Free plan · No builder · No domain to buy
A free website for tradespeople, without building a website.
One page, at your own link, with your trade, the towns you cover, your prices, photos of your work, your registration numbers and reviews from customers who were actually invoiced. You fill it in from a form, in one sitting. There is nothing to design, nothing to host and nothing to renew.
Works on any phone browser. The link is yours the moment you switch it on.
Here is one, finished
Most software shows you an empty product and asks you to imagine it full. This is a profile with everything switched on: the trade facts, the service area, the price list, the credentials, the work photos, the reviews and the quote form. Every box on it is a box you get.
The business on it is invented, and the page says so across the top so that nobody can mistake it for a real firm. Nothing else about it is pretend: it is the same page, rendered by the same code, as the one you would have.
Open the example profileWhat it does that a website does not
A website you build is a brochure you wrote about yourself. Every word on it is a claim, and a customer knows it. Four things on this page are not claims.
Reviews nobody can wave away
A review can only be left through the link on a customer's own invoice. That means you cannot write one, and neither can anybody who has never had a job off you. It is the difference between five stars and five stars a customer can see the source of.
Registration numbers that go somewhere
Your Gas Safe, TrustMark or Companies House number is printed with a link straight to the register it came from. A customer checks it in one tap instead of taking your word for it, which is the single fastest way to stop looking like a risk.
A quote request that does not get lost
The form at the bottom of the page drops the enquiry into your Leads list inside the app, next to the quote you are about to write from it. Not another email address you check on a Sunday.
A link built to be sent
A QR code for the van, the paperwork and the back of a card, and a share card that fills out properly when the link is pasted into WhatsApp instead of turning up as a bare address nobody taps.
Getting it to show up in Google
Your page is a real page at a real address, about a trade in a place, which is exactly the shape of what a customer types. But we do not put a half empty one into the search index. A pile of nearly identical stub pages is bad for the person searching and it drags down everybody else's page on here too, so a profile stays out of our sitemap until there is something on it worth finding.
The bar is not a secret and it is entirely in your hands:
- Your trade and the area you cover. Both, not one.
- Something written in your own words: an About section of 120 characters or more, or a headline of at least 60.
- Something to look at: 3 services listed, 3 photos of your work, or 1 review. Any one of the three.
Settings tells you which of those you are still missing, so it is a checklist rather than a guessing game. Miss the bar and you lose nothing you had: the page still exists, the link still works and the QR code still works. It just is not put forward to be indexed.
The part other people will not tell you. Clearing the bar makes the page eligible. It does not make it rank. Where Google puts a page is Google's decision, and anybody selling you a position is selling you something they do not control. What we can promise is that the page is real, quick, and readable by the things doing the ranking.
What free covers, and where it stops
The trust half of the page is free, all of it. What you pay for is the shop window: your prices in public, your colour on the button, and our name off the bottom.
| Free | Pro, £12/mo | |
|---|---|---|
| Your own link and QR code | Yes | Yes |
| Trade, area, towns, hours, callout, guarantee | Yes | Yes |
| Registration numbers, linked to the register | Yes | Yes |
| Verified reviews from your invoices | Yes | Yes |
| Quote requests into your Leads list | Yes | Yes |
| Photos of your work | 6 | Unlimited |
| Services listed | 3, names only | Unlimited, with your prices |
| Facebook, Instagram and website links | No | Yes |
| Your own brand colour on the call button | No | Yes |
| The "SoloDesks" line at the bottom | Shown | Removed |
The profile comes with the rest of the app, which is where the page gets its reviews from in the first place. What the free plan covers everywhere else, and full pricing.
Do you still need a proper website?
Sometimes, genuinely. If you sell products, run a team of six, or you want to write about jobs for years to pull in search traffic of your own, build a website. Nothing here replaces that.
What most one-person trades actually need is somewhere to send a customer who already has the number and wants to know you are real before they let you through the front door. That is one page, and building a whole site to hold it costs money and a fortnight of evenings. Worse, on the day it goes live it has no reviews on it at all, and the reviews are the only part a customer reads properly.
Questions people actually ask
Is the profile page actually free?
Yes. Every account gets one on the free plan, with no card and no trial clock. The paid plan (£12 a month) adds your prices, your brand colour, unlimited photos, social links and removes the SoloDesks line at the bottom.
Do I need to buy a domain name?
No. Your page lives at solodesks.com/pro/ followed by a handle you pick, usually your business name. That is the address that goes on the van, and there is nothing to renew and nothing to forget to renew.
Can I have the page without being in Google?
Yes, and they are two separate switches. Making it public gives you a link that works for anybody you send it to. Going into the search index is a second thing, with a bar to clear, and plenty of people only ever want the first.
Where do the reviews come from?
The link on a customer's own invoice, after the job. That is the only way one can be left, which is what makes them worth reading. You cannot add them yourself and neither can anyone who has not been invoiced by you.
I already pay for Checkatrade. Is this instead of that?
They do a different job. A directory sells you leads and keeps the reviews on its own site. This is a page you own, at a link you control, with reviews tied to your invoices. It does not find you customers. Plenty of people run both.
Can I take it down?
One switch in Settings, and the page is gone. Nothing else in your account changes and none of your quotes, invoices or clients are touched.
Have a look at one before you decide.
Nothing to install, no card, and you can switch the page off again in one tap if you hate it.