Skip to content
Weymouth LifeDorset
For every business in Weymouth

Your own page.
Your own address.

Every business in town can have a page here at weymouthlife.co.uk/your-name/, a QR poster that points at it, your logo, photos, hours and today's offer, and your own website linked if you have one. Chippies take orders, guest houses take bookings, taxis take ride requests and trades take quote requests, all through the page.

No commission, ever. No card details held. Not run by a company, just people who live here. Booking.com takes 15 to 22 percent off a Weymouth guest house and Uber Eats takes 30 off a takeaway. We take nought, because a site that taxes its own town is not supporting it.

What every business gets

Whatever you do, the page is the same deal: yours, free, edited from your phone

Six kinds of business, one free page each

Pick yours. One key, one business, everything managed from a phone

Eat

Chippies, cafes, restaurants, takeaways, pubs that do food

  • Your menu typed in once
  • Direct orders for collection and delivery, no fees either side
  • Kitchen screen that refreshes itself
  • Plus everything in the list above

Stay

Hotels, guest houses, B&Bs, holiday lets

  • Rooms and seasonal prices
  • Bookings with a bell, your own cancellation policy
  • Calendar sync with Booking.com or your channel manager
  • Plus everything in the list above

Taxi

Licensed drivers and private hire firms

  • Go on duty from your phone
  • Be seen on the live map
  • Ride requests you answer with a price, the customer rings you
  • Plus everything in the list above

Trade

Builders, plumbers, electricians, gardeners, cleaners, the lot

  • Quote requests straight to your phone
  • Photos of your work
  • Reviews that only count once the customer confirms by email, and you can reply
  • Plus everything in the list above

Shop

Independent shops of every kind

  • Your shop on the independent shops list
  • What you sell, in your own words
  • Live open or closed from your hours
  • Plus everything in the list above

Hair, beauty and services

Salons, barbers, nails, gyms, solicitors, garages, vets, opticians, and the rest

  • Your place on the services list
  • What you do and how to book you, in your own words
  • Live open or closed from your hours
  • Plus everything in the list above
Already on the site without asking? Many shops, salons, trades and places to eat are listed from their own public websites so the town is never half empty. Join and the page becomes yours: your words, your photos, your hours, and the listing we typed in steps aside.
Everything is free until at least 2028. Every feature, for every business, with nothing to pay and no card needed. The tiers further down are what paid membership will look like eventually, published years early so nobody ever gets a surprise invoice. The Free tier stays free permanently, and it is not a trial.

Put the town on your telly. Open weymouthlife.co.uk/board/ on any screen and it rotates what's on, the tide, live buses and the town's own notes. Add ?venue=your-address to the end and it says brought to you by you.

What the big platforms take, and what we take

Every figure below was verified against the platforms' own published terms in August 2026

A £30 takeaway order

Uber Eats charge 30 percent on platform delivery, 13 percent on pickup, plus a £650 activation fee. VAT sits on top of the commission.

What they takeUber Eats keeps £9.00, you keep £21.00
What we takeYou keep all £30.00

A £30 takeaway, Just Eat

Around 14 percent if you deliver it yourself, 25 to 32 percent if they deliver, plus roughly 50p an order.

What they takeJust Eat keeps around £8.20, you keep £21.80
What we takeYou keep all £30.00

A £300 two night stay

15 percent standard, but 17 to 22 percent effective for most independents once Preferred Partner and Genius are added, plus card processing.

What they takeBooking.com keeps £45 to £60, you keep £240 to £255
What we takeYou keep all £300, and the guest's email address

A £12 event ticket

UK organisers pay nearly double what US organisers pay on Eventbrite.

What they takeEventbrite takes 6.95 percent plus 59p
What we takeYou keep all £12.00

Taking table bookings

A busy Weymouth independent on OpenTable Pro can be looking at four figures a month.

What they takeOpenTable is £39 to £449 a month plus a fee per cover
What we takeFree, with no per cover fee

Membership, published years before we charge for it

Nothing on this page costs anything until at least 2028. When it does, it is a flat yearly fee and never a cut of your takings.

Free

Live now

£0

£0, permanently

Everything you need to trade. Never expires, never becomes a trial.

  • Your own page with photos, description, phone, website and map, edited by you
  • Opening hours, shown live as open or closed
  • Live status you set from your phone, such as closing early or fully booked from eight
  • Today's offer, shown on your page and in the listings
  • Room bookings with the bell, auto accept and calendar sync (places to stay)
  • Take direct food orders for collection and delivery (places to eat)
  • Go on duty from your phone, show on the map and answer ride requests with a price (taxis and private hire)
  • List unlimited events in the town calendar
  • Real figures: page views, calls and directions
  • Zero commission on every booking and order. You keep the lot

Light

£0 for now

About £49 a year later

A bit more room to shout, for businesses that want it.

  • Priority placement in your category
  • Your offers featured on the front page
  • Guaranteed slot in the Friday email
  • Month on month figures

Medium

£0 for now

About £119 a year later

For places that live or die by footfall.

  • Featured on the homepage on rotation
  • Your events promoted across the calendar
  • Full figures with month on month comparison
  • Several staff logins with different permissions
  • More than one location under one account
  • Menus, price lists and downloadable brochures

Premium

£0 for now

About £249 a year later

Top of the pile, for the businesses that want to lead the town.

  • Top of your category and a permanent homepage slot
  • A feature week on the front page and in the newsletter
  • Named contact and priority support
  • Help writing and photographing your listing
  • Connect your own till, diary or booking system
  • Early access to anything new we build

What you get on day one, free

All of it. There is no locked feature waiting behind a paywall.

Room bookings with a bell

For places to stay: a bell rings when a booking lands and keeps ringing until you answer it. Accept, decline, check them in. Or switch on auto accept and never think about it again.

Direct food orders

Take orders for collection and delivery from your own menu, keeping every penny. Uber Eats would take 30 percent of that. The kitchen screen refreshes itself.

Ride requests for taxis

For licensed drivers and private hire firms: go on duty, show on the map, put a price on a request. The customer chooses, then rings you. Nothing is paid through the site.

Quote requests for trades

Trades: your own page, quote requests to your phone, checked reviews you can reply to. A review only counts once the customer confirms it by email, and nothing is paid through the site.

Live status from your phone

Fully booked from eight. Kitchen closing early. Walk ins welcome. One line, one tap, and it is on your page and in the listings.

Your own page, properly

Photos, description, phone, website, opening hours and today's offer. Yours to edit from your phone, no waiting on anyone and no rebuild.

Real numbers

How many people looked at your page, tapped your number or asked for directions, this week and last. Counted on our server, nobody tracked.

Nobody chasing you for money

No card on file, no trial ending, no upsell email. If we ever charge, it is a flat yearly fee announced years ahead, and Free stays free.

Why we can afford to do it this way. Weymouth has roughly 2,900 businesses and a two month visitor season. A platform that charges commission in a town this size makes very little money and does real harm to traders who are already skint by February. Getting every business on board matters far more than earning anything early, so the plan is simple: build the thing, make it genuinely useful, charge nobody until it has clearly earned the right to.

Want a website of your own too?

This is separate to your free page above, that stays free forever. This is for a business that wants a proper site of its own as well, built and hosted for you.

A UK web design agency typically charges £2,000 to £8,000 or more for this kind of work in 2026. These are built fast, so the price reflects that, not a discount that costs anything in quality.

Starter

from £199

A simple site to point people at. Live within a few days.

  • One to three pages: home, about or services, contact
  • Built properly for a phone screen, not a template stretched to fit
  • A contact form straight to your inbox
  • First year of your domain name included

Standard

Most popular

from £379

The proper business site, written and built for you.

  • Five to eight pages: home, services or menu, gallery, about, contact
  • The words written up properly from what you tell us, not just pasted in
  • Reviews shown, and your Google Business Profile linked in
  • The AI chat bot on your site, answering customer questions, included free
  • First year of your domain name included

Full custom

from £749

Whatever the business actually needs, built to fit.

  • A booking, ordering or enquiry system built around how you work
  • A blog or news section
  • AI chat bot and up to four AI written blog posts a month, free for the first three months
  • First year of your domain name included

Add ons, priced honestly

Domain nameThen renews at cost, usually £10 to £15 a year depending on the ending. Never marked up.
Free for year one
Email on your domainOne or two mailboxes on the same hosting as the site, at no extra charge.
Included
A proper Google inboxFull Gmail, Calendar and Drive if you want it, per person, passed on at what Google actually charges.
From about £7 a month
Hosting, kept runningHosting, backups, and small text or price changes without waiting for a rebuild.
£9 to £14 a month
AI extrasUp to four AI written blog posts a month, plus the AI chat bot, on any package.
£9 a month
AI extras, heavy useDaily blog posts and a higher chat volume, for businesses that want to lean on it properly.
£19 a month
Why the AI extras are so cheap. A single AI written blog post costs a fraction of a penny to actually run, and a month of a chat bot answering customer questions on a quiet local site comes to pennies too. The £9 and £19 a month covers the setup and having it looked after, not the AI itself, so there is a proper margin without anyone being overcharged for what it actually costs to run.
Ask about a website
Join, freeSee a demonstrationPut an event on the calendar