Snap & Send: build your site from your photos

Snap & Send is the easiest way to start: send Chip your photos, answer five tap-to-answer questions, and Chip builds your website around them. You can see the real site before you create an account, and you only keep it if you like it.

Start from Send Chip your photos on the DollarSite home page or your industry's page (the page lives at /snap on the DollarSite app). On a computer, scan the QR code with your phone so you can use your camera roll.

1. Choose your photos

Tap Choose photos and pick 5 to 15 photos, or Take a photo to use the camera. Good picks: finished jobs, before-and-after shots taken from the same spot, your products, your van or shop front, you and your team, and your logo (a PNG with a transparent background works best).
JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos work, up to 5 MB each (the page shows the limit for your account). Your phone shrinks big photos before sending them, so uploads are quick even on mobile data. Each photo has its own progress bar, and a Retry button if the connection drops.
For privacy, the location and camera details inside your photos are removed. Only clean copies are ever shown on your site.
Chip checks each photo and tells you if one is blurry, too dark, very small, a screenshot or a duplicate. Those are left off your site (you can remove any photo with the ×).
Chip guesses what each photo shows (logo, before, after, product, team, vehicle…). If it guessed wrong, change it in the little menu under the photo.

2. Already online? Tell Chip where (optional)

Before the questions, Chip asks "Do you have a website or social page now?" Tap No (or Skip) if you don't. If you do, tap Yes and type the address: your website (yourbusiness.com), your Facebook page, your Instagram (@yourname), your Google Maps listing or your Linktree.

While you answer the questions, Chip reads your front page and a few others (like your gallery, services or menu, about and contact pages). It never logs in to anything.
Chip fills in what it found, such as your phone, email, area, opening hours and services, so you only have to check them. Change anything that isn't right.
If Chip found your logo, it asks "Is this your logo?" Tap Yes, Not this one, or I don't have one. If you already added your logo as a photo, Chip doesn't ask.
Then "Use these from your site?": tick the photos that are yours (photos from your gallery are ticked for you) and the reviews you'd like to show. Reviews appear on your new site exactly as written, marked as coming from your previous website. Chip never makes up reviews.
Only what you tick is used. Plain facts about your business (name, phone, hours, services) are used to fill in blanks you left.
Facebook and Instagram usually don't let outside tools read their pages, so Chip may only be able to add a link to them. That's fine: everything else works the same.
It's optional, and it never holds you up: if your site can't be read, Chip carries on without it.

3. Answer 5 quick questions

Your business name.
What you do. Chip suggests a few business types from your photos; tap one, or pick from the full list.
Where you work: your town, city or service area, and whether you travel to customers.
How customers reach you: call, book online, order, or ask for a quote. Add a phone number if you want calls.
One question about your trade, for example the jobs you do most (handyman), your packages and prices (car detailing), what people order and pickup or delivery (home baker), or your services through the year (lawn care).

4. Chip builds it

You'll see Sorting your photos… Picking your colors… Writing your words… Building your pages…. Your site gets:

A layout made for your trade. Handymen get a before-and-after slider, services, a service-area section, reviews and a free-quote form. Car detailers get pricing cards for their packages, a before-and-after wall and online booking. Home bakers get a product grid, a custom cake order form and pickup or delivery details. Lawn care gets seasonal services, before-and-afters and a quote form. Every other business gets a layout that adapts to its type.
Your colors, picked from your logo, your current website or your best photos (adjusted so text stays easy to read).
Only the apps that fit. A plumber never gets a restaurant menu or table bookings.
Your photos in the right places: the best one as the big picture at the top, before-and-afters side by side, products in a grid, your logo in the header.

5. Change anything you like

You don't need an account to make changes. Tap Change something under your preview and:

Tell Chip what to change in your own words, for example "make it lighter", "use blue", "bigger photos", "change the headline to Spotless cars, at your door" or "add my prices: Full detail $180". Then tap Change it.
Or tap an idea: Different style, Different colors, Lighter, Darker, Change the headline or Use different photos.
Chip rebuilds your preview and tells you what it changed. Don't like it? Tap Undo last change to go back one step.
Edit my answers takes you back to the five questions with your answers filled in, and Add or remove photos back to your photos. Chip builds your site again when you're done. Back to my website returns to your preview without changing anything.
Chip only changes the look and the words of your site. It never makes up facts like reviews, prices or opening hours: if you want prices on your site, tell Chip what they are.
Before you have an account you can make 6 changes. After that, create your free account to keep changing it with Chip. Everything you've changed so far is kept.

6. Keep it

Looks great — keep it: create your free account (email and password) and the site is saved to My websites. Building and previewing are free; you'll confirm your email before you make it live to the Internet. In your account you can keep asking Chip for changes in the Builder, or click any text or picture to edit it yourself.
Already have an account? Log in first, and the draft is saved into your account.

7. Save your place and come back later

Under your preview (and on every step once you've added photos) there's a Save your place card with a short link and a code, like k3x9q2ab. Copy the link, write the code down, or take a screenshot. Open the link on any phone, tablet or computer to pick up exactly where you left off, even on a different device from the one you started on.

Anyone with your link can open your preview, so only share it with people you trust.
Previews that aren't kept in an account are deleted 30 days after you last open or change them, photos included. Opening your link, adding photos or making a change keeps it for another 30 days.
Once you've created your account, the link asks you to log in instead.

Photo checks and reviews

Every image uploaded to DollarSite is checked before it can appear on a public website. Now and then a photo may say Pending review: it stays off your public site (a "Photo pending review" placeholder shows instead) until our team has looked at it. Images that break our acceptable use policy can't be uploaded.