A city guide website builder for the places locals love.
Yclas is a city guide website builder: one site with every café, shop, trade and attraction in your town, with opening hours, a map, reviews from locals, what is on this week and deals. Fill it from a spreadsheet or Google Places, let businesses claim their page, and sell featured places to pay for it.
Free for 15 days · No credit card · Free listings for businesses, paid extras for you
For whoever knows the town best.
A town directory website works when someone local keeps it current. These are the people who usually do.
The city guide website builder, page by page.
Real screenshots of two demo guides made with Yclas: Localist (Bristol) and Front Range Local (Colorado). The businesses and reviews are made up; the pages are the real product.
Hours, attributes and a pin on the map.
Each place gets its address, phone, website, photos and a map. Opening hours show an Open now or Closed badge, special hours cover bank holidays, and visitors filter by what matters to them: step-free access, parking, Wi-Fi, card payments.
- Branches: a chain's locations, each on the map with its own hours, on Nova.
- LocalBusiness structured data on every page.
A town directory website with a pulse.
A guide is more than a list. Add events with a venue, an end date and repeats, and they show on a calendar page and in the weekly digest. Write about the best brunch spots or a walking route on the blog, and link to the places you mention.
- Weekly digest of new places and coming events.
- Pages, blog and FAQ on every plan.
- Several languages for visitors, on Professional.
Import the town, then let owners take over.
Import places from a CSV file, or from Google Places with your own Google key, up to 60 per search, skipping closed businesses and ones you already have. Owners then claim their page with an email at their own website's domain and keep hours and photos current themselves.
- Claims queue with a record of who decided and when.
- Review invitations by email or a QR poster for the counter.
Google Places import is billed by Google to your own key and does not bring photos.
Basic places free. Featured places paid.
Sell two or three sponsored places above each category, banners by the week, and featured listings. Businesses publish deals that visitors show at the till, and you can see how many were used.
- "Best of" awards each year for the best-reviewed places.
- Memberships for businesses on Professional.
Everything a city guide needs.
Starter is $19 a month. Professional adds memberships, several languages and bookings.
For visitors
- Search by what, where and category
- Open now filter
- Map of every place
- Reviews with photos
- Events and a calendar
- Deals page
- Compare places
For businesses
- Claim the page by email
- Hours, special hours, photos
- Reply to reviews
- Deals with a code
- Calls, clicks and directions counted
For you
- CSV and Google Places import
- Sponsored places and banners
- Blog, pages and a weekly digest
- Review guard against fake reviews
- The Directory and Holiday looks
- Your own domain
How a local guide earns.
Visitors come for free, complete information. Businesses pay to be seen first.
Prices are examples: you set your own, in your currency. Yclas takes no commission on what you earn. All the ways to make money →
From sign-up to a full guide.
- Choose a directoryPick the directory site type in the wizard; directory fields are set up for you.
- Import the townBring places in from a spreadsheet or Google Places.
- Write the first storiesThree blog posts about places you love, linked to their pages.
- Invite ownersEmail the businesses and add "Claim your business" to the home page.
- Sell placementsSwitch on sponsored places and deals when visits grow.
What is a city guide website builder?
A tool for building a website that lists a town's places, such as restaurants, shops, trades and attractions, with hours, maps, reviews and events, without writing code.
Can I build a local guide website without listing every business myself?
Yes. Import from a CSV file or from Google Places with your own key, then let businesses claim and update their own pages.
Can the city guide website builder show events?
Yes. Events carry a date, a venue, an end date and repeats, and appear on a calendar page and in the weekly digest.
Can visitors see what is open now?
Yes. Places with opening hours show an Open now or Closed badge, and search can filter to places open now, using their weekly hours.
Can I stop fake reviews?
The review guard holds reviews that look like they come from the business itself or from one network reviewing many places, for you to check. Visitors can report reviews too.
Can the guide have a blog?
Yes. Pages, a blog and an FAQ are on every plan, and on paid plans the AI can draft blog posts for you to edit.
Can it be in several languages?
Yes, on Professional: visitors choose their language, and pages and categories get a name in each one.
Related pages.
The parts of Yclas this leans on.
Your town's guide, online this week.
Pick the directory site type, import your first places and invite the owners. Free for 15 days.
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