Every shop in town, one search away.
Businesses submit their own listing, you approve it, and visitors search by category and town. Featured spots are a monthly subscription paid to you.
It starts from“A local business directory where businesses submit a listing with photos, phone and website, I approve each one before it shows, visitors search and filter by category and town, business owners log in to edit only their own listing, and businesses can pay me a monthly subscription for a featured spot at the top.”
Free to plan · no signup
What comes working in a business directory app?
A guide to town, kept up for you.
The parts a directory needs to fill up and stay current come working in the first version, under your name.
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Businesses list themselves
A shop fills in its name, category, town, hours, phone and website and adds photos. You don’t type in a single listing.
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Nothing goes up unseen
New listings wait in your Admin. One button approves; another hides a listing that closed or broke your rules.
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Search by category and town
Visitors filter for bakeries in one town or plumbers in the next, and sort by name or newest.
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Owners keep their listing current
A business signs in to change its hours or photos, and it can only ever edit its own listing.
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Featured spots, paid monthly
A business subscribes at the monthly price you set, into your own Stripe. You switch its featured badge on from your Admin, and it sits at the top.
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An email for every new listing
You hear about each submission as it lands, and the business gets a confirmation back.
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Your counts in Admin
Listings by category, by town and by status, so you can see which categories still need filling.
What visitors search, and what you approve.
Visitors filter by category and town and land on a listing with the business’s own phone and website. You approve submissions and switch featured spots on in your Admin.
How does a local directory make money?
Free to list, paid to stand out.
Most directories that last are free to join and charge for attention. Every business in town gets a listing at no cost, which is what makes the directory worth searching. The ones that want to be seen first pay a monthly fee for a featured spot.
That fee is a subscription in your own Stripe at the price you set, so it renews by itself each month. When a business stops paying, you switch its badge off.
- Free listings fill itA full directory is the reason visitors come back.
- Featured paysA handful of monthly spots turns the guide into income.
- Local is the edgeA guide to one town knows things the big sites don’t.
How do you fill a new directory fast?
Seed one street, then the town.
Start with one category or one main street and walk it: ask each shop to add itself. A directory with every coffee shop in one town beats one with a few of everything, and the businesses you list first are the ones who share it with their customers.
No map view of listings, and it doesn’t pull listings in from other sites.
Directories,
answered.
Can businesses edit their own listing?Yes
How do featured listings get paid?Monthly, into your Stripe
Can visitors message a business through the directory?They call or click
Can I charge businesses just to be listed?Yes
Close to yours? Start from one of these.
The town’s guide, with your name on it.
Pick the categories, set the featured price, and plan it free. You see the full price before you spend a dollar.
Free to plan · no signup