Free is a live URL. Pro is $19 for your name.
Bizzit has two prices that matter, and they are both simple. Free is $0. You sign in with Google, describe the business, preview the site, and publish it on a hostname we control: your-slug.bizzit.io. Pro is $19 a month. That is when the same business can wear a domain you buy here or a domain you already own. Everything else — the brief, the preview, the fact that we host it — is the product on both sides of that line.
What Free is, in practice
Free is not a screenshot in a dashboard. After publish, the slug is a real site on the public internet. HTTPS is on. Someone in another city can open it. You can put it on a flyer with the QR tool. You can put it in a Google Business field. You can keep iterating the brief and rebuilding if the first pass was the wrong kind of shop.
The slug is part of our zone. That is the trade. Visitors see bizzit.io in the hostname. For a bakery testing pickup, that is usually fine. For a salon that wants the appointment link to look like the name on the window, it eventually is not. There is no shame in staying on the subdomain for a month while the copy settles. There is also no trick where Free quietly expires if you forget to upgrade. If the project is published, the address answers.
Google sign-in is required so the business is attached to a person. We store the account id, name, email, the brief, and the generated site. That is in the privacy page, not in a slogan. We do not ask for a card to publish Free.
What $19 is for
Pro is custom domain, billed monthly, cancel from the account. Search a name with domain search, see the registrar’s first-year price, pay that separately from the $19, and we register it into the same login. If you already own a name, connect it and we tell you the CNAME (the tenant host, slug.bizzit.io). Details live in connect your own domain and on /domains.
The $19 is not a store commission. If a visitor checks out, they should be checking out on your payment account when you have connected one. If they cannot pay yet, the site can still take the brief’s other jobs: hours, menu, a form, a catalog to browse. Do not upgrade solely because a competitor’s page listed analytics or a CRM. Those are not Bizzit Pro line items today. Read the Durable table if you are mapping SKUs.
What does not change when you pay
The builder does not become a different product at $19. You still describe the business in English. We still generate HTML and host it. A salon brief is still a salon. A shop brief is still a shop. Paying does not unlock a secret theme pack. Paying unlocks the hostname you control, and it keeps the lights on as a subscription instead of a favor.
Internal tools — markup, hours JSON-LD, NAP, UTM, headlines — work whether or not you are on Pro. They are public pages. Catalog fill asks you to sign in because it hits an API attached to an account. That is authentication, not a paywall.
When Free is the right plan
You are still deciding if the business is real. You want one neighbor to tap a URL. You are not ready to spend a registrar year on a pun. You want to see the bakery, the lawn, the three chairs, in a browser before you print napkins. Stay on the slug. Rebuild as often as the brief is wrong. Look at examples for the shape, then write your own paragraph. Do not copy the example names as if they were a franchise.
When Pro is the right plan
You are handing the URL to people who will judge the name in the bar. You are running a small ad and you do not want the destination to look like a demo. You already own millstreetbakery.com and you want it to resolve to the site we host. You did the break-even math and $19 is a rounding error next to one booking. Then upgrade. If it stops being worth it, cancel. The site can return to the Bizzit address; the custom name is yours to keep or let lapse at the registrar.
A sequence that does not waste a month
- Write the business on the homepage or in brief builder.
- Sign in. Preview. Publish free. Send slug.bizzit.io to one human who will be honest.
- Fix the brief. Hours, NAP, what someone can do on the page. Rebuild.
- If it is a shop, set a markup you mean and fill a catalog. Do not invent a 400% default because a blog said to.
- When the URL is working, search the domain. Buy or connect. That is Pro.
Free vs Pro is not a personality test. It is whether the hostname still has our name in it. The business copy should be good on both. Start on Create without a card.