Why do you need your own website?
Recommendations are valuable — but they are rarely enough to fill a calendar. Most new clients search online: "cleaner near me," "garden care Vienna." If you do not show up there, you do not exist for those clients. Many self-employed people solve this through booking platforms — and pay for it twice: with a commission on every job, and by letting the platform own the client relationship instead of them. Your own website flips that around: clients find you, contact you directly, and every regular client is truly yours.
How do you build a website with no tech skills?
Normally, "your own website" means paying an agency or struggling with a website builder in the evenings — in German. With bop it works like this:
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You answer a few questions — in your language
What do you offer? Which area do you work in? How can people reach you? No forms in official German, no technical jargon. -
bop builds your website from that
Professionally designed, written in good German and made for phones — because that is where your clients search. bop takes care of hosting, security and updates. -
Enquiries land straight in your chat
Clients write to you through the website — and you read the enquiry in your language, because bop translates the chat automatically. Reply, agree on an appointment, done.
When something changes — a new service, new prices, a new area — you tell bop in your language, and your website is up to date. You never need to touch "the code" or open a website builder.
What is on your website?
- Your services: clearly described, so clients know right away whether you are the right fit.
- Your area: where you work — so enquiries come from your neighborhood, not from the other side of town.
- An enquiry button: clients write to you directly — no app, no account, no hurdle for them.
- A professional look: anyone with a proper website comes across as reliable — and can charge fair prices more easily.
- Tech skills
- none needed
- bop builds and runs the website for you
- Commission
- 0 %
- enquiries through your website belong to you
- Upkeep
- in your language
- clients read professional German
- Enquiries
- straight into your chat
- automatically translated, in both directions
Got an enquiry — now what?
How is this different from a platform?
On a booking platform, too, you get a profile that clients can find. The difference is who benefits from it: on the platform, the profile belongs to the platform — it takes a commission, it owns the client relationship, and ten other profiles are advertising right next to yours. Your own website belongs to you: no competitors next to it, no commission in between, and every recommendation strengthens your business. You can find the honest comparison at Platform or your own business? and bop vs. Wecasa.
Who is this for?
For everyone who does great work but has so far been invisible online — in cleaning, gardening, care work, trades or elsewhere. The website is not an extra here, but part of the whole package: combined with appointments, invoices and tax reserves in one app, you have the complete business in your pocket. And if you are just starting to think about becoming self-employed: bop guides you from registering your trade all the way to your first enquiry through your own website. Sign up on the homepage — no obligation — and be there when we launch in Austria.