Websites

Sites we stand up

A payment provider and a bank review the website. They look for the legal name, a real address or at least a coherent operating story, contact details that match the mailbox, and policies for privacy, terms, and refunds. A landing page with stock photos and a Gmail address is a weak file. Checkout, where the company takes cards on its own site, is built into this website — it is not a separate product.

• FW

  Founder website

  This is the site we write and publish for the company: the legal name in the footer, the product in plain language, contact on the company domain, and the policy pages Stripe, PayPal, and banks actually open. It does not need to be a marketing rebuild. It needs to be live, accurate, and consistent with the incorporation documents. Where the client already has a site, we correct the legal entity, the mailbox, and the policies instead of starting over.

  We brief this on every company that needs a live site for banking or payments. That is most of the companies we form.

  How we help+

  We gather the company documents, write the pages, put them on a host billed to the company, and connect the domain. If the company will take cards on this site, we wire the gateway that the company country can actually open — Stripe, PayPal, or a regional acquirer — on this same property. We do not publish a site that contradicts the KYC file.

Platforms

If the client already works in a platform, we stay there and make it look like the company. We do not move a working shop to a new builder for the sake of it.

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  Webflow

  webflow.com

  Webflow is a professional website platform with hosting included. It suits a company site that must look considered, with CMS pages for work or articles, without running a WordPress server. The workspace and the billing have to sit in the company’s name. A personal Webflow account with a personal email is the same class of problem as a personal Gmail.

  We brief this when the site should be a marketing site with professional hosting, and the client is not already on WordPress or Shopify.

  How we help+

  We build or take over the Webflow site, move billing to the company, connect the domain, and add the policy pages. Webflow decides the account.

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  Framer

  www.framer.com

  Framer is a design-to-site platform used for fast, visual company sites. It is a good fit when the brief is a clear founder site on a short timeline. As with Webflow, the account and the custom domain must match the company, not a personal trial.

  We brief this when the site is a compact company presence and Framer is the builder the client prefers.

  How we help+

  We design and publish the Framer site, attach the company domain, and put legal pages on it. Framer decides the account.

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  WordPress

  wordpress.org

  WordPress is still the default for companies that already have a blog, a content team, or a plugin stack. Self-hosted WordPress on company cloud (not a forgotten personal Bluehost) is what we brief. wordpress.com as a consumer blog with a personal email is not a business file. WooCommerce, if needed, is wired to the gateway the company can open — that work lives here and on the payment-gateway pages.

  We brief this when the company already runs WordPress, or needs a CMS that a non-designer can edit.

  How we help+

  We take over or install WordPress on hosting billed to the company, connect the domain, put the legal name and policies on the site, and harden login and backups. The host and WordPress.org are not a single vendor; we still own the file.

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  Squarespace

  www.squarespace.com

  Squarespace is an all-in-one site and commerce platform. It is tidy when the domain is already there from Google Domains. Commerce on Squarespace still has to use a payment method the company is allowed to hold — which follows the company country, not the template.

  We brief this when the client already uses Squarespace, or wants domain and site in one account.

  How we help+

  We build or clean the Squarespace site, move billing to the company, connect the domain, and add the pages a bank will read. Squarespace decides.

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  Shopify

  www.shopify.com

  Shopify is the shopfront when the company sells goods online. Shopify Payments is a separate question — it follows the store’s business country and is covered under Marketplace payments. The website work here is the store itself: legal name, policies, company-domain email, and a checkout that uses a gateway the entity can actually open if Shopify Payments is not available.

  We brief this when the company is a shop, not a brochure site. Shopify Payments eligibility is on the marketplace-payments page.

  How we help+

  We set up or take over the store, put it in the company’s name, connect the domain, and wire the gateway that matches the entity. Shopify decides the store. The payment provider decides the acquiring.