Zarla now has 12 towing and roadside website designs, each built for the driver who is stuck right now and wants a number to call.
Nine are built around a specialty — 24 hour towing, flatbed, heavy duty recovery, roadside assistance, motorcycle towing, long distance transport, off-road recovery, private property towing and emergency accident towing — and three are general towing companies in three different looks. The nine name the specialty in the headline and all twelve name the city, the words a stranded driver types.
Every design puts the phone number at the top of the page, walks through what happens after the call and includes a request form, so a driver can ask for help without calling. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has 12 solar designs, so a rooftop installer, a battery specialist, an EV charger electrician and a commercial contractor each get a site of their own.
The twelve cover the way solar is actually sold: home solar, battery backup, EV charger installation, commercial rooftops and carports, ground mounts for farms and acreage, off-grid cabins, repair and maintenance, a solar-and-electrical contractor, and four general installers in modern, classic, bold and friendly looks.
Each one leads with what a customer searches for — the service and the city — and carries what homeowners decide on: a free quote or estimate, credentials, and what happens after they ask. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has 24 pet-care website designs, adding groomers, cat sitters, boarding kennels, pet taxis, hydrotherapy and more to the training, walking, sitting and daycare designs.
Pet businesses are not one business. A mobile groomer, a cat hotel and a pooper-scooper service each need a different first screen, so we built a design for each of them instead of stretching one pet template to fit.
Every design comes with the words already written for its trade — prices laid out the way that trade quotes them, the questions owners actually ask, and a form that asks for the right details. Change the town, the prices and the photos, and it reads like your business.
Grooming — a salon, a mobile grooming van, a cat-only groomer and a self-serve dog wash
Cats — in-home cat sitting and a cat boarding hotel
Boarding and daycare — a country kennel, a luxury dog hotel, in-home boarding and a bright doggy daycare
Out and about — dog hiking adventures and a pet taxi
Specialists — pet waste removal, canine hydrotherapy, service dog training and dog agility
Zarla now saves your business plan to your account in every industry, including when you keep the suggested services and startup costs.
In twenty industries — moving companies, pressure washing and day spas among them — keeping the suggested services or startup costs made "Save to my account" stop with an error. Those suggestions now fit, so the plan saves the first time, and you can open it from Documents, share it or polish it.
Zarla now opens your invoices and payment links straight to the bill, so your customer can see it without creating an account.
Until now, a customer who wasn't signed in to Zarla landed on our sign-in page instead of your invoice, and had to sign in or create an account before they could see it. The same happened to clients opening an agency's shared performance report.
Invoices, reminders and payment links now open directly on your customer's phone or computer, with your business name and the amount. When you take payments online, the Pay button is right there too. A shared performance report opens the same way for anyone you send it to.
Zarla now has 24 dance studio website designs, so ballet schools, hip-hop crews, ballroom teachers and family studios can each start from a site built for them.
A ballet school, a hip-hop crew and a wedding-dance teacher each need a different first screen, so we built a design for each style instead of stretching one dance template to fit — ballet, hip-hop, ballroom, salsa and bachata, tap, contemporary, Irish, K-pop, swing, tango, belly dance, dance fitness and more.
Each design is written for its kind of studio — the classes and ages it teaches, what a first class or lesson is like, the questions its students or parents ask, and a form to book that first visit. Most also lay out a weekly timetable the way that studio runs its week, and the kids' and competition studios cover recitals and season costs. Change the town, the times and the photos, and it reads like your studio.
Styles — ballet, hip-hop, ballroom, Latin, tap, contemporary, Irish, K-pop, swing, tango, belly dance and pole
Ages — a preschool studio, a family studio and an adults-only studio
On stage — a performing arts academy, a competition team with season costs up front, and studios that publish recital fees early
General studios — classic, modern, bold and bright looks for a studio that teaches a bit of everything
Zarla now lets you zoom every photo on your site, including the full-width heroes, slideshows and banners that sit behind your text, so the same Adjust controls work everywhere.
Until now the layouts that stretch a photo behind your headline — the full-width heroes, the slideshow, the banner above your contact details — could be moved but not zoomed, and a zoom slider that showed on one section and not the next read as broken.
Now every photo gets the same Adjust: click the section, press Adjust, drag the photo until the right part shows, and zoom in as far as you like. The text stays exactly where it was and nothing is cut from the photo.
On a slideshow or carousel the editor shows the first slide; adjustments to the others show on your live site. Ask the editor instead if you prefer — "zoom in on the van" works on every layout too.
Zarla now lets you move and zoom the photos on your site — heroes, side-by-side sections and galleries — so the person or detail that matters stays in view.
Every photo space has a shape, and a photo that doesn't match it used to show whatever landed in the middle — a portrait with the face out of frame, a shopfront with the sign off the edge.
Now you click the section, press Adjust next to the photo, drag it until the right part shows, and zoom in if you want it tighter. Nothing is cut from the photo, and the same spot stays in view on desktops and phones.
Or just tell the editor — "the head is cut off", "show more of the top", "zoom in on the sign" — and it moves the photo for you, with an Adjust button in the reply for the exact spot. Swap in a new photo and it starts centred, ready to adjust.
Zarla now picks upright photos for the tall photo spaces on your site, so the person in the picture stays whole instead of being cut off at the top.
Some layouts show a photo in a space that is taller than it is wide — the side-by-side hero, the calm portrait hero, the overlapping and showcase sections, the spotlight review. Zarla used to fill those with wide photos and crop them to fit, which often cut the person out of the frame.
Now the photo search knows the shape of the space it is filling: those spaces get upright photos when your site is built, when you search or ask for suggestions in the photo picker, and when you ask the assistant to change a photo. Wide spaces work exactly as before.
A live Zarla site now scores 100 in all four of Google's PageSpeed categories on a phone — performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO.
Zarla now publishes every site lighter and cleaner: photos served from your own address, the logo sent at the size it is shown, fonts that arrive without a flash, text colours that pass the contrast check, and headings in the order a screen reader expects.
The report is from a real Zarla-built site, live, measured on a phone. Google's test varies a point or two between runs, so read it as what a Zarla site can reach, not a promise for every page.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla's Site Move page now keeps automated scanner noise out of “Pages visitors couldn't find” and counts old pages as sorted once they forward to your new site.
The internet is full of automated scanners poking at addresses no real visitor ever types. Those probes were showing up next to genuine dead ends on the Site Move page, burying the pages that actually matter. The obvious robot probes are filtered out now — including ones already sitting on your list — so the pages real people (and Google) are missing stand out.
Old pages that already forward somewhere on your new site also no longer sit under “Old pages with no home yet” — they count as sorted, and your progress bar finally reflects the work you've done.
Real dead ends and true progress, front and center.
Zarla now sets up your workspace the moment you sign in, so Leads, Bookings, Analytics and the rest are in the sidebar from your very first build.
New accounts saw only a handful of items in the sidebar right after building their first site — the rest appeared only after a page refresh, and nothing said so. That is fixed: the full set of tools is there from the start, no refresh needed.
Zarla now gives every new site its own 75 starter AI credits, so a second site or a fresh start for your business never begins on empty.
Until now the free starter credits came with your first site only. Build a second site — or start the same business over to get it right — and the first thing you asked the AI to change was turned away. Each site you create now brings its own credits with it.
The credits stay with the site they came with and don't refill on the free plan. When a site runs low, upgrading gives it a monthly allowance and lets you publish.
Zarla contact forms now accept a message even when the visitor's browser has JavaScript off or blocked, so no inquiry is lost to a script that didn't run.
A small share of visitors browse with scripts switched off — strict privacy settings, locked-down work browsers, or simply a page whose script failed to load. Until now, when one of them sent your contact form, they landed on a raw error page and their message never reached you.
Those submissions now go through like any other: the visitor sees a proper thank-you page, the message lands in your leads, and you get the usual email notification. Spam protection applies to them exactly as before.
These visitors get the same care your other visitors do: a mistyped email address or a skipped required field is caught before the message sends, and forms that ask questions across a couple of steps now show everything on one page for them, with a working send button.
Every visitor gets a clear thank-you — script or no script.
Zarla now lets one free account hold up to ten sites instead of five, so you can try a few directions before you pick the one to take live.
Some owners build a site for each idea they are weighing, or start over to see the business in a different look. Five slots ran out fast for them. A free account now holds ten.
Everything else is as before: building and previewing are free, drafts and live sites both count toward the limit, deleting a site frees a slot, and holding a plan on any site raises your limit to one hundred.
Zarla's site preview now says your contact form starts collecting inquiries the moment you publish, instead of showing an error when you test it.
Filling in your own contact form on the preview of a site you haven't published yet used to end in "Something went wrong. Please try again." — the same words a real fault would show, so a working form looked broken. The preview now says what is actually happening: nothing is sent from the preview of a site you haven't published, and the form switches on the moment you publish.
Previews of a site that is already live work as before — a test message there reaches your leads like any other.
Try your form before you go live — it tells you what happens.
Your site now sends phones a smaller copy of each photo, so pages show sooner on mobile data.
Every photo on your site is now offered in a few sizes, and each visitor's phone or computer picks the one that fits its screen. Phones stop downloading desktop-sized pictures.
Your hero photo gets the same treatment, so the top of your page appears sooner on a slow connection.
You do not need to do anything. The change is part of every publish from now on, so the next time you press Publish your live site picks it up.
Zarla now sends every answer from the compact contact form when a visitor presses send, so their enquiry reaches your leads instead of an error on the page.
The compact layout puts the short fields — name, phone, email — in one row with the longer questions underneath. Filling it in and pressing send used to end in "Something went wrong. Please try again." every time, because the row and the questions were sent as two separate forms and only half of the answers reached us. They now travel together, and the message lands in your leads with every answer attached.
If your site uses this layout, publish once more to pick up the fix. We also now watch for messages our side turns away with an error, so a broken form shows up on our side quickly.
Zarla now has 16 virtual assistant website designs, each built around packages, a services menu and a discovery call — the way clients actually hire an assistant.
Twelve are built around a specialty — executive assistant, bookkeeping, social media, podcasts, e-commerce, online business management, real estate, medical, legal, reception, inbox and calendar, and assistant agencies — and four are general assistants in four different looks. Each names the specialty in the headline, the words a client types when they go looking.
Because an assistant sells time rather than a storefront, every design leads with monthly retainers and their prices, an honest list of what is and is not included, and a booking form for a discovery call with a date on it. Pick one and your business name, hours and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now has free step-by-step guides to opening a laundromat, or starting a dog walking business, a bed and breakfast, a carpentry business or a virtual assistant business.
Each guide walks the whole path in plain English: what it really costs to start in the US, which licenses and permits your state actually requires, what the work earns, and how customers find you once you are open. Every cost and licensing figure comes from a source we opened and named — state statutes, health departments, contractor boards and published trade surveys — and each guide says plainly which parts change from state to state, because on these five they change a lot.
They also collect what people already doing the work say about it, quoted and linked so you can read the whole thread yourself: laundromat owners on what utilities really cost, innkeepers on the hours, carpenters on the job that traps a one-person shop, and assistants on why a retainer beats an hourly rate.
Zarla now recognizes a domain that came with your original Zarla website and switches it to your new site for you — one click, nothing technical.
If your domain came with your original Zarla website, there's no DNS panel for you to log into — so step-by-step registrar instructions were never going to work. Now, when you connect that domain to your new site, Zarla recognizes it and offers to make the switch for you: one click, and our team moves it over, usually within 1–2 business days. You'll get an email the moment it's live.
If your domain still shows your original Zarla site but lives at your own registrar, the setup steps now say so plainly — and if you'd rather not touch DNS records at all, there's a quiet "we can switch it over for you" option on the same screen.
Zarla now has free step-by-step guides to starting a construction company, a coffee shop, a recruitment agency, an event planning business, a moving company or a locksmith business.
Each guide walks the whole path in plain English: what it really costs to start in the US, which licenses, bonds and insurance your state actually requires, what the work earns, and how customers find you once you are open. The licensing and cost figures come from state boards and published US data, with the source named, and every guide says which parts vary state by state.
They also collect what people already doing the work say about it — pulled from public trade forums and published interviews, quoted and linked so you can read the whole thread yourself. And the five industries with a free business plan page link straight to it, so you can write the plan and build the website from the same numbers.
Zarla now lets you show or hide the Google rating in your trust bar, and the number comes straight from your connected Google listing.
Click your trust bar and the Google rating row sits under your badges with an eye to show or hide it. You can also just ask: "hide the stars" or "show my Google rating".
The number isn't something you type. It's your real rating from Google, refreshed when your reviews sync. Not connected yet? The same row takes you to connect your listing.
Zarla now has eight pet-care website designs instead of one, covering dog training, puppy classes, behavior work, board-and-train, walking, sitting and daycare.
If you train dogs, walk them, sit for them or board them, there was exactly one pet design to start from — a pet-sitting site. Now there are eight, and each one is written for a specific trade rather than for "pets" in general.
That means the words are already right when you open them. The dog-training design leads with programs and certifications, the behavior consultancy leads with the problems people actually search for, the daycare design puts a booking form in the first screen and answers the questions every owner asks about group size and rest. Swap in your own town, your own prices and your own photos, and the rest already reads like your business.
Dog training — programs, certifications and a free-assessment booking
Puppy classes — priced class cards and a how-to-enroll path
Dog behavior consulting — a symptom checklist and a consult request
Board and train — residential program pricing and a week-by-week breakdown
Dog walking — priced walk types, key handling and neighborhood coverage
In-home pet sitting — drop-ins, overnights, holidays and cat care
Doggy daycare and boarding — day rates, an hour-by-hour day and a booking form
Zarla now has 12 laundromat and laundry service designs, so a coin laundry, a wash-and-fold counter and a pickup service each get a site that reads like their own business.
The twelve cover the way laundry is actually sold: a coin laundry, a wash-and-fold service, pickup and delivery, a 24-hour store, an eco laundromat, a dry cleaner with laundry alongside, commercial linen for hotels and restaurants, a card-operated modern store, a family neighborhood laundromat, an express store, a classic one, and a counter-only drop-off service.
Each one leads with what a customer searches for — the service and the city — and carries the things people actually decide on: machine sizes, opening hours, whether it takes coins or cards, and what a drop-off costs by the pound. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now shows only the steps for the app you pick, so connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Gemini is one link and a few plain steps.
In the sidebar, open AI apps (under More on your phone), choose Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Gemini, and the page shows that app's steps in plain words — the menus you'll open, and one button to copy the link. When you're done, start a new chat and ask your AI what websites you have on Zarla, then tell it what to build or change.
Right under the steps, Zarla shows what to ask first. The apps you've approved sit underneath — tap to open the list, with a Disconnect that ends their access right away — and tokens for scripts and custom tools are tucked under For developers.
Zarla now has twelve carpentry designs, so a finish carpenter, a cabinet maker or a restoration joiner gets a site that looks like their own trade.
Carpenters were being sent to the construction gallery, which is full of general builders and reads nothing like a carpentry business. These twelve are built for the trade: eight general carpenters in different looks — classic, modern, craft, bold, quote-first, heritage, minimal and brief-first — plus a cabinet maker, a finish carpentry subcontractor who works for builders, a fine carpentry studio and a wood restoration joiner.
Each one leads with what a customer types into Google — the work and the city — and carries the things people actually decide on: painted or stained, what moves a trim price, whether an old sash can be repaired rather than replaced, and what a quote should show. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now sets up online booking in your country's currency and timezone from the start, and lets you change either on the Bookings page's Settings tab.
New booking setups start in the currency and timezone of the country your business is in, instead of US dollars and New York time for everyone. Open Bookings → Settings to change either: Currency sits at the top of Payments, Timezone at the top of Hours, and one Save covers both. The setup wizard offers the same two choices on its Hours and Payment steps.
Changing the currency updates every service on your booking page to match, so your prices, your booking page and your customers' emails all say the same thing. Every amount stays exactly what you typed — nothing is converted. If your services were already priced in a different currency from your settings, the tab tells you and picks the one your live services use, so one Save puts everything right.
Zarla now has 12 designs for places people stay — inns, guest houses, lodges and bed and breakfasts — each built around showing the rooms and taking a booking inquiry.
The twelve cover the way small lodging is actually run: a classic bed and breakfast, a country inn, a historic inn, a guest house, a modern city hotel, a working farm stay, cabin rentals, a mountain lodge, a wine country inn, a beachfront inn, a lakeside lodge, and an editorial bed and breakfast with the booking form in the hero.
Every one leads with what a guest searches for — the kind of place and the town — and carries what people actually decide on: the rooms with their nightly rates, what breakfast is, whether dogs are welcome, parking, and a booking inquiry that a person answers rather than a payment page. Pick one and your business name, town and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now gives you a referral link in your account, so every business you send us earns you 30% of their first-year payments.
Open Refer and earn in the sidebar (under More on your phone) to get your link, watch clicks, sign-ups and sales as they happen, and set up payouts. Share it with the businesses you know, or post about Zarla — videos that pass 5,000 views earn a bonus on top, and we pay for the ones we run as ads.
Only new Zarla accounts count, and referring your own account isn't paid.
Zarla now tells you exactly which DNS record to fix when a domain connection stalls, and every step of domain setup says what is really happening.
Connecting a domain you already own means adding three records wherever your domain lives — and a single typo used to leave the connection quietly stuck on "pending" with no explanation. Now, when a check finds a record that's almost right, the wrong value, or a record on the wrong host, the setup page says what it found and exactly what to change.
The page also remembers where your domain is managed — Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy and more — and keeps that provider's step-by-step directions and login link in front of you for the whole wait, not just the first time you set things up.
Setup steps now say "waiting" until they're truly done — no more guessing
Site settings only says "Connected" once your domain is actually live
A failed domain purchase now offers a clear way forward instead of an empty page
If registration details would be rejected, the form flags the exact field before any charge
Wix and Squarespace domains are now recognized with tailored directions
Your registrar's exact steps stay with you until the domain is live
Zarla's editor chat now adds a section to several pages in one reply and understands every sensible way you point at a section.
Ask for a section on every location page, or on two pages at once, and the chat adds all of them in one reply. It used to stop at one page and ask you to repeat yourself, or answer that it couldn't.
Sections you had added by chat earlier could trip it up too: asking to add something right after one of them came back with "I aimed it at the wrong spot". That's fixed, along with a handful of other ways of describing where a section goes or which page to delete that the editor now understands.
Zarla now lets you choose Small, Medium or Large for the logo in your header, so a logo that looked too small gets the room it needs.
Click your logo in the editor and the size sits right under it — Small, Medium or Large. Large gives a wide logo about two-thirds more room across and a little more height; Small keeps the header slim. It works on every header layout, on desktop and on phones, whether you uploaded a logo or use your business name as one.
You can also just ask: "make my logo bigger" steps it up one size, and "a bit smaller" steps it back.
Zarla now lets you colour the header of your site, so the bar at the top can be dark, your brand colour, soft, or any colour you pick.
Click your logo in the editor and Background sits right under the logo size: Page, Soft, Brand and Dark, plus a custom colour. Your menu links, phone number, logo text and the phone menu switch to a colour that reads on the bar automatically, on every header layout, on desktop and on phones.
You can also just ask: "make my header dark", "match the header to my brand colour" or "make it navy".
Dark, brand, soft or any colour — right under your logo.
Zarla now publishes the WhatsApp chat button with its styling, so it appears as the small green chat bubble in the corner instead of an oversized icon below the footer.
If you turned on the WhatsApp chat app, your published site could show a huge black WhatsApp icon under the footer instead of the neat floating button you saw while editing. The button's styling wasn't making it onto the published page — the button itself, and the chat link behind it, worked the whole time.
Published sites now carry the button's styling with it: a green “Chat with Us” bubble pinned to the bottom-right corner on desktop, a round icon-only button on phones, exactly as the editor shows it. If your site was affected, republish it to pick the change up.
Zarla now has 24 recruitment and staffing agency templates, so your site speaks to the businesses hiring and the people looking for work.
Eighteen are built around a specialty — healthcare, travel nursing, IT, warehouse, construction, legal, finance and accounting, sales, engineering, life sciences, events, CDL drivers, skilled trades, hospitality, creative, temp work, executive search and independent recruiting — and six are general agencies in six different looks. Each puts its specialty and city in the headline, the words people type when they look for a recruiter.
Every template gives employers a staffing request form and job seekers their own application, each with its own section on the page. Pick one and your business name, city and contact details go straight in.
Zarla now emails you the answer to a contact-page message, so you can reply from your inbox or continue right on the page.
Write to us from the contact page and the first answer arrives on the page and in your email, not just on the screen. Reply to that email, or add details right under the answer, and it all stays in one conversation.
Whenever a question needs a person, the page says so, and we follow up by email — usually within a day.
Zarla's editor chat now makes the changes it used to refuse, so adding your phone number, renaming your logo or removing several sections at once works first time.
Ask the chat to add your phone number to the header, change what your logo says, remove a few sections at once or reorder a page, and it happens — the assistant used to answer some of those with "I can't" even though the editor could do them.
Team member roles and bios are editable from the chat and the side panel now, and you can hide the phone number in the header or hero from the chat too.
Zarla now lets you move your whole site onto any of its 1,200-plus designs, with your words, photos, services and pages kept.
Open Design in the editor and tap Change design. Browse by look — bold, elegant, warm — scroll the designs made for your kind of business, or search. Tap one and your site appears in it straight away, with your own words and photos in place; compare a few, then keep it or go back.
Colors and fonts come across everywhere, and section layouts on the home page and your inner pages. Your content is never rewritten and never removed: sections the design has that you have no content for are left out, and your own sections the design has no spot for are kept. We save a backup first, one undo reverses it all, and your live site stays as it is until you publish.
Once your Google listing is connected, your map shows your business by name — with your rating alongside on larger screens — and Get directions takes people straight to it.
Connect your Google listing and your map shows your business the way Google does: your name on the map (with your rating alongside on larger screens), the marker exactly where Google has you, and Get directions taking people straight to your listing.
You stay in control. In the editor, an eye on each row decides what the map points at — your Google listing, your business address, or a different location — and closing the address eye shows just your area, with no address on the map.
The first time it would go live, the publish check shows you what visitors will see and lets you pick: your listing, your address only, or no address on the map.
Zarla's map section now prints your address under the headline and adds a Get directions button — on a phone it opens the Maps app straight to your door.
In the editor you choose how close the map sits in plain words: your street, the streets around you, or the region. Need the map to point somewhere other than your business address — a second branch, a market stall? Map a different address and the rest of your site stays as it was.
Businesses that come to their customers get a map of the whole area they cover, with the areas listed above it. It's live the next time you publish.
Zarla now writes you a complete business plan from five plain-language questions: what you'll do and where, what you'll offer, what it costs to start (a checklist for your industry with a running total) and what you're aiming for each month. Two minutes of answers later, the plan is on the page — summary, startup costs, monthly numbers, the licenses you need in the US and your first 30 days — every figure from your answers and your industry's typical numbers.
Sign in free to print it, save it, have the AI polish the writing or share a read-only link. When you're ready, one click starts your website from the plan, with your name, city and services already in place. Twenty industries also get a free Word and PDF template, a complete sample plan and the real startup numbers.
Zarla now has a free business plan template, a complete sample plan and the real startup numbers for 40 industries. The twenty newest — car detailing, catering, car washes, flower shops, event planning, barbershops, med spas, moving companies, pressure washing, day spas, insurance agencies, law firms, roofing, interior design, dance studios, auto repair, painting, pest control, tutoring and plumbing — each get their own page: typical startup costs, monthly costs, what owners charge, the licenses you need in the US, and a sample business you can read end to end.
Pick your industry in the generator and the checklist, services and numbers arrive prefilled. Every page says when its figures were last checked; the Word and PDF templates download free, no email address.
Zarla now makes customers choose a price option before booking and says plainly when a payment couldn't be taken, so tiered bookings are priced right and nothing fails silently.
If a service has price options, they now sit right under it on your booking page and the customer has to pick one before continuing. The page shows “from $X” until they do, and the booking is charged at the option they chose, never the service's base price. A service with a single option picks it automatically.
If a payment can't start, the customer sees why in plain words and can try again without booking twice; if a card is charged but the confirmation is slow, they're told not to pay again. Your bookings list now marks any booking that expected a payment and didn't get one as “Awaiting payment” instead of “Upcoming”, with the reason and its own filter, and every booking email calls your business by its name.
Each option's own duration is what your calendar blocks, what the reminder says, and what the time-slot picker fits.
Customers who still owe a payment are told their time is held but not confirmed until they pay, instead of getting a premature confirmation.
AI-suggested services no longer come with a price option that has no price.
When you pick a share image, Zarla now tells social platforms its exact size and a description, so the picture shows the very first time your link is shared.
Before, the first person to share a link could see a preview card with no picture while the platform fetched and measured the image. Share images Zarla makes now carry their size, so the card renders straight away, and every share image carries a short description for screen readers.
Pages that fall back to their main photo keep the old behavior. Choose a share image in the page's settings, or a site-wide default in Settings, to get the first-share picture.
Zarla now keeps your site's blog page live even before any posts are visible, and new AI-written posts go live with your next publish instead of hiding as drafts.
If your site had a Blog link before any posts were visible, that link used to land visitors on a page-not-found error. Now it opens a real blog page in your site's own design, with a friendly “No posts yet — check back soon.” note holding the spot until your first post appears.
New posts written by the AI also switch on by themselves: they go live the next time you publish your site, and the editor tells you so the moment a post is written. You stay in control — the Content page now has a “Show on website / Hide from website” switch right on each post's menu, one tap either way, next to the badge that shows whether it's visible.
Zarla now lets you edit the price options, extras and booking questions on any booking service, so the prices on your booking page match what you actually charge.
Open Bookings → Services and expand any service: the price options (like Small / Medium / Large), the optional extras, and the questions customers answer when they book are all editable now. Add one, rename one, change a price or remove it, and the change is on your booking page as soon as it saves. Prices are entered in your currency, not cents, and if two options end up with the same name we ask you to tell them apart before saving.
Adding a service is one click: the new card opens ready for you to type its name, starts paused until you switch it on, and never shows placeholder text to your customers.
Zarla now keeps every online-booking setting on the Bookings page's Settings tab, so a quick change no longer means redoing the whole setup.
Open Bookings → Settings to change how you take payment, your deposit, your cancellation policy, your weekly hours, lead time and buffer, or your travel radius, then press one Save at the bottom — it saves all of those together and tells you when it's done. The guided setup is still there for anyone who prefers walking through it step by step — and walking through it again on a live booking page simply saves your changes.
Smaller things in the same update: the button that switches bookings on now says “Activate Bookings” — it switches on your booking page, not your website — deposits are entered in dollars rather than cents, and businesses in the US see their travel radius in miles.
Change one booking setting without redoing the setup.
Zarla now lets you set a video to start playing on its own — silently and looping — instead of waiting for a click.
Turn on “Autoplay (muted)” on a video section and the video is already playing as visitors scroll to it — no play button to press — and it keeps looping when Loop is on. Visitors tap the speaker for sound; every browser requires that for videos that start on their own.
The setting is off by default, and the familiar cover-image-with-a-play-button stays exactly as it was — it keeps your page fast, so we recommend automatic play for one showcase video, not every video. Works on the single-video layouts.
Zarla now embeds TikTok through TikTok's player made for websites, so the videos on your site play in place instead of sending visitors away.
Some TikTok videos on published sites loaded their player but never actually played — visitors got a “Watch now” button pointing them off to TikTok instead, and whether it happened depended on which video you’d picked.
We now run every TikTok embed through the player TikTok built for websites, so your videos play where they belong: on your page, with sound, full-screen if your visitor wants it. And when a video ends, the suggestions shown are your own videos — not someone else’s. YouTube and Vimeo videos weren’t affected and haven’t changed. If a TikTok video on your site was affected, republish your site to pick the change up.
Zarla booking pages now take deposits and full payments through the Stripe account you connected in Settings, so online bookings are paid the way you chose.
Booking pages on sites that connected Stripe through Settings used to let customers book without paying, and the booking setup wizard could skip its Payment step. Both now work: the wizard shows the Payment step where you choose a deposit or full payment, and your booking page collects it through your existing Stripe connection.
The amount charged includes any tier, add-on and tax the customer picked, so what they see on the review step is exactly what's collected. If you haven't set a deposit yet, bookings collect the full amount.
Zarla now charges booking payments correctly on every website in your account — the right amount, with tax — even when you manage several sites.
If you run more than one website on Zarla, each one keeps its own booking setup — its own deposit rules, tax rate, and payment settings. Booking payments now use the settings that belong to the website the customer booked on.
That means the amount a customer sees at checkout is exactly what gets recorded and charged, tax included, no matter how many sites you manage. Refunds follow the right website's cancellation policy too.
Zarla now lets you sign in with your Apple Account, alongside Google and your email address. Pick whichever door you already use. If you let Apple share your email address and it matches your existing Zarla account, you land in that account rather than a new one.
Zarla site menus now open on tap, click and keyboard as well as hover, so visitors on any device can browse every page.
Drop-down menus on published sites — Services, Areas We Serve — used to open only while a mouse hovered over them. On a tablet or a touchscreen laptop the menu flashed and vanished before anyone could choose, and a keyboard couldn't reach the pages inside at all.
Now a tap or a click opens the menu and keeps it open until you pick a page, tap somewhere else, or close it again. Hover still works exactly as before, keyboards and screen readers get the full menu, and the open menu item stays readable on every color palette. Republish your site to pick the change up.
Zarla now publishes a plain-English fact sheet with your website — your services, hours, and contact details in the standard format made for AI assistants like ChatGPT — and labels your contact form so an assistant helping a customer can fill it out properly.
It's added automatically the next time you publish.
Zarla's domain connect wizard is now safe to re-run at any point. If a step stalls or you close the tab, come back and try again — it picks up where you left off, and retrying won't disturb a domain that's already working.
Zarla's ChatGPT connection now shows your website updating right there in the conversation. Ask for a change in the assistant you already use and watch it land — no tab-switching, no copy-paste.
Zarla now changes your logo when you ask for it in ChatGPT or Claude. Send the file or describe what you want, and the upload, sizing, and placement are handled for you — no digging through settings.
The new Zarla is live: describe your business, and Zarla's AI builds your whole website in about 30 seconds. Then you edit it by chatting — like texting a designer who never sleeps.
And the website is just the front door. Leads, bookings, invoices, an online store, reviews, and your Google presence are built in — one login that helps you get found, get leads, and get paid, instead of a stack of subscriptions.
Every page is built for how people search now: structured to help you rank on Google, and readable by the AI assistants your customers ask — like ChatGPT.
Smaller things that landed in August: Instagram Reels on your site, share-image and page-visibility controls, Australian .com.au domains, and a locksmith template collection.
Smaller things that landed across the month.
Instagram feeds on your site now include Reels.
You choose the image that shows when your site is shared, and which pages Google may list.
Australian .com.au domains can now be bought and connected inside Zarla.
A 24-design locksmith template collection, plus a new garage-door template.
Zarla now checks what ChatGPT and Google's AI actually answer when someone asks about your business — in the words a customer would use — so you know where you stand before a customer does. Get Found keeps checking, shows which businesses were named instead, and hands you the one thing worth doing next.
There's also a free checker anyone can run, no account needed.
Zarla now connects to Claude and ChatGPT. Sign in from your AI app, connect once for your whole account, and edit pages, search settings, and publishing from a chat — the same Zarla, in the assistant you already have open.
Zarla now puts your best Google reviews on your website as testimonials, marks its own placeholder text until you replace it, and updates your phone number everywhere at once.
Zarla now filters your Google reviews down to the best ones — four stars and up — and puts them on your website as testimonials, so the praise you've already earned does the selling. Anything Zarla drafted as a placeholder is clearly marked until you replace it, and changing your phone number once updates it everywhere on the site.
Zarla's editor now works properly on a phone: a chat bar that stays within reach, section picking that works under a thumb, and a cleaner top bar. Fix a typo from the job site instead of waiting until you're back at a desk.
Zarla's chat editor now remembers your conversation, edits the exact section you mean, and writes a real blog post when you ask for one — no more code-looking replies, no more guessing which part of the page you were talking about.
Zarla now lets you search, buy, and connect a domain inside the product, so going live is one flow instead of three websites. Pick a name, register it, and it's connected to your site automatically — and a connection that gets stuck re-checks itself.
Zarla now imports every page of your existing website — your words and your page addresses come with you — then redesigns each page in your new look. Keeping the addresses helps you keep the Google standing you've built, instead of starting from zero.
Zarla's help center is rewritten with step-by-step screenshots, so the answer looks like your screen. Support conversations now take attachments, let you rate answers, and replying reopens your thread.
Zarla's site builds now survive closed tabs and bad connections. Close the laptop mid-build and come back to a finished site; watch progress, rejoin, or retry. And “Saved just now” in the editor means exactly that.
Zarla now offers more than 500 new hand-designed templates across 27 industries — dentists, plumbers, restaurants, accountants, chiropractors, gyms, personal trainers, interior designers, wedding planners, architects, photographers, auto repair, salons, handymen, tree services, bakeries, barbers, car detailers, cleaners, junk removal, painters, movers, vets, med spas, cafes, physical therapists, and construction — most galleries now 24 distinct designs deep.
Zarla now lets you sell online. Product catalogs with options and sale badges, real product pages, a free-shipping progress bar, an announcement bar — and “build me an online store” seeds a starter catalog so you're editing, not starting from blank.
Zarla's dashboard is redesigned onto one consistent look — every tool in the product now shares the same frame — with an Overview that tells you the single best next step for your business instead of making you hunt for it.
One frame for every tool, and the next step up top.
Zarla's Get Found is rebuilt around five scored areas — what Google shows about you, your reviews and listings, real page-speed measurement, the searches bringing people in, and a weekly digest — so you know where you stand and the one thing worth doing next.
Zarla now maps your old page addresses to the new ones and sets up the redirects automatically, helping you keep the Google standing you've built when you switch. It watches for dead ends after the move, and renamed pages keep redirecting.
Zarla now includes a free logo maker. Design a real logo for your business, download the full brand pack, and claim it straight into a website — with illustrated marks for more than 130 industries.
Zarla now makes payment links. Enter an amount, add a note about what it's for, share the link by text or email, and get paid — no invoice needed. It sits alongside invoices, gift cards, and your store, all paid through one connection.
Zarla now sends professional invoices from the same place as your website. Line items come from your service catalog or from a sentence you type, customers pay online with a link, reminders go out for you, and you get paid directly. Numbering and defaults are set up before you write the first one.
Zarla now lets customers buy gift cards straight from your website. Cards are branded to your business and emailed to the recipient, you redeem them from your dashboard, and you can see what's sold, what's been used, and what's still out there — all in one place.
Zarla now builds forms from a description. Say what you need — a quote request, an event sign-up, a five-field inquiry with a dropdown — and it appears on the page, styled to match. Adjust fields in the editor, and every submission lands in your leads inbox.
Zarla now works inside Claude Desktop and ChatGPT. Paste one setup link into your assistant, and from then on you can create a site, edit pages, add service and location pages, and publish — by talking to it.
Zarla now gives agencies and web designers one dashboard for every client site. See all your clients at a glance, send each one a report on how their site is doing, and set your agency's name and logo once so every report carries it.
Zarla now connects to Google Search Console. Connect it once and Get Found shows the searches that bring visitors to your site, where you rank for each, and the ones a small push could win — with a suggested next step for each.
Zarla now catches every inquiry from your website in a leads inbox — no separate lead-tracking subscription. Each lead is a card you can move from new to contacted, quoted, and won, so every inquiry is in one place instead of lost in your email.
Zarla now puts an AI coach beside your analytics and Get Found pages. It reads what's on the page — your visitors, your score, your search terms — and answers in plain English: what the numbers mean, and the one thing worth doing next.
Zarla now builds image galleries into your website. Grids, masonry, before-and-after, and team layouts, all styled to match your site and sized for fast loading — with no plugin to install and nothing to configure.
Zarla now connects to your Google Business Profile — just find your listing, no Google login needed. Your star rating and reviews show on your website and stay in sync as new ones come in.
Zarla now adds a WhatsApp chat button to your published site: switch it on from the new Apps page, enter your number, and visitors message you on WhatsApp.
Open Apps in your dashboard, switch on WhatsApp Live Chat and enter the number you answer on, with its country code. Publish, and a green Chat with Us button sits in the bottom corner of every page — a round icon on phones. One tap opens a WhatsApp chat with you.
