Custom websites for service businesses

A website that works as hard as you do.

We build custom websites for electricians, plumbers, contractors, excavators, and real estate pros — then host them, update them, and keep the leads coming. No templates. No hassle. No surprise bills.
2–4 wk
Typical launch
100%
Site ownership
0
Hidden fees
The Problem

Your current website isn't pulling its weight.

We hear the same three things from business owners every week. Sound familiar?

Your site looks dated

Stock-photo templates and clunky page builders scream amateur — and customers click away before they ever see your work.

You're invisible on Google

If you don't show up when someone searches “electrician near me,” you're losing jobs to competitors who do. Every. Single. Day.

The leads aren't coming in

A website that doesn't generate calls, form submissions, or quote requests isn't a marketing tool — it's a brochure that costs you money.
What You Get

Everything a modern service business needs. Nothing it doesn't.

One package. One monthly fee. The whole platform — design, hosting, SEO, admin tools, and AI — included.

Custom Design

Every site is hand-designed around your brand, your colors, your trucks, your work. Not a template anyone else has.

SEO & Search Visibility

Structured data, sitemaps, local-search optimization, and meta management built in from day one — so customers actually find you.

Content Management

Edit text, swap photos, add service areas, and update prices from a clean admin dashboard. No code, no calling us.

Blog & Social Tools

Publish project write-ups, seasonal tips, and news that builds trust with homeowners and feeds your social channels.

AI-Powered Features

Optional AI-written blog drafts, a 24/7 chatbot that answers FAQs, and a knowledge base trained on your business — all budget-controlled.

Ongoing Platform Updates

Security patches, speed improvements, new features — automatically rolled out across every site we host. You never get stuck on an old version.
The Platform

Modules, not plugins. 33 of them, all in.

Every feature on a ServingTheBest site is a module we own, version, and operate. When the platform gets better, every site gets better — automatically, on the same monthly fee.
We use it tooThis site runs on the same platform — including the Blog, Contact, FAQs, AI Chatbot, and Search modules listed below.

Everything publicly available on the platform.

Content

Blog

A real blog. Categories, drafts, SEO, and clean article URLs.

A first-class blog module with a built-in editor, categories, drafts, featured images, and per-article SEO. Articles live at clean URLs with schema and sitemap entries handled for you.

  • Inline editor with image upload.
  • Categories and category archives.
  • Per-article SEO and JSON-LD.
Content

Calendar

Pull events from any calendar feed onto a polished public events page.

Subscribe to one or more external ICS calendar feeds — Google Calendar, Outlook, or a community/church calendar — and show upcoming events on a public /events page with a detail page per event. Feeds sync automatically on a schedule, and operators manage them from the admin.

  • Connect any public ICS feed: Google, Outlook, community, or church calendars.
  • Automatic scheduled sync keeps the events page current.
  • Public /events list plus a detail page per event, with Event schema for SEO.
Content

FAQs

FAQs that answer questions, rank on Google, and slot into any page.

Manage frequently asked questions in one place. Group them into categories, drop them onto any page as a block, and ship a polished /faqs/ surface with structured data baked in.

  • Categorize FAQs and reorder with drag-and-drop.
  • Pick accordion, anchor-list, or link-list display per page or block.
  • Each Q&A gets its own URL with FAQPage / QAPage schema.
Content

Menus

Customizable menus with category-grouped items and a clean public page.

Create and manage multiple menus (General, Lunch, Dinner, and more). Each item has a title, description, category, image, and price. Items group under category headings on a public menu page, and any page can embed a menu in list, gallery, or full views.

  • Admin-managed, customizable menus.
  • Category-grouped items with image and price.
  • Public /menus page with a menu switcher.
Content

Neighborhoods

Neighborhood guides for real-estate sites, with linked articles.

Build a directory of neighborhoods with photos, descriptions, and detail pages. Optionally links each neighborhood to related blog posts so visitors keep reading. Sitemap and SEO are wired in.

  • Admin-managed neighborhood directory.
  • Public index and detail pages.
  • Optional related-article integration.
Content

Photo Gallery

Albums you actually manage, not a wall of unlabeled images.

A managed photo gallery with structured albums — title, summary, category, cover image, photo count. Pick which albums show on your gallery page without duplicating data across the site.

  • Structured albums, not one big dump.
  • Cover image, summary, and category per album.
  • Reusable across pages and themes.
Content

Planning Center

Your Planning Center data, on your website.

Planning Center connects your church's Planning Center Online account to your site and keeps it in sync. Sermons and series flow into a searchable message archive, groups into a group finder, and events and registrations onto your calendar — each surface switched on independently. Visitors can join a group or say they're new, and it lands straight in Planning Center. Giving and registration pages list your funds and signups read-only — Planning Center's API cannot take a payment or a signup, so those pages never pretend to. No double entry.

  • Sermon and series archive synced from Planning Center Publishing.
  • Group finder with day, type and location filters.
  • Events calendar and registrations, synced automatically.
Content

Portfolio

A real project directory for trades and real estate, not a slideshow.

A structured portfolio of projects or listings. Each entry has its own title, summary, tag, and image. Pick which projects show on your portfolio page without copying records around.

  • Structured project records.
  • Reusable across pages and themes.
  • Trades projects and realtor listings.
Content

Service Pricing

Show prices and power quick quotes.

Set structured prices per service and display them inline.

  • Fixed, range, from, or contact-for-quote per item.
  • Flat list or grouped tiers/packages.
  • Inline price block on each service page.
Content

Services

A real service directory with its own page and clean URLs.

A structured directory of the services you offer. Each entry has a name, description, and image. Pick which ones show on your services page, and reuse them in templates without copy-pasting.

  • Admin-managed services directory.
  • Reusable across pages and themes.
  • Backed by the shared media library.
Content

Staff

A team directory with profiles, departments, and per-role custom fields.

Public `/team` index and per-person profile pages. Departments, photos, bios, and the custom fields you actually need — license numbers, certifications, years of experience. Optional contact form per person.

  • Admin-defined custom fields per role.
  • Departments and team filtering.
  • Per-profile contact form, optional.
Content

Testimonials

Real testimonials, managed once, reused everywhere.

Capture and manage testimonials in one place, then drop them into any page or layout. Featured and published selection, public-safe payloads, and a clean home for social proof — instead of pasting quotes into page bodies.

  • One canonical source of truth.
  • Featured and published selection.
  • Reusable in any page or section.
AI

AI Assistant

An editorial copilot for your admin, grounded in your own knowledge base.

A drafting and SEO assistant that lives inside the admin. It suggests copy, summarizes, and points out SEO gaps, and it pulls context from your site's knowledge base so the suggestions match your business — not generic AI boilerplate.

  • Drafts and refines copy in the admin editor.
  • Suggests titles, meta, and SEO fixes inline.
  • Grounded in your knowledge base, not the open web.
AI

AI Blog

Scheduled, AI-assisted blog drafts you review before they go live.

Layered on top of the blog module. You configure topics and a cadence, the AI drafts posts on schedule, and you review each one before publishing. Nothing posts automatically without your say-so.

  • Set topics, cadence, and tone once.
  • Drafts queue up for human review.
  • Uses your knowledge base as source material.
AI

AI Chatbot

A site chatbot that answers from your content and hands real leads off.

A public chatbot grounded in your site's knowledge base, so answers stay on-brand and on-fact. When a conversation looks like a real lead, it collects contact info and routes it to your inbox.

  • Answers come from your content, not the open web.
  • Configurable lead-capture prompt.
  • Hands off to the contact module on real intent.
AI

AI Image Generation

Describe an image and generate it straight into your media library.

Adds an "AI Generated Images" option wherever you pick media. Describe the scene and pick a style, lighting, palette, and orientation, and the AI produces images stored directly in your media library — ready to use anywhere. Runs on your own AI credentials and respects your monthly AI spend cap.

  • Generate images from a description without leaving the media picker.
  • Control style, lighting, palette, framing, and orientation.
  • Image fields pre-fill the prompt with sensible context.
AI

AI Knowledge Base

The grounded knowledge layer every AI feature on your site reads from.

One curated corpus — pages, posts, services, staff, neighborhoods, anything you choose — that the chatbot, editorial assistant, and AI blog all read from. One place to keep the AI honest.

  • Pick which models feed the corpus.
  • Add manual documents and notes.
  • Re-syncs as your content changes.
AI

Theme Studio

Redesign your site by chatting with an AI — no code, no guesswork.

Describe the look you want and Theme Studio's AI translates it into validated theme tokens and variant changes, rendered live in a draft preview before anything goes public. Publish when you're happy, or roll back to any prior design in one click.

  • Chat-driven design changes: describe it, see it, no manual token editing.
  • Every AI patch is validated before it touches your live design.
  • Live draft preview lets you review changes before publishing.
Lead capture

Contact

Custom forms, a tidy inbox, and email that sounds like you wrote it.

Build as many forms as you need — contact, quote requests, callbacks — each with its own fields and routing rules. Submissions land in a searchable admin inbox. Auto-replies and staff notifications use mail-merge templates you can edit per form.

  • Multiple custom forms, each with their own fields and validation.
  • Searchable, exportable submission inbox in admin.
  • Mail-merge email templates per form — auto-reply and staff notify.
Discoverability

Search

Site search that actually finds the thing visitors are looking for.

Federated search across the parts of your site you choose — blog posts, services, neighborhoods, staff, and more. You decide what's searchable, in what order, and how many results per source.

  • Per-source enable, order, and pagination.
  • JSON API for themes and headless use.
  • Optional public search page.
Discoverability

Service Areas

A real directory of where you work, with maps and SEO pages.

A structured directory of the cities and neighborhoods you serve. Each area gets its own page with a description, image, and optional map metadata — so the search engines and your customers both find you.

  • Admin-managed service-area directory.
  • Optional coordinates and map metadata.
  • Reusable across pages and themes.
Discoverability

Service Coverage

Say exactly which services you offer in which areas.

A coverage matrix that ties services to service areas. Mark a service as available, limited, or unavailable in each area. Themes and SEO use the rules so customers see the right offer for their location.

  • Per-service, per-area availability rules.
  • Available, limited, or unavailable states.
  • Drives accurate location pages.
Commerce

Checkout

A fast, single-page checkout that turns carts into orders.

Checkout takes a shopper from cart to confirmation in one page: contact details, a pickup option, flat sales tax, and payment through the gateway you enabled. Guests can buy without an account, or shoppers can sign in. On success the order is created instantly with a receipt, so your thank-you page always shows the real order.

  • Single-page guest or signed-in checkout.
  • Flat tax rate and pickup instructions you control.
  • Pay online (Stripe) or pay at pickup (cash on delivery).
Commerce

Orders

Every sale tracked from placed to fulfilled.

Orders records every purchase with line-item snapshots, a full status lifecycle from placement through fulfillment and refunds, and a complete customer book. Buyers can check out as guests, and signed-in site members see their order history in the shared account area. The buyer receipt and the new-order notification are yours to reword from the Email screen, and the shop owner is emailed on every sale. Admins get filterable order lists, CSV export, status transitions with an audit trail, tracking numbers, and one-click refunds through your payment gateway.

  • Full order lifecycle with an immutable status audit trail.
  • Customer records with addresses, order counts, and lifetime value.
  • Order history in the shared site-account area for signed-in buyers.
Commerce

Product Catalog

A full product catalog: categories, variants, images, and stock.

Create and manage products with rich descriptions, image galleries, hierarchical categories, and variable products (size, color, and any other option matrix). Optional inventory tracking with low-stock alerts. Visitors browse a clean public product listing and detail pages, ready for the cart and checkout packages.

  • Simple and variable products with an option/variant matrix builder.
  • Hierarchical categories with per-category product filtering.
  • Optional inventory tracking, backorders, and low-stock alerts.
Commerce

Promotions

Discount codes that expire on their own.

Create codes customers enter at checkout. Give each one an expiry date, a redemption limit, and a minimum order — then let it retire itself.

  • Percentage or fixed-amount discounts.
  • Set a start and end date; the code stops working on its own.
  • Cap total redemptions, or redemptions per customer.
Commerce

Shopping Cart

A persistent cart that follows shoppers from browse to checkout.

Shoppers build a cart as a guest or a signed-in site account, with each line snapshotting the product's price, name, and image at add time. Carts merge automatically on login, apply promo codes when a promotions engine is installed, and can be recovered after they go idle with a one-click recovery link. A rate-limited cart API and a theme-overridable cart page ship in the box.

  • Guest and account carts with automatic merge on login.
  • Per-line price/name/image snapshots at add time.
  • Abandoned-cart detection with recovery links and email.
Operations

Analytics

Know your visitors without leaving your admin.

See sessions, visitors, top pages, referrers, devices, and locations right on your dashboard — no Google Analytics login needed.

  • Traffic and engagement KPIs with trends
  • Top pages, referrers, devices, and locations
  • Works automatically, or connect your existing Google Analytics
Operations

Email Templates

Say it in your own words.

Edit the emails your customers receive — order receipts, sign-in links, contact replies — and brand them with your logo and colour.

  • Edit the wording of every transactional email.
  • Add your logo, accent colour and footer once; every email uses them.
  • Preview and send yourself a test before saving.
Operations

Leads

Every inquiry becomes a tracked lead — deduplicated, assigned, and never lost.

Turns contact forms, chatbot captures, and staff-routed inquiries into a single deduplicated person record with a full activity timeline. Assign owners, move leads through your pipeline, and add notes — all from one admin hub. Works automatically the moment a message comes in.

  • Auto-creates a deduplicated lead from every capture source.
  • AI qualifies new leads and drafts replies, delivered by email or SMS — you stay in control.
  • Assign follow-up tasks with due dates and a cross-lead worklist.
Operations

Service Fusion

Your website becomes the front door to your dispatch board.

Connect Service Fusion once. Contact and quote forms land directly in Service Fusion as new customers with a draft job or estimate ready to dispatch — no re-typing, no lost leads. A paid add-on for trades teams already running Service Fusion Pro.

  • Web leads become Service Fusion customers + draft jobs automatically.
  • Quote forms create draft estimates instead of jobs.
  • One-time OAuth connect; revocable anytime.
Operations

Site Accounts

Let visitors create an account and sign in — no store required.

Site Accounts gives your visitors a real account on your site: sign in with a password or a one-tap emailed link, reset a forgotten password, and land on an account area that grows as you turn on more features. Other features plug their own pages into that same account area, so a visitor signs in once and everything they can do lives in one place.

  • Password and magic-link sign-in, with password reset.
  • One account area every other feature can contribute pages to.
  • Accounts are scoped to your site — never shared across tenants.
Operations

Twilio SMS Provisioning

Let eligible sites request SMS and track Twilio activation.

Adds the tenant-facing SMS registration and status surface that connects host apps to the central Twilio provisioning domain.

  • Self-service SMS registration and resubmission.
  • Provisioning status and live-to-send visibility.
  • Manual opt-out management over the shared suppression table.

See a feature you need? We probably built it last week.

A real client request becomes a real module — often in days, sometimes hours. When a new module ships, every site on the platform gets it. You're not stuck waiting on a product roadmap nobody outside the building can read.

Hours
Typical fix turnaround
Days
New modules, idea to live
All sites
Get every upgrade

Every module is included in the monthly fee.

Enable what you need at launch. Turn things on later as your business grows. AI features are usage-based with a budget cap you set — everything else is just there.

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How It Works

From first call to first lead, in about a month.

01

Discovery

We sit down (in person or over the phone) and learn your business — your services, your service area, what makes your crew different, the kind of customers you want more of.
  • Brand & goals call
  • Service & area review
  • Photos & content plan
02

Build & Review

We design your site, write the copy, set up SEO, and load in your content. You see drafts as we go and give feedback — no surprises at the end.
  • Custom design mockups
  • Copy written for you
  • Live preview link
03

Launch & Grow

We push it live, hand over the keys, and keep the platform running. You get leads, we keep things fast, secure, and up to date — month after month.
  • Go-live walkthrough
  • Admin training
  • Ongoing improvements
Showcase

Sites we've built for businesses like yours.

Different trades, different brands — all built on the same platform, all owned outright by the people who run them.

ES Electric

Electrician
Residential & commercial electricians — service-area finder, 24/7 quote requests, and a clear path from “the lights are out” to a scheduled call.
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TripleMDirtwork

Excavation
Heavy site work and septic installs — project galleries, equipment list, and a callback widget for after-hours leads.
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Jen Case — Steady Waters Realty

Realtor
Boutique residential agent — listing pages, neighborhood guides, and a calm, no-pressure path to start the conversation.
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Pricing

Simple, honest pricing. No tiers, no upsells.

One plan, everything in
One-time build
$2,400$4,800
scoped to your business size & needs
Then monthly
$95/mo
hosting, updates, support, the works
No hidden fees. No surprise charges. AI features are usage-based with a budget cap you set — you'll never get a bill you didn't expect.

Everything included

  • Custom-designed site (no templates)
  • Mobile, tablet & desktop optimized
  • Hosting, SSL, backups & monitoring
  • Built-in SEO + structured data
  • Admin dashboard for content edits
  • Blog with optional AI-assisted drafts
  • Contact forms & lead capture
  • Google Business profile integration
  • Speed & security updates, forever
  • Site ownership transfers to you on payment
Start Your Project

Real businesses. Real results.

We went from two or three calls a week to two or three a day. I don't pretend to understand SEO — I just know my phone's ringing.

Mark Delaney

Delaney & Sons Plumbing

The old site looked like it was built in 2008. The new one looks like a real company. Customers mention it on every estimate.

Tasha Holloway

Holloway HVAC Services

I needed to add three new service areas last spring. Took me ten minutes in the dashboard. No emails, no waiting, no $150 invoice.

Carlos Reyes

Reyes Excavation

FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

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Let's Talk

Ready for a website that actually pulls its weight?

Tell us a little about your business. We'll send back a clear scope, a fixed quote, and a realistic timeline — usually within one business day.
  • No high-pressure sales calls
  • Free, no-obligation quote in writing
  • Talk to the people who'll actually build it

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