktops and phones.
Or just tell the editor — "the head is cut off", "show more of the top", "zoom in on the sign" — and it moves the photo for you, with an Adjust button in the reply for the exact spot. Swap in a new photo and it starts centred, ready to adjust.
Zarla now picks upright photos for the tall photo spaces on your site, so the person in the picture stays whole instead of being cut off at the top.
Some layouts show a photo in a space that is taller than it is wide — the side-by-side hero, the calm portrait hero, the overlapping and showcase sections, the spotlight review. Zarla used to fill those with wide photos and crop them to fit, which often cut the person out of the frame.
Now the photo search knows the shape of the space it is filling: those spaces get upright photos when your site is built, when you search or ask for suggestions in the photo picker, and when you ask the assistant to change a photo. Wide spaces work exactly as before.
A live Zarla site now scores 100 in all four of Google's PageSpeed categories on a phone — performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO.
Zarla now publishes every site lighter and cleaner: photos served from your own address, the logo sent at the size it is shown, fonts that arrive without a flash, text colours that pass the contrast check, and headings in the order a screen reader expects.
The report is from a real Zarla-built site, live, measured on a phone. Google's test varies a point or two between runs, so read it as what a Zarla site can reach, not a promise for every page.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla's Site Move page now keeps automated scanner noise out of “Pages visitors couldn't find” and counts old pages as sorted once they forward to your new site.
The internet is full of automated scanners poking at addresses no real visitor ever types. Those probes were showing up next to genuine dead ends on the Site Move page, burying the pages that actually matter. The obvious robot probes are filtered out now — including ones already sitting on your list — so the pages real people (and Google) are missing stand out.
Old pages that already forward somewhere on your new site also no longer sit under “Old pages with no home yet” — they count as sorted, and your progress bar finally reflects the work you've done.
Zarla now sets up your workspace the moment you sign in, so Leads, Bookings, Analytics and the rest are in the sidebar from your very first build.
New accounts saw only a handful of items in the sidebar right after building their first site — the rest appeared only after a page refresh, and nothing said so. That is fixed: the full set of tools is there from the start, no refresh needed.
Zarla now gives every new site its own 75 starter AI credits, so a second site or a fresh start for your business never begins on empty.
Until now the free starter credits came with your first site only. Build a second site — or start the same business over to get it right — and the first thing you asked the AI to change was turned away. Each site you create now brings its own credits with it.
The credits stay with the site they came with and don't refill on the free plan. When a site runs low, upgrading gives it a monthly allowance and lets you publish.
Zarla contact forms now accept a message even when the visitor's browser has JavaScript off or blocked, so no inquiry is lost to a script that didn't run.
A small share of visitors browse with scripts switched off — strict privacy settings, locked-down work browsers, or simply a page whose script failed to load. Until now, when one of them sent your contact form, they landed on a raw error page and their message never reached you.
Those submissions now go through like any other: the visitor sees a proper thank-you page, the message lands in your leads, and you get the usual email notification. Spam protection applies to them exactly as before.
These visitors get the same care your other visitors do: a mistyped email address or a skipped required field is caught before the message sends, and forms that ask questions across a couple of steps now show everything on one page for them, with a working send button.
Zarla now lets one free account hold up to ten sites instead of five, so you can try a few directions before you pick the one to take live.
Some owners build a site for each idea they are weighing, or start over to see the business in a different look. Five slots ran out fast for them. A free account now holds ten.
Everything else is as before: building and previewing are free, drafts and live sites both count toward the limit, deleting a site frees a slot, and holding a plan on any site raises your limit to one hundred.
Zarla's site preview now says your contact form starts collecting inquiries the moment you publish, instead of showing an error when you test it.
Filling in your own contact form on the preview of a site you haven't published yet used to end in "Something went wrong. Please try again." — the same words a real fault would show, so a working form looked broken. The preview now says what is actually happening: nothing is sent from the preview of a site you haven't published, and the form switches on the moment you publish.
Previews of a site that is already live work as before — a test message there reaches your leads like any other.
Your site now sends phones a smaller copy of each photo, so pages show sooner on mobile data.
Every photo on your site is now offered in a few sizes, and each visitor's phone or computer picks the one that fits its screen. Phones stop downloading desktop-sized pictures.
Your hero photo gets the same treatment, so the top of your page appears sooner on a slow connection.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla now sends every answer from the compact contact form when a visitor presses send, so their enquiry reaches your leads instead of an error on the page.
The compact layout puts the short fields — name, phone, email — in one row with the longer questions underneath. Filling it in and pressing send used to end in "Something went wrong. Please try again." every time, because the row and the questions were sent as two separate forms and only half of the answers reached us. They now travel together, and the message lands in your leads with every answer attached.
If your site uses this layout, publish once more to pick up the fix. We also now watch for messages our side turns away with an error, so a broken form shows up on our side quickly.
Zarla now loads your site's fonts after the page itself, so visitors on slow phone connections see your page sooner.
Your page no longer waits for its fonts before showing anything. The words and photos show first and the fonts arrive a moment later.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla now has 16 virtual assistant website designs, each built around packages, a services menu and a discovery call — the way clients actually hire an assistant.
Twelve are built around a specialty — executive assistant, bookkeeping, social media, podcasts, e-commerce, online business management, real estate, medical, legal, reception, inbox and calendar, and assistant agencies — and four are general assistants in four different looks. Each names the specialty in the headline, the words a client types when they go looking.
Because an assistant sells time rather than a storefront, every design leads with monthly retainers and their prices, an honest list of what is and is not included, and a booking form for a discovery call with a date on it. Pick one and your business name, hours and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has free step-by-step guides to opening a laundromat, or starting a dog walking business, a bed and breakfast, a carpentry business or a virtual assistant business.
Each guide walks the whole path in plain English: what it really costs to start in the US, which licenses and permits your state actually requires, what the work earns, and how customers find you once you are open. Every cost and licensing figure comes from a source we opened and named — state statutes, health departments, contractor boards and published trade surveys — and each guide says plainly which parts change from state to state, because on these five they change a lot.
They also collect what people already doing the work say about it, quoted and linked so you can read the whole thread yourself: laundromat owners on what utilities really cost, innkeepers on the hours, carpenters on the job that traps a one-person shop, and assistants on why a retainer beats an hourly rate.
Browse all the guides →Zarla now recognizes a domain that came with your original Zarla website and switches it to your new site for you — one click, nothing technical.
If your domain came with your original Zarla website, there's no DNS panel for you to log into — so step-by-step registrar instructions were never going to work. Now, when you connect that domain to your new site, Zarla recognizes it and offers to make the switch for you: one click, and our team moves it over, usually within 1–2 business days. You'll get an email the moment it's live.
If your domain still shows your original Zarla site but lives at your own registrar, the setup steps now say so plainly — and if you'd rather not touch DNS records at all, there's a quiet "we can switch it over for you" option on the same screen.
Zarla now has free step-by-step guides to starting a construction company, a coffee shop, a recruitment agency, an event planning business, a moving company or a locksmith business.
Each guide walks the whole path in plain English: what it really costs to start in the US, which licenses, bonds and insurance your state actually requires, what the work earns, and how customers find you once you are open. The licensing and cost figures come from state boards and published US data, with the source named, and every guide says which parts vary state by state.
They also collect what people already doing the work say about it — pulled from public trade forums and published interviews, quoted and linked so you can read the whole thread yourself. And the five industries with a free business plan page link straight to it, so you can write the plan and build the website from the same numbers.
Browse all the guides →Zarla now lets you show or hide the Google rating in your trust bar, and the number comes straight from your connected Google listing.
Click your trust bar and the Google rating row sits under your badges with an eye to show or hide it. You can also just ask: "hide the stars" or "show my Google rating".
The number isn't something you type. It's your real rating from Google, refreshed when your reviews sync. Not connected yet? The same row takes you to connect your listing.
Zarla now has eight pet-care website designs instead of one, covering dog training, puppy classes, behavior work, board-and-train, walking, sitting and daycare.
If you train dogs, walk them, sit for them or board them, there was exactly one pet design to start from — a pet-sitting site. Now there are eight, and each one is written for a specific trade rather than for "pets" in general.
That means the words are already right when you open them. The dog-training design leads with programs and certifications, the behavior consultancy leads with the problems people actually search for, the daycare design puts a booking form in the first screen and answers the questions every owner asks about group size and rest. Swap in your own town, your own prices and your own photos, and the rest already reads like your business.
Zarla now has 12 laundromat and laundry service designs, so a coin laundry, a wash-and-fold counter and a pickup service each get a site that reads like their own business.
The twelve cover the way laundry is actually sold: a coin laundry, a wash-and-fold service, pickup and delivery, a 24-hour store, an eco laundromat, a dry cleaner with laundry alongside, commercial linen for hotels and restaurants, a card-operated modern store, a family neighborhood laundromat, an express store, a classic one, and a counter-only drop-off service.
Each one leads with what a customer searches for — the service and the city — and carries the things people actually decide on: machine sizes, opening hours, whether it takes coins or cards, and what a drop-off costs by the pound. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now shows only the steps for the app you pick, so connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Gemini is one link and a few plain steps.
In the sidebar, open AI apps (under More on your phone), choose Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Gemini, and the page shows that app's steps in plain words — the menus you'll open, and one button to copy the link. When you're done, start a new chat and ask your AI what websites you have on Zarla, then tell it what to build or change.
Right under the steps, Zarla shows what to ask first. The apps you've approved sit underneath — tap to open the list, with a Disconnect that ends their access right away — and tokens for scripts and custom tools are tucked under For developers.
Zarla now has twelve carpentry designs, so a finish carpenter, a cabinet maker or a restoration joiner gets a site that looks like their own trade.
Carpenters were being sent to the construction gallery, which is full of general builders and reads nothing like a carpentry business. These twelve are built for the trade: eight general carpenters in different looks — classic, modern, craft, bold, quote-first, heritage, minimal and brief-first — plus a cabinet maker, a finish carpentry subcontractor who works for builders, a fine carpentry studio and a wood restoration joiner.
Each one leads with what a customer types into Google — the work and the city — and carries the things people actually decide on: painted or stained, what moves a trim price, whether an old sash can be repaired rather than replaced, and what a quote should show. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now sets up online booking in your country's currency and timezone from the start, and lets you change either on the Bookings page's Settings tab.
New booking setups start in the currency and timezone of the country your business is in, instead of US dollars and New York time for everyone. Open Bookings → Settings to change either: Currency sits at the top of Payments, Timezone at the top of Hours, and one Save covers both. The setup wizard offers the same two choices on its Hours and Payment steps.
Changing the currency updates every service on your booking page to match, so your prices, your booking page and your customers' emails all say the same thing. Every amount stays exactly what you typed — nothing is converted. If your services were already priced in a different currency from your settings, the tab tells you and picks the one your live services use, so one Save puts everything right.
More about online booking →Zarla now has 12 designs for places people stay — inns, guest houses, lodges and bed and breakfasts — each built around showing the rooms and taking a booking inquiry.
The twelve cover the way small lodging is actually run: a classic bed and breakfast, a country inn, a historic inn, a guest house, a modern city hotel, a working farm stay, cabin rentals, a mountain lodge, a wine country inn, a beachfront inn, a lakeside lodge, and an editorial bed and breakfast with the booking form in the hero.
Every one leads with what a guest searches for — the kind of place and the town — and carries what people actually decide on: the rooms with their nightly rates, what breakfast is, whether dogs are welcome, parking, and a booking inquiry that a person answers rather than a payment page. Pick one and your business name, town and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now gives you a referral link in your account, so every business you send us earns you 30% of their first-year payments.
Open Refer and earn in the sidebar (under More on your phone) to get your link, watch clicks, sign-ups and sales as they happen, and set up payouts. Share it with the businesses you know, or post about Zarla — videos that pass 5,000 views earn a bonus on top, and we pay for the ones we run as ads.
Only new Zarla accounts count, and referring your own account isn't paid.
Zarla now tells you exactly which DNS record to fix when a domain connection stalls, and every step of domain setup says what is really happening.
Connecting a domain you already own means adding three records wherever your domain lives — and a single typo used to leave the connection quietly stuck on "pending" with no explanation. Now, when a check finds a record that's almost right, the wrong value, or a record on the wrong host, the setup page says what it found and exactly what to change.
The page also remembers where your domain is managed — Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and more — and keeps that provider's step-by-step directions and login link in front of you for the whole wait, not just the first time you set things up.
Zarla's editor chat now adds a section to several pages in one reply and understands every sensible way you point at a section.
Ask for a section on every location page, or on two pages at once, and the chat adds all of them in one reply. It used to stop at one page and ask you to repeat yourself, or answer that it couldn't.
Sections you had added by chat earlier could trip it up too: asking to add something right after one of them came back with "I aimed it at the wrong spot". That's fixed, along with a handful of other ways of describing where a section goes or which page to delete that the editor now understands.
Zarla now lets you choose Small, Medium or Large for the logo in your header, so a logo that looked too small gets the room it needs.
Click your logo in the editor and the size sits right under it — Small, Medium or Large. Large gives a wide logo about two-thirds more room across and a little more height; Small keeps the header slim. It works on every header layout, on desktop and on phones, whether you uploaded a logo or use your business name as one.
You can also just ask: "make my logo bigger" steps it up one size, and "a bit smaller" steps it back.
Zarla now lets you colour the header of your site, so the bar at the top can be dark, your brand colour, soft, or any colour you pick.
Click your logo in the editor and Background sits right under the logo size: Page, Soft, Brand and Dark, plus a custom colour. Your menu links, phone number, logo text and the phone menu switch to a colour that reads on the bar automatically, on every header layout, on desktop and on phones.
You can also just ask: "make my header dark", "match the header to my brand colour" or "make it navy".
Zarla now publishes the WhatsApp chat button with its styling, so it appears as the small green chat bubble in the corner instead of an oversized icon below the footer.
If you turned on the WhatsApp chat app, your published site could show a huge black WhatsApp icon under the footer instead of the neat floating button you saw while editing. The button's styling wasn't making it onto the published page — the button itself, and the chat link behind it, worked the whole time.
Published sites now carry the button's styling with it: a green “Chat with Us” bubble pinned to the bottom-right corner on desktop, a round icon-only button on phones, exactly as the editor shows it. If your site was affected, republish it to pick the change up.
More about the WhatsApp chat button →Zarla now has 24 recruitment and staffing agency templates, so your site speaks to the businesses hiring and the people looking for work.
Eighteen are built around a specialty — healthcare, travel nursing, IT, warehouse, construction, legal, finance and accounting, sales, engineering, life sciences, events, CDL drivers, skilled trades, hospitality, creative, temp work, executive search and independent recruiting — and six are general agencies in six different looks. Each puts its specialty and city in the headline, the words people type when they look for a recruiter.
Every template gives employers a staffing request form and job seekers their own application, each with its own section on the page. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now emails you the answer to a contact-page message, so you can reply from your inbox or continue right on the page.
Write to us from the contact page and the first answer arrives on the page and in your email, not just on the screen. Reply to that email, or add details right under the answer, and it all stays in one conversation.
Whenever a question needs a person, the page says so, and we follow up by email — usually within a day.
Zarla's editor chat now makes the changes it used to refuse, so adding your phone number, renaming your logo or removing several sections at once works first time.
Ask the chat to add your phone number to the header, change what your logo says, remove a few sections at once or reorder a page, and it happens — the assistant used to answer some of those with "I can't" even though the editor could do them.
Team member roles and bios are editable from the chat and the side panel now, and you can hide the phone number in the header or hero from the chat too.
Zarla now lets you move your whole site onto any of its 1,200-plus designs, with your words, photos, services and pages kept.
Open Design in the editor and tap Change design. Browse by look — bold, elegant, warm — scroll the designs made for your kind of business, or search. Tap one and your site appears in it straight away, with your own words and photos in place; compare a few, then keep it or go back.
Colors and fonts come across everywhere, and section layouts on the home page and your inner pages. Your content is never rewritten and never removed: sections the design has that you have no content for are left out, and your own sections the design has no spot for are kept. We save a backup first, one undo reverses it all, and your live site stays as it is until you publish.
Once your Google listing is connected, your map shows your business by name — with your rating alongside on larger screens — and Get directions takes people straight to it.
Connect your Google listing and your map shows your business the way Google does: your name on the map (with your rating alongside on larger screens), the marker exactly where Google has you, and Get directions taking people straight to your listing.
You stay in control. In the editor, an eye on each row decides what the map points at — your Google listing, your business address, or a different location — and closing the address eye shows just your area, with no address on the map.
The first time it would go live, the publish check shows you what visitors will see and lets you pick: your listing, your address only, or no address on the map.
Zarla's map section now prints your address under the headline and adds a Get directions button — on a phone it opens the Maps app straight to your door.
In the editor you choose how close the map sits in plain words: your street, the streets around you, or the region. Need the map to point somewhere other than your business address — a second branch, a market stall? Map a different address and the rest of your site stays as it was.
Businesses that come to their customers get a map of the whole area they cover, with the areas listed above it. It's live the next time you publish.
Zarla now writes you a complete business plan from five plain-language questions: what you'll do and where, what you'll offer, what it costs to start (a checklist for your industry with a running total) and what you're aiming for each month. Two minutes of answers later, the plan is on the page — summary, startup costs, monthly numbers, the licenses you need in the US and your first 30 days — every figure from your answers and your industry's typical numbers.
Sign in free to print it, save it, have the AI polish the writing or share a read-only link. When you're ready, one click starts your website from the plan, with your name, city and services already in place. Twenty industries also get a free Word and PDF template, a complete sample plan and the real startup numbers.
Zarla now has a free business plan template, a complete sample plan and the real startup numbers for 40 industries. The twenty newest — car detailing, catering, car washes, flower shops, event planning, barbershops, med spas, moving companies, pressure washing, day spas, insurance agencies, law firms, roofing, interior design, dance studios, auto repair, painting, pest control, tutoring and plumbing — each get their own page: typical startup costs, monthly costs, what owners charge, the licenses you need in the US, and a sample business you can read end to end.
Pick your industry in the generator and the checklist, services and numbers arrive prefilled. Every page says when its figures were last checked; the Word and PDF templates download free, no email address.
Zarla now makes customers choose a price option before booking and says plainly when a payment couldn't be taken, so tiered bookings are priced right and nothing fails silently.
If a service has price options, they now sit right under it on your booking page and the customer has to pick one before continuing. The page shows “from $X” until they do, and the booking is charged at the option they chose, never the service's base price. A service with a single option picks it automatically.
If a payment can't start, the customer sees why in plain words and can try again without booking twice; if a card is charged but the confirmation is slow, they're told not to pay again. Your bookings list now marks any booking that expected a payment and didn't get one as “Awaiting payment” instead of “Upcoming”, with the reason and its own filter, and every booking email calls your business by its name.
When you pick a share image, Zarla now tells social platforms its exact size and a description, so the picture shows the very first time your link is shared.
Before, the first person to share a link could see a preview card with no picture while the platform fetched and measured the image. Share images Zarla makes now carry their size, so the card renders straight away, and every share image carries a short description for screen readers.
Pages that fall back to their main photo keep the old behavior. Choose a share image in the page's settings, or a site-wide default in Settings, to get the first-share picture.
Zarla now keeps your site's blog page live even before any posts are visible, and new AI-written posts go live with your next publish instead of hiding as drafts.
If your site had a Blog link before any posts were visible, that link used to land visitors on a page-not-found error. Now it opens a real blog page in your site's own design, with a friendly “No posts yet — check back soon.” note holding the spot until your first post appears.
New posts written by the AI also switch on by themselves: they go live the next time you publish your site, and the editor tells you so the moment a post is written. You stay in control — the Content page now has a “Show on website / Hide from website” switch right on each post's menu, one tap either way, next to the badge that shows whether it's visible.
Zarla now lets you edit the price options, extras and booking questions on any booking service, so the prices on your booking page match what you actually charge.
Open Bookings → Services and expand any service: the price options (like Small / Medium / Large), the optional extras, and the questions customers answer when they book are all editable now. Add one, rename one, change a price or remove it, and the change is on your booking page as soon as it saves. Prices are entered in your currency, not cents, and if two options end up with the same name we ask you to tell them apart before saving.
Adding a service is one click: the new card opens ready for you to type its name, starts paused until you switch it on, and never shows placeholder text to your customers.
More about online booking →Zarla now keeps every online-booking setting on the Bookings page's Settings tab, so a quick change no longer means redoing the whole setup.
Open Bookings → Settings to change how you take payment, your deposit, your cancellation policy, your weekly hours, lead time and buffer, or your travel radius, then press one Save at the bottom — it saves all of those together and tells you when it's done. The guided setup is still there for anyone who prefers walking through it step by step — and walking through it again on a live booking page simply saves your changes.
Smaller things in the same update: the button that switches bookings on now says “Activate Bookings” — it switches on your booking page, not your website — deposits are entered in dollars rather than cents, and businesses in the US see their travel radius in miles.
Zarla now lets you set a video to start playing on its own — silently and looping — instead of waiting for a click.
Turn on “Autoplay (muted)” on a video section and the video is already playing as visitors scroll to it — no play button to press — and it keeps looping when Loop is on. Visitors tap the speaker for sound; every browser requires that for videos that start on their own.
The setting is off by default, and the familiar cover-image-with-a-play-button stays exactly as it was — it keeps your page fast, so we recommend automatic play for one showcase video, not every video. Works on the single-video layouts.
Zarla now embeds TikTok through TikTok's player made for websites, so the videos on your site play in place instead of sending visitors away.
Some TikTok videos on published sites loaded their player but never actually played — visitors got a “Watch now” button pointing them off to TikTok instead, and whether it happened depended on which video you’d picked.
We now run every TikTok embed through the player TikTok built for websites, so your videos play where they belong: on your page, with sound, full-screen if your visitor wants it. And when a video ends, the suggestions shown are your own videos — not someone else’s. YouTube and Vimeo videos weren’t affected and haven’t changed. If a TikTok video on your site was affected, republish your site to pick the change up.
Zarla booking pages now take deposits and full payments through the Stripe account you connected in Settings, so online bookings are paid the way you chose.
Booking pages on sites that connected Stripe through Settings used to let customers book without paying, and the booking setup wizard could skip its Payment step. Both now work: the wizard shows the Payment step where you choose a deposit or full payment, and your booking page collects it through your existing Stripe connection.
The amount charged includes any tier, add-on and tax the customer picked, so what they see on the review step is exactly what's collected. If you haven't set a deposit yet, bookings collect the full amount.
More about online booking →Zarla now charges booking payments correctly on every website in your account — the right amount, with tax — even when you manage several sites.
If you run more than one website on Zarla, each one keeps its own booking setup — its own deposit rules, tax rate, and payment settings. Booking payments now use the settings that belong to the website the customer booked on.
That means the amount a customer sees at checkout is exactly what gets recorded and charged, tax included, no matter how many sites you manage. Refunds follow the right website's cancellation policy too.
More about online booking →Zarla now lets you sign in with your Apple Account, alongside Google and your email address. Pick whichever door you already use. If you let Apple share your email address and it matches your existing Zarla account, you land in that account rather than a new one.
Zarla site menus now open on tap, click and keyboard as well as hover, so visitors on any device can browse every page.
Drop-down menus on published sites — Services, Areas We Serve — used to open only while a mouse hovered over them. On a tablet or a touchscreen laptop the menu flashed and vanished before anyone could choose, and a keyboard couldn't reach the pages inside at all.
Now a tap or a click opens the menu and keeps it open until you pick a page, tap somewhere else, or close it again. Hover still works exactly as before, keyboards and screen readers get the full menu, and the open menu item stays readable on every color palette. Republish your site to pick the change up.
Zarla's first week of polish: booking buttons on published sites go to the right place, blank footer links are gone, and sign-in remembers you.
Small things that were annoying, now not.
Zarla now publishes a plain-English fact sheet with your website — your services, hours, and contact details in the standard format made for AI assistants like ChatGPT — and labels your contact form so an assistant helping a customer can fill it out properly.
It's added automatically the next time you publish.
More about Get Found →Zarla's domain connect wizard is now safe to re-run at any point. If a step stalls or you close the tab, come back and try again — it picks up where you left off, and retrying won't disturb a domain that's already working.
Zarla's ChatGPT connection now shows your website updating right there in the conversation. Ask for a change in the assistant you already use and watch it land — no tab-switching, no copy-paste.
More about Zarla in ChatGPT →Zarla now lets you sign in with just your email address — no Google account needed. Google still works; it's just no longer the only door.
Zarla now changes your logo when you ask for it in ChatGPT or Claude. Send the file or describe what you want, and the upload, sizing, and placement are handled for you — no digging through settings.
More about Zarla in Claude →The new Zarla is live: describe your business, and Zarla's AI builds your whole website in about 30 seconds. Then you edit it by chatting — like texting a designer who never sleeps.
And the website is just the front door. Leads, bookings, invoices, an online store, reviews, and your Google presence are built in — one login that helps you get found, get leads, and get paid, instead of a stack of subscriptions.
Every page is built for how people search now: structured to help you rank on Google, and readable by the AI assistants your customers ask — like ChatGPT.
Free to build. Pay when you publish.
Built before launch
The new Zarla was built from the ground up through 2026 and ran in beta before the public launch on September 2. Real ship dates, tagged Beta.
Smaller things that landed in August: Instagram Reels on your site, share-image and page-visibility controls, Australian .com.au domains, and a locksmith template collection.
Smaller things that landed across the month.
Zarla now finds and fixes dead links on published sites, keeps menus intact on every screen size, and quietly blocks spam on contact forms.
A run of fixes to how published sites behave once they're out in the world.
Zarla now checks what ChatGPT and Google's AI actually answer when someone asks about your business — in the words a customer would use — so you know where you stand before a customer does. Get Found keeps checking, shows which businesses were named instead, and hands you the one thing worth doing next.
There's also a free checker anyone can run, no account needed.
Zarla now connects to Claude and ChatGPT. Sign in from your AI app, connect once for your whole account, and edit pages, search settings, and publishing from a chat — the same Zarla, in the assistant you already have open.
More about Zarla with AI assistants →Zarla now puts your best Google reviews on your website as testimonials, marks its own placeholder text until you replace it, and updates your phone number everywhere at once.
Zarla now filters your Google reviews down to the best ones — four stars and up — and puts them on your website as testimonials, so the praise you've already earned does the selling. Anything Zarla drafted as a placeholder is clearly marked until you replace it, and changing your phone number once updates it everywhere on the site.
More about Google Business Profile →Zarla's editor now works properly on a phone: a chat bar that stays within reach, section picking that works under a thumb, and a cleaner top bar. Fix a typo from the job site instead of waiting until you're back at a desk.
More about editing on mobile →Zarla's chat editor now remembers your conversation, edits the exact section you mean, and writes a real blog post when you ask for one — no more code-looking replies, no more guessing which part of the page you were talking about.
More about the AI editor →Zarla now lets you search, buy, and connect a domain inside the product, so going live is one flow instead of three websites. Pick a name, register it, and it's connected to your site automatically — and a connection that gets stuck re-checks itself.
Zarla now imports every page of your existing website — your words and your page addresses come with you — then redesigns each page in your new look. Keeping the addresses helps you keep the Google standing you've built, instead of starting from zero.
More about importing your website →Smaller things that landed in July: to-dos grouped by job or client, one-click offline, and 35 new business guides.
Smaller things that landed across the month.
Zarla's help center is rewritten with step-by-step screenshots, so the answer looks like your screen. Support conversations now take attachments, let you rate answers, and replying reopens your thread.
Zarla's site builds now survive closed tabs and bad connections. Close the laptop mid-build and come back to a finished site; watch progress, rejoin, or retry. And “Saved just now” in the editor means exactly that.
Zarla now offers more than 500 new hand-designed templates across 27 industries — dentists, plumbers, restaurants, accountants, chiropractors, gyms, personal trainers, interior designers, wedding planners, architects, photographers, auto repair, salons, handymen, tree services, bakeries, barbers, car detailers, cleaners, junk removal, painters, movers, vets, med spas, cafes, physical therapists, and construction — most galleries now 24 distinct designs deep.
Zarla now lets you sell online. Product catalogs with options and sale badges, real product pages, a free-shipping progress bar, an announcement bar — and “build me an online store” seeds a starter catalog so you're editing, not starting from blank.
Zarla's dashboard is redesigned onto one consistent look — every tool in the product now shares the same frame — with an Overview that tells you the single best next step for your business instead of making you hunt for it.
Zarla's Get Found is rebuilt around five scored areas — what Google shows about you, your reviews and listings, real page-speed measurement, the searches bringing people in, and a weekly digest — so you know where you stand and the one thing worth doing next.
Zarla now maps your old page addresses to the new ones and sets up the redirects automatically, helping you keep the Google standing you've built when you switch. It watches for dead ends after the move, and renamed pages keep redirecting.
Zarla now includes a free logo maker. Design a real logo for your business, download the full brand pack, and claim it straight into a website — with illustrated marks for more than 130 industries.
Zarla now makes payment links. Enter an amount, add a note about what it's for, share the link by text or email, and get paid — no invoice needed. It sits alongside invoices, gift cards, and your store, all paid through one connection.
More about payment links →Zarla now sends professional invoices from the same place as your website. Line items come from your service catalog or from a sentence you type, customers pay online with a link, reminders go out for you, and you get paid directly. Numbering and defaults are set up before you write the first one.
Zarla now lets customers buy gift cards straight from your website. Cards are branded to your business and emailed to the recipient, you redeem them from your dashboard, and you can see what's sold, what's been used, and what's still out there — all in one place.
Zarla now builds forms from a description. Say what you need — a quote request, an event sign-up, a five-field inquiry with a dropdown — and it appears on the page, styled to match. Adjust fields in the editor, and every submission lands in your leads inbox.
Zarla now works inside Claude Desktop and ChatGPT. Paste one setup link into your assistant, and from then on you can create a site, edit pages, add service and location pages, and publish — by talking to it.
More about Zarla with AI assistants →Zarla now gives agencies and web designers one dashboard for every client site. See all your clients at a glance, send each one a report on how their site is doing, and set your agency's name and logo once so every report carries it.
More about Zarla for agencies →Zarla now takes bookings from your website: it writes your service list, you set your hours and payment, and your site's buttons become Book buttons.
Open Bookings in your dashboard and choose Generate with AI. Zarla reads your website and writes your service list, with durations and prices you can change. Set your hours, choose whether customers pay in full, leave a deposit or pay nothing up front, and activate. Your site's Call and Contact buttons become Book buttons, and customers pick a real free slot on their own, any hour of the day.
Every booking lands in your Google Calendar, the customer gets a confirmation email and a reminder before the appointment, and you can switch on a summary of tomorrow's bookings every morning. Mobile businesses can set a service area and a callout fee; salons and clinics can take a deposit through the same card connection the rest of the site uses.
Zarla now connects to Google Search Console. Connect it once and Get Found shows the searches that bring visitors to your site, where you rank for each, and the ones a small push could win — with a suggested next step for each.
Zarla now catches every inquiry from your website in a leads inbox — no separate lead-tracking subscription. Each lead is a card you can move from new to contacted, quoted, and won, so every inquiry is in one place instead of lost in your email.
Zarla now puts an AI coach beside your analytics and Get Found pages. It reads what's on the page — your visitors, your score, your search terms — and answers in plain English: what the numbers mean, and the one thing worth doing next.
Zarla now builds image galleries into your website. Grids, masonry, before-and-after, and team layouts, all styled to match your site and sized for fast loading — with no plugin to install and nothing to configure.
Zarla now connects to your Google Business Profile — just find your listing, no Google login needed. Your star rating and reviews show on your website and stay in sync as new ones come in.
Zarla now adds a WhatsApp chat button to your published site: switch it on from the new Apps page, enter your number, and visitors message you on WhatsApp.
Open Apps in your dashboard, switch on WhatsApp Live Chat and enter the number you answer on, with its country code. Publish, and a green Chat with Us button sits in the bottom corner of every page — a round icon on phones. One tap opens a WhatsApp chat with you.
More about the WhatsApp chat button →Describe your business and watch your whole website appear — then keep it fresh with everything above.
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