Do you need to know how to code to sell websites?

In short

No. PinPoint builds a complete, mobile-ready website straight from a business's Google listing, using its real photos, hours, services and reviews, so you never touch code. You set the price, send a secure Stripe checkout link, and PinPoint registers the domain and turns on the lock once the client pays. Pindrop also builds a finished site without coding, but the two apps differ in who the client's subscription belongs to and how the payout is split.

If you are thinking about selling websites to local businesses, the first question is usually the same: do you need to know how to code to sell websites? With PinPoint, the answer is no. The app builds the site for you, and the selling part is a conversation and a price, not a build. That matters if your background is sales, not software, since it means the skill you already have is the one that gets used first.

What PinPoint builds for you

PinPoint finds real, open local businesses near you that have no website. It checks the business's other Google listings too, the same name with the same phone number or the same spot on the map, and leaves the business off the list if any of those listings already has a website. If that check fails, the business is still shown, so it is still worth a quick look yourself before you knock. From there, PinPoint builds a complete, mobile-ready website straight from the business's own Google listing: its real photos, hours, services and reviews. You are not writing a line of HTML, picking fonts, or wiring up a contact form. The build is already done by the time you walk up to the counter, which is the point of the app: the coding work happened before you ever met the owner.

Selling the site without touching a text editor

Selling with PinPoint is a phone-in-hand conversation. You show the owner the finished site, set your own price for the website and the monthly hosting (hosting has to be at least $24 a month), and send a secure Stripe checkout link. Once the client pays, PinPoint registers the domain, points it at the site, and turns on the secure lock by itself. None of that requires touching a line of code, a server, or a hosting panel. You are choosing a number and sending a link, not configuring DNS records or installing a certificate.

Managing clients afterward does not require code either. Every client, site, sale and payout lives in one place on your phone. If a client wants different words, a new photo, or updated hours, you make the change from your phone and the site updates in minutes. There is no separate dashboard to learn and no developer to call when a business changes its hours for the season.

Does Pindrop also skip the code?

Pindrop describes itself the same way: an app that builds a finished website for any local business in minutes, so you can walk in, show the owner, and sell it on the spot. Neither app expects you to write code. Where they differ is who holds the client relationship once the site is sold. With PinPoint, the seller keeps the client and the site carries the seller's name. With Pindrop, the client's subscription is with Pindrop itself, and the homepage describes a 90/10 split that sends 90 percent to the seller's own Stripe account each month. Pindrop's help center also lays out what happens if a seller stops paying for their own plan: an unanswered change request brings a warning at 10 days, and at 14 days Pindrop takes that client over, ending the seller's share on that client. Neither detail is about coding, but both are worth knowing before you pick a side, and we cover both models side by side in our Pindrop comparison.

What you need instead of code

Not having to code does not mean there is nothing to learn. You still need to know how to spot a business with no website, how to look it over before you knock, how to talk through a price with an owner on the spot, and how to decide what to charge for hosting. PinPoint Lite gives you 20 template sites and 300 searches a month, with PMV keeping 10 percent of the website price and 10 percent of each month of hosting. PinPoint Pro gives you 10 custom AI-designed sites plus unlimited template sites and 1,000 searches a month, with the client paying straight into your own Stripe account and PMV keeping 5 percent instead. Choosing between the two plans is a question about search volume and how many custom builds you expect to sell, not about code, which we walk through in more depth in our post comparing PinPoint Lite and PinPoint Pro.

No HTML, CSS or page builder to learn
No server or hosting panel to set up by hand
No domain registration steps to run yourself
Edits to words, photos or hours made from your phone

Getting started

PinPoint is on Google Play for Android and the App Store for iPhone. For the fuller picture of how the search, build and payout steps fit together before you install it, our post on how to start selling websites to local businesses walks through each step from finding the business to getting paid.

The short version: selling websites to local businesses with PinPoint is a sales skill, not a coding skill. The app handles the build. You handle the conversation, the price and the follow-up.

PinPoint was developed from the app our own sales people have been using for over a year.

Questions people ask

Do you need to know how to code to sell websites with PinPoint?

No. PinPoint builds the site from the business's Google listing automatically, so selling it only takes showing the owner the finished site and setting a price.

Does Pindrop require coding skills to sell websites?

No. Pindrop also builds a finished website for a local business in minutes so a seller can show it to the owner without writing any code.

What does PinPoint build the website from?

PinPoint builds a complete, mobile-ready website from the business's own Google listing, using its real photos, hours, services, and reviews.

Who keeps the client when you sell with PinPoint?

The seller keeps the client and the site carries the seller's name, whether using PinPoint Lite or PinPoint Pro.