How do I move my business page to Blinx?

What should I keep?

Most of what you have stays. A Blinx page is one more place for customers to reach you, so before you change anything, decide what each thing you already have is for.

• Your Google Business Profile. Keep it: it is how people find you in Google Search and Maps. Your profile has a place for your website,¹ and that is where your Blinx page's address goes.
• Your link-in-bio page. Keep it if it works for you, and add your Blinx page as one of its links, or make the Blinx page your bio link instead. Instagram lets a professional account show up to five links in its bio,^2,3 so there is room for both.
• Your website. Keep it. Your Blinx page shows a “Visit our website” box that links to it, on every plan, so a customer who wants the whole story can go on to the full site.
• A lead site you get work from. Keep it for new work while it pays for itself. Your own page is for the customers who already know you, so they can reach you again directly.
• Your social pages and WhatsApp Business. Keep them, and give each one your new link.

How do I set up the Blinx page?

You start at blinx.biz/signup with your business name and an email address, or with Continue with Google. Then there are four short steps:

1. Your business: its name, and your email address or your Google account.
2. Find you on Google: search for your business and pick your own listing. Your page fills in your phone number, address, opening hours, star rating and review count, the first three reviews Google shows, your website and the pin on the map. It fills what you have not typed, and leaves what you typed alone.
3. How to reach you: check the phone number customers will call, with its country dialling code, and your address.
4. Make it yours: add a cover photo and a few words about your business, then publish. Your page is live at an address like blinx.biz/your-business.

On the Google step you also choose your photos. The ones your business put on its own Google listing are offered, never the ones the public added, up to 10 of them, and you tick which to keep, or none. The ones you keep are copied into Blinx's own storage, so your page never depends on Google's copy. If your listing's name differs from the one you typed, you are asked which to keep.

Not on Google? Type your page in yourself. If the search cannot find a listing you know exists, write to the Blinx Support Team with its Google Maps link, and they can connect it for you.

Before you share the new page, open it on your own phone and try it as a customer would: tap Call and check it rings your number, tap Directions and check it opens your maps app at the right address, and read your opening hours against your real week. Anything Google had wrong, you can put right in the editor.

What do I add myself?

Everything else on the page is yours to add, change or leave out, from the editor on your phone. Each section can be switched on or off, dragged into the order you want and edited on its own screen. These are the parts the Google listing does not fill, with the plan each is on:

• Price list: on every plan
• Your own links: on every plan
• Links to your social pages: on every plan
• Your offer: on every plan
• Trust points: on every plan
• A video: on Pro
• Your own colours: on Pro
• Photos: up to 3 on basic, and up to 10 on Pro

Your About text is yours too, and Rewrite with AI can tidy it in your own words, on every plan. If you take bookings, set how long an appointment lasts, from 15 minutes to 3 hours, or a length for each service; which days take no bookings; and whether one customer or several can take the same time.

Where does the new link go?

Once the page looks right, put its address everywhere a customer might look for you:

• Your Google profile's website box, so the profile sends people to your page. Our guide to Google Business Profile websites shows how to point your profile at your new page.
• Your Instagram bio, as one of up to five links,^2,3 and the bio of every other social account you use.
• Your WhatsApp Business profile, if you use the app, which gives a business chat, a catalogue, QR codes and away messages.⁴
• Your place card on Apple Maps, which Apple Business looks after and which shows a website,⁵ and your Bing Places listing.
• Your van, your cards and your invoices, as a QR code. Every Blinx page has its own code, which opens your page's address.

Use the same address in every place. Then every route a customer takes ends at the same page, and when your hours or prices change there is one page to update, not five. Our checklist of where your page link should go takes each of these places in turn.

What happens to my old page?

Nothing, unless you change it. Blinx does not touch your other pages or accounts. Keep the old page running until the new link is everywhere, so nobody who saved the old address lands on a page that has gone. When you are ready, close the old page through the product it belongs to, or keep it if it still does a job for you.

If the old address is printed on your van, your cards or your shop window, swap it for the new one when you next reprint, and check the new one with your own phone first.

What does it cost, and what if I stop?

Every new page starts with a 15-day trial of Pro, with everything switched on and no card. Nothing is charged unless you add a card; if you add one during the trial, the first payment is taken on the day the trial ends, or straight away if fewer than two days are left. After the trial, Pro is $5 a month or $46.80 a year, plus VAT at 20% for UK businesses.

If you do not go Pro, your page stays live on the basic plan, at no charge, with fewer features: customers can still call you, get directions, send an enquiry and ask to book, up to 3 photos show, and 'Powered by Blinx' shows at the bottom. Seeing who got in touch needs Pro. If you go Pro and stop paying later, the same holds. Your page stays live on the basic plan and nothing is deleted. The Pro features come back when you go Pro again.