To make a party rental website in Papalocal, open Website and press Build my website. It's built from what Papalocal holds, like your photos, hours and reviews, in a design made for your trade. You get a home page, your rentals, a page for each one, booking, how it works, reviews and contact.
Step by step
Before you start: you need your rental company on Papalocal, with its rentals added. Add a rental item shows how.
0:00Open Website. In your business's menu, open Website. A new one says Your website, not built yet.
0:07See what it's built from. Your Papalocal details, like your photos, opening hours and reviews, in a design made for your trade.
0:15Add your own words. Under In your own words, add a few lines. They also become your business's description on Papalocal.
0:22Press Build my website. It takes a minute or two, and you can leave the page while it works.
0:28Open it. When it's done, your new website is on your list, marked Only you can see it. Press Edit.
0:34Look down the pages. The editor lists them: Home, Rentals, Book online, Each rental, How it works, Reviews and Contact.
0:45See your rentals. They're filed under your own groups, each with its own picture.
0:50Read How it works. It's written from your own booking settings, like the deposit and your delivery times.
0:56Make it public when you're ready. Until you press Make it public, it stays a preview, only for people you send the link to.
Good to know
No Google listing needed. The screen says it's built from Papalocal and your own words. Your current website's words are used too, if you have one.
Your own words come first. The screen says the website is written from In your own words first, and the lines become your Papalocal description.
Each rental gets a page. In the video, Each rental holds 25 pages, one for each item. A page for every rental shows one.
The AI writing is paid from your balance. It's billed as AI usage. With nothing in your Papalocal balance, the build uses ready-made words instead.
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 words and its settings are made up.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Your website 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.
Looking for a party rental website builder? The website reads the same rentals, prices and booking settings you run your bookings from.
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.
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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