To move your website to Papalocal, open your Website page and press Or bring your current website over. Type your old website's address and find its pages. Bring them over, each at the web address it has now. Copy the pictures, put it up where only you can see it, and check every old address. Then make it public.
Step by step
Before you start: you need your old website's address, with the old website still up.
0:00Start the move. On your Website page, press Or bring your current website over.
0:09Get a new website ready. That makes a new website for your old one to come into, and opens the steps to bring it over.
0:15Find its pages. Type your old website's address and press Find its pages. It reads the old website's list of pages, or follows its links.
0:23Bring them over. Press Bring them over. Each page comes across at the same web address it has now, and the pages they link to come too.
0:31Make the pictures yours. Press Copy the pictures over. Then every picture is on your Papalocal website, and none still loads from the old host.
0:38Put it up. Press Put it up. It's built at its Papalocal address, and only you can see it there. The box says Up when it's done.
0:47Check it. Press Check it. Every old address is read again on the new website. Does it answer? Are the words, the title and the pictures still there?
0:59Make it public, then switch. When it's safe to switch, press Make it public, and point your web address here. Your old website keeps working until you do.
Good to know
Keep the old hosting until the pictures are copied. The screen says that until it reads none left, the old hosting can't be switched off. Every picture would break.
Your old home page, or a new one.Bring their home page over too keeps its exact title, heading and words. Untick it, and Papalocal builds its own home page with your request form and reviews. You can switch either way later.
Leave the page open. It reads a few pages at a time. With keep going on its own ticked, leave the page open until it says finished.
A robot check on the old host? Some hosts show Papalocal a robot check instead of the pages. For those, the screen offers Bring it from your browser.
The website comes with the Papalocal plan. Without the plan on, Website shows Your website comes with Co-Op instead. The price is under What it costs.
Pinewood Party Rentals, its old website and its pages are made up.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Bringing your website over is one part of running your rental company on Papalocal.
The everything app. As simple as you want it, or as complete as you allow it to be.
Planning a website migration? Here, the check reads every old address before your own web address moves.
The plan holds, in one place:
Your customer list: each lead and customer, with their quotes and jobs on one page
Quotes, jobs and schedule
Invoices and pay links
Your website, on a domain you own
Google Business Profile sync, for your first location
Reviews: links, QR codes and an embed
Time clock, team chat and training
The same account holds your own side too: music, books, messages, your money and your people. Some of it has paid upgrades.
Free to sign up, no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them.
Once you turn the plan on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee. It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Papalocal's founder, Garret Merkley, has started 7 local service businesses in 16 years. He bought one, sold one and closed some.
Yes. Each page comes across at the same web address it has now. The check then reads every old address on the new website.
Does my old website stay up during the move?
Yes. Your old website keeps working until you point your web address at the new one.
What does the check look at?
Every old address, read again on the new website. Does it answer? Are the words, the title and the pictures still there? It then reads safe to switch or not yet, with a report of what it found.
Who can see it before it's public?
Only you. Put it up builds it at its Papalocal address, where only you can see it.
Can I change website builders without redoing every page?
Yes. Bring them over copies your old website's pages and words in, each at its own web address.
What does it cost?
It's free to sign up, with no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them. The plan starts only when you turn it on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee.
How is it billed, and can I cancel?
It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Will Papalocal find me customers?
No. Papalocal gives you the tools. Finding customers is your work.
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