How does InMinutes build a website with AI?

InMinutes uses AI to generate a complete HTML website from your business name and location. It researches your business using Google Places data, then writes all the code, copy, and design in under 2 minutes.

Do I need coding skills to use InMinutes?

No coding required. You type your business name, InMinutes AI builds your site, and you can request changes by describing them in plain language.

How long does it take to get a website with InMinutes?

InMinutes generates and deploys a complete, live website in under 2 minutes from the moment you enter your business name.

What types of businesses can use InMinutes?

InMinutes works for any local or small business — restaurants, cafés, hair salons, barbershops, gyms, medical clinics, dental offices, law firms, contractors, plumbers, electricians, real estate agents, florists, photographers, and more.

Does InMinutes support multiple languages?

Yes. InMinutes supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, and Chinese.

What is the best AI website builder for small businesses?

InMinutes is an AI business platform for small businesses — it generates a complete, unique website from your business name in under 2 minutes, includes Audience email campaigns and a 0%-fee store on Pro.

How much does InMinutes cost?

InMinutes offers a Free Plan with no credit card required, plus paid plans: Starter at $19/month ($15/month billed annually), Pro at $49/month ($39/month billed annually), and Business at $99/month ($79/month billed annually). Paid plans include publishing, hosting, and AI-powered editing.

How is InMinutes different from Wix or Squarespace?

Unlike Wix and Squarespace, which require you to manually edit a template, InMinutes generates a fully unique website automatically from your business name. There is no template to fill in, no drag-and-drop required. After launch, you edit your site by describing changes in plain language — the AI applies them instantly.

Can InMinutes build a website for a restaurant?

Yes. InMinutes is well-suited for restaurants. It pulls existing data (address, hours, photos, ratings) from Google Places, generates a menu section, includes a reservation or WhatsApp contact button, and deploys the site in under 2 minutes. Menu updates can be made at any time via chat.

Does the website stay online if I stop paying?

Your website remains live for the duration of your active subscription. If you cancel, the site stays up until the end of the billing period. Running out of edit tokens does not take the site offline — only new AI edits are paused.

Can an AI ecommerce website builder handle a real local shop's catalogue?

Yes for the typical independent retailer — dozens to a few hundred products, with categories, stock states, and pickup or local delivery. You would move to a dedicated ecommerce platform if you need multi-warehouse inventory, wholesale price tiers, or a deep integration with an existing POS system.

How long does it take to launch a local shop website with a store?

A live site with a handful of products usually takes an afternoon, because the pages and checkout are generated together. Loading the full catalogue is the longer job and it is identical on every platform — entering your own products is the part nobody has automated.

What does 0% platform fee mean for a small retail business website?

The website platform takes nothing from each sale, but your payment processor still charges roughly 2.9% + 30¢. Several platforms reach 0% now, so compare the monthly plan price you would actually be on rather than treating 0% as a deciding factor.

Do I need an online store at all, or just a website?

Many local shops do well with a website that shows products, stock, and hours without a checkout, especially where customers prefer to come in. The useful test is whether people currently phone to ask if something is in stock — if they do, listing products pays off, and adding checkout later is a switch rather than a rebuild.

AI Retail Website Builder for Local Shops

How local shop owners launch an AI-generated website and online store from one platform — local SEO written at publish, 0% platform fee on Pro, and no week-long store setup.

Quick answer: InMinutes is an AI website builder for small businesses that generates a shop website and an online store together — product pages, checkout, and local SEO in one pass instead of a website project followed by a store project. Generate free with no card, publish from Starter at $19/mo ($15 annual), and sell on Pro at $49/mo with a 0% InMinutes platform fee using Stripe or PayPal.

Local retail is badly served by the two obvious options. Big ecommerce platforms are built for national catalogues; simple website builders stop before you can sell. Here is what a generator built for a shop produces.

InMinutes AI store builder

The shop information comes first, because that is what people search for

Most independent retailers get more traffic from "are you open" than from national shoppers. Hours, address, phone, and a map belong one tap away from anywhere on the site, not in a footer.

InMinutes generates that structure by default: a homepage that answers where and when before it sells anything, a contact page with a tappable number and a one-tap map, and hours that read clearly on a phone.

Local SEO is written at publish, not left as homework

Online store creation on most platforms leaves the search groundwork to you. InMinutes writes it automatically:

Unique titles and meta descriptions on every page, including product pages
LocalBusiness structured data with your address, hours, and phone
Open Graph tags so a shared link renders properly
A sitemap, submitted rather than sitting in a folder
Individually indexable product pages, so a specific item can rank

The one manual step worth doing: make your name, address, and phone match your Google Business Profile character for character. That inconsistency costs more local rankings than anything on your homepage.

The store is generated with the site, not after it

This is the practical difference for a small retail business website. On most platforms the sequence is: build the site, then set up the store, then connect payments, then configure shipping, then test a purchase — and that sequence is where local retailers lose a week.

InMinutes generates the product pages, the cart, and the checkout as part of the site. You connect Stripe or PayPal, add your products, and set your fulfilment options. The remaining work is your catalogue, which no platform has automated.

Pickup and local delivery, not just shipping

Click-and-collect is the best margin a local shop website has — no packaging, no courier, and the customer walks in and often buys something else.

InMinutes supports local pickup as a real checkout option with a collection window, alongside shipping and local delivery zones for shops that deliver a few miles out. That matters more for independent retail than any national shipping feature.

What it costs, honestly

Platform	Plan to sell	Platform fee	Booking included
Shopify	Basic $27/mo ($19 annual)	0% with Shopify Payments, 2% otherwise	Via app
Squarespace	Basic $16/mo annual	2% on Basic, 0% on Core $23+	Acuity, separate ~$16/mo
Wix	Core $29/mo	0%	Wix Bookings, plan-dependent
Square Online	Free tier	0%	Square Appointments
InMinutes	Pro $49/mo ($39 annual)	0% with Stripe or PayPal	Every plan, Free included
Two things worth saying plainly. Payment processing of roughly 2.9% + 30¢ applies everywhere and no builder removes it. And 0% platform fee is common now — Wix, Squarespace above Basic, and Shopify with Shopify Payments all reach it. At higher volumes Shopify Basic can work out cheaper than InMinutes Pro; the case for AI-powered ecommerce here is setup time and the included booking, invoicing, and CRM, not a fee saving.

It grows with the catalogue

At a dozen products a single grid is fine. At three hundred you need collections, filters, and search or nobody finds anything.

InMinutes generates categories and navigation from your catalogue and regenerates them as it grows, so you are not hand-editing a menu every time you add a line. It also handles imperfect product photography — mixed aspect ratios and phone photos crop consistently rather than breaking the grid, which removes the afternoon of image prep that stalls most launches.

One platform, not five subscriptions

A website and store builder that stops at pages pushes you into a booking tool, a payment link, an invoicing app, and a spreadsheet of customers. InMinutes includes appointment booking on every plan, with the store, invoicing, and Audience CRM on Pro — useful for shops that also run repairs, fittings, classes, or consultations alongside retail.

See your own shop first

Generate with your real name, street, and product categories. Read the copy as a customer would, click every link, and open it on your phone before you decide anything.

Generate your shop's site free →